Quote of the moment: I woke up at 6.45pm! Hardcore!
Maybe I shouldn't have stayed up all night watching DVDs... Damn you, Jimmy... Look what you've done to me :P
Fitness Report: Played with weights for the entire duration of Black Hawk Down. It stops me wanting popcorn so much! Go me!
Quotes of the moment:
I have my train ticket to Edinburgh! Score! £57.25 from Bishop's Stortford to Edinburgh, with 1/3 off for a railcard. That's an open ticket too, so if I miss a connection or anything, I just wait 30 minutes for another one, nullus anxietas... One where you pick the train (And they reserve you a seat) would have been a bit less, but they'd all been sold already... Plus I don't trust myself to definitely get up in time!
Today I went to THE DENTIST. (Cue shock and awe music). As I have pr0 teeth, the dentist told me to piss off pronto :P Unlike my dear sisters, both of whom need fillings. Mwahahahaha! I am invincible! We then went to Stortford to buy/book(not applicable this time) my ticket. All the time being chaffeured by my dear sister Victoria. She who never updates her blog, you ask? The very same! It was rather eventful... She still hasn't got the hang of 5th gear much! But we made it safely from Stortford back along the A120 to Freeport, where my dear sisters looked at shoes and dresses, and I bought myself a mahoosive woolly jumper... 'Cept it's acrylic, not wool. Anyway, it was cheap, which has a kind of magnetic attraction for Scrooges like me. Sighage! I also bought, for £6.99 each, The Darkness' Permission to Land, and Jet's Get Born. Hurrah! Go me!Quote of the moment: "Followed Stuart Hall, who starts second on the grid" - Just heard on Formula Renault racing commentary, watching highlights on ITV. OMG... Lucky bugger!
That reminds me of when I was watching the Australian touring cars last week: One guy hit a 'roo and got his bonnet smashed in totally! Wrote off the car and the 'roo!
Mr Hall has just had a rear right tyre blowout! How tragic!
Today I was roused just in time to go to my grandparents in Felsted for Sunday lunch. W00t w00t! Upon eventually returning home, my dear sister and I watched Me, Myself and Irene: Just one of 9 films I borrowed from Jimmy last night, to keep me occupied for half term. Hurrah! Included in my selection were seven other films I haven't watched yet, including Kill Bill, and also The Crow, which is just awesome :D Plus I need ideas for Halloween costumes, because I am now coming up to Edinburgh for the weekend!
Now, for your delight and delectation, a selection of my piccies from Friday and Saturday have been posted on Imagestation! They only took 2 hours to upload! Go me, and my 38.6kb/s connection!
Quotes of the moment: While watching LOTR II, Jim commented:
"Saruman asks his magic 8-ball: Where has Gandalf gone?..."
When the Uruk-Hai and goblins stop for a rest, having hobbit-napped Merry and Pippin:
"Ok - anyone who needs the loo, go now, because we're not stopping from now until we get there!"
LOL...
My Tescos induction this morning was very exciting! I spent 4 hours watching videos, reading health and safety bumf, finding out about the Tesco pension scheme, filling in lots of forms and eating sweets. There were bowls of assorted sweets - Wine Gums, Minstrels, mints, toffees - in quite large quantities... How handy! So I am officially employed by Tesco now, working from 1pm til 6pm on Friday and Saturdays on refilling the shelves after the ravages of the week!
This afternoon I went to the Freeport cinema with Jim and Jimmy to watch Alien vs Predator (AVP). It was surprisingly good! The plot was obviously less than plausible, but the acting was alright, and there were a few amusing take-offs of the previous films in both series. The real stars, however, were obviously the extra-terrestrials themselves. Both Aliens and Predators were classy, and must have been a compilation of CGI and the original style mechanical models... The most entertaining part of the film had to be when the sole surviving Predator and the woman scientist who was helping him have just disposed of the Alien threat. They're standing on a cliff looking down, then look at each other... He removes his helmet, but the pig-like snout and huge teeth must have put her off the classic last-scene snogging! Obviously, afterwards in the carpark Jim attacked me like an Alien, jumping on me and driving his hand into my chest like it was a spiked and barbed tail! Thanks Jim m8!
Sit-Rep: I'm in Jimmy's room, watching The Two Towers on his obscenely huge TV. We = myself, Jimmy, Jim and Jim's elvish girlfriend Emma. It's true, she really is elvish. I've taken a picture of her with ears poking out, just to prove it. I tried to get her to pose next to the screen when Arwen popped up, but she refused. Spoilsport! However, she is t3h cool... Suitably nervous at being in my intimidating prescence, of course. Until I air guitared over backwards on Jimmy's wheely-chair, anyway! She and Jim seem to get on really well... They're both very dirty minded, for one thing! :P
Photos will hopefully go up later today, when I get up. If I can persuade the camera into connecting, that is, and if I survive attempting a morning weights session! It won't be too strenous though: pumping with one arm while the other holds a book! Also conditional on me making it back home in one piece! YAWN...
