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Grant House formal dinner

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 | Life

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.

Into the River Below

Friday, May 12th, 2006 | Life

Billy Talent ticket

Ooooooh’ll right!

I’m up to three networks

Friday, May 12th, 2006 | Life

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.

Friends on other networks

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 | Life

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.

General hmm entry

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 | Life

Hmm. So yeah, got up sometime this morning and did various things. Actually, not sure how much I did do, I got some emails sorted and tried to catch up on some important tasks. I got a bit of SY done as well. Forgot to update my websites though so that’s a task for later. I had so much stuff to troubleshoot this morning though, everything is going wrong.

Set off for uni at 2 as I am meeting Oli at 3 and I needed to stop by Superdrug and pay my accommodation bill so I built in extra time for being delayed waiting for buses and queuing at the cash office which it turns out I didn’t need so I got here rather early. I have a film making society workshop meeting type thing at 6, then I might be going to see MI3. Then get home at a reasonable time so I can get up and get some revision done tomorrow.

Tunnel Club was awesome

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 | Life

Michelle came over at like 4 to do some revision and we got some maths done and decided to go to Tunnel Club. So between eating, watching TV and going to Co-up we we chilled till like 9:30 then went down to the union.

Tunnel Club had two bands on, Motorettes and Kubichek who were both good and then there was like 90 minutes of indie music, dancing, etc which was lots of fun. They played Artic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon so that made up for all the stuff I didn’t recognise :p.

I’m hot, stressed and annoyed

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Life

Had a good sleep this morning but it was till like 1:30 so it’s not going to be a productive day. I also have a sore throat. Firefox has been freezing for like the past week and this is on my desktop plus the mouse button on my laptop has started to permenantly stick down.

I just opened my window to cool my room down to find it’s just as warm outside as the air in here. My inbox in insane, my room needs sorting, I have exams in just over a week, I can’t send ant outgoing emails because ISS appears to have died, my router keeps crashing and Trillian takes about 10 minutes to reconnect when it does, I have bills to pay, I still don’t have a job and generally nothing in my life seems to be going anywhere.

Thoughts on Mental Monday

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Life

Last night was Monday night which means Bondi. Tonight was my 6th consecutive Mental Monday to be exact although it may not make it to the 8th as we are thinking of trying Fruit Cupboard. Next week should be solid though, Michelle is planning to take Rachael there.

Tonight was a fun night. Lunn and John came as well as Claire and the Maths Chris, B, Norm, Phil and others crowd so there was quite a lot of us there. I took my camera too so once I got home and had, had some food I was uploading the pictures to Facebook :D.

On the downside though, tonight has left me feeling slightly depressed about my current love life or lack there of. I’m sure it will pass, I just need sleep. Well, that’s a temporary fix anyway.

What happened yesterday

Monday, May 8th, 2006 | Life

Spent most of yesterday (indeed almost all of yesterday) working on the new LUU Film Making Society website. I took a long shower to mull over what would be the best way to implement my integration with phpBB but in the end I couldn’t decide so I just started coding a forum myself. It’s working out quite well actually given that I need very, very limited functionality only and I integrated the posting boxes into the view forum and thread topics so the amount of times was very small.

Michelle also came over as she was bored and we ended up watching Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. It’s a classic LL movie. Although I feel I have a lack of movies with me at Bod, we were flicking through them last night and there wasn’t much I was thinking I would actually want to sit through.

Tonight is Monday which means Bondi. Yay :D.

Brass Eye is awesome

Sunday, May 7th, 2006 | Life

I’ll let the guide to prison slang speak for itself…

“Howard’s Arse” means “Prison”

“One nil at half time” means “Food”

“Woggy coconuts” means “air breaks”

“Gazza” is a “gas coin”, used as currency for cigarettes.

“Plank sanction” is a one-for-one fag exchange.

“Sue my chin” means give us a fag, I’ll give you two next week.

“Buff my pylon” – give us a fag, you owe me two, so I’m letting you off the other one.

“Don’t buff my pylon” – switch over the telly.

And lastly, very important this one:

“Portillo” means “Look out behind you”

Learn the language, better communication.