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Atheist Soc is moving! We had a societies assembly today, the block bookings form is filled in, the funding request form is filled in, plans for events are being drawn up things are just generally moving! So yeah, yay.

The coursework deadlines are drawing ever closer so most of the evening was spent in DEC-10 working on SE20. I’ve got most of the code done now to the point where I have a to do list I’m working on. You can always tell when you have the bulk of a project done when you find yourself creating your own little to do list of things to finish off before you’ve achieved everything you wanted to achieve.

Around 10:30ish myself, Si and Michelle finally gave in to our bodys’ desire for food and headed off to get takeaway with the plan of hypothetically going back to labs afterwards. By the time we had finished talking which was well, nowish, we decided it was probably best to get some sleep instead :p.

Still, it’s been a really cool night. It’s cool to spend time just chilling out with people especially as people are going to be disappearing off for Christmas in a week or so. Of course now comes the inevitable choice – to go to bed or to watch some X-Files. Hmmmm.

Friday was George’s birthday so we were Otley Running it. It was going to be a costume superheros and supervillians themed Otley Run however it got cancelled in the end. Amusingly enough George decided not to spread the word that it was cancelled and so Charlie, Sarann and Claire came in costume anyway,

It was a decently successful run we made it all the way down to the union although we did skip the Arc (no loss there) and The Pack Horse. Still, usually Otley Runs fail well before there whereas the plan was to go to Fruity so we reached our destination. Those of us that didn’t have tickets (most people that weren’t George) headed back to The Library but Phil got turned down because he didn’t have ID so we went for food and dissolved.

Google has given up with Google Answers – the site has stopped accepting questions and will stop accepting answers by the time the new year arrives. Interestingly enough, Yahoo Answers is growing massively successful. I don’t want to go on another rant here so I’m going to stop and let you reach your own conclusions – see my previous blog posts about Google.

I didn’t really post this today. It’s backdated. But I couldn’t be bothered making a full post about my sister’s 18th birthday party on Saturday so I’m going to turn it into a happy birthday post and set it back a few days ;). So yeah, happy birthday Katie!

I got to The Library last night around 10ish to find that Sarann had managed to get Si to come out. I was quite impressed plus it’s always good to have someone to talk to while Michelle and Sarann were busy systematically bullying Claire (that’s a whole different story :p). By the end of the night we had talked Si into getting his car, picking B up, taking her home (she had twisted her ankle and so couldn’t walk) and then taking us to Asda – at 1am.

So yeah, we ended up in Asda at like 2am doing a food shop. I managed to somehow spend over £18 even though I’m catered though I did buy a lot of Ribena which adds a lot to the price and I got plenty of snack food too so we had something to eat on the way home.

Overall I rate Si quite highly. He of course understands all the WoW jokes and he has a car (a nice car too!) plus he has his bedroom really sorted – bed, chair, computer. Therefore I am awarding him a well deserved 4 out of 5 stars. Probably the highest score you can get without sleeping with me.

Interesting read.

The worrying thing is, it is actually believable.

Speaking of coursework, I’m interested to see what people are going to pull out for the Easter Egg competition for SE20. Oh and for those that don’t know, there is an Easter Egg competition for SE20 :p. George has really pulled off something good for his, there are two little dialogs as well as a fully implemented game of pong hidden inside the login screen. I’m a little unsure how to trump that.

It’s getting towards the end of term and I think we’re all (perhaps with the exception of Mr. Scott Revell) feeling the strain of coursework. In the last two weeks have term we have coursework due in for every single module, indeed, one of which is due in this week (at least for me) and the rest next week (I think). Point is, there is a lot of coursework. I walked in to DEC-10 this morning to find Drew sitting in the same seat he was sitting in when I left last night.

I’ve been more proactive than normal in getting the work done but given I work like 30 hours a week on top of my degree, I’m still going to struggle to get it all done. I’ve now finished my AI21 (though it hasn’t been handed in yet) and have now started on my SE20 coursework. Once that is out the way I still have SY (I’m told it’s easy, it doesn’t look that easy though), DB (that looks like a bit of work though doable) and AI22 (even the courseworkaholics are dreading that one) and I have just over a week to finish them all.

It’s a small world. After last night’s close we were all hanging around outside and somehow got onto the topic of porn. I mentioned I had just launched a new adult site and Johnny got talking about this site they used to go on when they were in high school. I mentioned my first site was launched as a site without any text to get round the filters.

Well, you should be able to see where this is going.

Johnny: “It was called play something or something. What’s yours called?”
Chris: “Girl Session”
Johnny: “Yeah, that was it!

Bare in mind we went to different high schools. Good to see my viral is working :D.