I should be in bed... I have an induction for my new job at Tescos at 9am! "OMG, early!" I (don't) hear you cry (9am lectures? What are they?), but when I start the actual job it's 1pm til 6pm, Friday and Saturday - not a particularly early start! But apparently Bath has lectures from 8.15am... Cardiff suddenly bounds even further ahead in my estimation! Talking of which, my UCAS form is done: Hurrah! The only thing I haven't marked finished yet is the courses bit, because I still only have 3... I do have replies from the Bath and Cardiff admissions tutors saying that they'll take me on BEng with BCC grades, but I've stuck down Sheffield as well, since their standard BEng offer is CCC. I'll probably use them as my back-up, just in case of accidents. I'm fairly sure of managing a C grade, since I'd only have to gain 14 marks across 3 papers! Adding 74 marks for a B should be ok as well, given that I should manage to get at least 80% in M2 (+30 marks on last time) and 75% in P2 (+50 marks on last time!), even without improving P3 or P1. An A would be rather harder to achieve...
Anyway, it feels wrong to send off the form with only 3 universities on it. But I haven't got any others that meet the criteria of running design-based courses (as demonstrated by the "& Structural" or "& Architectural" titles on the MEng courses), will offer BCC or less, and that have an OTC! Since I don't have any others to add, I'll take that plunge now!...
Plunge taken... Brrrr, it was chilly! :p And now, to warm me up, a pair of:
Handy sites:
http://www.newstudent.org - A most handy site for new uni students and applicants: it has forums on each university, as well as a general one with diverse topics ranging from Who's been ill? to How much money are you taking?... (You need to register even to look at those links, but it's worth it :D) I especially recommend this to Podge, cos most of the people seem to be very emo... :p
http://www.dogpile.co.uk - A browser (pfft - Google it) with a handy extra feature: you can search for people by surname and postcode/town/county... How handy! The American version came up with just 20 Poyntzs in the whole of the USA... How rare!
Quote of the moment: isketch, you sketch, but no-one sketches together...
It's my birthday and I'll fart if I want to... :D I got post from Glasgow and Edinburgh! Score!Spanks for the cards, organised female kr3w types... Prill's one had an epic essay in too! Lol...
Lovely prezzies... (well, mostly cheques, but pfft!) I got a humoungous weights set: two handbars, a full length bar thing, and a load of weights to stick on them... I only asked for a dinky set of hand ones... [Roll eyes] But when that message was passed via my mother to my grandparents, I ended up with the full Arnie set! I also got a set of Roman Historical novels, the latest Terry Pratchett paperback - Monstrous Regiment - and a digital camera from my rents! SCORE! :D It's not as flat and compact as Jim's/Prill's/Harry's, but it does all the tricks I could ask of it, so pfft! Tis not like I have particularly small pockets! :P
Jimmy and Jim got me a joint prezzie... The boxed set of Monty Python - The Movies! SCORE! And Now For Something Completely Different, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life. In a box. Yarrrrr! I be right happy 'bout that'un... :D
Sadly the grand isketch plan didn't really work... I managed to get online and host, eventually, but when people tried to join, they got rejected for some reason. I was, however, greatly amused by the earlier trip to Megabowl in Chelmsford. Unfortunately my birthday luck in getting a strike first bowl was negated by the fact that Jimmy hadn't pressed start on the machine yet, so it didn't count. Ooops! I did the same at the start of the second game too, though I wasn't exactly consistent! But the prize for incompetence goes to Jim, for getting four straight gutter-balls... LOL! Jimmy, on the other hand, owned us both and scored 124 both times... The next best was 96 off my second game... Owned! After that jollity we hit the arcade. I failed to get Jim and Jimmy on the DDR machine though, as we ran out of change - I think it was intentional! We then went and looked at the in-house Wimpy, but fortunately it was shut, so we left for better grazing pastures! We took a wrong turn out of the Megabowl carpark and ended up in a dead-end facing a brick wall:
Jimmy: "WTF?"
Jim: "They've changed something!"
PMSL... Jim is t3h 1337 m4tr1x0r! Having found our way out, we set off on an epic journey of many wrong turns and much confusion, in search of a take-away. We eventually ended up at KFC in Moulsham street at least half an hour later! Just shows how useful driving lessons are for getting to know Chelmsford! [Sigh!] On the way there I managed to misdirect us to behind the Aldi supermarket, trying to find the retail place with the Pizza Hut. So we paused in the Aldi carpark at the back of a pub to decide where to go next.
Jim: "I love back entrances!"
ROFL...
When we'd eventually got back here and gobbled our greasy chicken (while the puppy licked Jim's crotch ;D) I managed to get online only half an hour later than my proposed time of 9pm... But isketch didn't work anyway! My apologies to anyone who was online and on-time... But at least you didn't miss out on anything!
