DAVID PHOTOBLOGS FOR YOU ALL AS AN HOMAGE TO TOM

I woke up, it was very, very early (half 9). Normally I start at 2 on Mondays but today I had a doctors appointment so I had to wake up early.



Then I had a shower and got dressed and brushed my teef and left for uni


I got the tube to uni today because I was meeting Kate after :) on my walk I got a banana to the tube station, this is me about to eat said banana



Waiting for the tube....



This is our GP/ doctors place, I had an appointment with a physiotherapist because I have back pain. Turns out I have mild scoliosis which sucks but also it might be ok and I have to do lots of stretches before bed which is sortof ironic because I had a roommate who I judged for doing stretches before bed last year.

THEN I FOUND AN ABC SANDWICH IN THE JCR



I've got to tell you guys this shit is the stuff of legends; 3 slices of bred per sandwich, cajun chicken, bacon, lettice, tomato, and guacamole. Shit. Is. Great.

I then had a 2 hour break where I went on reddit and that was pretty much it, I'm not very good at working on breaks. Then I had a lecture on electromagnetism which was BORRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGGGGG.




Then me and Denis got the tube home.



Then I met Kate who was in Swindon this weekend and was passing through London on her way back to Canterbury (she's still here cause she's rubbish at going home)



Kate bought us dominos for dinner because she is literally the best.



AND IT JUST TURNED MIDNIGHT AND IT'S CHRIS' BIRTHDAY NOW, THIS IS HIM LOOKING HAPPY ABOUT THAT :)

This week has actually been pretty eventful, Canterbury 'till Wednesday evening, on Thursday I had lectures and labs and then watched Watchmen at the other guys house, on Friday we went to a secret invite only electro-swing gig in notting hill which was so exclusive it was shitballs so we left and got baked. On saturday I went to comicon which was fantastic and I could have blogged all about it but I really wanted to photoblog. Then on Sunday I didn't do anythign and then you know about today.

No time to talk to everyone, going to bedddd (love y'all though)
No pressure to photoblog this week guys, but you know.

THIS IS MY NEW POSTER FROM COMICON ISN'T IT GREAT.

Grown ups are boring.

It seems that it was Johnny Cash’s birthday today. I’m not hugely familiar with his music but you can’t go wrong with this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEV58ztuihs

So this has been the best month in the blogs history. This is blog number 18 and there’s still another couple of days to go. I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed reading every last one of your posts, it really is the best. Let’s keep this up!

So today is my birthday and that is pretty cool. I am no longer a teenager and with that I lose the rights to be grumpy, angsty and gain the responsibility of having to do paperwork, get a job and a mortgage (that’s pretty much all adults do right?). So who remembers this blog that Tom did exactly 2 years ago now? The main thing I remember from that day was being sick in a urinal in the Wheaty.  Doesn’t time just go by scarily fast? They say time flies when you’re having fun and they are absolutely right, the last 2 years have been the best and funnest of my life and it’s all because of you lot. You’re all pretty cool.

I got a new iPhone and some sweet headphones and stuff for my birthday which was lovely. It was quite a sad occasion retiring the old phone. It has pretty much been everywhere I have gone for the past 2 years and had become a very serious part of my life. It served me well but was really on its last legs by the end. I have had a great time today asking Siri funny questions and seeing if he will answer, I can’t make him tell me a story and this is sad. 

I got a book called ‘Emergency!’ for my birthday which is filled with true stories from A&E. It is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read. Therefore I felt I should share one of these stories with you. I hope this doesn’t break too many copyright laws:

 Last night I went to the Savoy and it was just like old times. I saw Kate, Matt, Miranda, Tom and Mima there and it was just like old times but minus a few people. It made me very excited for Easter though.

After posting a few photos, I like Juliet have decided I should post more. David this relates back to your challenge of a while ago where you wanted a picture of our housemates. At last we have taken one altogether and here it is:

David, I was disappointed by the genre math rock, only because I was expecting it to be a comedy genre such as Trock or Wrock but all about maths. It’s still pretty cool I guess.

So other than home and birthday things my week has been largely uneventful. On Tuesday I made and ate an unholy number of pancakes. I watched The Artist on Wednesday; it was ok but certainly doesn’t deserve the 11 Oscars it is nominated for. I did a bar crawl of Thursday which was fun. I came home on Friday.

I will leave you with this video that proves science is incredible.

 

Juliet it was awesome to talk to you earlier.

Love you all.

Raping Saturday with my massive throbbing Thursday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREjT7DlI7M

I think Saturday likes it.
Yeah, I forgot to blog this week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know its Saturday. But you know what? I can either blog or not blog. I guess you can read this or not.

Today I'm nursing a massive hangover, started the day by dragging myself across Falmouth from Lily's to mine, stopping off at Tesco and Dominos to collect supplies. Now I have a tonne of leftover pizza in the fridge and it's all double decadence bitches!!!!

