| Exam trauma is over. Maybe forever? |
[19 May 2008|09:26am] |
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So I had my last exam on the 9th. Possibly the last ones I have to do if I get my 2:2. Ten days ago, and it still feels like a luxury not to have to be constantly revising. I've been nice and productive (mostly). For starters I revamped the TSW website and shop and am now trying to decide If a) I should make some more Kat Hats to sell and b) whether I should give away the remaining TSW t-shirts for free like momiji did recently, or in exchange for some doodling or comment. Oz suggested I should run a competition, but I really can't think of any ideas. It needs some thought. The TSW site does now have awesome headers that change with the time of day! X3 *is ridiculously proud of self*
Since revision freedom i've also tidied (a bit - still a bloody mess) done a fair bit of wii fit, played some guitar hero, watched some avatar, finished reading" the great gatsby" (awesome story! would make a pretty good manga...) seen Iron Man (SQUEE!) and half planned out our RSOM entry.
I've also been doing some project work, which isn't quite as fun, but still good compared to exams. The system is coming on really nicely, it's great to get the whole thing boxed up and looking good. Going to get some more drilling done today and then hopefully the whole thing will start to come together. I'm a little concerned about the solar panels and the electronics, but there's very little I can do about either. I just attack things with a file... ¬_¬
I'm getting a bit annoyed about this whole Mechsoc hoodie thing. It seems that half the people who ordered one haven't picked it up yet, and each of them have emailed me separately requesting a different time to come and get theirs. It's so fiddly to get it sorted! We should have organized sending them off to different people's addresses... that way we could have got it all done in an afternoon. Meh. /rant
In other news, I went to see James perform again. Damn that boy can sing! It was awesome to catch up with Kat again and get pleasently drunk and do some more sketching. Good times, although I think I inadvertently chatted up one of the other performers...I didn't mean to give the wrong impression! o_o
Right, got an hour and a half before I've got to leave for uni... going to do some RSOM concept sketching.
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| RSE FTW! |
[28 Apr 2008|07:11pm] |
 I got my RSE! My racial specific gear in final fantasy, and damn it's pretty! It took about 3 hours early Saturday morning to get the chest keys and find the chests in a scorpion, goblin and jelly infested dungeon. That's for each of the four pieces of equipment. Steve and chippy as Atys and Neela beat down on some monsters while i hid in the corner with my puny level elvaan Erebis. Huge thanks! I'm all smexy lookin' now! X3
Just gotta actually play some FFXI now o_o...
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| Photo frame earring holder! |
[26 Apr 2008|07:53pm] |
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This is probably the least original DIY crafty thing ever splashed across the net, but I made one of these the other week and was pretty pleased with how it came out. As well as giving me somewhere to put all the earrings that were strewn across my flat it also was a good use for some of the results of my fabric-buying fetish. Here's a quick step by step for anyone who's interested...
Materials: Cheap wooden photo frame (Dunelm Mill), funky patterned fabric, black netting fabric (I saw this done with supermarket bags for oranges online), black spray paint. (I stole steve's warhammer stuff, it came out pretty well)
Step 1: Pull the photo frame apart, take out the glass and the papery advert bit they always put in. There should be a rectangle of card in there as well as the backing with the stand bit attached. Keep that rectangle of card.
Step 2: Take the empty frame part and douse it with the spray paint. Let it dry.
Step 3: Cut the pretty fabric to a rectangle shape about an inch larger than the photo frame backing. Do the same for the net, then lay the patterned fabric onto the rectangle of card. Put the net on top.
Step 4: Push the whole lot back into the frame. The only part left should be the backing board with the stand attached to it.
Step 5: Tuck in all the fabric edges and wedge the backing board into the frame, sealing everything in. Push down those little metal tab bits that keep it secure and it's done! With no glue or anything.
Step 6: Spend a happy 10 minutes poking all the earrings though the netting.
( Bad phone pictures under this cut... )
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| Want one! |
[25 Apr 2008|02:24pm] |
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Damn, Avatar is love o_o
Why do I feel much more creative when I have so much to do?
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| Sleepless |
[22 Apr 2008|02:36am] |
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I went to bed at 12.30ish and dozed for an hour and a half, and now I'm really annoyingly awake. It could have been that red bull I drank to aid revision... gah. Anyway. News...
