A Brief Christmas Post

To all the people who were wondering if I'm still alive or not. I am.
It's just that it's Christmas and the holidays and all, so I'm not really on the webs as much at the moment. Also I left my phone charger in Loughborough, so I'm not contactable via that either.
I hope you all had a good Christmas. I was going to put up a Christmassy picture of some shepherds, but it's not finished yet. Maybe I'll write happy new year on it and put it up then.

I had a lovely Christmas, thanks for asking. There were people, and coloured lights, shiny paper and silly games. It was great.
I did the classic "Man I really need to get everyone presents!", only to once again be reminded that you don't need presents to make Christmas. You don't even need them for "Christmas Magic", because all that really needs is general festivity's. Having a laugh with family and friends, a tree or some Christmassy decor or whatever.
But that's not even what Christmas is about or anything. For want of a vaguely memorable quote; the true meaning of Christmas "came without ribbons!... it came without tags!... it came without packages, boxes, or bags!" It came in what was probably a rather cold and fairly dirty manger, and he came to save everyone.
So in the end everyone was happy, I was happy with what I did end up getting people for Christmas, and Jesus died for our sins, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Merry Christmas Everyone.     .

Sorry it's a bit late.     .

The disappointing lack of exits

This is mostly another kind of "I'm alive" post. I have much work at the moment (but it's Sunday today so I'm not worrying about it.) so I haven't really had time for the bloggings, but mainly I guess I haven't really had that much to say. Every time you finish a piece of coursework, two more pieces spring up to take it's place. What's more, the subject that everyone ( I believe ) has been having a lot of trouble with, just said that we're going to get a big piece of coursework, and failing it could mean we fail the whole module.

Picture it like this:
You're in this massive building slowly fighting off this bad guy. Some sort of growing sludge monster or hoard or something. Eventually you realise that you can't beat it and you're just slowly retreating further up the building (it has multiple floors). You and your friends decide that the best thing to do is to try and hold it off for as long as you can until you reach the roof, from which you will make your escape. (Parachute, helicopter  take your pick.) After a lot of shouting and guns and running and shouting, you finally all make it to the top floor, only to see that the roof hatch is locked and padlocked.
That is pretty much what happened. (Auto correct just tried to correct my version of happened into hair-brained. )
Although I was quite surprised when I turned to my friend and said "It's like we've reached the roof hatch, but it's locked!", she totally agreed and said she felt the same way. That doesn't happen very often.

More cheerful news involves my mum posting me an advent calendar (which makes it nearly Christmas), and me cooking real food at long last.
Last Post's poll results came in. It turns out that you guys don't have the same favourite type of lights as me and 'fire' was a clear winner.
Also I'm currently trying to put a dodge ball team together (I started today, and need it arranged by Tuesday... ) for the Christians In Sport dodge ball tournament on Friday. So far there are two of us, and our proposed team theme is 'a garden'. We'll just have to see how that turns out really.
Well, not much else to say, sorry this wasn't quite very interesting.
I'd say that if we tried hard enough we could finally beat David in the age old battle of the most page veiws, but quite frankly this post isn't worth it. I'll try again some other time.

Public Transport?

So it's been a pretty good but very busy week. I did a lot of pretty cool things this week though, some of them for the first time ever.

What I think Coalville sounds like.
I'll maybe scan the picture in later for better quality.

Things like watching Iron man, playing portal 2, throwing a stick at someone's window to get their attention ( always wanted to do that),playing a funky new game that began with M, and going to Coalville (apparently they do have an old mine). 


I also manged to work out how to catch a bus in Loughborough, because I've never caught a bus off-peak or to somewhere outside of Lobro. Dude are Lobro buses weird.
The bus stops don't have any individual information on them, so you can't tell which buses are stopping and where they are going, they only run till 9pm (7 on a Sunday I think) and you have to put your hand out to get them to stop.
I spent an hour trying to catch a bus today. Firstly I was on the wrong side of the road, the next one kindly told me which number bus to take, the next 2 went past because in London standing up and staring at a bus with intent is enough to get them to stop. Then a rather large wasp landed on my SP and I was to distracted to hail a bus. (Admittedly the bus came slightly after the wasp had just left, but I'm still blaming the wasp), the next bus was the wrong number (because I couldn't see the bus numbers until it was too late so I thought I'd just hail all the buses, and then I got the right one. It's hard to believe London transport is better than anything, but I think it's easier to use than Lobro transport. Joels gran gave me a lift back though (because I kindof missed the last bus...) which was really nice of her.
The throwing a stick was because I couldn't find my keys, so I asked a hall mate to let me in when I got back,  and gave her my number. It was only when I got outside that I realised that her having my number wasn't really going to help me get in. So I threw a stick at her window to get her to come down.


But other than that, my life is pretty crammed this week what with work (which I'm totally still doing) and other stuff too. I'm actually pretty booked up which is unusual. I'm even running out of coffee because I haven't got to the shops. It's going pretty well at the moment though, and I'm quite liking seeing loads of people, so I won't mind too much if it continues like this.