Last night I helped a friend move into his new flat in town and celebrated with a bottle of champagne (Dan really likes his champagne) hanging out of the window overlooking the street. Something really funny about Falmouth at night time: nobody ever looks up. So you can totally see people falling over and trying to get off with people but failing and getting kicked out of clubs and none of them know you can see them. It's hilarious. But yeah, I got much more drunk than I meant to and we went out into town and I stole a girl's shoe (still don't know what to do with it). So today which was meant to be a work day has turned into me eating pizza, playing Spiderman 2 on PS2 (awesome game by the way) and... well that's it.

David, I always though Math Rock was pretty hit and miss but recently I've been won over. Oh, also it turns out that Tall Ships is a Falmouth band so I've made it a mission to see them at some point. My friend Lawrence is in a math rock band and they released their EP the other week with a gig in a hairdressers which was rad. Little Leagues, you should check them out: they're pretty tight. Also, George Club (I'm pretty sure they're from Falmouth too cause they played in a venue just around the corner the other day - they were frikkin amazing)

Cath, in my politics modules we have to do realism a lot but its all so dated it drives me mental, I wrote 2000 words last week basically slapping realist thought in the face and it was fun.

Will, you went to Glastonbury which is lovely and the pictures made me extremely jealous, I love that whole area.

Juliet, Drive is FUCKING INCREDIBLE. Spanish don't really eat pies, it's not a spanish thing but I found this recipe which uses potato instead of pastry and looks real tasty: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9974/spanish-chicken-pie

Tom, Chris Chan is back and it makes me so so happy (I just watched the video you put on my facebook)

That's about it really, just a quick blog to say hello. I was going to write a bit about how I hate how housemate Will hates everybody but I couldn't be bothered, I guess there's just not enough hate in me right now.

Tomorrow I'm renting a rowing boat and going to St Mawes to get icecream, I wish I had a camera so I could show you guys next week but never mind.

I'm not saying love to your mothers anymore cause I've gotten bored of it and I literally just realised that I stole it from the Jon Richardson and Russel Howard radio show.

Parasites.

I have an essay due in at 12 on Friday that I have yet to write a word of.
Tbh, only began researching it today. Got a fair amount done, should be possible. Mebbe.
Ew.

This is my break.
I began the day with two cups of coffee and two episodes of Community.

So.
DAVID
I've got a placement at the Uni doing research. Should be 6 to 8 weeks.
Hoping to start mid June-ish so I can got to Eden Festival, which would mean missing Trees. But as it's right in the middle of the summer I'm failing to schedule my placement around it.

JOSH
It was a cheese, onion and potato pie.
RECOMMEND ME SOME PIES. I want to make more.
I'm planning to do a meal in with me and the Fat Man, I wanna do tapas and I was thinking some kind of mini-pie would be awesome for one of the dishes. So, know any spanish-y pies?

Haven't been doing much recently, tis currently innovative learning wank.
Sorry, I mean innovative wanking week.

Friday night we camped out in the Ale House till it closed.
Was Open Mic. It's mostly the usually folk-y stuff. The house band played Tallest Man on Earth and Johnny Flynn, some girl did an awesome version of You're The One That I Want from Grease, (which meant on Saturday night our planned film watching got significantly delayed due to repetitive watching of Grease songs on YouTube). Best bit was probably this one guy who came up and started beatboxing out of nowhere.
After closure me, Pete and Georgie went to the Hive. (Arrived at about 2am, which is fairly inconvenient considering the entirety of Edinburgh closes at 3am. But enough time for many rounds of tequila.)

Saturday morning Harry made us all American pancakes.
We all went for a walk round Holyrood Park and Calton Hill then had a pub meal in which Richard and Harry's burgers leaked water if you squeezed them.
Then back to the flat for The Good The Bad and The Ugly in which my violent love for Clint Eastwood was reawakened. (He is now my background.)

Sunday I saw Drive at FilmSoc, was FANTASTIC.
Then we hit Cav hard. All got an unbelievable level of drunk. Split my dress reet down the ass, didn't realise until the security lady told me. Remember very little. Such as how and why I got to be in the Meadows on my own in the middle of the night, considering I walked home with Richard and Owen.
Also got lost in Pete's room, confusing his shutters with the door. Woke him up screaming for help because I couldn't get out.

Monday was Georgie's birthday. Made her a blueberry and raspberry cake with a cheesecake frosting and bought her some glittery shoes.
Dinner and drinks at Teviot then on to Jazz Bar.
After Jazz Bar back to mine with Georgie, Cash and Simon. Drank Richard's cooking sherry and kept my flat awake until 5:30am.

Tuesday I died. Had lunch with Pete at 12:30, went to bed about an hour later then slept till 5.
Woke up still dead.
Had pancakes at Suzannah's then went back to Pete's to die some more.

Today I worked.
Eurgh.

