Receptors. Control centres of the cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular reflexes. Haemorrhage.

I'm revising.

I know it's early in the morning, so I don't really have anything so say but I'm in a malaise so blogging seems preferable to working.

I'm wearing my glasses.

Turns out my eyes have got a fuck ton worse. After revising all day with them on I took them off and literally was unable to see what people were saying to me on Facebook.

I'm gonna pretend that was because I was tired. Not because I'm blind.

BUT YEAH. One good thing about revising - the amount of music I get to catch up on.
So evidently I need some recommendations.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO AND WHAT SHOULD I BE LISTENING TO?

It'll have to wait until December as I've used up all my Spotify hours, but that's like - tomorrow. Fuck.

I actually have 9 minutes left, but I'm saving that for the points in which my revision melancholy gets too much that there's nothing left for me other than repetitive listening to I Want the World to Stop (Belle and Sebastian. Good song.)

SO. Life.

I've realised why my blogs are so boring, I tend to have all my fun on Thursdays which I then forget about by the following Wednesday.

WAIT A SECOND

I saw Frank Turner on Friday. And you see! Totally forgot to tell you about that.

Saw him at the Barrowlands in Glasgow, then got back to Edinburgh a little overexcited and ended up going to the Hive until it closed.

Brought Georgie, Sarah, Rosalind, Richard, Pete and Owen along with me. And they all loved it! Which is a great success as Georgie was the only one who actually listens to him, and she only owns Love Ire and Song. But yay.

Although it was only me, Sarah and Georgie that went to Hive. Which is difficult as Hive is a creepy place, and I am no longer in a position to be creeped. We essentially formed an impenetrable huddle, within which we danced, drunk and were merry. (Lots of dancing, as we were in the second room which always plays 'alternative anthems' and sometimes you just really are in the mood for Blink 182.)

Got my secret santa name yesterday, and frankly - too easy. Bitch gon' be pleased.

(When I drink tea my glasses steam up. Who knew?)

UPDATTE

My flatmates ate cooking lasagne so I reckon tonight is gonna be right awesome.

sincxe last we spoke i decided too sack the rest of today and went to my friends art exhibition and enjoyed the free alcohol. now i am going tio eat lasagne and go out.

today i got some really good news. I shall tell you in person and no on internet,.

But believe me. this news is good and shall excuse the drinking in the afternoon.

:D

HPPY ST ANDREWS DAY

HIVE HIVE HIVE (is where I'm at tonight)

I had a crazy dream that I weighed less than a thousandth of a gram. I was like, 0mg!

This afternoon at my computer sitting

Learning the tests for oedema pitting

I think to myself what could be more fitting

Than preparing a poem for next Sunday’s blog

It’s Tuesday right now but I don’t mind admitting

That by Sunday evening at the time of submitting

I’ll be so exhausted from all the streets I’ve been hitting

That when I get in I will sleep like a log

You see most of the weekend I will be transmitting

Myself along train lines for visits quite flitting

From Pewsey to Warwick I will be visiting

Friends and family and of course, my dog

On Thursday night at a show most befitting

I’ll be seeing some friends and most likely sipping

Far too much beer and then contemplate quitting

Drinking so much that I feel sick as a dog

I’ll then travel back westwards for lectures unremitting

Where I’ll sit in dark classrooms and think of resitting

As so much I should know, from my brain is omitting

and the notes I’ve not read form a massive backlog

When Sunday arrives I will be committing

My time to my great aunt, traffic permitting

As I travel up north for a visit quite flitting

For a family gathering in the Warwickshire fog

You may be wondering why I have chosen such an odd rhyme scheme or why some of the rhymes are so shit, my answer is because fuck you, that’s why.

SO NOW IT’S SUNDAY.

I’m going to see Billy Bragg tomorrow, you jelly David?

Anyway, my weekend was beautiful and seeing people was the best.Ben Marwood is a nice guy and David’s was lovely, I am sleepy now.

Love you guys.

You guys write lots.

Blah. Now I feel obliged to respond.

But. So. Lazy.

Switzerland was amazing.

Arrived on Friday morning, me and Krissy drank solidly from lunch till whenever we went home, on the way befriended a gang of Swiss students in an Irish Bar who took us to an anarchist bar. (Apparently anarchy in Switzerland means getting high indoors.) Which was actually pretty cool.