Sleepless night

So I have a fair few things to say, because I couldn't say them these past couple of days because I was working, but firstly: God is Brilliant.
I love that he totally cares about me. Today for instance, I had an online test due in midnight today and I always leave these literally right up to the last minute, but things weren't going too well this morning. Basically I didn't sleep at all last night. I was looking at my maths and getting a bit stuck when I noticed my clock said 7:xx am, and that it was bright outside. Which isn't really smart when you're planning to do an online test you're finding fairly difficult later in the day. So I went to church this morning, expecting to crash out suddenly and fall asleep somewhere when the pastor mentioned the evening service and I remembered that I really wanted to go. So to cut a long story short I was like :
"Hey God, I really want to go to evening service today but I can't if I haven't done this test and I'm not going to take the test without doing enough revision. Right now I'm looking at about 3-4 out of 8 (yes there were only 8 questions.) but I'd kindof like 6/8. Well I'd like 8/8 but 6/8 seems pretty reasonable, and I'd probably go to church on a 5/8 if it came to it. It's just that I haven't had any sleep at all so I'm probably going to crash out which will ruin everything anyway, so please help me to revise for this test, and to not need any sleep at least until after service, because I don't think anyone will mind if I fall asleep in Student Plus. I know you can totally do this, and I'm gonna try and be soo focused in these next few hours I'm not going to do anything except work. Please make this work."

So now here I am, I haven't slept in 32 hours, I finished my test well in time for evening service and got 100% in it and I don't even feel the slightest bit tired. I haven't even been drinking loads of coffee all day. Brilliant. I love God.

Other things I wanted to say but couldn't because I was working are:
Hey guys, I've just started putting up my Greek Alphabet of cool fictional stuff, but I'm still missing a few letters. If you have anything for Beta, Zeta, Epsilon or any of them really please say. Stuff like Alpha from power ranges, Lambda from Half life and mew from Pokemon. Much appreciated.

Also if I ever get a house, I really want a picture of a misty forest with the slenderman in it to put on my wall. One of those ones where you can't see him straight away, but if you're looking at the picture for a fair amount of time he suddenly jumps out at you even if you weren't looking for him. A little like this one,(couldn't put actual picture because of protection stuffs.) it's just that you can't get them anywhere. Picture shops should sell more slenderman pictures for people to put on their walls, because all the good ones are just on the web. I suppose I could print one out and frame it, but the resolution would probably end up really low. Still it would be cool.

Night time wanderings

Walking back home tonight was ace. I love the night.
There was a slight mist around so the street lights were surrounded by orbs of their orangey light, gleaming off the wet pavement to match the sparse stars gleaming above.(I'm pretty sure I saw Orion up there, but honestly who can tell anyway) I walked back along the main road, so it was never particularly dark but I think the light from the rest of the uni leaves a dim light lying around anyway but there still feels like a strong contrast between the shining path and the dark dip beside the football pitch and the small patch of trees. Their leaves constantly dropping with a soft rustle'y splat. Who knows what kind of Lovecraftian Horrors lurk there? (Well clearly there weren't any tonight anyway, but from a distance the tree's can often look like a certian Eldritch Abomination. S'not as bad as a dense forest anyway.)
A few early/late (not quite sure, it was 2am) birds were chirping, and there was the hum of the dormant gym and soft buzz of the road as I passed them but other than that it was pretty quiet.
I love this mix of light and dark, quiet and sound, natural and man made stuff. It's a sort of a shame that walking about in it is enough to cause people a bit of concern.


Also as a side note, it's not a good idea to eat loads of cake and then spin really fast on a spinney chair. Blerg. :/

My Super Power

A thought of mine that is always up for change is 'If I had a superpower, what would it be?' Normally I'd say I'd quite like the power of super speed because a)It's awesome and b) I wouldn't have to pay for trains anymore, but I don't really think that's the super power for me. At the moment (because it does tend to change) I think I'd have/like to have the power of 'awesome to atmosphere' ratio.
It's a bit like the Ticks 'power of drama' except more controlled by a mix of atmosphere, emotion, belief in what you can do and reactions, so at it's most basic if you feel you should be able to do something then you can. With the most common aspect being 'leat-ness (like combo's in computer games) and materialising temporary semi-visible objects because those are the things I feel I should be able to do most. So you could probably do that say, at night in the street with your i-pod on something a bit awesome, or if you got into a fight probably at night. (Because things feel more awesome at night.) If stuff started getting really crazy, there was a massive super-villain with mooks battle and you were feeling completely overwhelmed, you could probably freeze time, if something jumped out at you, you could probably make an energy shield and if a zombie was coming at you you could materialise a gun, and if that didn't work blast it with an energy beam (So a bit like Inception), but you couldn't just do something because you felt like it or for some sort of mundane task.
The downside would be that you could probably never fly (because it's not really a spur of the moment thing) or go super fast (except within a small area, such as in a fight or possibly to run away) as well as the fact that you could only be awesome when you were feeling awesome. I'd probably need to have an i-pod on me alot of the time, and accept that I was less likely to be super powered in the middle of the day.
Probably vulnerable to psychological attacks, and situations I couldn't think of a way to get out of properly.

Don't worry, he can dodge that.

Post script:
Someone did say this was pretty much atmospheric dependant omnipotence, which it basically is.
If I had a less powerful super power I would like (as I already said) super speed. Probably followed by invisibility.

