The results are in...

... Yeah, i passed! I have my yellow tags! I'm a 9th gup! And i've only been dooing it for 3 weeks! hee hee.

There was a firewalk tonigiht at the guild for charity... and about 25ish people took part. There was one girl who did it who is in my class, and we were talking yesterday and she seemed like a really together person... and then she goes and does something like that! CRAZY!!

Anixious

Getting anxious. had my grading. Results sshould be going up on the website tonight... and they ain't up yet...

I'm going to go crazy! er.

some people...

Why is it following simple instructions on a power point telling you how to complete the task set in Excel is too much trouble for some people. They kept looking to me for the answers. It told them what to do! All they had to do was to go to the next slide to find out what to do, for crying out loud!

Taekwondo was fun today. Except the dizzy faint spell i had. But it soon passed, thank god. And now i've volunterred to take my grading on Thursday. As in 2 days. TWO!! So we're having an extra session tomorrow wher Neil, the guy who runs it, is going to take us through what we need to know for it, and see if we're ready for it. And if we're not, so what? The next grading's in December anyway, so it's not that big a deal if i don't do it. And hey, what's the worse that can happen? I don't pass and take it in December.

Guy got his nose broken today. He's currently a blue belt, one below black, and was sparring with one of the black belts in the group, and one of the shots actually hit him, and when we came out after practise there was an ambulance and everything. So yeah had a pretty eventful session tonight.

And now i'm a little tired, and i'm in at 9 tomorrow... there should be a rule against that...

Ummm... what was i going to say?

I had something really important to say. And now, sitting here, writing this, i cannot for the life of me think what it was. So i'll just keep writing, maybe it'll come to me.

Got an IT session in, oh, 15 mins... where we are being "taught" how to use Excel, Word and Power point... again. Only this time we're being given an assessment... basically a sheet of A4 and we have to use word to make our display look like the handout. So that's simple. And then we have to do a 5ish slide power point presentation... don't know how we're being given that task... could be a title, could be another handout... anyway, that'll be simple. And then for excel we're getting some data and we have to put it into graph form. Don't you wish you were here? How many easy marks can they give us?!

Oh, remembered. We have pigeon holes. It's quite weird really. I'm the only one in my little tutor group thing that actually knows where they are. And we have post now. I got post. *goes all mushy*...

Oh, speaking of post, got some of the photos from the film photos that i took in the States off my daddy today. And i was looking through one film of the Grand Canyon, thinking 'hey, dad took some pretty cool photos here.' then moved on to the next load, and thought 'ay up... THIS is dad's film... that makes the other film MY film... Cool... I took some pretty cool photos of the Grand Canyon.'

Ummm... right, i'm actually goign to have to go now, on account that my IT thingymebob is about to start.

I'll update again soon, maybe after taekwondo. Maybe tomorrow. Have to see how it goes.

Family

family is not just the people you are related to. Some of m closest friends are my family in their own little way. Sometimes in life family can be annoying, other times they do things that make you really proud to be related to them. This is one of those times.

I know, short and nothig said, but you know what? So what?!

times like these

It's time's like these that make you wish you had paid a smallest amount of attention in RS at all the quotes being enforced into your brain so when you actually want to use them in an essay you dont have to go and look them up.

There's a sentance i never thought i'd say...

Getting there

For those that know what's going on, I'm getting better. Not dissolving every day now, at least not as much as i was.

Went to a party last night. Friend of a friend's 18th, and it was actually pretty fun. which just goes to show that the guild can't be all that good, if i find things like that more fun than going to the guild. I dunno, maybe it's something to do with the crowd. There i wasn't expected to be something that everyone was used to, or thought i was like. I could be myself... and if they didn't like it, well so what? It's not like i'm going to be seeing them around very often is it?!

Went to town today and met up with my nana and grandad who i haven't seen since January. Which is actually sooner than what i had thoought... I thought i hadn't seen them for 18 months... when my uncle got married. Anyway, it was really nice to see them again, catch up, have them spend money on me... Ok, that last bit is just an added bonus.

So yeah, i've had a nice couple of times out over the last couple of days. And now i have to finish this essay on the moral issues surrounding stem cell therapy, so i'll leave this here. I know it's kinda short, but m'eh.

Oh, and sarah... you will be getting your DVD back... promise... at some point... yeah...

Guys

Actually, one in particular. Freaked me out. Beginning to recover now at least.

I'm not going to say what happened on here. I'll tell the people i want to in my own time. Suffice to say i'm not ok. But hopefully i will be.

Ice. Ice is a good thing!