Ollie is in Rome and Richard went home.
Flat is quiet.

OH. Exciting news though.
My dad's having a Ceilidh for his 50th birthday at my nan's farm in Chesterfield in the beginning of June.
He said invite your friends so I'm inviting everyone.
They're clearing out the haybarn and hiring in a local Ceilidh band and everyone's gonna be camping in the field and there should be food and bonfires and awesome.
So yeah, be there.

ITS PANCAKE DAY

I thought it was important to get that out of the way as quickly as possible. I don’t know about you guys but I haven’t actually done anything pancake dayish, Lily made us pancakes on Saturday but everyone seems to be in a grump today so we just sat around and watched lady and the tramp.

I’ve had a fairly awesome week, except for running out of money again but I’m kind of used to that now. I sure hope Student Finance decide I can have money before It gets too late to apply for next year……I did plan to make this blog about something other than my week but its like half 11 now so I’m pretty much just gonna splurge.

It was my friend Emma's birthday on Wednesday, there wasn’t any exciting house rental involved but we did get drunk and go to Legends instead of TigerTiger which is the usual Wednesday club (pretty wild eh). On a related note this picture illustrates the beautiful effect ibble dibble has on my psyche.

I also learnt about realism in International Relations. I bring this up soley because I think calling your school of thought realism is cheating its like calling something the right wayism or the sensible school of thought. In truth realism sucks, if anything its even more black and white and dogmatic than other ways of thinking its just that its name tricks slightly dense right wingers who want to pretend their grown-ups into believing in it. I just think its cheating is all.

In other news my favourite character left greys anatomy so I quit and started watching Heros with Ant. Then I got absolutely off my tits on Friday and had one of best nights out in Newcastle ever, it started with a competition to see who out of me and Jim was the biggest lad (me, obviously) then we danced like idiots, then we sprayed fire extinguishers everywhere and listened to Bon iver in the dark until morning and I still couldn’t sleep then so I woke up Chris and Lily who hadn’t gone out and made them walk with me to the waterfall in the park for a smoke and a sit. This would have been a much better plan had I not been wearing my PJs and had Newcastle not been the COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH. Anyways the only other exciting weekend activity was to go to the beach which was kinda awesome except the waves were too big to swim and the 10p machines in the arcade killed Ants dreams a little. I was going to tell you all about my ambitious attempt to get perfect attendance at uni this week, but I missed my 9’oclock this morning so that’s out the window. I did manage the perfect day yesterday though

I GOT A HOUSE, can’t believe I forgot before now, its got an old fire place in the front room and a little garden with a bush and the bathroom has round windows like a submarine and a bath that’s sunken down into the ground and a motherfucking biday!!!!! It’s basically the best house ever, just saying.

The only other thing I have to say is that I found out its only 4 weeks until easter now! That made me super excited about seeing everyone, and going to proper pubs like the roaring donkey and the Vic and stealing my mums car and visiting Barbury Castle and buying pitchers in Savoy and all the other cool Swindon stuff there is to do and I thought that maybe we should plan some of the awesome holiday stuff we could do on here. For instance I think it would be cool to go camping, I know its kinda cold but campings more fun when its cold plus I’m really poor and it’s a really cheap thing to do so I think we should go camp somewhere that’s all countryside and awesome.

Yep.

I DIDN'T FORGET I'VE JUST BEEN OUT.

Cath! You blogged! With paragraphs! It was excellent.

My week's been good, some hilights included; valentinessteak, sportsnight, seeingparents, handinginAPS, and canterbury this weekend, all in all pretty excellent if you ask me.
I also watched bridesmades and scream which are both good films, though kate's flatmate kat gets angry when drunk.
(This is my attempt to not make my blog just about my week)

This week I found out about a genre of music called Math Rock. Now don't get me wrong I kindof knew about this genre before (and thought it was pretty meh), but what I didn't realise is that 2000trees is THE festival to go to if you are a fan of Math Rock. For example of the current 25 bands which have been announced for this years trees over 1/5 of them put themselves in this genre (including 65DOS, Tall Ships, and RoloTomasi) that might not seem like that many but it's a pretty small genre really. Other math-rock bands of trees fame include andsoiwatchyoufromafar and maybeshewill. And yeah pretty much trees is revered in the math rock world. Cool? Maybe. Interesting? Probably not.

Will your weekend looked fantastic! How does one go about booking a big house for ones birthday and how much does it cost? It sounds tempting as a thing to do. Also I think I understood that carbon-14 thing, but I'm not sure. It was cool though!

Josh your weekend sounds awesome. I don't have any good challenges but someone should think of a good one so we can all bond. I WROTE MORE HERE BUT THEN I UPLOADED A PICTURE AND IT ALL WENT :(

Juliet I bet I sneeze louder. Are you doing a UROP thing? Will you be all in scotland over summer?

Cath I'm just pleased your back

HAPPY PANCAKE DAY

Love David

Bert?

