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.