I modified www.twosideswide.com so that the main page is powered by blog software! It's now rss-able! Hurrah! :D I also uploaded sibling revelry onto a page of its own, it's a short manga with much circus-y goodness and mild a mild suggestion of incest. I'll prolly remake the page header sometime this week, it's been bugging the hell outta me lately. It could just be so much prettier!
Revision is going slowly. Starting to worry a bit now, My first exam is on the 2nd. At least my freelance work is over for now, earning me some much needed cash. When my bank refused to extend my overdraft limit (even though it says 3rd years get 1500 the bastards!) I was going to be seriously stuck.
I really wish my digestion would sort itself out. It could be being sat hunched over work all day has squished my guts into a ball but i can't seem to digest anything. I always seem to have an infuriating stomach ache at the moment. Bleeehhhhh
I've just discovered that i'm a numpty and didn't realize that I have to come up with another 4000 words of creative writing for my coursework! I've finished my first piece completely now, tweaks and all, so i'm going to be really self indulgent and bizzare for my second piece. I'm thinking scifi and invading lolcats. Oh yes :D
In fact, I'm going to start now to try and work off the red bull.
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| DBZ: Super battle in the lol |
[12 Apr 2008|10:45pm] |
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So I've been reading, to my faint shame, some dragon ball Z comics. See, cats can sometimes be relevant! It remind me of when I first got into animé, watching episode after episode of taped cartoon network DBZ. It was my first fandom, Amy and I would draw comics, make fansites (we even started one called 3.5 dragons...) and i learnt to draw Gohan line by line on my rough book.
It was a late delivery of part of the massive manga prize sent us for coming 4th in the manga "Jiman" competition last year, and they arrived last Friday completely unexpectedly. The comics are actually bloody good, I could learn a lot from studying the action scenes. The plot is silly but compelling, and you really find yourself rooting for the good guys.
I still maintain that the DBZ movie "super battle in the world" stand as the lowest unit of "film" there can be. For example, V for vendetta comes in at a sparking 300 DBZ, while a mediocre film like that new transformers one scores more around 75. The numbering system is strangely apt, as most of the characters spend a lot of time spouting lines like "His power level is over 9000!" hence the internet meme.
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| the luls |
[12 Apr 2008|11:51am] |
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lolcats help me revise. No really.
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| A week to myself |
[05 Apr 2008|12:12am] |
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For the first time since last August I'll be alone in my flat. Steve has gone to the lake district with his family, taking promises of kendel mint cake and an assurance that he won't spend to much. He left his mobile under his desk, the muppet, but he's promised to call me on another phone.
It'll be odd, we've been living together for what feels like forever. Being by myself makes it feel like it's second year again in all its hideousness. On the plus side, i can continue to nurture my love/hate relationship with the mighty boosh ( I think i want to like it more than i actually do...) I can push the little switch that makes the warm come out of those metal things on the walls, and i can practice guitar late at night without Steve's disapproving looks. Oh, and revise. must revise.
Kat and James came over last night for what turned out to be a guitar hero marathon. Good times! Very late night. We made Spaghetti and meatballs, and i managed to burn the spaghetti (don't ask how) but it was edible and fairly tasty so no-one complained too much. I drew an EGL creation and a cat-molesting child. Steve and I ended up in harrow later and swapped my old monitor for 20 quid at CEX, which we then promptly spent nearly half of on Baskin Robins milkshakes. Horribly gorgeous stuff!
This weekend promises an evening at Ruth's (fun!) an afternoon at london anime club (win!) and further burrowing into my suffering overdraft.
Monday should be exiting though, i've got a meeting with some people at the RCA about doing some storyboards for characters associated with a toy they're developing. They've told me to a) watch some kids cartoons.*eyes spongebob movie* , b) bring some of my work (ARGH! DEAD PRINTER!) and c) have some idea of price. I'm thinking it's easiest to charge by the hour. The internets suggests about £20 an hour, i don't know if that will be too much or to little... gah!
I'll give it some thought.
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| Old old me |
[01 Apr 2008|08:12pm] |
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Wewt! Had a small but fun party last night with Caz, Deb and Steve. We played lots of wii games and watched some mighty boosh (I can't decide if I'm a fan or not yet... I'm like that video of the baby with a lemon. )
There was also much cake and jelly and good!
