Rowing Initiation

Quote of the moment:
Everyone get two drinks and head to the dancefloor! - Rowing social secretary.

Wasn't as bad as it could have been. Was still standing at the end. Novice Captain James was being held upright at least half an hour before then. Lol. Also a certain Miss Rowena Harvey was practically carried out, and probably carried home. Haha. Some people just can't handle their drink. I, on the other hand, came home with a Tigger drawing on the front of my white, sign-me T-shirt (and a minge on the back). Steve, as far as I know, just had the Tigger (which he did get first to give him his due), but I left him looking for a trolley and went back to my flat (with the hoola-hoop I'd "rescued" when everyone was leaving. It was one of the items in the scavenger hunt, but my team stuck with Hula-Hoops (the crisp versions). So much easier to transport, plus I ate them (BBQ Beef flavour) after the judging was done. Oh yeah - I took over my team's list of stuff. Haha. My bad. Je suis un bossy cow.

Got chips on the way back (with the hula-hoop hidden beneath the counter) then came home, decided (for some unknown reason) that I was still hungry and set about cooking. Pasta, sausages and ketchup. Beautiful combo. Shame I burnt my finger draining the pasta, but c'est la vie. Bah. I have a hoop. It's purple with glittery bits. Beat that for spoils of a drunken outing.

I should also mention that Ruth (on whom I drew "Desperate (for) Dan") seemingly pulled said Dan, her object of lust and adulation, and I didn't see them after about 12. Shocking. However, the senior women's captain and one of her team-mates emerged from a cubicle in the men's toilets while I was in there (fortunately I'd reached the hand-washing stage, unlike one poor unfortunate) to great whooping and applause. I didn't stand on the next-door bog to look over the wall though, so I don't know what was going on.

Anyway. Drunken cooking succesfully completed, I'm off to read Terry Pratchett (Going Postal) on the bog and then pass out on (or hopefully in) my bed. Woohoo. We still didn't get our damn social shirts though. Honestly. It was almost as if Natalie (the social sec.) was more interested in who she was going home with. Haha. True fact, that. Nighty night.

You Need to Get Out More When...

As soon as you notice it's past midnight, you open your advent calendar for the next day.

Well, it is a chocolate one...

Everyone Runs Faster With the Knife!

Quote of the moment:
"There's no respawn points in RL" - Steve's favourite and oft-repeated Doug quote.


You scored as Assault Rifle. You are soldier. Or you want to be a soldier. Or you just love military-type firearms. You need assault rifle. M16 or AK-47 will do good.

Assault Rifle		100%
Sniper Rifle		75%
Shotgun		44%
Revolver		44%
Machinegun		38%
SMG		38%
Pistol		38%

What Firearm Fits You Best?
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Apologies for unleashing the loathed quiz-farm offerings again, but the grammar just made it too good to miss. I'll take the under-slung grenade launcher with that, kthanx.

Continuing the theme, I must direct you (courtesy of Mr Matthew Wright of K3) to what is, apparently, video footage of my alter-ego, Doug.

Jim strafing down the path at school to go faster, anyone?

Cameron 4 t3h w1n!

Quote of the moment:
David Cameron has been elected as the new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis. - BBC News.

I finally got the mass email saying I'm invited back to camp next year. My email address, along with a large number of others, was misspelt. According to the graduate careers talk I went to last week, any kind of work that involves "transferable" skills is handy, it doesn't have to be directly engineering related. I think I'll take the sunshine option.

Random fact: My flatmates, feeling both festive and drunk, took a can of snow spray stuff and adorned each of the communal windows with a Christmas penis. How scenic.

Show Me the Muffins

Quote of the moment:
You had me at "Environmental Fluid Mechanics"

Or not. Test at 9am. Woke up about 4pm, having failed to get up for any of my 5 alarms starting at 8am. Woohoo. Nm, the exam result will apparently apply as a psuedo test score as well. Since I missed the latter half of last week as well, I have no idea if Claire went home this weekend, but if she did then I missed the home-baking lecture. Now there's a real tragedy.