Krissy was pretty mortal and in the taxi back kept giving her Cardiff address, so after a while he got pissed off and chucked us out so we wandered round Geneva for a long while with no idea where we were, but somehow with another taxi and some very dodgy French we got home.

Saturday we were too hungover to move.

Sunday we enjoyed Geneva.

I saw the world's longest bench and the world's tallest fountain.

Monday I went to CERN and learnt SCIENCE.
Was actually really awesome, I learnt all the things and bought a physics book in the gift shop.

Then I bought some Toblerone and flew home.

Has been quiet recently. It's my last week of lectures and I've kinda lost the momentum for going out.

Frank Turner on Friday though. Woo.

AND SHUDDUP WILL. Scotland is lovely.

I was sat in front of a guy on the plane who kept bitching about Edinburgh, and I was thinking ffs, this is a flight TO Edinburgh, assume most of the people on this flight are either from or going there.

And, it has been an easier timetable than last year. I have nine lectures a week, one or two practicals a week and that's about it really.

Have done so little work revision will quite possibly kill me.

So, this may be the last you hear from me.

AU REVOIR.

(Though actually in Geneva everyone says 'ciao'.)

OH. And I watched Die Hard yesterday.

This could easily be the best blog I've ever written

You know what guys? I miss msn.
Back in the day you would log onto msn and talk to all your friends and granted a conversation wouldn't go much further than

hi
hey
you ok? yeah you?
i'm good what you been up to?
not much you?
not much haha

but you used to have a nice little 5 minute conversation with everyone about their day, nowadays we have facebook chat which is bollocks and not the same in any way BAH.
So yeah, I've decided that as of today I'm going to facebook chat people more, bringing back the instant messaging communication just if I see people are online.

SO THIS WEEK on tuesday I went round the house of all our other friends from halls and we played skyrim (which is beautiful) and then the girls came down and we watched mamamia which I ruined for everybody and then love actually which I know is far to early but OH MY GOD YOU GUYS CHRISTMAS :D:D:D. And then I was like ok I think I'ma go home now but then my housemate was like oh I just turned 20 and we were like OH SHIT and got really drunk instead of going home and I missed my tutorial on wednesday. THEN on wednesday we went to the medic sports night rag centurian and I was once again a centurian but also all the sports teams had a fresher go on stage and be abused and It's too long a story but it was awful, one guy had to eat 10 boiled eggs soaked in gin! On thursday I went to a choir concert cause I couldn't sing cause I missed all the rehersals due to my appendix. ALSO ON THURSDAY MY PHONE BROKE AND I GOT THIS INSTEAD.



I know rite? It's terribad. On friday I went to a houseparty and saw some people i don't see very often and there are pictures on facebook. This weekend I went to canterbury (again I know i'm a fiend) and I saw jonny and his little sister was visiting and we played ring of fire and arrogance and she was sick everywhere. ALSO i painted a rubber duck :)

Will UBRUB sounds so awesome! I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get the chance to come to your uni this term but give me a date next term and I'll come be on your team I swear :D, in answer to your question from last week I decided although it's obvious this is certainly the best comedy sketch ever



I'm not ben marwooding (SIGHH) but I am back late friday evening PARTY AT MY HOUSE.

Juliet I don't have that much to say to you but I hope you're having fun and if you went to newcastle WHY DIDN'T YOU MAKE CATH BLOG?

Speaking of Cath she's sent me her email and I'ma add her to the blog (again)

Josh I enjoyed your blog and your bonfire night sounds badass, I like the pictures of where you went and stuff. Also my appendix is good FANKS :)

I think I have other things to say but this blog is already far too long, I also don't have any pictures I'm sorry

Love David

I couldn't find any funny pictures this week

I watched Airplane with my housemates last night, I’m so glad that film exists.

