Words. They look really friendly from a distance. They seem to be having a really fun time, calling out for you to throw off the constraints of right and wrong that numbers always seem to lumber you with.
"There's no wrong answer with words." they say,
"We can be anything you want us to!"
"We're fun, we have interesting punctuation!"
Then it turns out it was all a lie. Yeah, maybe there is not 'right' answer, but there's still plenty of wrong ones. Now there's a sliding scale of opinionated right and wrong so you can't even tell if the words you have are the right words anyway. It's not as easy as pouring your soul out onto a piece of paper, you can't get carried away. The words have standards. They need to be polite, efficient. So you end up sitting there staring at the words you have, wishing they'd become the words you wanted. As opposed to staring at the numbers you have, wishing they were the numbers you wanted. (Although you don't seem to end up staring at the words you have, wondering if you got them in the correct manner.)
So I have established that words and numbers are both just as interesting as the circumstance and subject matter, and that the grass is always greener on the other side of the alphabet.
Then I got distracted and wrote a blog post about it, because I didn't want to write any more report.
It's not like anyone needs this report, I think I'm only writing it because Loughborough want to make me do more work. It's not like I have a job or anything.
I was told that one of the few benefits of work was that you didn't get homework.
Also I've decided that no one reads this any-more. You and I both know that most our page views were from Russian ghosts, and the other couple are probably just people who got a bit lost on their journey round the web. If that's you by the way, feel free to stay a while. Rest up, get you're bearings; I think there are some signs of civilisation about 3 miles north of here.
Anyway, since it's just us now... well TBH nothings really going to change. I guess it's a bit quieter with all the non existent metaphorical people gone, but they never really seemed to make much noise in the first place.
I should probably get back to this report. I'll try to stop by again soon.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Thursday, 17 May 2012
So I'm back. Mostly because I don't know whether to go to bed or go to the computer labs, so I thought I'd compromise and hang out on the lines, and now my computer's thinking about stuff so I thought I'd hand out here for a bit.
I re-discovered Biro recently. They are amazing pens, I love the way the just flow so smoothly over paper. Although they do tend to make my handwriting pretty illegible, which is one of the many reasons I don't tend to used them when doing work. This is the other reason:
I tend to get pretty distracted while holding a biro.
To be fair, my A.I lecturer goes really slowly, and it was a double.
Seriously though, they are the nicest pens for shading, because they don't just draw in block colour.
Actually biro ink is pretty weird. It's really thick and sticky, and is a right pain if it get's spilt, but it works because it never absorbs into the page.
Also it smells a bit weird, but I've encountered weirder smelling inks before. Like the black ink in my fountain pen I used to use. It smelt really nostalgic and sort of like, cinder-y?
However after smelling some biro drawing, I realise that black biro smell similar to this. Maybe this is just the smell of ink, or at least black ink.
Or maybe Terezi was right, and colours do all have tastes and smells, maybe this is the smell of black? Probably not though.
If you want to know more about ball point pens, you can look it up. I recommend Wikipedia.
Looks like my computer has finished thinking, and decided that it can't play any steam related things after all.
I shall now proceed to go to bed (even though I like, totally already slept and stuff) because I still have crazy amounts of group project to do.
I re-discovered Biro recently. They are amazing pens, I love the way the just flow so smoothly over paper. Although they do tend to make my handwriting pretty illegible, which is one of the many reasons I don't tend to used them when doing work. This is the other reason:
| It's a long story. |
To be fair, my A.I lecturer goes really slowly, and it was a double.
Seriously though, they are the nicest pens for shading, because they don't just draw in block colour.
Actually biro ink is pretty weird. It's really thick and sticky, and is a right pain if it get's spilt, but it works because it never absorbs into the page.
Also it smells a bit weird, but I've encountered weirder smelling inks before. Like the black ink in my fountain pen I used to use. It smelt really nostalgic and sort of like, cinder-y?
However after smelling some biro drawing, I realise that black biro smell similar to this. Maybe this is just the smell of ink, or at least black ink.
Or maybe Terezi was right, and colours do all have tastes and smells, maybe this is the smell of black? Probably not though.
If you want to know more about ball point pens, you can look it up. I recommend Wikipedia.
| Aren't they just magical? |
Looks like my computer has finished thinking, and decided that it can't play any steam related things after all.