(Do you all use spotify? It's easier to find songs to share with you)

Song on youtube and spotify

Firstly I must apologise to the Pizza Police for stealing their exact challenge for this week. I forgot that’s where I read it.

I am le tired.

This weekend it was my housemate Ellen’s 21^st. She is an incredibly organised and proactive person and therefore had booked a massive house near Glastonbury for us to go celebrate her birthday at. I had a brilliant time so decided to share some photos with you guys.

We got the bus from Bristol to Glastonbury and then walked from Glastonbury town up some country lanes to an old farmhouse play where we were staying. It rained a lot but it was nice because the countryside was like being at home.

We then walked (walking was a pretty major theme of the weekend) up Glastonbury Tor which looks like this:

At the top it looked like this. I couldn’t stop thinking of Skyrim whilst we were up there, it is a very beautiful game and this was a very beautiful place. Unfortunately there was no chest full of gold in the tower:

We then walked back to the house and were split into teams to get dinner ready. I was on the team in charge of lighting the fire because I’m such an alpha male. We bossed the fire making:

All 30 of us squeezed around the table and we had curry. I sat next to a girl I didn’t know and she was talking about how chivalry was dead, I disagreed, but didn’t really think through my argument very well and I have now decided chivalry probably is dead, but this is probably a good thing, its sexist to both men and women.

We then played lots of drinking games. My favourite new game is ibble dibble. We very much need to play this together. You get lots of black marks on your face if you're bad at it:

 We made friends with a cat which seemed to just come and go as it pleased:

5 of us ended up staying up until like 5 this morning which in hindsight was just silly. As I mentioned, I am very tired.

This morning after an incredible breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon we got to go feed the piglets. They were adorable but pooed an awful lot. The best pig was called Inky, he had spots.

We played some football and my trousers ripped in a very unfortunate and noticeable position. Much like the time everyone saw Tom’s dick but not quite as revealing. I then had to walk, bus and then walk some more to get home and it was quite bad. So that was my weekend and I liked it a lot.

Other than this weekend, the rest of my week was really quite boring. I had lectures about the brain and nervous system and it mostly went over my head, it is super complicated. When I was looking for brain related videos I found this and it was very helpful:

Juliet, I liked your song and it immediately reminded me of this. I expect some of you have seen in, but if not, it is quite funny:

So I guess I should do my challenge, even if I stole the idea. So this week whilst writing my essay I learnt how it was discovered that heart cells divided, for ages people thought that they couldn’t divide at all. So when cells replicate, carbon from the atmosphere is incorporated into the DNA, a proportion of atmospheric carbon is carbon-14. The atmospheric levels of carbon-14 have been really tightly monitored for ages now so we have really good records of its levels. During the cold war in the 60s there was loads of nuclear bomb testing which caused a big influx in carbon-14 in the atmosphere and therefore an increase in its incorporation into cells when they divide. The researcher matched the atmospheric levels with the levels they found in heart cells and could see where the big peak occurred and therefore work out the age of the cells. With this they could show that you had heart cells younger than your age and so they must be dividing. I just thought the method was really clever and interesting.

I am going to be home from next Friday until Monday because its my birthday! Will any of you be around? It would be literally the best thing ever to see you all.

Wow, that was incredibly long. I am sorry.

I love that this is our 2nd perfect week in a row and I love you.

Now regard my cash to shit machine

The Airborne Toxic Event – Boots Of Spanish Leather

Juliet, what pie did you make? I've gotten well into making pies recently since someone bought me the hairy bikers' pie cookbook.

Had a weekend full of awesome, Friday we went to Truro to see a gig and a dog followed us all the way home so we had to keep him for the night and the RSPCA came and picked him up on Saturday, it was sad to see him go cause he was so happy sleeping on my cushions and eating good food (we cooked him roast beef cause nobody knows anything about dogs) but we're not allowed to keep pets here.

So yeah, Friday was pretty epic.

Luke just walked past my room singing 'walking up the stairs, walking up the stair, turning round the corner, along the landing, gonna do a poo, gonna do a poo'. That tickled me.

Saturday, after the dog got picked up (just realised we should have given him a name) I slept for a very long time and then made cookies and went fishing and then went out on the town. Didn't find any dogs but got very very very drunk so I was happy

Sunday me and Lily went to Songwriters Sundae which is basically open mic except people sing their own songs and get twenty minutes each. There was this one guy who was actually fucking nuts, started his set off by taking a can of soup out of his pocket and putting it on the radiator: 'Ooh, soup. Mm yeah, nice not weighing me down now. That's good though, it'll be warm soon which is good. Mm, good warm soup. Yeah.' Then proceeded to sing a ten minute metal song on an acoustic guitar about a man on a bus with a dog who he didn't give a shit about. It was mental, it had beatdowns and everything where he would just scream 'LOOK AT THE DOG!!!' Then he would stop in the middle and laugh maniacally and mumble about whiskey from constantine for £10,000 a bottle and pretend to cry about an 89p can of Lynx that will just have to do. Bear in mind, this was in a country pub filled with old men and strong women. So yeah, wierd.