You guys, I think I have found the perfect society to join. Well technically it isn’t a society because it isn’t allowed to be supported by the union. It is called UBRUB which stands for Urban Beverage Racing University of Bristol I believe. They organise races were you are tied by the wrists in teams of three and have to race between the bars and drink the allotted drinks at each place. Our team did not do particularly well, we weren’t allowed out of the first bar for ages because the next race people blocked the door. We still managed to get through the 7 bars in about 40 minutes which wasn’t too bad a time. In all honesty, the actually running part was a bit of an ordeal, I am horribly unfit and it was actually quite a long run. I was particularly struggling after strawpedoing half a bottle of wine and then having to do a solid 10 minute jog to the next bar, I managed to keep it all down which is more than can be said for a lot of the other competitors including my teammate Andy who managed to spray the toilet of the last bar with bright red vomit. Maybe you can come visit next time there is a race on and we can enter a team.

I had my second hospital placement all last week. I really enjoyed it again, actually getting to see patients is so much better than lectures. All the UBRUBing took place on Thursday night so I felt less than fresh having to go to the hospital on Friday to give my patient presentation to some big fancy consultant. Luckily he asked me a load of questions on Cushing’s syndrome and I happened to have seen a patient with that the day before so I came up with a load of fancy pants answers about it and it all went well.

But that’s enough about me, lets talk about you.

David, I’m glad you’re looking into the bone marrow thing, I can’t say enough how good it is to do, the rest of you, I would love it if you could look into it too. Also, are you Ben Marwooding? And if not are you at least back for the weekend?

Juliet, I agree with David, you seem to have very few lectures. Or do you just not go to lots of them? Also fuck Scotland.

Josh, you’re fireworks night sounds excellent, much more successful than mine where we ended up having to stand in the road outside the display because we got there too late. In responses to your organ removal question, everything inside you can all just squish about a bit anyway so the gap just get filled by all the other stuff inside you spreading out a bit, also your appendix is pretty damn tiny so it doesn’t leave much of a gap. I am also glad that you have a Will ladder, I sure hope I am near the top. Finally, hi housemate Will, congratulations on having such an excellent name.

So I’ll be home next week on Thursday for Ben Marwood but then I am going to have to go back to Bristol for Friday things and then come back to Swindon/home again in the evening. I am then going to see all my extended family on Sunday near Leicester somewhere and then try and get back to Bristol on time for Monday lectures. All in all a busy weekend but hopefully it will involve seeing some kittens which will be lovely, I can’t wait.

I finished Modern Warfare 3 this week as well. I was really rather disappointed by the story this time. The levels were really beautiful and the graphics were exceptional but the story just wasn’t as good as previous ones. Having said that, I was pretty darn sad at one point, I won’t spoil it for any of you that want to play it, but you’ll know when you get there.

Finally I ordered Frank Turner’s second 3 years CD. It should come on Monday and I look forward to it greatly, I already have quite a few of the songs but there are also some new covers and b sides that I haven’t so that’ll be exciting.

I hate titles, and they hate me, it's a good thing we've got going on so lets not ruin it.

I really feel that at half 2 I should have gotten over this terrible hangover which is imparing my every move today, I have to go to uni in an hour and I don't think I can make it to the bus stop but we'll see.

Basically, because my mind can't function I can't think of anything to write right now so I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll take a pad to my lecture and write ideas while blocking out the harsh Cornish tones of my lecturer's waffle then edit when I get back.

HAHA! Housemate Will (Yes, Will I do call him that to his face so as to make sure he knows where he stands on the Will-ladder) just came downstairs drunk wearing just his boxers and a sailors hat and now he won't get off the sofa even though I've told him a million times it's making me uncomfortable. IT'S HALF 2 IN THE FREAKING AFTERNOON!!

Alright everyone, Housemate Will says hi. He says he expects you to all say hello back to him this week in your blog. Well, it's a challenge I guess.

EDIT!


So I'm in my lecture, it's hard to concentrate with a laptop in front of you. I was going to write down lots of ideas for y'all but instead, I drew a picture of my lecturer vomiting words. I feel today has been productive.

Will, I saw the same company name on an escalator in Gatwick this summer.

I played open mic last night with a friend which was fun and then found a house party up the road from mine. Some guy came up to me and was whispering in my ear about a pet pig he had when he was little and how it died and his Dad fed it to him as bacon and now he can’t look at pigs anymore. I didn’t know if it was true or why he decided to introduce himself like that but I basically couldn’t stop laughing at him and he got upset and punched me in the ear so I poured him a drink and then he seemed alright. It was pretty edgy for a moment though, I saw fire in his eyes.

