The Legend of Steve Farrington

Quote of the moment:
"Do you know who I am?... I'm kind of a big deal... I have lots of leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany..." - Steve last night, to at least 5 separate girls.

Practised the line-out skills again last night. Free Bounce t-shirts being thrown out - I made it home with 3. Score... I needed to change into one of them halfway through because I was drenched with sweat. Yummy. It was so hot and sweaty that the steam was condensing on the air-con ducts and dripping back down. Lovely.

Steve was entertainingly drunk last night. He passed out on my shoulder just after 2, then needed supporting all the way home apart from random moments of manic energy, such as the one when he grabbed a big plastic crate of milk bottles and hurled it at the wall. Fortunately only the bottles broke, not the window he nearly hit. He then fell asleep on the pavement outside Senghennydd Court, before running off around the corner and falling over when I asked for his key. Damn stupid thing to do, eh? You'd never catch me doing anything like that...

J'ai besoin de l'internet

...or indeed a decent grasp of French grammar. Shame.

24hr uni computer rooms are the way forward. My room is almost pimped to the max, right down to fairy lights around the bay window, and just lacks my vast collection of predominantly LOTR posters to put the "ting" in the tweeters. Innit. Foolish parents left them at home. Honestly, some people are just so disorganised.

Loves It We Doesss

Quote of the moment:
(Will comes out of the gym)
"To Tesco now? Oh no, we already decided that, didn't we? Tesco tomorrow coming back from the boat club. K. Not that we talk to ourselves, of course. We wouldn't do a thing like that."

Not out loud anyway.

Moving into the new house tomorrow. Here is a minimap:

Pub
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|-K3/K9
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Me-----------Union

Scale: roughly 1 centimetre to 50 metres, or 1:5000. Yes, it does look straight down an avenue to the back door of the union. Even I can get home. Even when I'm concussed. Score.

Revelations, Chapter 13

Quote of the moment:
"Recently I've been..."

...thinking McFly are like, so totally hot, and like, so cool, especially now they're in like, that Lindsey Lohan film.



No really, I have. Honest. I'm also loving the way the one second from left looks like a girl in boy's clothing. That look is so hot right now. Is it by Mugatu?

Recently I've Been (Hopelessly Reaching...)

Quote of the moment:
"You're never too old to assault a bouncy castle"

Scotland, part the first.

Schotlande, part deux.

Much fun was had by all, apart from when Vicky and I had huge power struggles due to her inability to admit she is completely incompetent at everything outdoors and should obey my instructions to the letter. So... maybe half the time!?

A Paintballing Oops.

Paintballing was aces. As Will T said, "If I do what Will says, I don't get shot". Wise words. I went a little power mad in the end, when I was leading my 6 strong sweepline from tree to tree with coordinate covering fire. Army geek and proud. The other team didn't score a single point all day and I even got a little "Player of the Day" plaque. Highlight of my life to date. That is except, of course, for my Royal Engineers familiarisation visit...

Running (10.2 on the bleep test, a mere bagatelle)
Swimming test at 6.30am
Rigid raiders (Royal Marine assault boats) jumping patrol craft wakes
Awesome complex drunken mess games in the Junior Officers dungeon
Naked bar (when the only light is in the drinks fridge and you're too drunk to see anyway, it seems like a good plan)
Naked arm wrestling (more fun than it sounds, the bar was in the way to keep it safe)
Bridge building
Command tasks (ooooh... fun :D)
Driving a truck the size of a house
Demolitions: blowing up a sandbag each with plastic explosive
Raft race: build it, paddle it around an island, strip it. We had the only raft that stayed intact (of 3) and 2 rowers calling 10 stroke pushes, and we overtook the leaders halfway around the island but ending up losing because we went around it the wrong way. Technicalities, honestly!

All in all, knackering and awesome. I'm now in Cardiff, staying in the S9 hotel until I can go into my own house on Wednesday. Went to bed at 4 after too much Total War, up at 7 to pack all my stuff to leave out for delivery next weekend via the family gathering in Chepstow, 7 hours door to door from South Lodge (Essex) to S9 due to a fire by the traintrack near Slough. I'm off to sing myself to sleep. Mcfly, naturally.

News in Briefs

Quote of the moment:
Q: Which planet is most easily visible with the naked eye?
A: Earth

Ah, the joys of 1988 edition Trivial Pursuit.

Scotland was awesome, many pictures up soon, paintball was even better, got power crazy and started co-ordinating section attacks on the pitiful green team who failed to win a single point all day, stacked it while blinded by Jim, skinned both knees, Royal Engineers visit tomorrow, swim test and PT test will cane, kthnx bye.

Severance

Quote of the moment:
"I wouldn't want to be accused of not finishing him off when I had the chance." - Laura Harris in Severance.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Not only does she take a shotgun to the head of one near certain corpse, she drops a rock on the head of another, to a nice bit of ballet music. Classic moment when she first tries to lift one that's a bit too big for her, too. Best bit though was a guy trying to shoot people with a heat seeking missile, only to see it veer away from them and blow up a passing plane. Classy.

Hurrah for Jimmy's dad. He's decided to lend us his 4x4 for going to Scotland, instead of using Jimmy's hatchback. I had to go and have a driving lesson from him today to get to grips with it. To get "an easier start" than going out onto the main roads we went bumping around some byways first, which actually required far greater control and was rather new to me. Quite fun though. He also showed me and Jimmy the ridiculous amount of equipment he has stashed in its cubbies, including two tow-ropes, five tyre irons, a collapsible bucket and a foxing lamp.

Tennis this afternoon with Will was an improvement on the previous episode. I've progressed from losing 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 to 6-0, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), mostly because Will got tired. There was an awesome game that battled back and forth for at least ten minutes of deuces and advantages, before I managed to hold serve (highly unusual) to make it 5-5... If I'd managed to hold again when I was at 6-5 then perhaps I could have forced him to stagger around for a further two sets and an epic five set victory.

Au revoir kiddies... I march to Scotland on the morrow. 6am on the morrow, to be precise.