Yeah. I think i Twisted my knee, or pulled a muscle or tenden or something... Basically it hurts like hell, i can hardly move it, and i've been icing it since i got in.

But apart from that, had fun at taekwondo tonight. Learnt a new kick and the routine thingymebob thing that i have to know for my grading in December... I have a grading in decmber apparently... Which i found out about today. Still, that should be fun. And the routine is really easy, it's only really 2 moves in the 4 directions, a few kicks and punches. So yeah, that should be fun.

Had an I.T. skills "lecture" and i use that term losely, today. It was soooooooo boring. Basically, he got us to copy a document from the web then do what that said... like "Change font" "Underline" etc. Like i said... easy. So by the time he had finished explaining how to copy something, i had done half of it, and by the time he had explained how to paste it into a word document i had finished.

Then he got us to do a small powerppoint thing, and he kept going on like "looking at this is really dull, cos it's all white and black text" and i'm sitting there thinking "actually my text is differnt colours and different styles and my background is different on each slide and hey, if i put it on slideshow all my things have been animated too... including the picture of Findlayson! (Oh yes people, he will rue the day he allowed me to see where to find a picture of him on the web... It's all his fault!)"

So yeah, i was slightly bored in that session. And next week, we get to go through Excel, then given another word document and we have to change our boring one on the PC to look like the one he gives us, then we have to do a powerpoint presentation, and then put graphs into excel using data he gives us. And it all counts towards our key skills module that we have to pass to pass the year! Still... it's easy marks i suppose.

Ok, i'm going to go strap m leg and go to bed, despite only being up for 12 hours. Sometimes i love being me!

15 hours solid sleep later...

Hey, i'm awake! and not tired! And i soooo hope i didn't have any lectures this morning! *hurridly checks timetable*... nope. *whew!*

Feeling more like me now, see, told you it would be ok eventually.

Gotta run. I do actually have a leacture this afternoon.

General stuff really

I'm tired. Actually, i think i passed tired and went straight to exhausted. possibly "dead on my feet". Did not pass go. Did not get £200... I should know, i wouldnt have had such a shock at my balance earlier. Was slightly panicking, cos i was about £300 down on what i though i should have had... then remembered that i had paid my dad back about £300 of the £500 i owe him.

Went out on Saturday night. Place known as Arcadian. Load of pubs and clubs in Chinatown. Nice place. Kinda like the Gate i guess.. only no cinema. Went to a house party of a mate of a housemate before hand, and met up with the guys from next door. Proceeded to make one of them lose all chance of scoring at the party... I'm sorry, but being called "Flower" aint appealing to me. Do i have roots? Do i die after a couple of months? Do i attract bees and wasps?! I think NOT! And then he was pissed off with me for the rest of the night, but he's a nob head, so if he aint talking to me i'm not going to complain!

Course being pissed off with me didnt stop him from trying to get me smking. Um... not going to happen! EVER! And apparently "because i don't want to" isn't a good enough reason as to why i wont smoke. Strange, seems like a perfectly good one to everyone else...

Still, after about half an hour, they, along with the lads from my house, went to the casino. Wow. Joys. Anyway, Helen and myself to let the boring people go lose all their money in the casino, while we went dancing. And Oh My GOD! My feet wanted to leave after that. I swear i got a transfer form from them and everything! But yeah, it was fun. Had some 30ish year old trying to get us to dance with him which was slightly less fun, but took it all with, well, a couple malibu and coke... but whatever works really!

Got back at a litte past 2 in the morning, and decided to have a cheeseburger. Be impressed... we didnt burn down the house!

Had chemistry today. reminded myself as to why i HATE the subject. Actually it wasnt as bad as i'm making it out to be, and heck, i actually learnt something in it, so it couldnt have been that bad, Still, i did my "i'm listening" thing by answering yet another question.

Ah logs. i remember logs. logs make the world an interesting place to be, because of all the people out there that dont get them. Helping one of my friends from some of my lectures and taekwondo with hos maths. he's doing pharmacology, and didnt do maths at A level... and he actually gets maths lectures. Ha ha ha! Still, nice kind soul that i am i have offered to help him should he ever get stcuk... prviding he explains what hes doing so i dont sit there doing a fish impression!

Talking of me being nice and kind, found a purse in the foyer today, so i go to hand it in to the people on reception, and i had to sign about 3 things just to hand in this purse. All i wanted to do was to hand it in so when the owner found that they ha dropped it they could find it without too much trouble. I mean, its the first thing you do really... see if it's been handed in. Especially at about 8:30 on a Monday morning! Still, it was all taken care of eventually.