I shall now proceed to go to bed (even though I like, totally already slept and stuff) because I still have crazy amounts of group project to do.
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Bland Title Goes Here
I wrote this post over a few days, and then deleted it because when I write stuff over a long period of time it tends to get really rubbish and pointless.
So now I'm starting again. Although I'm pretty sure I have even less to say now.
I don't really have the thoughts to spare at the moment, but I'm enjoying having a nice and colourful bag, new shoes and clothes that aren't full of holes. I've also aquired Fruit Tea for all you fruity/cammomiley tea people. (+5 host skills) It smells pretty ok really, so I might even try some at some point.
Work is everywhere, all the time and it doesn't seem to be going down any, and I've learned some stuff I probably don't need to know about e/i/pi, but it was pretty interesting. Still having backstory troubles though. I don't really want any sads in there.
My computer is still a bit messed up, but I don't think I've told you about that yet. Long story short, some it help h guy broke my computer and deleted all my stuff, then my mum fixed it but it's not quite back and I may never be able to play minecraft again. Or at least until I decide to install some drivers or something, but I don't think that would be a very constructive thing to do right now.
Also, Hey Russia! I see you've been reading my blog recently. Thanks, I didn't know you cared.
Except now I have a mental image of Russia from Hetalia reading this, and that's pretty scary.
KolKolKolKolKol
So now I'm starting again. Although I'm pretty sure I have even less to say now.
I don't really have the thoughts to spare at the moment, but I'm enjoying having a nice and colourful bag, new shoes and clothes that aren't full of holes. I've also aquired Fruit Tea for all you fruity/cammomiley tea people. (+5 host skills) It smells pretty ok really, so I might even try some at some point.
Work is everywhere, all the time and it doesn't seem to be going down any, and I've learned some stuff I probably don't need to know about e/i/pi, but it was pretty interesting. Still having backstory troubles though. I don't really want any sads in there.
My computer is still a bit messed up, but I don't think I've told you about that yet. Long story short, some it help h guy broke my computer and deleted all my stuff, then my mum fixed it but it's not quite back and I may never be able to play minecraft again. Or at least until I decide to install some drivers or something, but I don't think that would be a very constructive thing to do right now.
Except now I have a mental image of Russia from Hetalia reading this, and that's pretty scary.
KolKolKolKolKol
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Worst Lecture, ever.
Sometimes I draw because I'm bored. Sometimes I draw because I have an idea I want to get down on paper. Sometimes I just draw to vent a bit. This was last AI lecture:
That was such a painful lecture. It was like listening to that Eragon dragon talking while feeling really fidgety and impatient. I really wished someone would just give me some Ikea furniture and ask me to rip it apart with my hands, and then grind it to dust.
I don't know how long we spent on that question. It was a long time, (at least half an hour or so) measured in awkward pauses.

The worst part was, I was actually rather interested. It was one of my preferred area's of maths, and I quite enjoy trying to solve these problems. Admittedly I was pretty stumped (or I'd have gotten on with it by myself) so I really wanted her to explain how to solve it.
What actually happened is that the question was dragged out reeeeally slowly, (and I wasn't really happy with the method we used either. A mon avis, you should try and avoid counting different patterns when using perms and coms.) and eventually set for us to do by ourselves.
In other news. Internets cannot be unread! I swear I didn't know! It... it was so uncannon! So unexpected! I feel like I strayed into unfamiliar parts of the web there... D:
That was such a painful lecture. It was like listening to that Eragon dragon talking while feeling really fidgety and impatient. I really wished someone would just give me some Ikea furniture and ask me to rip it apart with my hands, and then grind it to dust.I don't know how long we spent on that question. It was a long time, (at least half an hour or so) measured in awkward pauses.
It's all very well being 'interactive' but sometimes you have to step back and wonder why people aren't answering your questions. Or better yet, if nobody answers your questions, maybe you should just move on. Please, please don't just wait for an answer. Especially if people clearly have no idea how to answer the question anyway and are giving incorrect answers.

The worst part was, I was actually rather interested. It was one of my preferred area's of maths, and I quite enjoy trying to solve these problems. Admittedly I was pretty stumped (or I'd have gotten on with it by myself) so I really wanted her to explain how to solve it.