David, how’s the gap where your appendix was going? I was actually wondering about that Will, when doctors take out kidneys and appendixes/appendi and other various parts of you you don’t necessarily need, what do they do with the wasted space, does you just get thinner or… Actually, I’ve just realised that is perhaps the dumbest question I have ever asked in my life ever.

Juliet you're always cooking when you blog, which makes me really hungry every time I go on the blog.

It sounds like everybody had a pretty good week, I wish I could see people more but Falmouth being where it is, I am Cornwall-locked. Speaking of which, Ben Marwood next week - I can't go anymore :( Sorry guys, I was going to pull a couple of days off sick but I can't anymore cause I have to give an assessed presentation on the Friday so missing it would affect my grade. Still though, it's really not that long any more until Christmas. That gives me an idea for a challenge, I'll give it to you guys next week cause it seems too early to be setting Christmas-based challenges.

In response to yours Will, I really don't know at all. There's so much out there which I've found and loved and lost over the years but here's a video youtube suggested to me today which made me laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jL4-hOejHI&feature=feedrec_grec_index

Last week's blog didn't come cause I totally forgot cause I had loads of stuff to hand in on Thursday so since then has been a work free blast. The Sea Shanty festival was on which was really really sick, I can't even tell you, I got really drunk and sang along and stamped my feet and so on. Then there was the festival of lights in Truro which was nice too, lots of lights and people in wooly hats with hot chocolate. Which reminds me I didn't tell you about my bonfire night. We went to Pendenniss Point which looks a bit like this:















We went right onto the end of the point and had a massive bonfire and set off some fireworks and had a BBQ. It was really fun until someone stabbed themselves in the leg by accident with a penknife and we had to call an ambulance and there was a police response and they told us we were going to be fined £1000 for the bonfire so we all just ran away. I don't know if I should be putting this online but yeah, there was a lot of traversing of rocks in the dark trying to evade the police, but we're all fine free. Josh - 1, Cornwall County Council Law - 0!

I think that's about it, I'm gonna go cook some food now.

Love to your mothers.

xx

Yo.

QUICK ONE BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A ROAST.

It's Harry's Birthday, (yesterday) so we're doing much cooking.

Today was my last piece of course work this year, ever. No more labs, tutorials, essays, reports. I'm excited.

And what are you talking about David, I haven't had a single reading week?

I started early and now I finish early-ish so we have time to do December exams.

I mean, if you wanna talk about doss courses, I mean Physics? Pah.

So last weekend I went to Cath's and it was amazing.
I like her friends they are good people.

On Friday I'm going to Switzerland. I'm excited.

I'll talk more next week. LOVE YOU GUYS.

I didn't even forget and Will thought I was gunna forget.

Hey how are you?
I'm fine thanks yeah.
Cool

My weeks been good, I didn't do much monday tuesday wednesday (I think I went out on monday but I can't say for sure) then I traveled back to london wednesday evening and saw my housemates and they were all pleasantly concerned about my wellbeing which was nice. On thursday I slept instead of going to lectures cause I'm an idiot and then on friday I went to my lectures and then went to Canterbury to see Kate, Canterbury is really nice you guys but also it was SO COLD all weekend i mean what the actual fuck. That night we weant to one of her many student bars called Mungos, it was in a halls and a lecture theatre which is weird but it was a cheesy music night which was fun, though my appendix hurt and I'm not good at dancing to cheesy music ESPECIALLY around people I have only met once before. The next day we went to see kate's pal Fae in a musical theatre showcase thing and she was a really good singer and it was good fun (though I did judge some of the singers a bit cause I'm a music snob) after that we went to a kitchen party and I got pretty drunk and had a good night though I did make enemys with some guys who were being all cunty to kate's german flatmate. Then on sunday we did a pub quiz and one of the rounds was on assassins and I fucking bossed it. After that we played pictionary and then went to kate's friend Sarah's room and had what they were calling a wiskey night which was awful but I got to play a nice ukulele so it was all good. Kate's friends are real nice which is cool, but Canterbury is really far from London.

Will I'm very impressed with your bone marrow thing, it's something I'm definitely going to look into when I get a chance to properly look at it. I hope being a doctor is going well this week and lungs arn't too gross.

Juliet why is your degree so dossy? I swear half of your term is study leave.