Since then I've kind of been working, went to the pub again last night which was nice. But mostly work. Now I have weeks and weeks free and I just don't know what to do with it.

Can someone set me a real life challenge this week? If anybody knows how to use up free time well its you guys.

Don't really know what else to say, I knew this was just going to be a rundown of my week, I'm sorry.

I'm off now to go and buy some £1 trinkets from the antique shop and fish and chips.

Speaking of fish, I made you guys this :3


EDIT

I just sneezed loudly.

I am so tired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
Happy post-valentines day.

So tired. I don't have much to say.
Spent today running around getting stuff signed and printed and bollocks.
Missed my DoS at the end of the day, so didn't even get it done in time for tomorrow morning. Hopefully get done by lunch tomorrow though.
(Wellcome Trust student scholarship thingy.)

Tomorrow shall go from lectures to my DoS' office to my supervisor's lab to the parcel office back home to finish my GGA in-course project that I should be doing tonight, but I'm just so damn sleepy.

Baked a pie on Sunday. A real pie, shortcrust pastry from scratch.

Had a gorgeous weekend.
Really very very good.

Went out for a meal with the Fat Man last night. Dressed up all pretty.
Lovely lovely food. Was a complete trek away, but really very nice.

SO SLEEPY.
When Richard gets out of the shower we're gonna watch some more Community.

I just had a practical today, so nothing too interesting was learnt. Although I learnt lots about my project. As well as looking at FTD I'm gonna be doing some work on MS. Saving lives, whadup.

I woke up in the middle of the night last night and remembered that this is the best song ever. I think it's important that we spread the word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZbuIRPwFg&ob=av3e

A new thing I've learnt this week is that wimsome badonage means light-hearted banter, and that you should never let anyone use word of the day toilet paper more than 5 days in a row.

SO, long time no blog, I can only apologise for this.

I suppose I should mention that it’s valentines day and I love you guys very much. If I was a good blogger I would think of something interesting and valentines themed to blog about but meh. I Don’t know about you guys but my days been pretty normal if tinged with the disappointment of us realising shrove Tuesday is in fact next week. Jim tried to persuade us to help him trawl for ‘desperate valentines sluts’ at liquid, I guess that was holidays related.

Anyways so I’m just gonna do a general catch up. Not much has happened to me in the last few months if I’m honest. I ran out of good tv(which came after I too discovered the delights of Sherlock) so started watch grey’s anatomy which has made me extremely worried about falling over incase it causes a blood clot on my brain (in grey’s anatomy if you fall your brain bleeds-this is a given). I’ve played a lot of pokemon, learnt to play poker and do the safety dance. I have also developed feuds with the she-bouncer at riverside(Tuesday or Friday club) and grumpy man bouncer at the O2 arena(alternative Friday club) which has lead me to attempt to wear disguises whenever I go out to these places, it only occurs to me now as I type this that they probably recognise me from my ID…….I’m also in trouble at Digital (Monday club) for lying on the floor and encouraging people to lie with me and just forget the world during Snow Patrol songs, party boying bouncers and giving my friend Tom a nose bleed. On a more positive not I’m pretty much bros with one of the goats from the petting zoo down the road from me, he like runs up to me and pulls disturbing faces while I scratch his shoulder and I met a guy who sleeps in a permanent blanket fort the other day. I was supposed to sign for a house this week but we’re pretty disorganised so now we have to look at even more, le sigh. I’m not living as a 9 anymore because it turns out that many people can’t agree on the same house. I think its probably healthier not to have everyone you like and enough people for a party living in your house anyway.

I also got my haircut last week, during which I failed to utilise any of my pre-prepared small talk and instead learnt EVERY detail about my hairdressers life(a quick nugget-3 and a half years ago she went on holiday to Greece, the rooms in the villa were a bit small and she didn’t like the colour of the soft furnishings but she did like the pool and the flaming shots they made out of baileys sambucca and tequila, she hasn’t been back there because the boyfriend she was with was no good….). I also went to the doctors, who told me I needed to change my lifestyle if I want to live past middleage, so I guess Im about due a mid-life crisis now. I also need blood tests which sucks. On a brighter note I watched star wars episodes IV, V and VI for the first time but my friend tricked me into agreeing to play the game chug wine every time Han is hot so I nearly didn’t survive the experience.

I PASSED FIRST SEMESTER. The guy who marked my essays did point out that I might want to try capitalising the starts to all my sentences in future though……but I’m not failing so all is well :D

Ok, so I can’t think of anything else to say so Im just gonna leave it at that.