Caffeine Free

Sooo, no more coursework for a while. I got some sleep, stopped drinking as much caffeine and now I feel much better thank you. Yeah that's pretty much all I had to say.
I guess in other news there are quite a few films coming out that I'm interested in how they do. There's Tin Tin and The Muppet's, both of which could very well fail but might pull it off and I think the first has a better chance of doing well. Also it's got the cool guy from Jumper in it, you know the one with the accent who knew what he was doing. The musketeers film looks like it could be cool, I mean it had blimps in the trailer. It looks a bit like they might have taken the bad bits from the first movie and reversed them, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.
In other vaguely related news ATFW did manage to pull of a brilliant reveal for the entity arc. I really didn't think he could do it (and was setting myself up for some major anticlimax) but he did. It felt so completely out of left field, but it made so much sense. So much sense in fact that quite a few people had apparently guessed it, because literally everything fitted in. And that is one of the many reasons why I love continuity, some times it all comes together in one big 'seriously how did I not see that' Blam. Epic.
I'm not really stopping for long, I just thought I'd rather put more of a bright and happy post up now that I'm feeling bright and happy again.

Aside Script : Once again it's nearly Poster Time, I don't think I'll need your help this time round [A bunch of help you all were last time .... ] but I'll shout if I need any ideas. Better yet, you shout if you have any ideas.
I've done TF2 and a Full Life Half Life Consequences so I was thinking of doing something different. (The one I have in mind atm is RvB) but ideas from either of them are welcome as well.

Needs more coffee...

I'm really tired. I have so much to do, but my head feels like there's a big cuddly balloon filling it up to the edges and beyond.
I kind of feel like I should get another cup of coffee, but that would involve leaving my room, which is playing Claire De Lune, which I don't want to stop listening to because it's relaxing and nice and vaguely happy in a kind of 'end of Oceans 11' kind of way. With fountains and lights and things. That is such a beautiful fountain with lights...
Man I've just had some pretty strong coffee. Is there a downside to binge coffee? It's not like I've been drinking loads, I've barley had any before the weekend, it's just I really need to get this work done, and the last cup did make me feel a lot better. As did Freemans mind. There's something about angry people in stuff ranting and shooting stuff loudly that really makes you feel like you don't have to anymore. *Halo Overture starts playing* I should really have gone to the kitchen in that song change. Maybe I'll wait for the next one.
Maybe I'll go now.
Sorry for the lack of happy funky posts, but there's what, two of you who read this regularly? And I'm betting one of them hasn't read this in 3 or more months now so I doubt any of you really care. Not that it matters because 68% of me doesn't care what anyone thinks of this blog anyway and 68% is a clear win for the 'not caring' side. I'm going to get that coffee or something, thanks for hanging around and have a nice day.
*Convenient song change to 'Last train to London' <3*
I really can't be bothered with pictures and nice text today.
But hey all my deadlines should be over by Wends, at least for a couple of weeks, so maybe I'll do a funky post after that Ok? Maybe. No promises, because I already owe you guys a comic. I'm now changing all my deadlines to Valve time.

3 coffee's and not much work later and I'm still going. This is going to be a long week. I think I'm really slowing down, because the clocks all seem to be going really fast...
My mug is empty. It's those caffeine monkeys, always stealing the coffee right out'a your mug. :(

Getting Started Again

Looks like work's starting to hit for real now. I guess it takes having work to do to make you want to do other things. Like Blogging.

Right now I really don't feel like working, but I know I just have to find that 'working' zone. I don't suppose it's going to be easy, and I know I don't have the best strategies ever but hopefully I can do it.

This is kind of a pointless post really. It's a bit of a "Hey I still exist, and so do you." but mostly it's because I think writing this might help me zone in on the work. I mean writing something is better than writing nothing right?

How do most people ever get any work done without those wonderful people around to help?

Well I think I'm getting there, so I'll let you know how it goes. I have the feeling I need to go to the kitchen now. (I'm not sure what for, but I guess I'll figure that out when I get there. Glass of water? Cup of tea?)

I wonder if fairy lights would be a good idea? I think it's the glass of water that I need. I really hope this works.

See you later, space cowboy... around.

The Not Quite Last Stand

Sorry I haven't been around. I've had stuff to do, like dossing about and stuff.
I'm feeling a little shaken right now as the effects of driving in a car with a terrifying woman judging you are just starting to wear off. Still I achieved my thrice failure in one test, and with rather few minors as well. I didn't even think I might end up killing the examiner either, which is an improvement.

In other news,I'm afraid I lost my semi-done Java comic and my Mum says I can't start again until I've made a Dungeon Crawler game in Java. So I guess if it ever comes into being it's going to take some time. I procrastinate a lot anyway, but I feel kind of bad letting the imaginary side down.
Since I've got a small queue of not very important mini projects I guess it's probably not any kind of spoiler if I say, I got back into Uni again. I don't think I can make a comic, so I'll just tell you how it panned out:

There were five of us due in the dance studio, all strangers to each other. Most of us got there a bit early and started making last minute adjustments to the barricades although there wasn't really that much left we could do to make it any better. It was more the going through the motions to help us feel prepared.
 As 9 approached we got into position, most of us up against the barricade with various weaponry although one guy decided to snipe from the roof.  Robot Zombies are fairly vulnerable to head-shots. The last guy arrived with less than a minute to spare with just enough time to grab a gun and turn round before the first robot was spotted coming around towers. We had scarcely enough time to do anything before he fell with a bullet through it's motherboard.

Here is a quick sketch to help with your imagination.