I also discovered that my family are worse then i am about hoarding things. I opened the fridge when I got home to discover no less then 7 bottles of identical salad dressing belonging to my brother. 7? Even I'm not that bad! Caz helped me decant them into two bottles. We were amused.
Today was spent playing MySims (so nearly to 5 stars!) and revising thermo. I wasted a lot of time confusing myself with trig. Damn you maths coming to bite me on the butt! I thought I left you behind last year!
I also went on a nice walk with Steve, we went up to the posh bit near harrow school and talked about our ideal house. We agreed on a cottage somewhere within fairly easy reach of London, with an uber l33t entertainment room in the basement with cool seating areas sunk into the floor, and a loft conversion with lots of windows for a design studio. The only problem would be that Steve and I would never see each other! XD
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| Live Sketching |
[31 Mar 2008|02:31am] |
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So I was at a live music event near waterloo station last night at a pub called "the stage door" ( www.thestagedoor.co.uk). I went to see James perform, and he was bloody awesome too! I was seriosuly impressed. I'm looking forward to getting some of his recordings! I had a great night and did some quick sketching of the performers. It was pretty fun to do, because while the performers were dynamic they didn't move a hugr amount and it was good to try and get some of the character and mood into the pictures. Anyway, Dave, the guy who runs the event, saw me sketching and asked me if he could put the drawings up on his website. Pretty awesome! I was quite drunk and found myself in a good situation where he was asking me to come back and draw more performers at other events. I spent the journey home alternately shivering and giggling into my chicken mcnuggets.
Today was fairly uneventful, watched the colour of magic and the light fantastic that my dad was sweet enough to record from sky, played far too much MySims and revised tensors for thermo.
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| Muda |
[28 Mar 2008|07:51pm] |
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So I'm revising Integrated Design and Manufacture for my exam on the 6th of May and I get to the part about Japanese manufacturing practice. They came up with 7 forms of waste or 'Muda' that should be eliminated from any process. It makes pretty good sense, if you cut these out of your manufacturing you get faster and more efficient factories. The 7 forms are as follows:
-Over Production (making things you don't need)
-Storage/Retrieval (Poor access to things you need for the process)
-Waiting (for a dependant event)
-Transport (Moving the manufactured object around)
-Movement (ergonomics, excessive operator movement)
-Over Processing (unnecessary or repeated activities)
So I was thinking, what else could you apply this to? My lecturer suggested that a desk is a good start, so let's see how mine measures up...
MY DESK
-Over Production (making things you don't need)
I could possibly cut the small origami attempts littering the space beneath my monitor, crushed under my keyboard and betwixt my half empty cup collection. And the doodles. and the postits with rude words written on them.
-Storage/Retrieval (Poor access to things you need for the process)
Hum. Possibly my access to a working pen is compromised by the large volumes of broken ones. Bits of important paper are trapped beneath envelopes, half empty cups and yaoi manga. In terms of my computer, maybe i should clear my desktop to the extent that it fits on my monitor.
-Waiting (for a dependant event)
I can't operate until coffee is made and ingested. I suggest some means of remotely operating the kettle and installation of an intravenous drip system. Also i find myself sitting and waiting for windows to open. Perhaps I should leave my computer on at all times.
-Transport (Moving the manufactured object around)
Not so much of an issue. If the manufactured object is a graphic or document, i should set it up so that i don't have to send it through Steve's computer to print the bloody thing.
-Movement (ergonomics, excessive operator movement)
I propose that desk chairs are plumbed into the floor to double as fully operational toilets. Also, i should tape a pen to my hand. The coffee situation has been accounted for already.
-Over Processing (unnecessary or repeated activities)
Chewing my nails repeatedly, banging my head on my desk and blinking are all unnecessary. I propose blinking all in one go at the beginning of the day, possibly while windows loads. A machine to bang my head for me would be useful, and more sellotape applied to my fingers might help the nails issue. Also saving is a repetitive time wasting task. I propose that my computer never crash.
I can see that my life is improved already. Or maybe my work ethic of working in a trash heap of my own creation is incompatible with this Muda concept...