Had a lecture in the great hall today. They completely refurbished it so that they can hold lectures in it, and it actually looks really nice. And i think we actually need it for a fair number of our lectures, cos there's the biology students, the pharmacy students and then theres the combined honors students all attending the same lecture! Suffice to say... that's ALOT of people!

Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment. Everything seems to be getting to me, yet not at the same time. I dunno. Like i said, feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully be able to work it out in my head soon.

ummm... oops?

Ok, so i was being really with it this morning. Got out of bed on time, got to uni about an hour before my lecture and so did a bit of shopping and whatnot before going to see if there was anyone from my class outside thelecture theatre at about 10.30 for an 11 start. I know, i know, i was bored, alright? Anyway, i get there, and Amy is already there. So we sit and have a bit of a chat about how we're doing, what we think of the lecturers and so on, and 5 to 11 comes arond, and yet there's been no movement of people coming out, and we know that there is a lecture on, so we pop our heads round the door, and find out that its going on till 12. So we think there must have been a room change or something, and start to head up to the programme office to see if there was a room change. But just before we head up, we start calculating our day... Yeah, our 11 lecture didnt have a room change on account it didnt exist! It was a 12 lecutre. So yeah... oops.

In other news, i have my Gi now. And for those who are wondering, it's my Taekwondo outfit. Emma was almost squeeing when she saw me in it. Think i might have killed my leg last night though. We were doing the side kick, and my god did it hurt my knee. But yeah, it's going really well, having a great time with it.

I managed to write 3 full A4 sides of notes about mushrooms today. Woo. Go me. Whoever knew there was so much you had to learn about mushrooms?!

Bored

Bored. Bored. Oh so very bored.

Hey, this should be entitled "science for public understanding"... it's along the lines of "this is an atom. Look at the pretty atom." Did a chemisrty test, and it was like "sodium has mass of 23 and atomic number 11. How many neutrons?" "How many electrons?" "It becomes Na+, how many electrons?" And there were about 10 questions of that magnigtude... and the pass mark of this test is 8. EIGHT! And it was fairly easy... maybe 4 questions were based on A A-level Chem, not AS A level chem or heck, even GCSE level chem.

Still, it means i get a chance to write this. I know, i know, i should be paying attention, but you guys have to understand, this guy is a worse teacher than Earl was when he was going through a set text.

Help!! I feel like i'm falling asleep. Oh, just answered a question correctly. Means he'll think i'm still awake and paying attention. Ye gods, if i have to attend these for the next 4 weeks i'll die! Hmmm, maybe if i get in touch with the course programmer i could beg off with my AS level chem. Ok, so it's not a full chem A level, but i think i got about 14ish/20 for the little test... Must get in touch with him...

God, this session is timetabled for another 1 1/4. Ah, we're allowed to go! Woo HOO!! FREEDOM!!!!

Right, i'm off!

Frank

Ok, before i go into the bulk of this post, i will first introduce you to Frank. Frank is Emma's budgie. A nice quiet (for the most part) bird, that lives in her room. And tonight, Frank made a bid for freedom.

Me and Emma were catching up cos she had been away for the weekend, and she's someone who i can talk to about everything and anything. So i'm sitting chatting whist she changes Frank's grit in the cage. And Frank, the nice quiet little thing that he is, flys out of the open door in the cage and flys madly around the room. And gives me and Emma a fright. But we're ok, all we need to do is get the bird back in the cage. Piece of cake.

Geeting blood out of a stone would probably have been easier.

I swear, that bird wanted nothing more to do with that cage. So after about 10 minutes, we give up on the corner him back to the cage idea, and go for the trap him in a box idea. And that doesn't work... and he flys behind the wardrobe. And Emma, bless her, starts having kittens. So i'm holding the wardrobe at a wwired angle, and if i let it go it's going to crush me or the bird, neither of which is an option. But eventually we get him out from behind the wardrobe, only for him to fly off again.

Eventually he stresses out so much that he cowers in the sleeping bag in her room, and we get him back in the cage. We're pretty cerrtain it'll be a miricle if he doesnt die of shock overnight.

So yeah. Recovering from a small panic attack, think i may have almost had a heart attack, but we're all ok.

And to think i thought not living on campus would be dull!

Not to worry

Feeling better now. Just had one of those days.

I'll post something more soon.

Feeling Down

Been missing home.

Judi has had laryngitis, at least according to mum. Sorta feel sorry for her.

I'll be better soon.

Hopefully.

Question

Ummm, yeah.

Anyone with Yahoo IM, do you know how to play pool with another person... actually to take a shot? Cos i think i've used all obvious options and commands.

Deep meaningful PAIN!