We continued this success for quite a while with a perimeter of fallen robots fairly far from the studio and I for one felt pretty confident. If this was as bad as it was going to get then zombie invasions must be a piece of cake, but as time wore on the perimeter started to draw closer and closer. Maybe we were getting tired, but I think they were getting stronger or harder to hit as we picked off the weaker ones.
 Anyway the battle shifted from ranged to more close combat and it started raining a bit in attempt at a slightly dramatic setting. To be honest I didn't really know if I was going to make it at this point, and I took a few pretty bad scratches from the sharper end of the torn metal and exposed wires of these insane robots.

After over 2 hours the last robot zombie fell, and we sat waiting for the rescue copters among exploded toaster and shards of metal. Well most of us. I'm sorry to say while five of us went out to fight Robot Zombies, only four of us came back. I'd say that we'd never forget that one guy, but really I've never met him and I don't even know them so that would be a lie but I'll try to learn from my mistakes and remember that Robot Zombie attacks can be fatal and are not a walk in the park (they don't call it a last stand for nothing) so I'm going to try harder to work while I can and prepare for my exams better so that I don't end up missing the evacuation helicopters again.

I've still passed level 1, but it's not over yet.
Level 2 starts on Monday.

Robot Zombie Hoards

The Robot Zombie Hoards are coming. From what I gather the power crazed calculus adapted himself into a cyborg and infected himself with the Robot Zombie virus. It spreads through infected robot cables when they come in contact with other robot's cables and wiring, but this does not make them safe. Although it is not contagious to humans it overrides all commands with the basic instruction to kill. I would advise staying away from robots for the time being, especially humanoid ones.
Those of us who did not make the evacuation copters the first time round are setting up for a last stand in the dance studio, although I think there's another larger group of survivors somewhere else as well. Maybe more, who can tell. Our calculations seem to be pointing at one large final raid on Wednesday, so we'll be waiting for them.
I'm sorry I haven't written anything in a while, but I've been away training.
I know that none of you will really read this, especially as I've probably never met any of you before and may never again either but good luck guys. Lets try our best,( and trust in God,) and hopefully I'll see you on the other side.
*Insert 'Brave smile' face here*

Being in a film

Do you ever think it would be cool if your life was part of a movie? It would be kind of funny if every time you wrote a letter you got a voice-over reading it aloud, and background music depicting how you felt at appropriate moments. I guess it would depend on what sort of movie you were in, and it would mean that everything would go down-hill in the middle. Especially if you were writing a letter, because the only movies I can think of where people write letters are the Jane-Austin'y  ones and everyone knows you can't have a good romance without loads of mis-understanding and communication problems that turn everyone against each other. Although that would probably be better than everyone getting eaten by a dinosaur or something. Yeah, I don't think being part of a movie would be fun after all. I've seen The Truman Show and Stranger Than Fiction. People in movies in movies seem to spend the whole time trying to get out of them. Which I guess is pretty sad because ultimately they end up staying in the movie, but there's a whole other level of movie out there that they don't even realise. That should be a metaphor or something. It's a bit like what I think may be the plot of one of the matrix films I haven't seen yet. Although even if they don't make it out side of the film as we're seeing it, at least they get to change the ending to a happier one. Besides, background music would get kind of annoying, and it's not like you can hear it if you're in the film anyway.

On a similar note I saw 'The Lost World' (The Conan Doyle version) recently. I think I like bad movies more than people are supposed to, because I thought it was really great. It has Dinosaurs, English people, Guys with hats and guns, it was fairly predictable but not entirely (I was waiting so long for this one guy to die, and he lived right through. He played the wife and children card. Although it actually turns out that none of the main characters died, BBC wussed out at the last minute) and I even got a fairly decent argument out of it with my sister about who was right in the end (The scientist guy or the hunter guy).
I picked up a copy of the book recently though, and it seemed really hard to read. It had a lot of long words and descriptions in it. Also I couldn't immediately tell what was going on when I opened it randomly about 3/4 through. Which is probably a really bad way to judge a book, but whatever. Apparently Jules Verne is a bit like that, so I might give up on trying to find a copy of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and try and watch the film instead. 


That's about it from me tonight then, thanks for sticking around. Tune in next time for some more pointless ramblings (or maybe not, who can tell?), but until then I hope you have a wonderful day, and "in case I don't see you 'good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!'"



And I had a really great Birthday, thanks for asking. I got some cutlery so now
 I don't have to eat all my food with a spoon.

Broken Headphones

It appears my headphones had an accident yesterday. No one know's when or how happened, but they've cracked. The bit that covers your right ear has cracked off of the bit that goes over your head, leaving it hanging by some wires. Seeming as I still don't have much to say, I thought I'd tell you about them.

I guess I'd seen it coming a few weeks ago, when I noticed them starting to crack where I leaned against the wall but I thought they'd last a lot longer, especially since I took care not to lean on them anymore. I guess I though they'd last as long as I needed, but as I went to put them on last night that was clearly not the case.
It's been maybe 2 years now, and those guys have seen me through a lot of things. Good days, bad days, A levels and my first year of Uni.
I remember finding out that the black plastic on the side of them was really very dark translucent purple. And the times they used to run out of battery right when you didn't want them too, and all the sound would fade away even though you kept turning the volume up. Although I guess there never was a time when I wanted my headphones to run out of battery, so that's kind of redundant. I guess that's pretty much it.
I could probably glue them if they still work, but they're really near the end of their life now.
I shall miss the freedom of being able to move around with headphones plugged into my laptop, or using my laptop from my bed.
A massive Thank You to my Grandparents, that was probably one of the best presents ever.

