Chris Worfolk’s Blog

Having done a lot of this over the years it seems somewhat tearful to think that this could well be my last blog from DEC-10. It’s been like a home to many of us, particularly those of us who have spent more time in here than our actual homes (I wish I was joking lol).

While my room is very noisy with the hum of computers and climate control devices I’ll miss the quiet hum of DEC-10, the endless late nights we spend in here coding. I hadn’t really been dwelling on the idea of one chapter coming to a close and another beginning but sitting here is really making me think. And we all know that is a bad road to go down :P.

Then again, who really wanted a good degree from the University of Leeds anyway?

I mean, it’s not like such a hideous failure in my degree means my entire life is a failure. I have many other strengths outside of academia. I have many other areas of interest and expertise - such as my intimidating knowledge of Simpsons quotes.

And after all, who really wanted the opportunity to go on and do further study or be hired in an exciting graduate role? I’m sure their are companies just crying out to pay people huge wages for researching just how many flips make the perfect burger.

Ever get the feeling you sometimes made bad choices in who you befriended?

Fuck off and die like what matts parents did and what he should do aswell.

Claire. 18 May 2008, 03:22.

I’ll take that as a no, you don’t want to be friends again.

I don’t mean to be picky but on Futurama Bender is made of…

• 40% titanium
• 40% zinc
• 40% dolomite
• 30% iron

I love the UK.

It’s the only country in the world that can spend almost the entire year moaning about how bad the weather is then as soon as we finally get some sun people are like “awww, it’s too hot.”

To be fair though, it really is too hot to sleep. And I have an exam tomorrow! I need sort of air conditioned server room next year I think.

With us planning to move into a professional let next year, I think I’ll miss the querks of a student house. After all next year we will have…

• Front doors that stays open when you open it so you can carry things in
• Streets that aren’t lined top to bottom with cars 90% of the time
• Streets you don’t need a four wheel drive to safely navigate over the potholes
• Hallways you don’t have to swim through due to the amount of leaflets put through the door
• Door handles that you can twist without having to push it back together first
• Bathrooms that don’t randomly have woodlice appear in
• Kitchens that don’t randomly have slugs appear in
• Kitchen taps that release water when you turn them on rather than within about 5 minutes of turning them on
• Kitchen floors that you stop sticking to once you’ve cleaned them
• Washing machines that don’t randomly stop working and randomly start working again later
• Ovens that light when you turn them on
• Microwaves that turn on when you try to put them on for less than 2 minutes
• Irons that allow to entire your entire item of clothing rather than the bit within a foot of the plug socket
• Telephone lines that were installed within the past 200 years and so can actually carry a signal
• Surfaces that you can clean the dust off and come back to an hour later without discovering they are once again covered in dust

Then again, maybe not.

I was sending out the weekly Atheist Society mail-out today and arrived at the bottom of the message to sign my name. Traditionally this would be signed Chris, Society president.

But I didn’t. Because I’m not.

Having spent the last two years as A-Soc president, it’s a weird, weird feeling.

Having finished my FYP I was hoping I could relax a little. But instead I find my timetable full because I’m having to trail everywhere and re-arrange my timetable so I can do all these job interviews.

And the constant phone calls from recruitment companies. I mean, every week, usually multiple times a week.

Meanwhile there is a lot of stress in trying to throw together film nights so I can relax in front of my huge wall size screen with my 600w sound system.

Not to mention the number of neck turns I have to make when looking at all three of my different monitors. And keeping my 12 computers and servers patched up is just a mission.

And deciding what car to buy, in cash. What a headache.

Yep, life is hard.

Plans for next year being on topic recently I got thinking about living arrangements, namely this summer is going to involve me having to a) move all my stuff and b) fit it into a new room. Which should be fun. Unfortunately, not literal fun.

I will give me a chance to redesign my room and I have begun to think about that too. After all everyone needs some escapism and what can I say, carefully planning how to make the most efficient use of space does it for some of us :P.

Never the less I feel an extensive culling of my stuff is probably going to be in order.

It is a strange time of year. Often the large amount of procrastination that occur at such periods as this sends people towards the blogs encouraging a flurry of posts. But things are for the most part silent at the moment. Hell, even my blog has been fairly infrequent recently. We’re talking days between posts. Days!

People on the whole have been fairly quiet. It’s a mix of people not being here and people generally being dispontent. The usual suspects can be found in DEC-10 every day - myself, Si, Dan, Jezz, Chris S and crazy Spanish guy.

Stress levels seem to be flucuating quite a lot at the moment. I felt fairly good about Rationalist Week this morning, I had found us some places that would rent us a van and things were falling into place. But it occured to me this evening that if we don’t get our funding sorted by the end of the week - we are going to have to cancel Rationalist Week.

Yeah.

Then there is FYP.

Yeah.

Then there is post graduation plans.

Yeah.

The moral of the story is, you all need to blog more. So the rest of us have something to read when we’re supposed to be doing things that will affect the rest of our entire lives.