(Update on the illness: issues with swallowing due to swollen glands. Woohoo.)

Red as a Cherry Tomato

Quote of the moment:
Mmmmm cherry tomatoes. Reminds me of your profile picture: red and shiny :p


Midget tomato, or tomato-coloured midget?

Glands are up, sporadic bouts of sweating and shivering, nicely developed hacking cough. Hooray for being ill.

Environmental Fluid Mechanics test at 9am. Bleurgh.

Monopoly Mayhem

Quote of the moment:
"Don't knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run."

Another banging party in K9 tonight. They got up and finished their party booze supplies for breakfast! Legendary! They came touting for people to play Monopoly around 11 (I think) but the game didn't begin until 11.45 and lasted an epic 3 and a half hours. Six men started the battle of luck and endurance. I came 3rd despite being on top for most of the game, due to Richard ("The Fat Controller") skipping my hotels and landing on his stations almost all the time. The only thing he did pay for was the Electric Company, damn him. He won, but Martin was man-of-the-match for grimly hanging on despite only getting 1 property to begin with, getting up to a set of 3 with haggling but never managing to build anything at all. A commendable 4th. Oh, and the whole game was played in dressing gowns. Over clothes mostly, apart from Herr Kontroller.

Strongbow & Ribena:Druids' Brew

Quote of the moment:
Get it down... you Zulu warrior! Get it down... you Zulu chief chief chief chief chief chief!...

Just come back from an awesome drunk party in K9. The plan was to head out to town somewhere, but we were having so much fun piling onto people's beds n stuff that that was abandoned. Some people did go out for the traditional post-night-out takeaway though. Mmmm chips. I stayed in and stuck to toast'n'jam. Not convinced it's healthier but it's certainly more economical. Unlike buying an Xmas tree in November and having it mauled on December 1st. Shame on you Little James. Tis all your fault.


Didn't finish my bridge project. Sod it. Serves me right. Hopefully will learn my lesson, but given the weight of historical evidence I doubt it. As Jules said at the LVI parents meeting, "He has a cavalier attitude to deadlines". Yeah baby. I'm a cavalier. At least that makes me an interesting failure, not a dull one. Anyway, I've secured 25 (of an available 30) of the necessary 40% to pass Drawing already, so sod it. I'll scrape through. 70% in my presentation baby, yeah! I can talk like the days will never go down behind the hills in the west, into darkness. How did it come to this, eh?! EH?!

A P-P-P-Presentation?

Quote of the moment:
"That was very good, apart from being 15 minutes long"

Oops. It was supposed to be 7-10 minutes. I still got 70% though :D

Straight onto the bridge design for this afternoon. Woohoo!

Winegums Are Awesome

Quote of the moment:
I'm going to go change... - Rowing James. He just changed his skirt for some jeans, but that was my cue...

Abandoned the cheerleader costume between the pub (Gassy Jack's) and the club (Rubber Duck in Solus @ the union) in favour of combats, "Action Man" tshirt and aviators. My cheerleader outfit was the bomb though. Pics later, maybe, if I can get them off the neighbours who took them. Arrived in the union in time to follow everyone (only about 15) in but after a while I lost them at the bar when talking to a girl from my tutor group. She + mate then disappeared when I turned back to buying a drink, so I was left to wander the club on my jones.

Quite pissed already so cba to do that for long and headed for home. Saw another rowing guy doing the same (and helping a random girl who got her stilleto stuck in a draincover) on the way out, so never mind. Lots of work to do tomorrow! Lectures 10-5 then I need to work on my bridge project and practise my presentation - both due on Friday. Woohoo!

Did my 5k this afternoon... got 18mins 52, which was 4th out of the 7 guys who'd done it by then... hopefully it stayed that high! Doubt it though. Bah. Was good considering I haven't done any rowing in aaaages. Got a bruise across my knuckles where I think I hit a wall on the way home. Oops.

Yes indeed, I'm le pissed. Wahey! P.S. did some shopping on the way home from rowing and got some winegums. Mmmmm winegums. :D