Merry Christmas everyone :)

Just a quick update to wish you all (had) a Merry Christmas, because the Christmas period is far to crammed with stuff to do to have time to write much blogs.
I got some awesome stuff, including a calendar with lots of pictures of my adorable cat (Cid) and a lot of cake stuff from my Gran (and my uncle/aunt as well) so I can bake lots of awesome cakes*  and a ton of other cool stuff. We've had masses of people round, and then been to see them all again at other peoples houses, eaten mass loads of Christmas food and listened to a lot of carols and other Christmasy music movie themes. I also introduced my grandparents to the game 'signs' (I may have mentioned it earlier as a game we played at CU) which was pretty hilarious and a big success.

Anyways, I still haven't really taken up the inputting side of internet yet (just the outputting bits, like iPlayer and Youtube and the such) so I'll probably be back around the new year.

All the best for the entire of this Christmas period!

* Yes I know, I'm a shameless plugger.

iT'S OVER!!

8 days 'till Christmas, and here I am watching haloween specials of ATFW (although I'm really happy that Harvey Finevoice (Thisis probably the most cringey thing he ever does, belive me - he's cooler when he's shooting stuff) is in it a lot more often now, I love that guy so much. He's the nicest 1920's American gangster ever. ^-^ )
I don't have any work to do, no deadlines for over a month, and my room is decently tidy. This feels pretty cool. To top it all off, I'M GOING HOME TOMORROW! and ITS SO REALLY NEARLY CHRISTMAS!!!! Not that I'm at all ready for Christmas, but hey. I have a dressing up Christmas party (hopefully) to go to tomorrow, and don't really have a costume (except one pretty darn awesome accessory... ) nor have I got any pressents for anyone.I was going to put in a 'toys don't make Christmas' movie quote here, but I can't really find a suitable one. You can think of your own one. ;)

Dude, Home is going to be awesome. There's Gonna be people and family and Cid and Christmas and everything. (I'm so excited.) I also bought another copy of the book I bought recently with a printing error in it (50 pages were duplicated, so 50 were missing :( ) although that means I'll have to delay reading 'Hogfather' a little longer, but I'll still read it at Christmas, because Christmas is the time to read christmassy books. Yeah, global auto correct doesn't have a spelling for christmassy, so I'm going to go ahead and spell it like that. Also, does Christmas need a capital letter? I'm not sure.

And a giant Thank you of Awesome to Joanne for being my tag team buddy against that last piece of cw. It was more of a friendly match and no one really got hurt, but I think we won pretty well thanks to "The Power Of Friendship ♥" You are one snazzy dudette, and I hope you get top marks. Not that you're ever going to really read this, because not many people I know read my blog. And Linear A, you weren't to bad yourself. You were fairly difficult, and I didn't manage to entirely complete you let alone get anywhere near 100%. You are truly a worthy adversary, on the grounds that you also weren't to difficult and didn't make me feel really bad. Good times.

On the subject of good times, I had a dream recently that I woke up an my room was completely tidy. It was immaculate. My coursework was all done, with good marks and a most excellent layout. My SP and ipod were on my othewise clear desk. It was amazing, and it was one of those ones where you really think its real. Then I woke up and before registering that it wasn't true, I had stepped in a cereal box. Yeah, that wasn't the best wake up ever. On the plus side, at least I now have no work, a moderatly tidy room and I found my ipod. I don't think I'm ever going to find my SP though, as I lost it before going to uni. *sigh*

Anyways Merry Chrismas to all of you. Ho Ho Ho and stuff like that.

9 days to go!

This is just a short one one the grounds that I got my deadlines mixed up, and so I have a giant piece of cw due in today which isn't finished yet. My brain is feeling happy and kinda sleepy in that mostly awake state that coffe brings when you're tired. Its quite a nice feeling really. You could sleep if you want to, but you don't have to, you're awake with a happy dull drowsiness hanging about. The album Discovery playing in the background adds a pretty neat feel as well. Today is a good time.
Sherlock decided to work on the iPlayer last night. Which was pretty darn cool (although it decided to work while I was supposed to be working on something else, so I got a little distracted) I really like the way they throw in little bits from the books, seemingly for the sole purpose of some people going " XD I read that it the books! How cool!" Like the orange pips bit in the last episode, or the book code in the one before. Although really the lady in the museum was a little bit silly as *** SPOILER (for the blind banker) SEE END OF POST***
I also saw 'Voyage of the Dawntreader' yesterday. Admittedly it wasn't the bestest film ever, but I will give the film makers credit for giving it a plot because the book really wasn't a film worthy book. It's a series of little adventures on islands (that don't really connect that much), whereas the film changes the order of events around a bit and manages to link them all together with a bit of plot and what's almost an antagonist. (Although I wouldn't really class it as one particulally). It was never amazingly gripping, but I think thats because its a kids film, and I already knew what would happen from the book. They also decided to add a small girl to the film, which annoyed me. They didn't need a small girl, and she didn't do much exept be a small girl, and interact with Lucy. I suppose the interaction was important, but it didn't justify her existence to me. Ok, maybe it justifies her existence, but I still didn't like it. Bleh.
I wonder how they're Gonna do 'The last battle', because that one feels a little dark for some of the kids watching The Dawntreader.
Anyways, its 9:00 so I should head down to the labs.
Merry Christmas Everyone!