What actually happened is that the question was dragged out reeeeally slowly, (and I wasn't really happy with the method we used either. A mon avis, you should try and avoid counting different patterns when using perms and coms.) and eventually set for us to do by ourselves.
In other news. Internets cannot be unread! I swear I didn't know! It... it was so uncannon! So unexpected! I feel like I strayed into unfamiliar parts of the web there... D:
Monday, 23 January 2012
Procrastination?
Well exam revision isn't being the best thing ever, but wh'ev. I hope it goes ok anyway.
I still can't really write anything exiting, so have some concept art instead. Don't worry, I didn't do it all today instead of revising. It's been sitting around for a while. (well sheet the third was from today's sesh.) Hopefully it will make it past the concept stage sometime soon, but you should know better than to trust me when I talk about finishing creative things. Can you guess who's who?
I still can't really write anything exiting, so have some concept art instead. Don't worry, I didn't do it all today instead of revising. It's been sitting around for a while. (well sheet the third was from today's sesh.) Hopefully it will make it past the concept stage sometime soon, but you should know better than to trust me when I talk about finishing creative things. Can you guess who's who?
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| Oldest on the wall, newest at the front. |
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
A Lack of Maple
The internet blackout is a cool idea, but you do need to vote for it to work. The internet needs you, stop SOPA.
Those times where it's 2:30am and you're not really getting any work done, but you can't afford not to get it done. Yeah.
All I've got is someone else's Maple work that I don't all the time get, and a bit of concept art for i. (I've given him a scythe, but I'm still stuck on the face)
Which reminds me, some day I need to tell you all about i and the transcendentals. I might even include pictures.
Sorry for wasting your time with small posts and all, but I don't really care. I don't have time for a long one, but I'm not getting anything done staring at Maple work.
Also I finally saw Zorro with Dani. It took us 4 years to watch it, but it was really worth it. That film was pretty awesome. Although I'm starting to believe I have a fairly terrible film taste.
I didn't think it was really worth an extra post, and seeing as I've actually blacked out my blog for SOPA (and yes, because it felt like a cool gimmik.), but it's the internet blackout today.
You will probably have noticed because it's pretty big. I noticed it on XKCD, but it's also people like Wikipedia, TGWTG, VGcats, Daily Dinosaurs... I could continue because there's alot of them. I know most of you don't exist and all, but stats say that a fair few of you possibly existent guys come from America.
I just wanted to remind people it doesn't work unless you sign the petition or contact your congressguy (?). [If you're in America, if not you should sign the petition or something.]
As the Homestarmy says: "Don't let them!"
Those times where it's 2:30am and you're not really getting any work done, but you can't afford not to get it done. Yeah.
All I've got is someone else's Maple work that I don't all the time get, and a bit of concept art for i. (I've given him a scythe, but I'm still stuck on the face)
Which reminds me, some day I need to tell you all about i and the transcendentals. I might even include pictures.
Sorry for wasting your time with small posts and all, but I don't really care. I don't have time for a long one, but I'm not getting anything done staring at Maple work.
Also I finally saw Zorro with Dani. It took us 4 years to watch it, but it was really worth it. That film was pretty awesome. Although I'm starting to believe I have a fairly terrible film taste.
I didn't think it was really worth an extra post, and seeing as I've actually blacked out my blog for SOPA (and yes, because it felt like a cool gimmik.), but it's the internet blackout today.
You will probably have noticed because it's pretty big. I noticed it on XKCD, but it's also people like Wikipedia, TGWTG, VGcats, Daily Dinosaurs... I could continue because there's alot of them. I know most of you don't exist and all, but stats say that a fair few of you possibly existent guys come from America.
I just wanted to remind people it doesn't work unless you sign the petition or contact your congressguy (?). [If you're in America, if not you should sign the petition or something.]
As the Homestarmy says: "Don't let them!"
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Productivity?
Having loads of revision and Cw can be really frustrating. It makes you feel really creative.
I have a billion and one (or, about 10 or so) ideas in my head of stuff I really want to draw/bake/make, but I can't do any of them.
I can't even stay and write much of a blog or anything. I'm just itching to get sketching.
It's really annoying how you only want to do slightly more productive things when you have more important work to do. Like pairing socks instead of tax returns.
[Black Books. Watch it.]