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| 70 weeks eh? |
[28 Mar 2008|09:55am] |
For some reason I woke up this morning and remembered I had a livejournal in which to bitch and overuse firefox's spelling tool. Because I'm trying to write a bit more to get this last short story being awesome for my creative writing class, maybe putting stuff here will help. Livejournal reckons it's been 70 weeks, which is a good a reason as any to update.
Things that are currently getting on my tits:
-Momiji
-Starting Revision
-Not being arsed to diet
-Spending too much
Things I'm loving:
-IDE NEXT YEAR BABY!
-Learning Guitar
-A certain scary potential business deal
-Uk web and mini comics!
Humm.. Maybe I can revamp my journal a bit too.
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| A deluge of shite....among other things |
[17 Nov 2006|10:46pm] |
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Since my last journal post was probably done sometime in the stone ages, I think it's time I made an attempt at an update. Warning: Rant ahead.
It's been a rocky term so far...I was commuting from home for the first month and I've been living here in my fantabulous but kinda empty flat for the last three weeks (Yay! King size bed and big ass cooker!). I've only had internet for one of them and my levels of procrastination have risen accordingly...not to say I havn't been trying to cram as much information into my unwilling brain as humanly possible. I'm starting to have doubts about my degree choice, my future and my complete lack of feasable ambition.
It doesnt help that the tablets I'm on to shrink a prolactin producing growth in my brain (Yay!) make me alternately dizzy/headachy and agitated/paranoid. One moment I'm asleep on the train, the next I'm sure I'm going to see someone looking in at me through a window.
That aside, my pissed-off-o-meter reached record levels yesterday (a dizzy/headachy day) when my fluid mechanics lecturer decided to have a go at me for 45 minutes straight. My failure to expand a equation (given the lecture before) in a surprise "test" (bearing in mind half the lecture hall didnt realize it was supposed to be one until he'd asked for the answers in) somehow offended him to the extent that he felt compelled to put it up in front of the whole class and claim that either someone had discovered a new way to vectorise density and should be hailed as the new einstein, or they were doomed to fail. This was followed by a rant about how anyone who cheated was A BAD PERSON! At this point my view was "Yeah, I screwed up. I probably should have gone over my copy of his fairly incomprehensible scribblings. At least i didn't cheat."
Oh boy.
He caught up with me yesterday. After making me wait around while several confused people asked him what he had just given a lecture on he began by asking me if I cheated. Which, as I thought would have been evident, was not the case. It was then he started going on about how if any of the senior tutors had seen my answer they wouldn't want me on the course. He asked me what I got last year. My answer of a 2:2 seemed to enrage him further and he went on to inform me that if I got anything below a first class degree then he was sure Imperial wouldn't want to be associated with me and that I was obviously incapable of hard work. He then asked me what I wanted to be, and when I replied that I didn't know yet, he started stabbing in the dark to find a way to hurt my feelings. He started by saying that I would never be able to work as an investment banker (ambition of over half the year) or an engineer (the rest of the year). When this provoked little response from me he then told me I was unfit to be an artist (ow), to work in mcdonalds(!!!wtf?) or even be a mother. What would I tell my kids? That I got a SECOND CLASS DEGREE???
I lost it and burst into tears. Which was probably better than calling him a wanker. let's have some sense of perspective here. One month into term and he can predict my entire failed life?
He continued in a simmilar vein for several minutes with his attempts to humilliate and upset me and then he set me some problems on the board. Considering that I wanted to either go stick my red blotchy face under a rock for the next million years or smack him one I think I answered them pretty well.
He had a point in that I should probably try to work harder. ie- all night as well as all day. But he didnt have to humiliate me like that. There have been a fair few complaints about him already. I think i'll add a contribution to the list.
His progress test is next week. If I fail he'll probably do his best to get me thrown out of the university.
On the plus side... I made fish pie!
That was an insanely long post. It reflects my second year angst. Expect a new post next year sometime.
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| Back to uni sooon... |
[26 Sep 2006|08:21pm] |
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Next Wednesday to be precise. Another year, and not one non-9am start. I'll be up at 6 for the next 3 weeks at least, or so it looks, to get there on time as i won't be able to move into my new non-burnt-down flat until then. Well, it'll be interesting certainly. In 3rd year I get the option to study "Global History of Twentieth-Century Things" so that's something to look forward to! XD
The best part is that I leave cooking and cleaning for offices and old people behind for another summer! Nothing quite like cleaning in an old people's home...