(For some reasone this blog wont let me upload a picture, so untill I can here's a link to the picture I was going to show. Happy Christmas internet people :) )

**she could have just written down the name of the book they needed to crack the code, or even just told them.

Christmas is Coming

So its nearly Christmas which is awesome.

I got a free Christmas dinner from the lovely people at imago. Those guys are awesome. It feels like everyone's moaning and complaining at them because the waterpipe bursts/the heating stops working and all that stuff, when really they're probably trying their hardest to get everything up and working so that we can be happy. They even gave everyone in Telford a free Christmas dinner with the Faradaians as a 'gesuture of good will'.

I could be wrong about the 'trying to get everything working' bit, they could be sitting around laughing at our missfortunes while they work out new ways to burst the pipes, but I doubt it.
I'm also happy that the pipes always conveniently burst when I don't need them, and the heating always stops working when I have it switched off anyway.
I also went to a christmas thing this week, with mincepies and yule log. It was alright, I didn't arrive with anyone and a lot of people don't seem to take to well with the 'wide mouth bullfrog' way of making freinds. I.e walking up to a random set of people and saying "Hi how are you? Can I be your temporary friend?"
The best response I ever got was:
"Hi, I am pretending to be your friend.."
"Hey that's fine, you can be our friend."
After a 30-second talk about weather they should eat more cake they went off though. It wasn't really a lasting friendship.
I was really tempted to go up to someone and simply say "Hello I'm a widemouth bullfrog, can I be your friend?" but I figured people would just think I was really weird.
Also, Adventureman and RCOD. I've kindof missplaced a lot of the pieces (If anyone wants I can probably put them together mostly, but tbh I think I'm the only person who cares.) so was wondering if anyone wanted the narration of what happened. You know who you are.Its also not strictly speaking finished, but the end is so definate that its kindof is, if you get my drift. I may or may not draw the last pannels.
Due to the fact that it would be really unrealistic to have a third RCOC comic thing (for reasons I think I already explained) I guess I'll be calling it over for a bit. Not for permanance, because Adventureman is so awesome he'll always be around, but yeah. We'll just see how it goes.
Happy Almost Christmas everyone.

Also, I put a wiki entrance in and it is perfectly valid. :D Yeah its in TV Tropes, but it still counts. I've always wanted to do that.

The Ruth Returns

So yeah, I got beat. Completely and utterly defeated. I didn't even get one punch in, Geometry coursework wiped the floor with me.
I underestimated a pretty formidable foe, giving him the element of surprise. It wasn't pretty.
So what do we do when we get killed off by a nasty piece of cw? We find some phoenix down (or similar) and we get on. I can't get revenge because the deadline is up, so I hope that somone avenges me. Even though it was my fault really, I still want to see that cw go down. There's a lot of tough guys who worked on that though and I'm sure that someone will have given it a good pummeling. Here at Comski+Maths we know how to handle our cw, so where I have failed there are many more still going.
The downside to being killed off by cw, especially so unexpectedly is that even though its over, I still have loads of deadlines and stuff upcoming.
Today I really need to revise for a test I have tomorrow, and look at some group cw that I have as well as braving the ice to go off in search of food. Yeah the unspeakable happened. I ran out of rice pudding, which has been a staple part of my diet for the past ages.
However I'm shattered and have too much to do, so I may have to see if I can last it out till Friday without it. Or bread for that matter. Or biscuits.



On a plus note, TGWTG has started working again and Sherlock is on BBC iPlayer which is fairly cool.
My head is starting to ache (probably an after effect of the phoenix down) so I'm a Gonna depart now. Have a nice life.

Also I had a pretty good sandwich today, Bacon, egg and mushroom. I just thought you should know.