Josh, joshjoshjoshjosh

I don't know my favourite comedy I'm really sorry guys, I'll look hard over the next week and report back next time I swear.

Word to ma n words

Phew, just in time

I need to start carrying around an ideas notebook so I can write down things that I think about during the week that would be good for blogging; I fear this may make me look like an asshole though. This week I swear I thought of loads of interesting things to talk about but now I can’t for the life of me think what they are. Oh well, another boring blog it is.

I was sick for the first time in almost exactly one year on Monday night; I was very disappointed with myself. I also missed all of my things the next day because I thought vomiting on a cadaver would probably have been frowned upon.

Okay this is a bit serious but I signed up to be on the bone marrow register on Wednesday. You guys, it’s a really really good thing to do as finding matching donors is really rare and you will literally save someone’s life if you are a match. It’s also not nearly as bad as people seem to think. They usually take your bone marrow by using a dialysis type machine and just filter it out of your blood. To me it seems that for a few hours of your own discomfort you can completely save another person’s life and that is pretty great. Watch this video, it’s nice.

I saw Kerry, Matt, Jonny and Mima on Friday which was really cool. They went to see Bon Iver and I didn’t because tickets were so damn expensive. It was ok; they didn’t go on about it too much afterwards. We got drunk at Jo’s after and that was nice. On Saturday we went to Flavourz with a ‘z’. Matt ate an awful lot of food, it was impressive. We also looked at some shops and in House of Fraser I tried on the most expensive piece of clothing I have ever worn. It was a green and purple jacket thing with suede elbow patches and it was £400. The shop lady came over and tried to sell it to me, do I look like the kind of person who can buy £400 jackets? I hope I do.

This week I get to pretend to be a doctor again. This time we’re doing the respiratory system so lots of looking at lungs I guess. I am excited.

I would like to set you a challenge this week if that’s ok. I propose that you post your favourite piece of comedy, be it stand up or a sketch or whatever, just try and make everyone else laugh. To get you in the mood here is a very funny sketch from this week’s episode of Life’s Too Short. The rest of the program is not very good but this bit made me laugh a lot.

While we’re on the topic of Liam Neeson, look at the company that made the lifts in Jo’s halls at uni. 

The End.

If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake.

My friend Olivia is coming for tea so I'm going to bake a cake. Soon.

Well. Animals.

Land: Wolverine.

Because it's called a wolverine. Plus they look a bit like little fuzzy bears but can apparently take down Tapirs, which are MASSIVE.
(Also, you're right David, honey badgers are badass.)

Sea: Narwhals.

'Unicorns of the North' in the words of David Attenborough

Sky: I think Sea Eagles

Because they're HUGE. And when you talk about them it just sounds like you're just saying 'Seagull' wrong, but then people see the real Sea Eagle and they're like woaaah.

Ooh, or maybe a Cassowary. They have a toe designed for stabbing.

Or a Victoria Crowned Pigeon, in the words of the zoo keeper 'the largest of pigeons', neglecting to mention that they're bright fucking blue.

Native / Domestic:

I wanted to choose something cool and Scottish to prove that I'm cool and Scottish, but I dunno.

Hmm. We did see a seal in the Isle of Skye.

Farm: I like sheep.

And HALLOWEEN.

No pictures of Team Rocket yet, but that's me with some broccoli, Andy Warhol and a reluctant pumpkin. (My hair dye is dyeing my face at this point.)

Now I should probably talk about my life...

Umm. Went to a house party for bonfire night, ended up incredibly gin-drunk, which begins with fun and frolics and face dancing, ends with me in a corner just wanting to go home.

But the fireworks were fun, only really saw them on the walk through the Meadows. Where some people failed to grasp the concept of fireworks and were setting them off horizontally.

Might be going to Switzerland soon, either on the 18th or the 25th - though I've just remembered I have Frank Turner tickets for the 25th, so really that would just be inconvenient.

Finish lectures on the 25th Nov, exams on the 19th Dec, in Newcastle until the 22nd, then back to Swindon with you lovely people.

Niice.

I really hope Tom blogs as that would be lovely.

And David, remember - chicks dig scars.