Ruth's Wireless Headphones
200X - 2011

Adverts

Ok, first of all:

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Because I made it on Davids blog, but he apparently took it out. Or made me take it out. I can't remember.
I don't really have that much to say, I have revision and I may be getting 'inside syndrome', but no one really wants to hear about that so I though I'd revert to my original blog plan. Talking about random stuff, in a place where people can choose not to listen, so I don't bug anyone.


Adverts. I have a TV in my London home. My TV shows adverts and yesterday it showed me this advert (the newest bbc).It's not the best advert ever, but I thought was a pretty good advert, especially because it made me think of this advert (the lovefilms ad) which was ok, but I always thought there was something missing from it. It felt like it could have been a lot better, although I couldn't say how.
Everyone has different opinions on what better than what, and what makes people want to buy stuff. I guess the whole advertising industry is about target audiences, and what they think is cool. (If this is the case, why did they make the cravendale ads so cool? Nobody the generation above me seems to like them that much, and as far as I' aware they're the people who buy the most milk.) Even so, there have got to be some adverts that are just rubbish.
I mean does anyone seriously like those shaky camera 'home movie' style toothpaste adverts? And life insurance adverts. These ones are probably waaaay outside my 'being in target audience' but I have seen a cool life insurance advert, so I know it's possible. Although me liking it probably means the people it was intended for don't as much. I'm just too cool.
Finding the links for and writing this post has caused me to change my mind slightly on adverts as a whole.  I wanted to compare the Halo reach advert with the  Gears of war 3 ad that kept showing all the time, but the one I found was extended and slightly better. I still think the Halo reach one is better, but thinking about stuff for too long makes all my thoughts tend slightly towards neutral. Does anyone like the Gears one better? And why?
Are they aimed at different people? Because the halo one at the time made me wish I liked FPS's a bit more, whereas the other really didn't.
Also because it's a bit late, I'm just going to conclude with the fact that beer adverts are usually cool.


I'm tired now, so I'm going to bed.


Also, Shock of all horrors the coffee machine has stopped working! Alas for now we are without coffee! Indeed it was a sore blow to us all. Well to a few of us anyway, but we shall try our best to plunder on without for as long as we may need. At least we still have a kettle.

Ninja Cat

One of the kittens (Mini Cid) ate meat for the first time yesterday (except for little bits of ham, but that doesn't really count) and has now apparently decided he is a ninja. Usually it's The black one who starts any fights, but this morning he has been running around like a loony attacking The black one, hiding in bags and jumping out at him, hiding on the bar on chairs, and jumping down on him, and hiding behind boxes of stuff. He even tried to do a bit of a solid snake at one point by wriggling into a shoe so that it ended up on his head and mostly covering him and walking around in it until he got close to The black kitten, at which point he jumped out of it and attacked him. It has been a good kitten filled morning.
All the kittens have promised homes now, which is a good thing but it's going to be a little less exciting without them around.
Although this means that if anyone wanted to see the remaining kittens they'd have to come round pretty soon.
I'm also thinking of trying to solve a detective story this holiday. I'm not going to actually solve it (because I'm rather bad at that) but I thought it would be fun to try. I was going to ask if anyone knew any less difficult ones, but I don't think that would change anything because I'm probably just going to go down to the Library and see what they have at the moment.
Well I have a driving lesson, so I'm going to have to leave off here, but you never know maybe I'll post again this month.

The Black One

Mini Cid
(Due to the lack of pictures of him,
I took this picture just now
which is why he's asleep.)

Have a nice Summer!










P.S The Black One doesn't have a home anymore, so if anyone wants a kitten....

Updates and speeches

This one is more of a small life-update really, although you never know maybe I'll get distracted and go off on a tangent or something.
So here are some things which have recently changed, or I deem cute/relevant:

• Exams are over and its time for the summer. 
• I have two kittens (who really need homes soon. Which  is sad because they're uber cute.) and a cat.
• I have TF2 on my computer, which is pretty sweet. It's free forever now, because valve really know what they're doing, so you can get it too if you want. Those guys at TF2 are indeed awesome. The game is constantly updating and they make a point to flesh out all the characters and even give them stories and backgrounds. (Except the Pyro, no one seems to know anything about him(/her).) 
• I have a real bed now (instead of a mattress). It's made of wood and everything. It also has a set of draws, shelves and mini cupboard underneath it.

I think that's pretty much everything, I don't have any work to do (yet. My results aren't in yet, so I don't have resits yet) although I do need to sort out my new bed/furniture/room-thing set and get it all organised up.

Also, in other news, I saw the kings speech today.

I didn't think I was going to like this film all that much. I'd had descriptions of it, and reliable sources tell me that it was (and I don't quote) 'a film I would happily sit through, but wouldn't choose to watch'.

Dudes (and dudettes), this film is actually pretty good.

I was told that it wasn't particularly funny, and didn't have any of those witty cool guys who laugh at people but I think that Speech therapist-y guy was pretty cool.

It's quite a hard film to describe. I liked both the characters and wanted them to win, I liked the music and I never wanted to yell at the TV. Surprisingly no-one seemed to make ridiculously pointless and stupid decisions that ruined everything. I guess that happens more in romances. Maybe I don't like romances then.

I don't know what genre film that was, so I can't tell you if you'd like it but I liked amazing grace, and this film is pretty similar (Just with less alcoholics.) I haven't seen that film in a long time either, but I think if you liked that, you'd like this.