Tomorrow i get to see the flat for the first time (yay!), and also to go see the doctor, who can hopefully tell me if i have something horribly wrong with me. It's something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperprolactinemia . I really hope i havn't got something that's hard or painful to fix...
On a good note, we finished RSoM! It's not perfect but its a lot better than last year... so i really hope we're in with a chance of getting in the book!
Short post... ah well. Only thing to say now is I <3 Pink Floyd! Thanks dad ^^
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| Autumn |
[05 Sep 2006|11:58pm] |
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The air smells of autumn. It's plesent, nostalgic and making me worry about going back to uni, and a little about living by myself. I've spent a couple of days drawing solidly for rising stars of manga, and it's given me time to think while I draw. Well, more worry really. I'm being plagued with guilt and memories of embaressment for no reason. I'm sure it'll pass... but i feel like i need to apologise. Fisrtly to Amy... i'm sorry hon, i tend to be tactless sometimes. I feel kinda bad about that stargate thing, i didnt mean to mess with it. I had a good time though, and that 200th episode was damn funny! *hugs* Thankyou for putting up with me!
Secondly...sorry to Aobh . It's been more than 3 years, but it's been preying on my mind lately. I was out of order...and i'm so sorry. I know you won't read this but i 'm just gonna say it into the ether of the interweb cause i think i need to.
Also, to myself. I need to make a doctors appointment. I need to admit to myself that something's wrong and go sort it out...
I'll do it tomorrow. *nods*
Well at least RSoM is going well. Only 3 pages left, then i shove it all at Steve and get him to tone! Then i'll have time to look over my uni notes, do some stuff to put up on deviantart and play on final fantasy. And go on MSN. I''ve developed a fair bit doing this manga...I've definately gotten better at page layouts and drawing anime eyes. It can only be good!
Dad got me a brilliant present.. a book on digital fantasy painting! Gonna have a go at that too.
So yes, it's been a while since i posted anything, but it felt like i wanted to try and get my head in order. I'll go look at my friends page now...
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| Another bloody long gap between posts... |
[27 Jul 2006|12:49am] |
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Well, it's been far too long and i'm too tired to make this a long post. To cut it short, lighthouse is well under way and i'm slowly degenerating into a complete state of being unable to cope with my consignment of sticky irritable choldren. On the plus side, i found a cool job registering and parking cars in wycombe and hopefully i can organize working there again! I don't want to be washing up any more...really not fun.
Big news is that I got into second year of uni! I scraped a C with no retakes, thank goodness. yay!
Amecon is looming, mauch stuff to organize before then.
Steve and I are going for Rising stars of manga again this year, I need to get really into that after lighthouse. 5 pages inked and two pencilled so far. I'm aiming for 17...
In FFX! I'm really digging paladin and am looking forward to duoing with steve and his sexy galka ass!
That's all I got.
I'll catch up with everyone's LJ posts at some juncture...oh! and Amy, love the superman banner! really slick!
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| Exams, oils and hiking |
[07 Jun 2006|06:20pm] |
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So my end of year exams are over and I'm waiting patienetly in the limbo that decends before results day. I honestly have no clue if i'll be going back for second year. I've just finised painting my cat in oils and am starting to wonder why I'm not doing something I love so much more seriously. Mechanical engineering is all well and good but it makes me feel horribly inadequate in my maths and learning skills. Well, i'm hoping that other people on my course feel the same way too...
Last week Steve :devdavesideswide: and I attempted to walk the ridgeway, 85 miles across english countryside. We started in stonehenge country, sourrounded by tors, barrows, standing stones, chalk horses and sheep apleanty. It was light and breezy, it felt gloriously free to be walking up there. We braved rain and the challenge of finding both food and lodgings for two days and soon we found ourselves wandering through the middle of oxfordshire. This was where our lack of planning let us down and we overdid it walking nearly 25 miles in one day. We ended up in a b&b next to a young person's prison, exhausted and sunburnt having just made it out of the woods as the sun set over the fields.
