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I wonder if I have used this title before. Anyway, I’ve remembered why The Offspring are my favourite band. I stuck Conspiracy Of One on because I couldn’t really find anything I wanted to play on (which is silly given the size of music collections we all have but maybe we are just spoilt for choice).

And I found myself singing along to it, which I do normally but not like every word at a relatively high volume and also singing all the guitar rifts and drum beats on top of that. Offspring rule!

There is no information on this! Well, that’s doubtful, but none that I could find. I googled it on Google, Yahoo and MSN, none of which came up with any overly helpful results.

So what are you supposed to do when someone says “I like you” and it isn’t recipicated. I’ve spent the last hour or so brainstorming ideas for a friend. Personally my favourite is…

I’m Encorian and only interested in dating other Encorians

But I can see why others might not be so big on the idea.

We came up with many reasons like “I’m seeing someone” or “I’m busy with exams” but I class these as delaying excuses which are not a good idea – because you could find yourself in the same situation at a later date.

The trick is to be honest but not harse. As tempting as it might be to emotionally destroy them :p. Well that’s my 2c at least, I know some people are quite into the emotical destruction, and when most of us, including myself, are actually in the situation, being honest is one of the hardest things in the world to do.

So as tempting as it is for me to do, I’m not going to sit here and preach about the about how it’s the right thing to do to be upfront and just come out and say “I’m not interested” because I’m sure I will do that next time I’m in that situation.

I am quite a fan of the added commentary appropriate though, it makes me feel better to add it in. “I’m not interested” becomes “I’m sorry I can’t work out a way to say this that doesn’t sound harse but I’m not interested,” or “I really don’t want to sound patronising as I know it sucks when people do that so I just want to let you know I’m not interested.”

Oh and one final thought. Imagine how hard this was when we played the game face to face rather than texting each other like the cowards we are ;).

So yeah, turns out I don’t have my second set of bedding at uni. Nuts.

You know what isn’t a good idea? Trying to sit down by jumping over someone while holding a glass of water. A lesson Michelle learned the hard way. But I’m getting ahead of myself in a movie style introduction that then goes back to the beginning…

You see, it all began earlier today. Today has been mental by the way. I got up at like 12 and got lunch then sort out my emails, websites, etc, went to Co-op as I was running low on drinks and then came back to go to Sarann’s, went to Rabi’s BBQ and then went to meet Fonze in the union, followed by busing it back to Bod in time for the start of movie night.

Rabi’s BBQ was cool, they had a full proper barbeque thing and everything although we did just kind of turn up, BBQ our meat (so it’s not like we ate their food, we did bring plenty) and left but I was pre-arranged to meet up with Fonze and Michelle and Rachael had church so there was only Sarann that could have stayed and she didn’t really know anybody there.

So yeah, Michelle and Rachael came over to Bod for movie night as Sarann has said we couldn’t hold it at hers :p. We got through several Futarama episodes and A Cinderalla Story in between (which is such a lovely movie, it’s awesome!) and a lot of snacks and such.

It ended with Michelle cracking her head against the wall though. She rang her mum to check she was ok as she was feeling sick and dizzy which probably wasn’t a good sign. A load of water also went on Rachael and more importantly my bed. It’s lucky I actually have a second set now. They are walking it home now due to the lack of buses on Sunday.

Tomorrow I’m planning to get up early and do some revision. I also have two deliveries which I want to go pick up nice and early. Lots of SY and maybe watching Jawbreaker is tomorrow’s plan I think. I also really need to sort out the film making societies mailing list out asap.

I’m well pleased with this! Well I’m not jumping around happy about it for some reason but on the inside I am very, very pleased as it was really annoying me and I was considering all sorts of plans. Back on May 9th I mentioned Firefox kept freezing at certain points (quite regularly when you hit go on a URL or opened new tabs) and I’ve found the reason why.

I had this computer set on “auto-detect proxy settings” which brought up error messages from ISS rather than the standard Firefox problem loading page errors. I didn’t get these on my laptop nor did Firefox keep freezing. So I changed this computer’s settings to “direct connection to the internet” and it seems to have solved it!

Today started when I got a text from Michelle inviting me shopping. So after grabbing a quick brunch I headed down to Lupton, met Rachael and we all headed in town, looked round the Corn Exchange, market and probably a few other places then ended up in The Terrace for a drink.

Rachael seems really nice, she shares a lot of characteristics with Michelle, most notably a massive rise of the pitch of her voice when talking about something “pretty” :p.

We were hitting Baja tonight so we met in The Terrace at 9 and bused it down an hour later. It wasn’t bad although it was quite packed and full of locals that were like mid 20’s and 30’s. Give me a student night any day (with guests allowed!). Also the music in there wasn’t really cheese, it was more classic party tunes which don’t really make you want to dance like the playlist at Bondi does. Also weekend so dress code. Can’t wait to get back into my trainers and Millencolin t-shirt on Monday.

They did have the cool text your message to this number and see it on the video screens. That said, they never displayed by first message “Leeds Met sucks! Leeds Uni forever!” although they did display my notice that Michelle was looking for love tonight :p. I stand by my statement, I think she is looking for love, just a different kind to what most of the guys in there would interpret that as.

Finally, after I got off the bus I ran into a few people, I believe they were Tom King and Katy Flynn (if you guys are reading this, let me know if I’m right ;)). I think Tom was out celebrating his birthday today too, happy birthday Tom!

Tomorrow should hopefully be fun, I have a BBQ to go to, then I’m meeting Fonze and finally we are holding some kind of movie night at mine. I need to try and sort the film making society mailing list out too, although we may be cancelling our meetings for the rest of the term. Still could do to send out a mailing though, I need a cast and crew for a few projects I want to shoot within the next week.

Tonight was our second (and final) formal dinner. It wasn’t bad, we had salmon. Not the best meal ever though. The plan for afterwards was to hang around at Bod Bar and then go to New Bohemia at The Faversham. However as not everyone fancied it we split into two groups.

The first group consisted of myself and Janine and the second group consisting of everyone else in Grant House. Well not everyone, but a lot of people. Although there seems to have been less than our last formal dinner, I guess quite a few people have gone home for revision week.

So yeah, we decided that as fun as a night of hip hop would be, Friday Flock would be a better option. So after dinner I went back to get changed then we hung around at Bod Bar until about 10:30 and everyone got the bus into town. The result is that a lot of people are very drunk though so sleeping may be a lost cause tonight.

Ooooooh’ll right!

Thanks to Lunn registering on Facebook, I’m now up to friends on three networks! I didn’t blog yesterday though. Well I did sort of. With this whole past midnight thing and my previous posts being earlier in the day it looks like I’ve missed a day. Although there won’t have been a 48 hour gap to show I haven’t posted in 2 days because I have, it’s just the way the timing works.

Need to get up at lik 8:30 tomorrow. Well, that’s the plan anyway. I want to get up for breakfast. Then I also need to sort my emails out and have a shower before I go Michelle’s to get some revision done before she has to meet Rachael at the bus station.

Went shopping today. Got something awesome. Will post a picture soon.

Woohoo, go me! Given that so many people from my high school failed miserably to make it into redbrick universities, my Facebook profile basically consisted of lots of people in the Leeds network and nobody else. Well, that’s now changed. I finally found someone from my high school registered on Facebook so I’m now up to friends in two networks :p. Just need to get the Met’ers to register now although do I really want to admit to have friends at The Met? To be fair though, it’s not my fault they made terrible life choices :D.