As a conclusion, I would more than happily watch this film, although I probably wouldn't put it on of my own accord.

Dear Statistics

Statistics what happened to you? Last time I checked, you were full of coloured diagrams and quirky exclamation marks. Now you have long formula's involving F's and X's and ... calculus.
How did this happen? Who did this to you?
I'm sorry I forgot about your exam, and I know I only left a day or so to revise for you but still. It comes as a bit of a shock to the system to realise you've changed so much.
You're not the topic I used to know. I can see traces of what I knew in you but now there's so much more. I need a little time to adjust to this.
Unfortunately all I have is 2 hours.
If I do really badly in this exam, please don't think I hate you.
 I assure you I really enjoyed your lectures, your colours and the anecdotes that came with your crazy examples. Whatever happens, I'll remember you for your perms and comms, P(A)'s and those funky tables, not the calculus and Central Limit Theorems.
Ruth.

Printer Problems

Sooo it turns out I have next to no time untill a lot of exams, and part of that came as a little bit of a surprise. (Stupid calenders and me not looking at them.) So I'm going to go right ahead and ignor that fact for the next small amount of time because it doesn't make me very happy.

I should have listened more to the Revision Clock of Doom. He's been on my calendar (well the picture of him) telling me to revise since June 1st. I was going to make the JavaComic my revision comic (the comic I draw while revising) but I haven't really been as insanely distracted as I usaually am.

I saw a mini rant/reveiw thing today about someone's worst cliches, and one of the things they mentioned was the 'liar being revealed' as not who they said they were thing (if this ever happens to you, and it does get to the point where it suddenly gets revealed who you really are, just roll with it. Most likely while your off somewhere thinking about the meaning of life and who you really are, something really bad and unaviodable will happen where you just left and you'll be just in time to get back and save everyone.) although a similar thing I find more annoying (although yes if it wasn't for this a lot of movies wouldn't go anywhere) is the lack of communication, or worse people just plain old not listening.

Like in the bourne something or other (I've only seen them in a marathon, they kind of joined together). That guy flat out didn't listen to JASON BOURNE, who was trying to save his life. The best there was.

In fact the whole of that series could have been resolved a lot quicker with a lot less voilence if people just communicated a little better. They're on the phone enough during the films. Everyone just second guesses each other the whole time and asumes the worst.

Clearly if your reasoning goes anything like "Why is that guy not talking to us? Why did he go to his bank? HE MUST BE TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE!!1!!!" you're just asking for trouble.

Also I think life hates me today. Especially the printer part of life. First it printed all of my notes only using 1/16 of the page, then it printed them (2 pages per page, dual sided) ordered 2,1,4,3,6,5. There is no way you could ever get those pages back in the right order.

Even if you cut them up into A5 pages, they'd still have the wrong number on the back. Why is there even a printer setting to do that?

Also (again. Does anyone know any good words for also? I really need some.Comment them below and  the best ones will get used in this blog!) I've found another way to get myself motivated. Stuck, don't want to work, feeling like you have too much work to do?

Put on some epic'y music (of the batman type variety) and tell yourself that your a science guy on the save the world team. Its nothing to lose and eveything to gain! Would *favourite science guy* give up? Would they decide it was too hard to try? Only if they were having a BSOD moment, and all that means is that someone needs to tell them to pick them self up and get back at it. 'Cuz maybe you failed one time, or maybe it looks like too much, maybe it doesn't look like you stand a whelks chance in a supernova but your going to try it anyway, and your not going to stop trying untill its all done and over.

Because you're just that kind of person.

Yeah it may not work forever, and evenutally the music will stop and you'll stop thinking like that but its a start. If it gets you working then its all good.

Databases and Entities

Revising Databases in the chaplaincy, although I'm probably going to have to wait another 12 hours or so untill I can post this, so I don't end up posting more than one thing a day. Yeah. I decided that the rest of the world is probably right about when days start and finish, and even though last night feels like yesterday, technically (because real life is all about the technicalities.) it was still today. And it still does feel a bit like overkill posting two blogs in one day.
Anyway. Back to the point.

Revising databases is a little more interesting thanks to Linkara and ATFW. The whole 'Entity' (The Entity being the big bad of the season, although not much else has been revealed yet.) plot seems to have come at a pretty good time for me. Now the lines "An entity is something that has an independent existence" and "A piece of the universe is missing. Its voice is not its own."   sort of link up, and I can feel that tiny bit happier about learning about entitys. But what happened to Ninja style dancer!?!  

Exept I don't think I'm going to uncover any plot points in my "Relational Databases-Design and use" book, and revising databases is still really boring. (I've read 70 pages, and I'm still only about a third of the way through!)

The chapliancy is a really good place to revise though. If I were back in my room, I may have reached page 10 by now.

*Saving as Draft, I guess its back to work. Meh.*

Also, I think we have a solution for the hat coolness/ease of drawing problem. The Robin hood/Green arrow hat is both fairly cool, and fairly easy to draw. Yay for happy mediums.

Seeming as I now appear to be posting this now, I'll probably start updating it when I feel bored again.

And NB. (what does NB even stand for?) I know I'm doing a bit more of the 'talking about me', and a bit less of the 'talking about cool stuff', but as you may have guessed it's exam season and we already cleared up the fact that that happens in exam season.
Exams end on July 22, so you can always check back after that if you want to. :p

I should get a blog

So I guess I fulfilled, or at least backwards fulfilled or did not fulfill or something 'd my reason for having a blog today. ish.