Happy Valentines guys :3

THIS IS MA SONG FOR THIS BLOG
http://youtu.be/nomNbOEgDKc

I've been really excited to blog this week guys, I'm not sure why I don't particularly have anything to say, but yeah, just looking forward to it.

My abridged week:
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday morning I went to Canterbury to visit the misses because 'fuck learning things lol'. On thursday evening I went to a Jim Lockey gig in Caaaaamden with my housemate Joe and me and Jim had a good old chat about 2000 trees and stuff, they were really good and I'm not really sure how they're not famous yet. Friday I had a long day at Uni and I met up with Kerry for a bit because she was in London this weekend and then Chamber Choir had a concert in a Russian Orthodox church and we sang russian songs and it went rather well really! After that we went to the unionnnnn and then I ended up leaving to go to a house party where I knew like 3 people but it was crazy fun still, uni man :). This weekend was mainly about lab report which was ok and then on Sunday evening Kerry and I went to Nandos and for a beer before she went back to Exceter (boooo), it was really really nice.

OH ALSO whilst I was doing lab report I managed to watch the first season of Sherlock for the first time, I'm pretty sure y'all have seen it but if you havn't it became one of my favourite tv programms pretty quickly really. (has everyone seen it?)

Will that challenge was a pizzapoliece one yeah, however I'll still oblige. I don't think it was this week but rescently I learnd something pretty cool. If you look at the intensity of the spectrum of wavelengths the sun emits (ie this graph below) you see like a big peak, that big peak range is the visible light bit and the reason we see that bit of the spectrum and not like the infared bit is because that's the most intense bit so we evolved eyes to see it (if that makes sence, I didn't word it very well)

So yeah there's that.

So mid writing this Thomas and I had a row about the blog and to spite me he was going to fuck shit around so I removed him, if anyone wants the full story just facebook me. He can come back whenever he wants.

I'm now in a bad mood guyssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss SIGH

Josh - well done on your essay, how much does getting to falmouth cost?
Juliet - your life is too interesting, stop it. (also i hope youre alrightttt)
Will - COPY MY FAVOURITE PLACES MUCH?

Saaaaaaafe :)

Science and stuff

I also like the idea of songs at the start of blogs. Try this one out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UcfKq01tzm8#t=48s

Good evening friends.

As I mentioned last week, I have must had the entire week off. Not having to get up in the mornings was just fantastic; in fact, I don’t think I have been out of bed before noon for the past 9 days. Anyone who tells you medicine is a difficult course is a liar.

So I had all sorts of ideas with what I was going to do with my week, but as I said earlier, most of it was spent in bed. The rest I spent writing my big research project thing for this year. It is titled “The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Zebrafish “Mending Broken Hearts” appeal” (Yo dawg, I heard you liked quotation marks so we put a quote in your quote so you can quote whilst you quote). It’s not due until the end of term but I figured there was going to be no better time to write it than now. So I have managed 3800 words of complicated science which I don’t fully understand but hey, it’s not been too terrible.

Whilst writing the project I realised something I never knew before. Science is much more commercialised than I imagined. I assumed if you were a researcher doing some big world changing project, you would want your ground-breaking results to be out there in the world so that everyone could see them and marvel in your brilliance. It turns out this isn’t really the case. All the journals require subscriptions which cost obscene amounts of money. For example, I am not willing to pay $32.99 to access the American Journal of Cardiology, no matter how relevant their research is to my essay. I do of course have access to quite a lot of journal through uni, but still, not all of them. This kind of goes against everything I ever thought about the principals of science, surely anyone wanting to know about certain research should be able to without having to pay stupid amounts of money. I understand there needs to be some kind of monetary aspect to the whole thing, after all, journals won’t publish themselves, but you’d think it would make more sense to budget in some kind of publishing expense into the initial budget for the project.

Anyway, enough of all that. My favourite places in no particular order are:

1)      Somerford Keynes – I have lovely memories of summer there

2)      Upcote Farm - where 2000trees is, ‘nuff said

3)      The Savoy - not really for the place, more just somewhere I associate with you guys

4)      Burbage cricket pitch - I have spent countless beautiful summer afternoons here

5)      My uni house – having a house that you can call your very own house is pretty rad

EDIT I just reread David’s after writing mine and I swear I didn’t just copy them.

What’s with these university memes facebook pages that have been flooding my news feed recently? They are terrible. Also if I have to explain the idea of memes or how to pronounce the word one more time I think I will punch a baby. This essentially sums up my feelings towards the whole thing:

Did someone once set the challenge to post something interesting you learnt this week? I’m sure I have read that challenge somewhere, maybe it was on the Pizza Poo-lice. Anyway, if it hasn’t already been done, what is something interesting you have learnt this week?

I think this is one of the best pictures I have ever seen:

Good night.

Well.

Thank God that ball ache is over.
Ugly skin was ugly and confusing.