Swords

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE 4 MUSKETEERS, I HAVE PUT THEM AT THE END OF THE POST SO YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO READ WITHOUT THEM IF YOU SO WISH. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
So yeah. Loads of stuff happerns, I can't remember all of it, I have a deadline for tomorrow and I'm slightly tired already (Haven't even started yet).
In fencing today we looked at different types of fencing we could branch out into if we wanted. One of them (which I think I will do) changed the rules to, 'anything above the waist is a target', and involves cutting (or using the side of the blade) as well as poking people. What I do find a bit weird is that the main target you hit now is the head. It makes perfect sense because the head is just there, it dosn't move much and its fairly easy to hit, however in moves and things with swordfights in them no one ever aims for the head. It feels like its a bit low or something. Its probably because in a movie everyone needs to get stabbed pretty epicly, whereas a sword to the head would be more graphic and less epic. (you wouldn't get much of a 'last words' shot if somone had been stabbed in the face) but other then that its pretty cool.
Its more "AAARGH SWORDS! *slash wildly* Le gosh!". Although its not really supposed to be that, and that's pretty much what I do anyway, but it is less thinking about different parrys and more 'just hit said person with sword'. (and there are only 3 parrys apparently)
On the subject of fencing, I finally managed to acquire the other half of the 4 musketeers (yay for the mail on sunday DVDs) to go with my first part, the 3 musketeers. Gee that films pretty bad. TBH its not even so bad its good. Its just bad. I swear I'm nearly a better musketeer then most the cast in that movie, everyone in it is a complete noob. (pretty much, admittedly I still like Aramis and Athos but they could have been a lot better) they only thing everyone seemed to be good at was throwing thier voices, and ventriloquism. Yeeeah, a lot of scenes had people talking without thier mouths moving. Did they even try with this film?

(INSERT END SPOILERS HERE)

yeah ok they're only really minor spoilers and don't really affect the plot of the movie that much.
Other than that, it's snowed loads here (wich is cool) and my room has become a live in washing line because I tried to put all my clothes in one dryer.
Also Galaxy quest is the awesome. Having a genre savvy redshirt was pretty genious.
On a sadder note, my computer seems to be refusing to play me any video's from TGWTG.
Anyways I really need to work or something so have a nice 'untill I update again' :D
**SPOILERS**
And what's with lady de winter (or whatever her name is) I don't think there's a single man in the film who she meets without trying to get with them in some way. And the main protaganist D'Artagnan too. This is pretty much how one scene goes, with no major time passing:
"yeah, no probs mate, I'll definitely stay true to my girlfriend(?)" [seriously who is this woman to him, they act as if they're married, but in the last film she had a husband. Did he die or something in the past 2 months or so? She doesn't look very sad.]
cut scene - arrives at other lady's house, maid answers
"hello is lady person in?"
"no, and she doesn't love you, but she'll be back in 10 mins and I think you're hot"
Implied sex.
Lady returns
maid "you should go"
hero jumps out window, and comes back round through front door.
"Hello lady who just got here, would you care to make out with me?"
------Our Protaganist Ladys and gentlemen!-------

Chocolate Bombe Alaska

Well I guess this blog, which once looked so promising has slipped into the boringness of a complaining diary.This means none of you have to feel obliged to read it anymore. I totally get where you're coming from.

Anyways, I saw a poll recently asking 'If you were a desert, what would you be?' At the time, I thought I would be Chocolate bombe Alaska, but now I'm not so sure. Most of my reasoning was that it had to be left in a freezer for 8 hours, which I can understand. I've never made Bombe Alaska though, it looks like quite a complicated thing to make and I don't really think I'm that complicated. Its also a pretty impressive 'stop and admire' desert. I think that mostly comes from the fact that it is percived as complicated to make, but if someone made chocolate bombe alsaska, most people would be pretty impressed and complimentary. Addmitidley you could also say that bombe alaska doesn't need decorating, and its all one consistency on the outside (although the inside is supposed to look nice, like the wanting of matching black sparkley toe's even though you're wearing socks) but I feel that if Chocolate Bombe Alasaka was a person, it would be the sort of person who dosen't go out all the time so you don't see them so much, but when they do turn up, they were made for the party. They know how to dress, its not over the top, in fact what they're wearing shouldn't really stand out at all but on them it looks stunning. Everyone's probably acknowledged their existence to some level, and they just fit in. This isn't me.
Therefore, using the same recipe book as before, I would like to change my vote to Dorset Chocolate Mousse Cake. I'm not saying its a perfect representative of myself, and I won't change it again because this is a joke poll about deserts we're talking about here. Its never going to be accurate. I just think that this one is slightly more me.
No magic links today. I can't be bothered.