Anyway, someone suggested that I got a blog or something so that I could ramble on about stuff and people only had to listen if they wanted to. That way, a special select few could be happy knowing that I'm thinking about the coolest way to have sword form'ey hands or where to draw the line in hat coolness/ease of drawing in a comic, while everyone else could be happy not listening to me go on about it.

Which is kind of what I set out to do in the first place. I guess all that really means is that someone re-enforced the idea that I should get a blog. And seeming as I already have a blog, that is kind of redundant. But it made me happy, so that is perfectly ok by me.

On the topic of 'swords for hands', I don't think you could get much of a sword fight done if you had actual swords where you hands should go, because of the angle and stuff. You'd need more of a wrist. Still its a tad more intersting than just having a sword, so I guess it would be cool if said person had mastered the sword-hand as a weapon previously.

I guess it's on to revsion now, as I start my month of exams and the suchlike. Hope that all goes well and all.

Thus ends our brief interlude.

I can't remember what I was going to say last post, so I'll just have to leave it as a picture of a kitten. Now that C++ is all out of the way and  my laptop is back, charged and letting me use blogspot again, I guess I can start writing here again. Not that I stopped for a particually long time, and not that I definitely will.
Talking of things that I may start up agian, Java comic has been confirmed by test subject as having a suitable plot (I guess you can't really jump the shark if you don't have a series) and should resume progress shortly. It will probably have even more wildly inconsistent art styles than before, be fairly much longer and may even contain a train. Which people may or may not be fighting atop. Because train fights are pretty cool.

The Java Comic, coming to a blog near you some time in the distant future. Probably.

Topic no.2

I was thinking today. There are some cool things that look really awesome to do, but if you actually did them in real life, just wouldn't be cool. Like taking your hat off when somebody dies. The fact somebody died would so completely overshadow the fact that you are awesomly taking off your hat in a 'I'm a cool person in a hat' way, that it would be disrespectful to even think about that.

The solution I came up with was to be in a movie. This resolves most of these problems because you would still be cool, but nobody would have actually died.

It's also another great reason to wear a hat (as I may have already mentioned to some people). I should probably get a hat sometime, but I think it would look silly.

Speaking of hats, it would be kind of cool to have a hat and trenchcoat guy on my team, if I ever had a team. Conspiracy theorist or private detective a plus. Exept I've already sort of chosen the team of 'take over the world-ness', and trenchcoat and hat people tend to be the good guys. Or at least usually some sort of anti-hero.

Can you get evil trenchcoaty hat people? It just feels kind of wrong.

<- OooOOoooh, Sneak preveiws!

And now for a brief interlude

More text here when I have less work to to. For now, here's a picture of one of the kittens. <3

A Potential Hiatus?

So, I can't log into my blog from my laptop anymore. I'm not sure why, but whatever the reason it means posts are probably going to be few and far between atm.
Although seeming as  I have a giant evil piece evil for C++ coursework due in next week, I'll probably be living in the Labs so you never know.Maybe I'll be here the whole time.
C++ is apparently Java's nonsensical irritating little brother. I can't even get it to say 'hello word'.
(A good workman always blames his tools.)
Still, the weather's good (really windy these last few days), my cat has really really really cute kittens (which I'll hopefully get to see in person soon!) and alot of other dandy stuff.

And Dr.who has once again made me question myself on issues such as 'How would I really react if I met a gooey slightly alien me, who was still me? Or 'What would I do if I was a gooey slightly alien me, and I met the original me?'.
I guess it would have to happern for you to know, but after I got over the shock and stuff I know there are a few things I'd like to take the oppertunity to say. The only thing is I'm not sure I would be able to trust that this was an exact replica of me, and not an exact evil replica of me. Nothing ever has exact replica's of you in it without them trying to kill you.
However, being as I would simultaniously be the replica of me, it would be up to me as a replica to convince the original me of me being good.



**The C++ cavelry has arrived, so I'll be editing this up later. :) **
 Breaking news!!!
I have offically got C++ to say hello world. All hope is not lost.

Steven Fry?

Sooooooo, sorry if any of you (I don't know why I alway refer to you as all, when blatently only 2 people read this.) are holding out for a comic about me and Java.
Yeah, I was making one, on the grounds that I though this piece was exciting enough to be able to make a comic out of. We at Ruth Lovell Co. are having a few techinal hitches in the areas of historical accuracy Vs fighting in bowler hats atop runaway trains.
Claire -  if you wouldn't mind getting back to me on that point, it would be rather nice.
In other news, according to Tv Tropes:

"It has just (28/09/2010) been announced that he [Steven Fry] will be taking the part of Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's older, cleverer brother) in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel."

which is pretty cool because
a) They're making a sequel.
b) It has Mycroft in it.
c) It has Steven Fry in it.
Although all of these points could backfire pretty badly. Well a) could. I'd be interested to see how they do b) in a film, and how on earth c) could be related to that version of Holmes.
 Sherlock Holmes seems to have become quite popular in the media lately. At least Steven Fry seems like he'd be more Mycrofty than the last Sherlock Holmes movie I saw which had Mycroft as the Villian. The steam punk villian. That film was ridiculious. However I belive I've ranted/hyped about that before, so I'll stop before I get carried away.