There's so much to do, but time slips past relentlessly. I'm sure a lot of people share my feelings on this, but if there was one magical item I could have (without thinking too hard, because I don't have time for that right now) it would be Bernards watch. Even if it means not being able to use the computer in time stop mode.
I have a billion and one (or, about 10 or so) ideas in my head of stuff I really want to draw/bake/make, but I can't do any of them.
I can't even stay and write much of a blog or anything. I'm just itching to get sketching.
It's really annoying how you only want to do slightly more productive things when you have more important work to do. Like pairing socks instead of tax returns.
[Black Books. Watch it.]
There's so much to do, but time slips past relentlessly. I'm sure a lot of people share my feelings on this, but if there was one magical item I could have (without thinking too hard, because I don't have time for that right now) it would be Bernards watch. Even if it means not being able to use the computer in time stop mode.
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Saturday, 22 October 2011
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.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
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.
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.
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Printer Problems
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.
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.
Monday, 6 June 2011
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.
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.
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!)
*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
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
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
And now for a brief interlude
Friday, 29 April 2011
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'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.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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.)
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.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Sunny spells
So, the sun is shining (Or it was earlier. The moon is probably shining atm.) the day was warm and winter seems to have disappeared.
Happy times.
I love how the sun makes stuff happy. I love Winter and Autumn, but Spring/Summer (Its sort of merges into one really) does have the sun. Yaay. spread the summer/Spring smileyness guys! (And yay for links!)
Happy times.
I love how the sun makes stuff happy. I love Winter and Autumn, but Spring/Summer (Its sort of merges into one really) does have the sun. Yaay. spread the summer/Spring smileyness guys! (And yay for links!)
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Everyone was sad
This blog entry was written over a period of a lot of hours, being as I have a lot of work to do. Hence the changes in perspectives and slightly weird format/tenses ect....
It was also written between about 12-5am, so don't take it too seriously....4)Well apparently this has been a bit of a downer week for everybody at at least some point during the week.
What coincidental timing. I don't have a reason or a cure, but hey I guess everyone has to be down sometimes.
I suppose everyone has their own way of dealing with it.It can feel like you're the only one feeling down, so everyone being sad at the same time could actually be encouraging in a weird way. I kind of missed it by afew days so I don't really know.
It feels good to be back on a more positive note again, and this week is finally over. Hooray, less impending deadlines!
1)
It feels like ages since I've felt calm about anything.
I've had a pretty rubbishy week this week. I've felt fairly stressed out and a bit negative. It's probably not entirely over yet, but right now I actually feel pretty good.
Enough coffee, a lack of sleep, actually starting work, who knows what the deciding factors of calmness are?
(I think the amount of coffee I've drank, and the lack of sleep (3 hours sleep. I wonder what my minimum is?) could be pretty big factors).
3)(Usually Freemans mind is one of the best cheer-up things for me. It doesn't matter how you feel, this makes you feel better. Even if you're already happy. This guy is having one of the worst days, and he just plods along ranting at the world and its incompetence while still finding time to digress into other amusing topics. Gordan freeman is never sad, only annoyed and trigger happy. Unfortunately I already re watched the whole series, so it is temporarily unavailable to me.)
2)It's was 1 am, one of those times when its harder to feel stressed out and negative, because if you've had enough caffeine time seems to slow down a bit. Finishing that bit earlier or later doesn't make that much difference because the next deadline is sleep, which a very flexible deadline. It's dark, and there's no one around.
So if anyone is feeling negative, down or stressed out just keep plodding on.
There's pretty much alway some good times to look forward to, even if you don't know what they are right now
so I guess my take on being sad is to just keep going untill you are no longer sad.
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Word.
It's really hot, and I can't be bothered to do anything.
I logged into minecraft in order to bake a minecraft related cake, and now I am stuck.
I thought I was over it. I'd finished. I'd got a base with a sign and a pumpkin and alot of lava. Then someone had to go and stress the point that you couldn't complete this game.
I logged into minecraft in order to bake a minecraft related cake, and now I am stuck.
I was so close to never playing it again! And now I've rigged up music boxes to play the first two bars of 'one summers day', how did it come to this?
I don't even know how I feel. It's too warm to feel tired, and I'm not hungry (I had 1/2 a pint of milk for tea. Yeah, healthy eating guys. Go for it!). I don't even know.
I wish I could get my lecture recording stuff to work.
Maybe I am tired.
