More Exercise Needed

Quote of the moment:
"It's like listening to the Cirque du Soleil being chopped up by their own chainsaws." - Jeremy Clarkson test-driving a Lambourghini.

Saw this and thought of the Prill m8. Short minds think alike, perhaps?

In the last 24 hours I have: gone for a cycle around Broadstairs at 2am, which was rather awesome, being completely silent except for the waves on the beach; played a set of tennis when I got up; cycled to the beach, along to the promenade to Ramsgate and back along the clifftops; walked the dogs along the beach; played another set of tennis in the gathering gloom with the help of some new fluorescent balls.

All fun stuff, but I'm STILL not tired enough. My dear mother has promised to drag me out of bed for a full tennis match early tomorrow morning.

A High Performance Athlete

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"Greetings fellow high performance athletes,

El Presidento, Sanchez and my holy self have formed the new CURC Website."

- Sex Pest appoints himself as the ghost in the evil trinity.


Oopsy daisy... look what's been put on the social page...

Iced Gems

Quote of the moment:
"I'm too old for this shit" - Detective Sergeant Murtaugh.



Yesterday there was a clan gathering for my grandpa's 80th. Naturally I spent the day with those on my maturity level. It was great. There were even Iced Gems.

Neighbours

Quote of the moment:
"Get the door - it's Will"

- the first thing produced by the sloganiser when I tried it. Highly appropriate. I've just got my housing assignment for next year. 64 Miskin Street. About as much effort to get to the K3/K9 as going upstairs to K9. They may not be impressed :p

It's also a very short stagger straight out the back of the union and plumb in the middle of studentville. I couldn't have picked a better place if I'd even considered trying...

In health news, women think they sleep worse sharing a bed, but they actually sleep better... men on the other hand sleep worse. No suprises there.

Cross Channel Confusion

Quote of the moment:
"I don't know how they understand each other!"

Vicky, talking about the thickly accented Spiral (Irish) and Glyn (Gog). A fair point. I didn't know either, so I left before I topped my record of 10 minutes of Big Brother a week.

On a more interesting topic, if I was still at uni rowing we might have struck a couple of bodies with the blades...

Halfway down

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Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair where I sit.
There isn't any other stair
Quite like it.
I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where I always stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up and isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in the town.
And all kinds of funny thoughts
Go running round my head:
"It isn't really anywhere!
It's somewhere else instead!"

- A.A. Milne #

I saw this and thought of me :p

Are You Pumped?

Quote of the moment:
"Legolas, what do your elven eyes see?"

Are you pumped for Film Four coming to Freeview? It's going to make not having a job or anything to do all summer worthwhile. Ah... films.

The week's been good. I have been occupied. It was fun, kthnx, bye.

Just for Prill's benefit, in the last week there have been:

Jim's birthday. Went to the Green Dragon for lunch with Jim, Jimmy and Harry, where the legendary Tom Fell is now working. Legendary because of the Tom Fell song. It's a great song. You just sing Tom Fell over and over again to the tune of Amazing Grace. Freestyle verses between pure Tom Fell choruses are an optional bonus. Ah, the joys of CCF camp.

Minus Harry we went to Pirates 2, where Jimmy ogled Keira Knightley, Jim eyed up the voodoo chick and I admired Stellan Skarsgard's starfish. When we got back to Jim's, after some failed bunnyhunting, we went on a cross country trek to Tescos. Jim's airrifle went with us, which meant that we got in sight of it across a field and realised we should go to my house instead. It was while looking at Tescos that I asked Jim what his elven eyes saw and Jimmy got in a huff because that made him Gimli. He does have a pot though. What larks, Pip, what larks.

When we eventually surfaced the next day we returned to Jim's for a spot of tennis and overfeeding by his mum. Bless Jim's mum. She seems to think even I need feeding up.

Notable events since then: Will T came for a flying visit from Edinburgh and dropped in to spend more time here than with his parents. Charming young man. We were serving Pimm's though. Jim and Jimmy also came for some hardcore croquet action, which I took far too seriously and won with a complicated double croquet when all had seemed lost. I probably had the Smug Jambo Look (TM), although I think I avoided the victorious nodding.

Other than that, I have finished LOTR and the Hobbit and done very little of any use apart from a lot of dog-walking.

Hail to the Queen

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It said that early in her life, the Queen Ant will be fertilized by multiple male ants, and will use the sperm from this one incident of insemination to lay fertilized eggs for the rest of her life. I know what you're thinking, "That sucks for her," but perhaps you don't seem to realize just how much this sucks. The average lifespan for a Queen Ant is, get this, fifteen years. So this ant gets gang raped once in her life, and pays for it for more than a decade by never moving and laying eggs pretty much 24/7. I mean, damn.

I'm so glad I'm not an ant.

- Aly.

Summer camp this year is apparently well below par. I'm reassured. I'm also on book 4 of LOTR.

Allez Les Bleus

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A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain
Softly blows o’er Lullaby Bay
It fills the sails of boats that are waiting
Waiting to sail your worries away

Dream on, Zinedine... I was disappointed by his poor aim. Why headbutt the chest when he could have gone for the nose?