Oh and I had a pretty crazy dream this afternoon. (I really need to start sleeping at night instead.)
 I mention it because unusually I questioned the reality of it. You know those ones where you wake up, feeling its good to be awake because things were getting a bit crazy, and then things slowley start to get crazy again.
Thus I have decided you can get dreams that are too odd for comfort. They should idealy be odd, but action packed enough for you not to notice. If the oddness/action ratio gets out of hand, you just end up feeling weirded out and unsure of your surroundings.

Java time.

I can't stick around, I'm sort of mid-battle with some Java Coursework. These have been some pretty crazy coursework times. I'll probably tell you all about it when its done.
I don't think I'm Gonna make CU, but other than that I have no idea how this is going to turn out. I had 3 hours sleep last night, and I'll probably be living on caffeine untill Thursday night.
Gotta Go! Bye!

*grabs bowler hat while Indiana Jones diving through a window onto a moving train.*




Edit:
Did you know.... Redbull smells like how I remember cowpoll.
I think cowpoll tasted like strawberry sweets though.
 RedBull tastes like how cowpoll should taste.

And Oh, I nearly forgot. For all of you who were clinging on to my every word about that art comp, I did make the deadline. [link]
It's clearly not the best or anything, but I think it looks like a proper entry and that's what I was aiming for.
Mission Success.

Street Party

Well this kind of fails.
I'm sitting in my (not really my) room, with a giant textbook and bucket loads of coursework. Outside in the street a street party is raging on. I know its fairly small, but its not tiny and I'm completely invited. And they're playing loads of music I like, at a volume I like with flasy lights (Lights are aweseome) and its dark.
Its a loose loose situation.
I could go outside, where I know nobody and would just feel like a sore thumb on my larry, or stay in trying to work to the sounds of other people having lots of fun.
This is tearing me apart!
Its really hard to concentrate to a backround of people having fun.
I don't even really know what to want to happen. I don't want it to stop, but I don't really want to join them either.
Bleh.

Still I wore a British hat today, and drank tea.
I'm a little diapointed in my lack of patriotism. I'm me, I'm supposed to be partiotic! Is something wrong here?
I don't really understand, but if years later it turns out I was replaced with a  fully conscious but slightly imperfect robot copy of me, you can't say I had no idea. Because I just did.
What are British women supposed to do anyway? We don't get the moustashes or bowler hats, is is those weird pearl necklaces? I don't really like pinz nez, so I hope it's not them. If it is, I'll just be sticking with the monocle anyway.
I guess we all have tea. That's British enough for me.
And yeah, Brittish/English. They're interchangable.

T_T Stupid street party. Just when I think they can't make me feel messed up they crack out more music.
*fist shake*

I can't concentrate on colours and links because of the booming loud music that my brain keeps subconsiously tuning into.

Although it is fairly relaxing TBH. Coffee solves a lot of stuff I guess.

Oh and my cat had kittens.

I can't really belive that this massive event of cute and fluffles in my life has amounted to a couple of sentences, but there.

I wuv them!

London!

I'm in London again, which means I am once again in a state of probably not posting as frequently but this may well completely change and I'll be on here every 5 mins.
I have stuff to say, but I'm not really saying it right now.
I'm probably going to cheat and just edit this all away tomorrow while I have loads of work to do. I only really wanted to say:
Looks like Me and Claire joint- won the 'which will get the least votes' poll, because two people voted for 'the one I vote for'.
You guys just loose. Better luck next time. Remember to vote on the new one ->

War of the beverages

It's pretty late (because I'm trying to work. Trying.) and so I think my sense of rationality and stuff is a little bit skewed. Hence when I saw a poll on 'Tea or Coffee', I had a bit of a mini crisis.

Ever since I was little, I've always had an opinion on this matter.

I remember the days when I would have fervently argued for coffee, clearly being the greater drink. I couldn't understand how anyone could bring themselves to drink tea, it tasted so bad. Then one day (in the 6th form Common room) someone reminded me of a forgotten fact. Tea is the British English way. ( I can't really speak for Scot/Ire/Wale, because I don't know what you lot drink. But Sam the eagle has made me always want to say 'The British way', so I'm probably going to and that's probably final.)

Even when I was small and liked neither drink, I had heard that tea was the drink of the England. It had taken a little effort (from my lovely friend Joanne. Thanks mate.) to get me to start drinking coffee, so should I not give tea this same chance?

I (correctly) guessed that after about seven cups, tea should become a drinkable drink.

Though it was tough at first, I pushed through and became a drinker of tea.

There have been ups and downs, fluctuations in how much I preferred coffee but recently I feel I've reached that point where (If I'm making it myself, at Uni ) I would almost say I liked them equally. They're different drinks, they serve different purposes. Coffee can wake you up, make you feel slightly more alive at the book ends of the day. A more milky coffee is also a calming drink (although it doesn't wake you up.) Tea is a drink for relaxing. And those times when you just want to feel a little more English, or can't be bothered with a cafetiere.

Why should I choose between these two drinks? It's like choosing between two really good friends. Choosing coffee feels like I'm betraying my "English is the best way ever" part of me, but choosing tea just feels wrong.

If the war of the hot caffeine drinks ever comes, I guess this is one fight I'll have to sit out. When it's all over I'll come out of my cave supporting whichever team won while quietly morning about the loss of the other (and the destruction of so much civilisation.)

I feel like a deserter, but I don't even know which side I'm deserting.