I took plenty of piccies with my new camera :D However it used up a pair of batteries in a day! Yikes! No-one mentioned that aspect before... Lol... So I'll stick some more in it tomorrow, and upload the best ones then - including one of Zulu (our puppy) leaping up at Jim's crotch! SCORE! :D
Quote of the moment: "Insomniac Publications thanks you for your jigsaw piece"
My Prize! W00t w00t! :D Fairtrade choccie... Podge can enjoy the moral justice of that while I enjoy eating it :p
Also, while I'm posting pictures, vote now for which of the following you reckon should become my more up to date picture at the top right of my blog:
![2: Backlit, trying to look cool... [Roll eyes!]](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6054/368/1600/bwbacklit.jpg)
Apologies for the vanity of all of that, and also to Rob for not downsizing the pics - I will with the one I eventually choose... Plus it means my fans can have bigger versions :p
P.S. My Profile has finally been updated! Hurrah! I've written 17 posts since it last did!
Quote of the moment:
Hulk: i reckon that there should be a politcal party called something like "the agnostic democrats"
Hulk: branches in all western countries
Hulk: dedicated to the destruction of religion
Rob m8: "I want to conquer the world, give all the idiots a brand new religion"
Rob m8: -- Bad Religion
Hulk: it'd be like neo-nazis, but with better uniforms
Hulk: they'd obviously be black
Rob m8: lol
Hulk: with hats with holes in for spiked up hair
Hulk: dyed according to their unit
Hulk: uniform punks
Rob m8: ahh the irony
Hulk: anachronism on the scale of military intelligence
Rob m8: anarchism? no?
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Lolski... Good plan, no?!
As far as the planned update went, I've pretty much forgetten anything on value! Just for posterity's sake, I vaguely remember doing the following:
Last weekend: met up with t3h Podge, went to see Dodgeball... it was awesome! The ginger sidekick from A Knight's Tale plays a guy who thinks he's a pirate... spends the whole film saying "Yarrrrr!"... LOL!
Since then, not a lot of interest has happened... I have rediscovered the joys of isketch! Erm... I have been to a few more lessons. I've sent off forms for potential officer visits to the Infantry and Engineering HQs. I've got an interview for Tescos in Great Notley tomorrow! :D
See y'all online on Friday night!
YES!!! For some reason, my stubborn pig of a blog has finally submitted and republished properly... Before, it was telling me my FTP password was incorrect, when I'd just taken the damn thing OFF FTP! Maybe tis just cos I'm not at home on my Paccy Lappie? [Sigh]
A full collection of random thoughts from the past week of non-blogging will follow when I return home... Also, I will insert all the links etc that used to be on the toolbar! Back to the three page version! :D I'm investigating drop-down menus, but so far I haven't found one that I can just steal from a page and stick my own links into... How unhandy!
A brief note, while I'm here: There was a strange little competition thing running for the last week chez MPW, which stemmed from everyone getting a sheet of random quotes n stuff, with a blank jigsaw piece in the bottom corner. The idea was to somehow decorate the piece, cut it out and stick it up on the whiteboard in the "Reading Room". (I.e. the library, only no fiction section... There's also a Library, which is the computer room. And a computer classroom. [Roll eyes]) Anyway, I photocopied a biro doodle-sketch I did of the garden out the front when I was bored between lessons a couple of weeks ago, zoomed it down and cut it out to fit the shape... And when I arrived today, I found a bar of chocolate in my pigeon-hole! Scorage! I owned les artistes... :D Doodling does pay, really, whatever teachers say :D
As I predicted in my harsh0r entry a while back, Ken Bigley has been confirmed as dead. It was pretty much inevitable from the time of his kidnap - now it's finally been confirmed, the family can get on with trying to cope... It may sound odd, but to me it seems better for them.
I've watched Charlotte Gray this evening... An impressive scene when the French Resistance trigger explosives under a German supply train carrying ammunition, and the ammo in successive carriages spontaneously detonates... Awesome stuff! Quite a good film too, overall, though not as good as the book, of course. I then progressed onto BBC1, but due to the afore-mentioned occurence in Iraq, the scheduled programme changed from "The Rock" followed by "The Dogs of War" - my intended choice of viewing - to an episode of Daziel and Pascoe, followed by "Patch Adams". Seen it before, but it's still refreshingly wry in patches (:D), even if sentimental and trite in others! Also: the little bald guy in the mental hospital at the beginning plays the prisoner with the mouse on Death Row in "The Green Mile" which I watched on Friday... Brilliant, even believable... and also supremely frustrating in the end, when something could surely have been done to save the innocent man, yet nothing was... ARGH.
There's something else I feel I kind of have to mention... I found something out tonight. Something sad, obviously for the people involved, but also possibly for us as a group... A part of what bound us together may disappear too. But I hope not... Although things may not be the same again, I hope that nonetheless something can fill that gap, and that all of us will still remain as friends. All of us are closer to some than others, and maybe that'll change, but though it may seem like another step in our disbanding, I hope that we, and especially they, will keep talking... It seems like they will, and I hope they will. Sometimes things happen that may be within our control, but beyond the grasp of our will. Sometimes, when we feel everything's just right, we want everything to remain the same. As we go our different ways into life that isn't always possible. But as we carry on with our lives we will find ourselves in other places where everything will be right again, and I hope that when we do, then our friends from school will still be close to us. It is almost inevitable that they won't be as close, but I hope that they will still be there, somewhere. Good luck, guys.