On to the disappointing blog!
Firstly it's late. Secondly Josh's was long and actually said things.
This won't be.
Thirdly why is the music quality on this song so poor when it's from the record company's official YouTube account? Domino Records sort your shit out.

Also, SORRY DAVID I failed at your task. I forgot about the 'no people' business, and realise now how hard mine sucked. Especially my first choice, which now looks like a rather large (but unintentional) FU.

But, Josh's task.
Favourite places:

1) The living room in my flat.
Essentially, if I am in, I am in here. I like my room because I filled the walls with lovely things so I can look back and remember all the lovely times. BUT IT'S SO FUCKING COLD IN THERE. Also quite lonely, my flatmates seem afraid to enter.
So I love my living room. I get to see everyone as they come in and out, we all eat together in here, and have people over, and drink together and have film nights and play game nights. And the sofas are reet comfy.
Most days I tend to get back from lectures and set up shop here for the rest of the day.

2) The Vic
Overtaken the Wheatie has my home. I love Wacky Wednesdays, more than I can explain. More than any pub night I've found in Edinburgh. I love the staff there, I love seeing music there and film nights. Although, mistakenly bought a G&T and nearly cried at the price. Expensive pub.

3) Barbury Castle
Best place for walks and late night drives. Many many good times and lots of lovely associations. From way way back with Nijmegan training walks when I was trekking up that thing every weekend. Trips back to Swindon seem wasted if I don't get up there at least once.

4) The Hive
YEAH IT'S A SHIT HOLE, WHATEVS.
It's a terrible club in Edinburgh. But I'm always there, and I'm not even sorry. I love it. One day I shall produce a montage of all my official Hive photos. Cheap drinks, slimy slimy floors, sometimes good music, sometimes awful, sometimes they play the Cha Cha Slide.
"Fuck it. Let's go to The Hive."
It's kinda an Edinburgh Uni catchphrase.
They've started interviewing people outside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pRTsxoAp8uQ

5) Can I just say Edinburgh?
I love walking down the street and just being able to smile because the city around me is so gorgeous.

Now onto my week. Which has actually been lovely.
Lovely enough to warrant a day-by-day break down.

Wednesday.
After blogging and dinner at Sarah's went to Itchy Feet (Itchy Scrot) with Brogan and Sarah. Danced for a while, danced with lots of people, but mostly drank Jagerbombs and bitched with Brogan and Sarah.
Came back and woke up all my flat and drank lots of gin.

Thursday.
Skipped lectures.
MIRANDA ARRIVED. Had everyone over and baked two lasagnes for the occasion. Had also previously baked three cakes in anticipation of Miranda's arrival.
A lemon drizzle cake in the shape of an 'I'
A strawberry cheesecake with a strawberry coulis '<3'
A chocolate orange cake with the word 'Miranda' written in cream on top.
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT SAID?
Then me, Miranda, Richard, John and some others went first the Liquid (great music, empty club) and then onto the Hive.
Home for lasagne and gin. Did the splits to prove I could. Painful.

Friday.
Skipped lectures. But went to practical. (Dissected a Sea Mouse. Genus - Aphrodite)
Craig and Hamish* (*not his real name) came over from Glasgow. We all went for food at The Tron, pre-drinks at mine then party at Faye's.
Had a gorgeous night. Lots of drinking and lots of lovely people I hadn't seen in ages.
Did the splits again to prove to Ste and Tahlia that I could. Still painful.

Saturday.
Freddie came up from London, Cath from Newcastle.
We all watched the rugby, in a pub, with Scottish people. England won, I got very excited. Scottish people got shouty (but not at me, so all is good.)
Craig and Hamish went home.
Drank for a long time in the other flat, then went to Suzannah's.
Miranda sent Cath home for being too drunk.
I kinda lost my mind, went home and had a shouty-throw-things-at-the-wall kinda breakdown. (Many apologises to Richard and Ollie. Thank you to Pete.)

Sunday.
Miranda went to stay with family. The rest of us chilled at the other flat. Gavin played beautiful piano and Charlotte played beautiful violin.
I cooked pasta for everyone, Freddie left.
Me, Harry, Cath and Gavin went to see Life is Beautiful. SUCH A GOOD FILM. Cried, too much.
Then went home and played a violent game of Wizard with Cath and the flatmates.

Monday.
I went to lectures. Cath went home. Miranda came back.
I took her to visit Gav at the Art College. Then we went to the castle and the Writer's museum. Food at the other flat.
Then HMV Picturehouse with Miranda, the flatmates, Pete, Georgie and Charlotte. Saw Bwani Junction, Laki Mera and Field Music. Drank fearful quantities of Jagerbombs (cheapest drink at the bar) then went to the pub for more.

Tuesday.
Miranda went home. I go lectures. Princes Street with Georgie. Dinner at the other flat. Then Richard's bed for lots and lots of Community watching.