Had a joyous occurence on the way down to Kent yesterday. The fanbelt broke, the engine overheated and steam started pouring out from under the bonnet. Score!

Made it to Kent in the end, with parental assistance, just in time for the dinner/ball type occasion for the birthday of the headmaster's daughter, Francis. All was well until I switched to red wine, having finished (along with another, even more drunk Will) the table's supply of white. It wasn't so agreeable and accounted for the red hue of the vomit stains I was shown in the morning...

Apparently I was very "good value", despite managing to catch my trousers on something and rip them open across the arse. Sexy. Oh yes. I was put to bed by Sarah and the girl who had a joint party with the headmaster's son back at Easter and I'm told I was gone enough to be telling her I loved her, just like I was telling everyone the night the pavement attacked me. Oops.

You're Looking Rather Podgy...

Quote of the moment:
"My mum just said my waist and stomach have been getting big. Kthx."

- The Podge. Owned. Everyone's got it the wrong way around... you're supposed to get fat off free food in the holidays, like me, not having to buy stuff in the termtime.

Dancing Through Life?

Quote of the moment:
"It is said 'Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger'"

"And it is also said 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.'"

I've started on LOTR :D Also today I did an hour's length thrashing in the pool and thrashing of a different sort against my mother at tennis. Haven't played for about eight years apart from when occasionally forced to in PE, but Wimbledon inspired me. We got as far as 3-3, 4 games of which were breaks, before it was suppertime and I won a tie-break 7-4. Not particularly owned, except that I always disliked tennis, much prefering badminton, and I was using my sister's racquet which was a touch on the small side. I think I finally was forced to grasp top-spin playing Jimmy on his spanky new table-tennis table last week.

I'm off to watch Dances with Wolves, so I shall leave you with this gem:



Everything but the last part... I'm happy to spread the joys of the Drunk Will persona outside the bounds of insobriety.

Miss Sally Lockhart, I Presume?

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Live News.......Fifa in doubt over Portugal world cup win against England

It's alleged that one of the Portuguese football players failed a drugs test after the match. If this is confirmed as positive, under World Football Federation rules, paragraph 6 sub section 2e, Portugal will forfeit the quarter final match and England will play France in a Semi Final match played at a later date. (scroll down for the full transcript of this report).

...Carlsberg don't send emails, but if they did they would probably be the best emails in the world.

Cracking stuff. An interesting night tonight, at the end of year staff party. Apart from me, the only people under 30 were the headmaster's daughters, who were behind the "bar" table, and the oddjobbing year-after-uni-to-decide-what-to-do old boy, who was minding the music and chatting up the elder daughter. Reassuringly he has much less hair than me. The party was suprisingly ok, mostly because all the staff were drinking themselves back to my kind of mental age and I was staying there on Coke.



In entertainment news, hot on the heels of the possible massacre of His Dark Materials comes a BBC adaption of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke. It should at least be kept British and the BBC expertise in Victorian drama is second to none, but Billie Piper? Not exactly the classiest choice. Sally's supposed to be the posh lady in the East End, not the eJimmy, of course, wants Emilia Fox, because he loves Emilia Fox. Fine for the later books, but Sally's supposed to start out aged 16. Then again, if they make all 4 straight off, then that'll balance out a bit. Personally I'd go for someone like Emilie de Ravin.

User Satisfaction

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There's nothing so bad about that... dumps can be a highly satisfying experience, especially when accompanied by quality literature. Today's highlight was actually, however, attempting to take the dogs for a walk around the school pitches and being mobbed by 9 year old girls all madly in love with the pair of them, especially Zulu (the 2 year old black labrador, as supposed to Ben, the 9-odd year old yellow labrador). I ended up refereeing a game of piggy-in-the-middle with complicated political overtones, which were only explained to me afterwards by my mother. There was me blithely thinking they were all getting on fine!

Psalm 23

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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

- Psalm 23, also the name of the episode of Lost series 2 about Mr Eko. Marvelous what you can randomly find out from the RT online, Daily-Mail-reader-targeted though the reviews are. Mr Eko: don't you wish he'd been the school chaplain? Even I would have turned up on time then...

The Will Show

Quote of the moment:
"The thing is, a person's life is like a TV show. I was the star of The Will Show. And The Will Show wasn't an ensemble drama. Guests came and went, but I was the regular. It came down to me and me alone."

- Hugh Grant (Will), About a Boy.

My dearly beloved little sister carried on the family tradition by getting hammered, blanking the middle part of the school summer ball and at some point in this blank, losing her phone. Perhaps I can blame my own escapades on my genes?

Now I must get on with dividing my day into units of half an hour to keep myself occupied. Tis a good plan. Going shopping for Nick Hornby books would take up at least 3 units...

The Bushcraft Channel

Quote of the moment:
"UKTV History: Ray Mear's Bushcraft"

On the hour, every hour, from 7am to 1am today. I would say "Oh dear" but given the dearth of anything else decent I watched parts of 4 different ones.

I also watched the penalties of doom. It was all over from when they started to "play for penalties", wasn't it?! England CAN'T win on penalties!