David bloggs without his appendix

HEY GUYS

I'm pretty sure I should be given a pass for last week on account of the fact I had MAJOR SURGERYYY.
So yeah this week I got appendicitis , had my appendix removed and then after a few days recovery in the hospital came home to swindon to recover for a week which has been very nice. I saw Tom Emma Miranda Harry Joe and Matt this weekend which was lovely and we went to the pub but I couldn't drink because I've been taking bare painkillers (1 tramadol and 2 paracetamol 4 times a day will ;)) OH AND we went to fireworks at the beehive pub cause they were free and they were actually so good and you guys missed out. So yeah my weeks been really dull to be honest, I spent the first few days in a drug induced haze which passed the time and since then I've been playing twilight princess (which is so beautiful still) and spending a ridiculous amount of time on reddit. Unfortunately this means I'm so behind on uni work it's unreal but yeah...
I realize I'm not very good at blogging but I'ma get back into it.

JOSH I missed pretty much every halloween party through illness so I didn't actually dress up, however here is a picture of my scar which is like a costume if by costume you mean scar.
waoahaohhha look how gross I ammmm

So I've thought like my dick [long and hard] about your question Juliet, and I think I've come to some decisions.
Land - Honey badger, have you guys ever looked up honey badgers? They're the worlds most fearless animal, seriously.
Sea - Mimic Octopus, look them up because SERIOUSLY FUCK
Air - Harpy Eagle, this shit will claw you dead; "the harpy eagle likes to show off its power by crushing the skulls of monkeys, then eating them"
Domestic - I'ma side with Will and say dogs, dogs are cool.
Farm - After consulting this list I'ma have to say Elk.

It's nice to be back, looking forward to all the blogs this week, I think I convinced tom to blog but we'll see.

PEACE

This blog is exactly 555 words long excluding the title

My internet is broken at the moment so although I’m writing a blog, who knows when I will be able to post it.

Firstly I apologise for my crap blog last week, I went to London and then home at the weekend and didn’t bring my laptop with me so it was difficult to do a proper one. I will try and make up for it this week with an extra good’un.

My room smells disgusting at the moment. When I left for lectures on Friday morning it was sunny and nice so I left my skylight wide open. By the time I got home at 5 it had been raining very hard for several hours. The result of this was my carpet, books, bed and clothes had all been well and truly soaked. Somehow this has made my carpet smell really really gross, I think someone maybe made the same mistake before and now the carpet is weird. I am now freezing because I’m trying air the smell out and its cold outside.

So I’ve managed to keep up my ‘gig a week’ record for this term. A week ago last Friday I went to London to see David and Kate. We went to The Wheelbarrow pub in Camden which is owned by Beans on Toast. Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun were playing. For the life of me I don’t know why they’re not famous yet, they’re so god damn good. David is best friends with Jim so we talked to him afterwards and he was nice.

Last Friday I saw Scroobius Pip. He was pretty good live but nowhere near as good as he was with Dan le Sac. He played a lot of songs from his new album and they are all quite angry. Also it turns out he is a Millwall fan and in my eyes that is just inexcusable.

So Juliet, I have given great thought to your animal thing and here are my answers:

Land – Liger, anyone who doesn’t think it’s best is just wrong.

 Sea – Blue Sea Slug, just look at it guys, whaaaat.

Air – Bats, I don't really like birds and bats use sonar and that is clever.

Domestic – Dogs, they’re trained wolves and I don’t care if that’s a boring answer, they’re my favourite.

Farm – Alpaca, they farm them right?

Josh, my Halloween costume was fairly boring and unimaginative. While we’re on Halloween, it was my housemate Phil’s birthday on the same day so we had a house party. I had a great time and when everyone left we stayed up and sang Lion King Songs until it got light. This picture is from quite late in the night and I honestly don’t know why I’m doing that with my face:

I missed my first lecture of the term this week and I was really annoyed. I was going for a perfect term and I so could have done it. The only reason I missed this lecture is because I misread my stupid timetable. It now makes going to my Tuesday anatomy practical and nearly fainting seem like such a waste.

Community this week was brilliant.

P.S. My internet actually started working like 5 minutes after finishing writing this so yeah, here it is.

Look at him! Look at Jeff Wode!!

Today has been stressful so I'm unwinding with this folk-rock playlist I made on the bus, pretty happy now.

