Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Bah.

Two down, four to go. SY23 went really well on Tuesday until we got to The Old Bar afterwards and I realised I had missed a question. 8 marks. Out of 60. That’s over 10% of the paper! I had left it to go back to it later and somehow missed it when I went through everything again.

Then this morning (yesterday morning by now) I had SY22 which went fairly well given everyone else seemed to think it was a bit of a strange paper so I’m not too worried about dropping a few marks here and there. That exam was one of the hard ones along with GI so it’s good to have it out of the way.

I’ve been running around the banks all day. Went down to Halifax to transfer my student account over from HSBC to Halifax for the bigger credit limit. They turned me down. Apparently my credit score wasn’t high enough. I was told that there were no actual problems, there just wasn’t enough there.

That’s kind of strange given I have two credit cards, I’ve previously had another and I have a student overdraft as well. She told me to phone Halifax up as they don’t get much information in the branch. When I phoned them up they told me that basically what the employee in the branch had said didn’t make any sence and they couldn’t actually do anything but contact the credit reference agency (they claimed Halifax used Equifax, the branch earlier today claimed they use Experian).

So now I’m waiting for my PIN number to arrive so I can check my online credit report. Of course if that hasn’t arrived by the weekend it’s going to be the weekend after that I will be able to get hold of it.

I also tried to close my old current account down but they told me I couldn’t do that without my cheque book.

So it would have been a completely wasted trip if I hadn’t also have gone home to vote although frankly that doesn’t really make me feel any better.

I then headed over to HSBC to ask them to raise my interest free overdraft limit. They raised it to £1,250 which is close to half what Halifax is offering and stopped short of saying that should have automatically been done for me in September though it was reasonably obvious it should have been.

I also sent off my application for a Lloyds TSB credit card today which I’m assured by the letter is “guaranteed.” It will be interesting to see if they actually give me it as it comes with a minimum credit limit of £1,000. I already have two credit cards but I’ll be cancelling my existing second card down if I get this one.

As for the rest of the day, I went in to the ARC and Kay apparently isn’t going to be in until next week, I’ve lost the invoice for a product I need to return, my laptop is about to die and needs to go back leaving me with no way to do anything as all my applications are on there and can’t be re-installed and the circle may well be about to be plunged back into hell again. Perfect.

It took me 5 hours to get to sleep last night. 5 hours!

I realise that most of you are like full time insomniacs that take 5 hours to get to sleep every night but it normally takes me like 15 minutes so proportionally, based on it taking 5 hours to get to sleep normally, that’s like you lot not being able to sleep for 4 days (4 days and 4 hours to be exact).

The weekend saw another weekend of work (fun) especially as on Sunday night Gary had overspent on labour so Martin randomly picked a handful of people not to work and they all happened to be on the night sheet – we finished filtering at 1:30 in the morning (normally you know you’re behind when it isn’t done by 8pm). Got out at like 3:30, bit more money though I guess.

Went down to the banks on Monday to move money around and try and move my student account – I’ve got a meeting to sort that out on Thursday. Went to Sarann’s for dinner which was really nice, it ended up getting gatecrashed to twice the size of the original invite list though lol. Phil was there from the start then B was brought followed by Kieran turning up and finally Matt and Kat.

Then today we had a faith and culture assembly – or so I thought, turned out it had been cancelled (nobody told us, though what was I expecting from the union?). We tried to pull together a quick committee meeting and had a main A-Soc meeting too to sum up Rationalist Week. Finished as usual with a trip to The Old Bar.

Something strange is going on. My laptop thought it was May. This might be something to do with the time syncronisation as the same thing happened with my desktop. Strange.

Anyway, I last blogged on Thursday morning. Afterwards I went home and slept before getting up ready for my next all-nighter on SE24. In between getting up and coding I went down to a nice French restaurant in town which I haven’t a hope of spelling for dinner. I wore a shirt and everything, how fancy is that? It was well expensive although the food was fairly nice (not amazing though).

I then spent the night in Eniac and we finally got it finished about 8:30 or something and then headed off to lectures. I finally got to bed just after 3. That evening I crawled out of bed at about 10:30, went to the pub for a few hours and then crawled back into bed and slept some more. It was a facinating insight into what B’s life must be like :D. It’s a really good system to be honest, I might have to try it on a more regular basis.

It’s well past 8 am and I’m still in DEC-10. Myself, Gaz and Kieran have just spent all night working on GI21 coursework 2 which is due in, in about 37 minutes. Fortunately I’ve now submitted my coursework so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. Time to go home and get some sleep before tonight’s all nighter on SE24 I think.

I had my 8 month performance review at work yesterday. It’s depressing to think I’ve worked there for 8 months already but on the plus side I scored another 5 (aka “outstanding”). Suck on that Neil. More importantly though Martin told me to start the application process to get promoted to Training Squad.

It’s ironic really that such a promotion is going to look fantastic on my CV especially when I word it as “I am responsible for staff training in the restaurant and upkeep of procedures” given that my CV is a document I hope never to have to use again. But at least on the short term it will result in a bit more money (providing they get it through before I hit 21, which is again depressing).

I’ve just compiled my exam timetable and it’s not nice. I have exams on the Tuesday and Friday of the first week and then the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of the second week. 4 out of my 6 exams are in the morning and get this – I have an exam on 1 June, the very last day of the three week exam period. Nobody else I know in computing has any exams that late.

Even more annoying is the fact that I have an exam on the morning of Thursday 24th. Which is really bad timing given I have an all-night party to go to on the night before. I’m not amused.

Happy Gilmore on DVD for £2.97 – that is what I’m talking about.

Anyway, yeah, I made it! Came down ill that day and only just hauled my ass into work but I got through it eventually. Long night though, didn’t start feeling alright until I had finished work and I’m still not feeling great now. Now I just have to survive till payday.

It’s here! Yay!

Before I start, yeah! I well only have one more close to do. Tomorrow is day nine baby. Then the real world begins lol. Anyway yeah, back to my story, it’s here! My PA system has finally arrived. I only had a very brief period to set it up and play with it but it’s awesome. I woke up this morning (late) to find it filling up most of my hallway. Photos will follow once I can get decent ones but at the moment it’s all crammed in my room so I have no floor space left.

The speakers are massive, probably bigger than the ones I ordered (they upgraded me to these for free because they couldn’t get hold of the ones I wanted), it seems to go fairly loud though my dad was dubious (this was with 4 of the 6 volume settings on like 50% though so it can go a lot louder than what we got it). It sucks that it’s 4am now as I can’t really start belting out music on them :D.

I got dragged away from playing with the kid to go back to uni though. I had to meet Paul who delivered some more stuff before I headed off to Roger Stevens to plaster every single lecture theatre and then headed down to media services to pick up the posters which was a bit worrying when they couldn’t find them but I was later informed that Claire had already picked them up.

Work was a fairly late one tonight, we got out at like 2:45 and headed down to Tesco. I really miss the post-work Tesco visits, I probably won’t get another one for a while given that they aren’t open Saturday or Sunday nights which is the shifts I work during term time. Anyways, I need to sleep so I can get up early, pick up the generator and fiddle around with the kit for a few hours before heading off for my final shift of Easter. So long.