More Comedy Spanish food! Not nearly so fond of sliced bread as we are, the market for it is a lot smaller, and dominated by such mighty brands as "Bimbo". Smaller and sweeter than the sliced bread we generally get in the UK, it's very nice with salami :-)
One day Spain may discover political correctness… But I doubt it :-)
I'm back! Back in the UK, Back to uniland, Back to broadband in my room and Back to work to be avoided. So in real terms that means daily blog entries for the foreseeable future. Mynciboi.org is no more by the way, as the evil people wanted me to pay Silly Money, so you have to link here or get here directly via http://www.seldo.com/mynciboi
Have you heard the new(ish) song by The Rasmus? Why not! Have you seen the video? Now… Have you seen any videos by fellow Finnish band H.I.M.? The similarities are very amusing :-) They are the only(ish?) successful Finnish bands, and it looks like they were spawned by the same evil genetic tinkering :-) There must be a very strong Soft-Goth subculture there… Maybe it's the cold weather.
Hmm… NTL seems to have decided our bandwidth will be reduced to sub-dialup levels so no picture today.
Went to the dentist today. Not sure what he did but it set me back eighty quid. Bah.
Going home to Edinburgh tomorrow morning, then I leave for Malaga a week today, then a trip to Algeciras, then back to Edinburgh a week on saturday and baclk here on the 30th, hopefully in time to write my Third Year Project. Hmmm… I'm a little doubtful. I've got it into my head that I need and can get a first in it, I'm just worried about the time I have left to get it in.
The twistyness in the book I'm reading is in danger of unravelling.
It's kindof amusing being as skinny as a teenager :-) 10 stone / 65 kilos. Amuses me anyway. I'm sure putting the weight back on as fast as I Lost it while I was ill would be just as unhealthy, so there :-P
11 terms down. 1 to go. ARRRGGGHHH!
Mikey gets interviewed by the very odd PJ about his recent toilet habits:
Much jollity at Rainbows last, pics to follow. Sometime. It remains a good night out as long as I only go occasionally :-) Plus it was my first night out in weeks, so all the better.
Got up early this morning for a doctor's appointment, only to go in and find the doctor had called in sick. Oh the irony! So I dossed about for a bit at home before having to go in to uni for my much belated Spanish test… Or so I thought! Tutor didn't have whatever papers were necessary so I'll have to do it at the beginning of next term instead. Meh, more time to revise I guess :-) Especially as I'm spending 5 days of the interim in Spain ;-) The third thing I had to do today was meet with my supervisor at two. And he was a no-show, natch. So basically today has been a waste of time, and I could have just stayed in bed.
Allaboutwes now features pictures as well as amusing social commentry ;-) Plus he linked me already, so I linked him back.
Latest from the way-back-when machine: meet Laurie.
It hadn't actually started at this point, this was just a warm-up beat-the-people-in-silly-costumes-to-the-ground. And I'm being literal when I say it was the world's largerst pillow fight! This is only a small section, there were a total of 1300 ish people involved. Take that yanks! Yaay us! (Click on the pic for a larger version.)
Ugh. I feel AWFUL. My ego is at low ebb on every level. Tomorrow I try to kick start my life post mumps (more or less), hopefully by talking to my Spanish tutor and project supervisor, doing work for both of them, coffee in Roccocos with anybody and everybody, a gigantic pillow fight, a doctors appointment, missing another doctors appointment, and getting back home to revise for the Spanish test I plan to have scheduled for the next day before I keel over.
Also tomorrow is the Pride end of term meal. It's very funny not being in the Pride clique anymore =) I can whine about how cliquey it is now! But only on slow days ;-)
Edinburgh's nickname is "Auld Reekie" because of the old breweries and other industries like that. Glasgow's nickname is apparantly "the dear green place". Before it was bombed to shit I assume? What a lot of wank. It isn't even in Scots!
Had my first coffee in a couple of weeks. I'm going back to my theory that I just don't have an addictive personality. Certainly not chemically anyway. It wasn't even particularly nice. *Yawn*
Ghost Dog: There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
Leamington Spa's Town hall. Made ever-so-slightly more colourful ;-) Innit nice?
And now some random song lyrics from "If I Ever Feel Better" by Phoenix.
I hate the sentiment of ?not your problem?, especially when you want it to be your problem but are not allowed. ?I'm sorry sir you?re not authorized to give a shit about that, kindly take you concern elsewhere. You may return only when you are suitably apathetic. If you can be bothered.? The only antidote to this I have found is trust.
Some guy has left Westlife! Woo! The end of the road is near with any luck at all. Oh yeah, and theres a supposed go-ahead from GM crops in the UK, but if you look at it a little closer theres no such go-ahead at all.
Have the comedy ninja flash thingy that I seem to remember telling some of you about.
Have you been in the situation when the ball is in your court, as it were. And you about to pass it back, but then you take a closer look and realise what a nice ball it is?
*Pockets ball - goes home*
Heard somebody living on campus was sent home by the university authorities when they found they had mumps. Hmm… Feel better today than I have for a while which is good. Spanish tutor says it's ok to take the Spanish test at the end of this week if I come equipped with the doctors letter thingy, so that's good too. Took a random trip to Tesco today for not much reason at all.
Stupid STUPID number of flash games here, check out one called Domestic Dispute for a brief bout of cheepies, provided you can appreciate comedy mindless violence.
I found this picture. It's pretty.
Hello and sympathies to everyone who has or has ever had mumps. Sucks doesn't it? I'm going to try and go in to uni tomorrow morning to start on the lab work I should have done last week, though I'm not sure it's a good idea. Aside from the face swelling thing I'm still as ill as I was. Not sure how best to speed the recovery either.
Happy Birthday to my mother (D'oh!).
A warm welcome to Stu, who joined the Warwick blogging community today. Sponsored as ever by the illustrious Laurie, natch.
Milly drove me home from the hospital yesterday, isn't she lovely? Her slightly incessant gloating about how bad Scottish rugby union is aside…
Thanks for the commentage everyone *hug*
GPs are clueless, my hands/feet/wrists/ankles/elbows/knees are covered with the most evil rash ever, augmentin is officially the work of the devil, both sides of my face are now spherical, and I'm off to hospital now for what I suspect will be the second time in my life. (Assuming my cheque went through and I can get taxi fare.) Not really feeling too optimistic about it. Partly because the last time I went they put me in traction for a couple of months for NO REASON AT ALL. Fuckers.
Mikey who made me soup yesterday:
/me wonders when chemists open
/me curses at nearest cash machine being 15 mintutes away
/me wonders what clothes to wear that will hide my face
Not going in to uni today. I've got enough to be getting on with anyway but it's still damn annoying, a few things I really wanted to do today. And I must say the size of half my face is really disconcerting. Ow!!
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9:59 Was very suspicious of how spritely I felt when leaving the house given I had only had two hours sleep. Half way through the trip it was replaced by extreme levels of general befuddlement. I'm sure it shouldnt have taken that long to find the pasta. Mmm metronidazole. Shown to be carconegenic in mice. Joy. What? ExACTly. Average daily hits/uniques last month = 73/45