To add to the mess there was a minor nightmare trying to find cash which resulted in a 25 minute jog on Steve's part to a local pub who were kind enough to do cashback. It added to the lessons we learnt, ie: aim for about 15 miles a day, bring sun cream and hayfever tablets, and plan accomodation ahead.
We gave up and got a taxi back to civilization on day 4 after about 4 hours at approximately 1mph. 50ish miles isn't too bad methinks.
The change in the atmosphere of the walk was striking. for me at least. We started on high weathered hilltops, the clouds rolling around us lord of teh rings style. I found myself humming tunes form the film under my breath. It felt as though we could do anything. When we hit oxfordshire and the thames, suddenly it became expensive and unsettlingly perfect, as if our muddy selves weren't welcome. The b&b we stayed in on the third night was just lovely enough to make it feel like we were invading. England may be small but we've got a got of different countryside...
I'm thinking it'll more fun (and cheaper) to try it with a tent next time. :P
(I copied this post onto deviantart.)
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| Stuff and blah. |
[27 May 2006|10:42am] |
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Exams are over! I've spent the week drawing stuff, sleeping LOADS and going to the gym. I can't quite shake the feeling that i should be working yet. I hope it'll wear off, unless it's an omen that i ballsed up my exams.
No, think positive.
Today I'm packing up my myriad collection of crap and coming home! Bye bye room 45 Nutford House, bye bye dodgy nutford curry! I'm off! I'm going walking for a week with steve, 85 miles in a week. I hope I can manage it. I'm going to rely on my 1000 mile socks! I mean, 1000 is more than 85! I should be on to a winner.
I went out for some drinks with Simon of kathat fame yesterday which was a laugh. I also discovered facebook with his encoragement, if anyone has an account poke me!
Hollie's Fancy dress party tonight, My attempt at a costume is...interesting. Best described as charity shop chic I think. Gonna be fun!
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| Exams. My god. |
[17 May 2006|11:35am] |
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Ok, two exams down, three to go. I celebrated by sleeping til 10am thismorning. However when i've finished writing this i'm going to try and cram as much maths into my head as possible so i'll have a chance at getting over 30% in the exam tomorrow. Which, compared to yesterday's ordeal, doesn't seem so bad.
Thermodynamics is the work of evil. Not only does it cover the destruction/homogonisation(sp?) of the universe by increasing entropy but it also differs so vastly in the diffuculty of the tutorial sheets and the evil mind numbing terror induced by the exam questions that I'm convinced that it has to be the work of some dark force that's out to get all Mech Eng students.
After three hours of rising panic alternated with bitter resignation I was relieved to find the same dumbstruck expression on everyone else's face as we filed out of the exam room. I'm cheered by the assumption that they can't fail us ALL on the paper.
Anyway, on to maths! Then i'll go for a wander and find some lunch cause the sun is shining and makes me want to procrastinate.
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| Exams and ribbons and cosplay |
[03 May 2006|09:00am] |
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Well, I figured I hadn't updated in a very long time, and everyone else was making me feel bad with their frequent livejournal posts. So here I am, doing the inevitable winge about exams. I've got a week and half in which to refine my fairly meagre maths, fluid mechanics, mechatronics, solid mechanics and materials skills to the extent where I can get over 40% and hence haul my ass into second year. This is going to be fun boys and girls...
Anyway, enough of that. I'm still recovering from the anime all-nighter where Steve and I did a big ass cloud and sephy picture; there's a pic of it on two sides wide, Tuesday's comic. Great fun! We had people admiring it, which feels great! Then we watched many excellent movies, among them Advent Children, which was completely beautiful. Steve fed me chilli icecream which is the foulest substance ever, and we shed our cosplay costumes (sir integra and Walter from hellsing) fairly swiftly due to it being bloody boiling. Steve looks so different with black hair that it's scary!
So today I have a nice double helping of thermo, followed by a personal trainer session at the gym, where hopefully they'll show me how to use some of the funky machines and not just the treadmill. Ran 4km on one the other day though which was kinda surprising!
On a side note, I've managed to get hold of about 4 and a half meters of wide silky dark blue ribbon and can't think what to do with it. Any ideas anyone?
So yes! The coffee I've been drinking while writing this has kicked in, the good old dull caffeine headache has begun behind my right eye and I think I can go face the world.
*Staggers away at speed*
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