Had Taekwondo last night. It was really good. Did a bit of circuit training thing, then moved on to some moves. A couple were builing on what we did on Tuesday, but then we did some different self-defense type moves. Really really haiving fun with that. Should be getting my Gi (no idea on the spelling... sorry) on Tuesday.

Anyway, woke up this morning thinking "oh god, do my muscles ACHE!" And then had to walk up a hill to walk down a hill to get the bus. But it was ok, as my first lecture was on the ground floor. OK, so it was in the part of the building i had never been in before and had no idea where i was going... but it was on the ground floor.

After lunch, had 2 lectres in the Warwick lecture theatre. It's this really really huge lecture room on the 6th floor. And we need it. And an overflow room. But only in the lectures that also have the pharacology and combined honors students. Anyway, I'm standing with some classmates on the ground floor, looking round at all the other people who are going to get the lift up. And i'm thinking 'by the time we actally get a lift for us to fit into, we might as well have walked up the stairs.' So i walk up the 6 floors of stairs. Now for a comparison... think of walking up to the top floor of B block... 3 times. By the 3rd floor i was thinking 'bad idea. Really really Dumbass idea here. What the hell are you doing?!'

But i made it. And then after 2 hours came out thinking 'ow! Ow! Ow! Really really really really Stupid Dumbass idea! Deep meaningful pain here. Let's walk down the 6 storeys.' But hey, what with walking up and down a hill to the bus stop each time i need it, and with taekwondo, and all the walking around, i should get my legs fit in no time! Here's to hoping anyway!

Qucik note

Hate the timetable for today. Although having a lecture who isn't out to say just how bad our highschools were is sorta refreshing. Had a good lecture on parasitology. For everyone who isn't... well, me, thats Viruses. So um yeah.

And now i have about 10 minutes before Taekwondo starts, so i better run.

I may update again when i get home. Have to see.

Also adding another step for when people comment... sorry, but i'm getting annoyed at the automatic spamming!

Dr Field

He's one of my lecturers at uni... actually the one i had in my practical yesterday. Anyway... he's a git. Don't like him at all. He just assumes that everyone on the course is a genious in genetics, and that we all know everything there is to know about them. Ummm... NO! That's WHY we're taking the course!

Grrr!

Sorry. Felt like ranting. I'm done now.

Wait, it's what day?!

Ok, so i just realised that my sister's birthday isn't techniacally today, but is infact next week. But in my defence she did say it was today, so she doesn't know when her own birthday is! Ok... moving on...

Had an actual lecture today, not these wishywashy this is what the course is on, but an actual lecture. That lasted the actual 50 minutes it was supposed to. And then resultedin us all being told off by our next lecturer for being late to the practcal session. Our first one, by the way, when we had only just learnt where the locker room was.

Anway, he gave us about 50 minute "informal" lecture about the microscope, and the history of it and all the differnt types and components and whatnot, before giving us step by step instructions on how to set up the microscopes for viewing a speciman... as if we had never used one before ever.

Something i've noticed about the lecturers, here at least. They don't think that the 6th forms we all went to were good enough for their satisfaction. They're alays saying that they faied in this way or that way or the other way. What makes them all high and mighty all of a sudden?!

Went out to the Guild. Wednesday is the "cheapy" day, with a number of drinks being a pound. Before hand Emma and I got absolutely wasted on the remaining Malibu from Saturday, then i didn't drink anything else when we got there. So by the time we left i had sobered up. And the guild is on of those places that is ok when you're drunk, but boring when you're sober.

Still, got chatting to one of the bouncers there. Always good to befriend them, keeps you out of trouble for the most part. Anyway, he seemed a bit too flirty for our liking today. But still. Came home early... if you call 1 early.

Got a rubbish day tomorrow timewise. Got a lecture at 11-12, then a lecture at 5-6, then taekwondo, if i feel up for it, 7:30-9:30. Which is potentially 3 bus trips, but i'll probably just take my kwondo stuff with me when i go back in in the evening. Going to get hectic later in the term though. We get 3 hour practicals in the 5 hour gap, so i'll probably just stay in all day, meaning i'll have to bring all my stuffin at the beginning of the day. oh joys!

3 in one day!

Feel privaliged people!

Oh, and i now have the net at home... and it works! it ACTUALLY WORKS!! wOOt!! Um... yeah, on with the post!

" Mamo-Chan said...
i may be smelley and unshaven, but at least i have an iron"

Yes, well, i hae one now too! So i went into Argos, and the store alarm is going, and everyone's like, "what on earth?" So i get in the line, alarms still going, and pay, alarms still going, and then about 2 minutes into waiting for it to come down, the security guy comes down and tells everyone to vacate the building. So we all go out, and find that they've blocked off one of the streets, police tape and fire engines and the whole nine yeards. So we're standing outside, in the cold, and it's threatening to rain, and we're left with no info whatsoever for about 35 mins or something. Thhen everyone's like, ok, you can go back in now. So no idea what the hell happened there, but yeah. Today has been fun.