Yeah.
I don't even know anymore.
Yeah.
"Darn you minecraft for making us this way!" - Just say 'No' to minecraft.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Hidden Quadratics
I have work so I can't talk right now, and I'm very very distracted. Which is incredibly bad, but Calculus is just soooo evil and stuff.
In order to get myself not to get distracted here, you can have the product of my previous distraction. (Because that will render me unable to use Blogger for the rest of the day)
In order to get myself not to get distracted here, you can have the product of my previous distraction. (Because that will render me unable to use Blogger for the rest of the day)
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Hidden Quadratic equations. They're the velociraptors of Maths. Learn to spot them before it's too late.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Doctor Le Qui?
I know what your (probably not) thinking. "Two posts in one day? How can this be?" but you're wrong. Its not two posts in one day, because I slept in between the two posts. That is how I say the universe works, and so that is how it works.
Ruths Guide to life 'Days': A day is defined as the period between the first time you wake up (after 00:00) untill the last time you go to sleep before waking up after the next 00:00.
Ruths Guide to life 'Days': A day is defined as the period between the first time you wake up (after 00:00) untill the last time you go to sleep before waking up after the next 00:00.
Seeming as the last post was posted before I woke up (after 00:00) yesterday(/today), it still counts as yesterday. Thus I am not posting twice in one day. That would just be weird.
Yeah they may have changed it (Or so I've heard, I haven't really got around to watching my new Tom Baker Dr Who DVD quite yet.) but presumably its always good. (see prev brackets. The guy has a scarf and Jelly Babies though. How can that be not awesome? Yeah, as soon as I don't feel like I have impending deadlines I have to watch that now.) Its exiting, futuristic and at some points nicely predicatable but not always. (Oh gosh, theres Aliens here? Who'd a thunk it? ) I want to say it makes you feel happy, because I've just seen "Vampires in Venice", and next week its "Dream vs Reality". TBH I don't know why that makes me feel happy, especially the former. I mean most episodes seem to have a lot of 'Unless you are going to be a recuring character you only have a 20% survival chance' rule which I just made up.
(TV spacestations anyone? Seriously, how can anyone be happy after that ep.? Personally I find it worse than the second season finale on the downer front)
In fact, when I start to think about it, I don't even know why doctor who is that awesome. It is, but why? It generaly does the good ol' 'Hey lets have fun!- Oh no Aliens!-Oh no *insert name(s) here* died!- Hooray Dr Who won!' thing. Its not like you'd want to be in any of the episodes, because I wouldn't fancy my chances of making it 'till the end credits. Except the dream episode, that would have been Hilarious if I were in it. We'd turn up 5 years in the future and I would be a fashionable ninja hero-spy and the neighbourhood would be terrorised by velociraptors with a seemingly irrational (I should never have let Hammond near those things) hatred for right arms. Admittedly that probably wouldn't be the case, otherwise more classic dream stuff would happen in the episode, (Although this is talking from memory, as it is showing next friday) but its nice to think it would. Its not like its ever going to happen anyway.
So why do we like Dr qui? Its it the tension and suspense? The epic lines? The epic music? (Le gosh, I did not realise how much that music gets me buzzing!) The trailers, the characters, the doctor himself? Is it the fact that I literally just finished watching it? Yeah, that's the most likely answer. I always hype about stuff I just finished, but still. Doctor who is cool.
So untill next time, do your work/stay in school/have fun/give peace a chance.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
A boring post. Seriously.
Dude, I have so much free time and so little concentration. Darn you internet for enticing me in!
And that's why I'm here. Because I am feeling really, really distractable.
NOTHING IS HAPPERNING! All I have to do is work, and that is boring. I need to go out or something.... but where?
I could go shopping, but I'm not due to shop untill wedns. Although I have been consuming more vegetables that I origneally planned, and I think I need some meat? No wait! I have food, its just all in the freezer.Well that's me stumped. Good ol' lo-bro. I can't remember what I used to do with my free time before Christmas. Did I have free time? Did I really just do work and get distracted from work?
Man this is slightly weird. I could make cake, or walk around. Exept also I have misplaced my key-card, so once I leave the building I'll need someone else with a key to let me back in. Which is not very reliable.
Guess I better start looking for my key-card then. Joy.
Exam leave is sooooo rubbish. bleh.
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