I was very drunk last time I blogged (although it's hard to tell because I had to retype every other word) but yeah, that's why it was so dry cause I was that terrible end of the night, nothing left to say but ramble on boringly. So with a clear mind and a fresh face I blog on: VIVA LA MONGOOSE!! LUCHAR CON FURIA!! Con furia....

This week I caught a fish and ate it, drank some fine oriental teas and read Alan Partridge's autobiography. Now I have two essays due in a week and my scholarly efforts are looking inadequate.

Halloween was awesome, me and three other guys went as the news team from Anchorman and much like you, Juliet and your Team Rocket tag we performed 'Afternoon Delight' many many times that night, harmonies and all. Here's a photo, and I want the same from all of you this week: what did you dress up as for halloween and can I see?

I had five white russians and something called a cookie monster which I never want to see (let alone drink) again. Never trust a drink you can set on fire.

I've been enjoying these kind of phrases this week actually.
EXAMPLES:
Never trust a man who wears suspenders and a belt: man can't even trust his own trousers
Never trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die
Never trust a man in a wheelchair with dirty shoes

Juliet, My friend in Falmouth went to the same Cat Empire gig you did it turns out.
My favourite animals would have to be:

Land: Komodo dragon
- I used to be fucking terrified of them, but reccently realising I'm pretty likely to never actually come across one, all their scary properties are slowly becoming awesome. They're the largest reptile on earth (as big as 3 metres long). They have poisonous saliva which can paralise you in minutes. They can't go very fast but they're class A trackers and if you're on Komodo island (which is where 99% of them live) there is nowhere to run. So if you're on Komodo island and you get bitten (which you will) you have a few minutes to run as fast as you can and then wait there paralysed for the Komodo to come and eat you alive. FUCKING. COOL.
ANYWAY,
Sea - Anglerfish, just look at them.
Air - Pterodactyl. Oooohhhh, controversial...
Domestic - Cats. Cause you have to work for their love, and I like that
Farm - I always liked chickens, but they're all pretty good.

David went and almost burst his appendix this week which was pretty stupid of him casue I hear they're important, but it's okay because the doctors cleaned up after him. I had no idea of any of this happening until I got a text from David one morning saying 'I'M ALIVE AND APPENDIX-LESS'. Well, I felt pretty good about the first part but the second bit confused me. Anyway, David I'm glad that you're better and safe and alive and stuff, god knows what I would have done if you'd died.

But that's a thought for another day,

Love to your mothers.

I'M LATE

But I had an essay, and then I made some chocolate-caramel-shortbread and then Faye's flat was making us dinner and it had sausages in it so they made me an omelette.

So Wednesday was inauspicious.

Thursday is good, I went to my first lecture in ten days, learn about why things grow old, or senesce, in science land.

So. Cath and Oonagh came up for Halloween.

We went as Team Rocket, and learnt their motto thingy and performed it many times.

Pete went as Ash but had no Pikachu, so we kicked his ass.

Spent a large part of the night capturing Pokemon - whoever identified it, claimed it. So Andy Warhol for example was our Andy Wartortle etc...

I also dyed my hair briefly red which was awesome.

I've been playing far too much Plants Vs Zombies that I really need to cold turkey. When I was half asleep / half drunk / half otherwise I thought I was in it, and couldn't understand why we weren't building our defences - it'd been quiet for long, surely they'd be coming soon.

Not sure how much longer this can last.

I'm drinking a cup of tea and need a pee and am jonesing like fuck.

Also, Richard and Owen were watching Frozen Planet and I heard the word 'narwhal' and got excited.

I think one year I'll dress as a narwhal.

Now, to you I propose a game that we picked up at Faye's

- you have to choose one favourite animal for each of the following categories:

Land - Sea - Air - Native/Domestic - Farm

I'll tell you mine when I know them for sure, I've been stressing about it for a while.

...PREPARE FOR TROUBLE

(and make it double)
TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DEVASTATION

(to unite all evils in this nation)

TO DENOUNCE THE EVILS OF TRUTH AND LOVE

(to declare our thing to the skies above)

JESSIE

(james)

TEAM ROCKET BLASTING OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

(surrender now or) PREPARE TO FIGHT

(Meowth, that's right.)

... I don't know Cath's lines.