Went to taekwondo tonight. seriously good fun. Had a 20 minute or so demonstration, and then they got us to do some simple stuff, like punching and front kicks. Yeah, it was really cool.

Introducing emma to Empire Records tonight... what, you seriously thought that film was staying behind? Do you know me at all?!

Anyway, gotta run. maybe eat something, though i doubt it. it means getting up off my "comfortable" bed and going downstairs... me likes it here just fine!

I LOVE this uni!

Ummm, yeah. My 2 hour report writing lecture was only 30 mins, and all about referencing and plagerism, and I knew it all from when i was doing coursework last year. And there are some people who disnt know what 3rd person style was! But anyway, not got anything else for rest of the day till Taekwondo tonight.

Should be cool.

Think i'll write some more now.

My room is now looking more like home... complete with completely huge mess on the floor.... Hmmm, must remember to buy iron today. Feeling pretty pleased actually. Despite what i said, oh, about an hour ago, i have been doing some cooking. And i haven't burnt the place down yet. Which is good.

Considering up until a couple of days ago we didnt have a TV license, if the fire alarm went off enough for the police to come we would have gotten nicked for that. So people now owe me money... and i owe other people a hell of a lot more, but at the moment i'm not in the red... As far as i know. Still, got course books to buy. And i went into Waterstones yesterday and got a little scared by the fact that one of the reccomended reading texts was in without a price on. I never thought i'd see the day Waterstones was too expensive!

Oh, speaking of TV lisences, found out yesterday that next door dont have one. No big deal, except that we, and by we i mean me, Housemates Helen and Haydn, and guy down the road Ollie, were watching Batman Begins on one of the guys who live next door's Xbox. Who hadn't told the other guys that lived there that we were coming round to use their electricity. It was pretty cool. People kept coming in, saying hey, then realising that "Woah, you don't live here, but you're watching a film... WTF?!" And we were like "Dude, shut up, we can't hear!"

But anyway, life seems to be going ok. Might be coming home for a visit in the next couple of weeks. Um, yeah. I'm going to leave this here.

All right, already, all right!

I'm working on it! I'm working on it!

And yes, i am taking Taekwondo. Hee hee hee. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Look, the reason i haven't updated is because i DON'T have the net at home... we don't ever have a router to link all the computers together, so we can't do it through someone else's computer!

Well, i got 15 mins, so i'll qrite a quick one now... ok?

Uni is going ok. Looked at my timetable... some days are ok, only 1 or 2 lectures together, but thursdays are pains. I have an hour lecture between 10 and 11, then a lecture at 4 till 5. With nothing, for the first few weeks, inbetween. It gets a little better after week 3, cos i get 3 hour praticles in the gap... I said that was a good thing, right?

Housemates are nice, especially Emma, who has sorta taken me under her wing, and is looking out for me and all. And it was because of her... and a lot of Malibu and Sambrika, that i have actually watched Team America again... Despite promising that i would never touch the thing again even with the aid of a 10 foot barge pole. (6 foot seemed too short!)

Been out a few times with the guys down the road too. They were mainly on the same floor last year, and a fair number of them shared flats, so they all know each other. They're cool, except a couple of the lads seemed to think that they needed to outshine the other to make my approval... all they showed me was that they're full of themselves. And they've taken to calling me flower... What's with that? Seriously?!

Got myself a new phone, same number, but on a contract now, which is good, cos it means i acn get one of the student deals that i couldn't get on my other phone. Anyway, it means that i no longer spend all my money of my phone, and actually have some money for booze. Sorry, i meant books. Really i did. (Yeah, you're not buying that either are you?)

Birmingham's a nice city. Once you get to know your way around. Got a huge Forbidden planet just down the street from where i get off the bus. I need money. I need to get a job. And yes, i am aware that i have said that many times before, and never done anything about it, but i think this time i will.

Been ill this last week. "Freshers flu" apparently. Great fun, not being able to breathe and everthing,

Got a letter off my mum today. Didn't realise just how much i missed her, hell, everybody, till i got it. I will be writing to people... honest. If i can remeber your addresses... Hey, could ya'all drop me a line or summit with them? Thanks.

Um yeah. Well, gotta go, lecture on report writing to attend. For 2 hours. oh the joys of being me!

Take care. (Oh, and Mamo, you know where i am if you need anything!)