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Why is watching something at a scheduled time so captivating?

This happens to be all the time but here I’m at a perfect example. Resident Evil is on Channel 4. I’ve just missed the first 10 minutes. I have it on DVD (though I dunno if I have it here) and Janine has just offered me her DVD but for some reason I am watching it on TV with adverts and possible reception problems. I have no real want to watch the DVD. Yet I have been looking forward to watching it on TV.

You see, there is just something about watching a film on a scheduled time on TV. I’ve done it before. I have a film on DVD that I rarely watch and yet when it’s on TV I will. Is it because I can watch the DVD any time but the TV is an opportunity only available at a certain time? The added bonus that many others will be watching it with me? Less effort than reaching up to my DVD shelf? Who knows.

I came across this site yesterday which provided royality free audio for enducational and personal use which is useful.

Today’s social activities consisted of the anime soc BBQ which I left about 4:45 as I wasn’t feeling mega sociable. I was also planning on going to the rock soc BBQ but again same problem and by the time I got a reply off Claire as to where I was going I needed to go meet John anyway. Which also mean’t that I didn’t get chance to go to Phil’s gathering. Good to know I’m in high demand though :D.

But yeah I met John at the Quilted Llama for some pool but someone was on the table so we went to The Terrace which was almost empty when I went in half an hour ago. By the time we got there that had filled up enough for both pool tables to be occupied though. In there we found Oli and Oli so all four of us set off down to the Old Bar what was even more empty when I checked it last time. People on that pool table too. Plan 4, Game On, that has plenty of pool tables. But that was getting used as a cloak room so we weren’t allowed in there (another example of how it isn’t our union).

On to plan 5, go to Yates. A very risky move given that it was a Saturday and therefore packed with locals. And there were people on all 5 tables! Although we eventually managed to grab one. After that we went to The Library and got another drink and another few games of pool before going to Luckys and heading home.

Went to the Bricklayers Arms for the Roc Soc social tonight at the invitation of Claire. Stayed there till they kicked everyone out then walked Claire home although that took some time as some random old guy in sheltered accommodation needed us to help him into his house which took forever. But now I have take-away so it’s all good.

Today was a day of filming. I was supposed to be meeting Craig in town at 11 though we didn’t show until 11:30. In the mean time I met Janine taking Liz shopping round Leeds though which was quite amusing as I looked up to see Janine waving and screaming my name across the street. It was a quite effective way of getting my attention to be honest.

Afterwards we headed back to Bod and filmed the spoof trailer for Mission Impossible 3 I had written and then moved on to starting a mockumentary about 6/6/6 and the devil and rock music and so on. We’re not really sure what it’s about either.

I also got round to showing Capturing the Smiths to Steph as well which I was pleased with the result. It turns out it should never see the light of day again because it’s so wrong not because it’s so bad. She seemed quite impressed by my cinematography which is the important things, I can always make more stuff about subjects not quite so close to the line :D.

Here’s my comment I tried to post to your MySpace blog post about having time to blog…

Indeed there is always time to blog, even if you don’t actually have time. Because you can blog really fast if you make a short post (which is the beauty of blogs, you can) and if you have something to talk about you will do it immediately and so even if you don’t actually have time, it’s not the blog that will get skipped or delayed :D.

Plus blogging is very important as us being students, if you don’t blog what we have done, we don’t have a chance of remembering it. This entire year has been a fuzy blur to me to which the only record of is my blog.

Predictably, here is the response MySpace’s server gave me…

Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.

This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group.

Seriously, an error with MySpace? Such a thing is unheard of.

Woo my server is still online. It’s worrying that, that has become a luxary. Also, I’m wondering why I arrived back to find that I no longer had the metal plate with my room number on my door. The screws were still in place, albeit badly so someone has obviously taken it off and put them back on again. They must have done it during the day though.

Anyway, title explaining time. I didn’t actually spent 10 hours in Quilted Llama technically. I also want to point out that I haven’t made a mispelling, llama is spelt with two l’s both when talking about the place and also the animal. Interesting fact of the day :p.

But yeah, Maths Chris was holding his Otley Run today which he had invited 50-60 people to. We were meeting in Woodies at 1 which myself and Maths Chris arrived on time for. Michelle also joined us. By the time an hour had passed, Kieran had also joined us. Good turn out :p. So we decided to skip the run and head to a cheap bar, I jumped at the chance to suggest Quilted Llama as I hadn’t been there in a week. We ended up staying there all night, on the top floor, playing a lot of pool. By about 10 there was only myself and Claire left and we ended up drinking at the bar after that right up until they closed at 12 at which point they said just go through to Halo so we ended up dancing to R n B for an hour before I walked Claire home and got the bus back to Bod.

Good night although when we were in Halo this random guy comes up to me and starts asking me what’s my problem with his girlfriend. I hadn’t actually noticed him before then and we couldn’t work out whether he actually had a girlfriend but after having a go at me and even having a go at Claire the bouncer threw him out. I should have done the “yeah you better run” after he got dragged off but oh well.

So yeah, we got to Quilted Llama about 3, spent 9 hours there, went through to Halo and spent another hour there so I didn’t leave the building for 10 hours. I think that’s quite cool :D. The drinks went up in price eventually but they were still £1.60 for a bottle which is still a kick ass price. Even more awesome I realised that next year I will be 5 minutes walk from the Quilted Llama :D.

My VPS has spent more time down than it has up over the past few days. I’m going to start pulling some accounts.

I got woken up a little after 3 am this morning by a phone call concerning the aforementioned movie. Really appreciated that. More annoying however I set my alarm at the wrong time somehow so it didn’t get me up at 10 as planned. Opps.

Yeeeeeesss! Yesterday Kieran blogged more than me. For one short day I was not the most obsessive blogger I knew. Of course now it’s probably going to slide back to normal, it’s not even 1 am and I am blogging. Although the only other chance I will probably get is after I get up but before I go into uni.

The reason behind that is because tonight we are all going to get nice and smashed at Sarann’s. Myself and Michelle went to Morrisons today and loaded up on vodka and vodka containing products and I’m taking my laptop and external hard drive round so we have access to the full array of my music collection. Add that to the invite policy bring “bring alcohol with you” and it’s going to be a fantabulus night.

Luckily the next time I have to be up after tomorrow night is Friday morning so even if we stay up all night tomorrow (or today rather, it’s past midnight although it would be past midnight then too so I’m unsure as to the correct term) I will still have 24 hours to sleep off whatever after effects it brings.

Of course beyond then and now we have our 4 hour SE15 lab exam to worry about. But I don’t really see that being much of a problem, I spent 15-30 minutes or so writing some empty base classes ready for the exam and I had a read through the mock paper too which looked refreshingly easy so I don’t think it will cause any problems and there is no way it’s going to take 4 hours so I think I will be done reasonably early.

So yeah, tomorrow’s plan is, get up, redo my nails, sort out my external hard drive, go to Sarann’s and drop stuff off, drop by student advice centre, do exam, go to The Terrace and begin drinking and the rest will just be a blur.