Wednesday.
FREE DAY.
Saw Good Will Hunting at Brass Monkey, went to life drawing and then dinner at Yocoko's with Pete. Lovely food, very cheap, large portions, good wine and free green tea.
Pulled a muscle in my thigh trying to kick Gavin in the head.

Thursday.
Well, that was today.
Lectures. Tutorial. Wrote blog.

DONE.
I realise that was essentially a diary. And I doubt you care.
Well, yeah. FUCK YOU.
It's been a nice week. If drunken, painful, and quite breakdowny-mental.
I seem to be losing my mind and have hence taken myself off the pill, too many hormones. That shit'll fuck you up.

Its over

It's all finally over...

Just handed in the largest wad of paper every written by me ever, bound by laminated covers and stapled with a massive massive stapler. I cannot tell you how relieved I am to be sitting in the Humanities suite researching my next essay CAUSE AT LEAST ITS NOT THAT ONE ANY MORE!!!

That perfect week we all just experienced sent shivers down my spine, its been nice reading all the blogs this week one day after the other just like the internet gods intended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlIYkt2wrIE

So now my day turns to caffiene rushes over research, a bike ride home, toad in the hole and a big ol' knees up at the local to celebrate everyone's hard work. This day rules.

For once, I actually have something to talk about: Online TV and Movie streaming/downloading. Has anybody noticed since there was this massive storm in the media over SOPA that streaming things has become incredibly difficult? Even from some reliable websites, their links all lead to pages of deleted videos. Sites are moving, changing their domain names, wiping masses of videos. To get a taste of what they're afraid of, try accessing Ninja Video, a long ago fallen site and you're faced with the scary golden eagle of American democratic International law. Now the same thing has happened to Megaupload, its no wonder all these sites are trying to cover themselves, who wants to be faced with a $250,000 fine?
The thing I wonder is, once Congress does manage to pass something similar to SOPA, once all the bases have been covered and the amnesia from SOPA is fully formed, what will happen to everyone like us? There must be some alternative - downloading codes in word doccuments to create the film somehow? I don't know, to be honest that suggestion sounded ridiculous and I'm not even sure how coding really works. But my point stands: will we all be back to buying DVDs in ten years time (or heaven forbid blu-ray) or is there some way of continuing with this pretty sweet deal everyone has going on with the internet? I'm not just talking about movies and music downloads here (where there is a little bit of a moral grety area), I mean open forums, learning resources like Wikipedia, media and charity pages; anything which potentially has taken a base of knowledge or intellectual property from somebody else (and referencing IS NOT theft) will be threatened by future legislation. Where do we go from here?

I don't know, I think it's exciting, I think it's scary. But really, its funny isn't it? Heaven forbid somebody might ban me from being able to sit in my room all day watching How I Met Your Mother episodes back to back, not doing work, not going outside and not really developing any skills other than the perfection of my Barney quotes. How dare they? Don't they know there are thousands of students who live just like this and their incredibly boring, reclusive and fine-free way of life is being threatened?! Shame on them, its like they've forgotten what it was like to need some things for free, what it was like to have to scrape your money together for a CD.

That's my rant over. But seriously, do you guys think there will ever be a bill passed? Would you take head of it? Is there any alternative to torrents, downloads and streaming or are we doomed to pay for our entertainment? Do you even think there is a moral problem with streaming films? I wanna know, really.

I bought a guide to Croatia yesterday online, should be here in a couple of days, so I'm pretty pumped about that. Has anybody we're going with actually been to Croatia before, I forgot. I know there was a lot of talk about going somewhere that somebody knew, but I forget if that's how we ended up going to Croatia. Also, is this railway tour of uni towns still happening, cause that was also very exiting?

Not an awful lot interesting happened this week, Lily's still in Barcelona and everyone else I know's been dead busy. But I think next week I'll have more to talk about besides the internet, I plan to take it incredibly easy and do some fun stuff this week.

There you go, little teaser for you all.

Love to your mothers.

Ah, EDIT.

Does anybody want to come visit me in Falmouth soon? If so, you totally should. It gets lonely down here, and there's plenty of nice seaside to look at.

Good god we did actually have a perfect week didn't we?

I'm in a very good mood you guys, I wasn't even really but then I read Will's blog and listened to that tallest man song and now I feel just grand.

HOWEVER I did not feel just grand this morning when I woke up at around 12 having got back to my house last night at 4am because I'm a wild party animal who watchest the superbowl in hammersmith. The super bowl was actually really enjoyable, I went to this pub which didn't have too many people in it and we got free hotdogs at half time courtesy of the bar, also free jager! However I still hold the opinion that American football is a dumb sport which I'm glad I only watch for 4 hours a year very drunk.

I need to start making a list of things to blog about over the week; it seems like such a sensible idea.

This week I don't have very much to report, Kate left here on Monday, on Tuesday I went swimming (I swim in my 3 hour breaks at uni now because it's FREE), on Wednesday Jonny Bear was in London to buy a guitar so we went guitar shopping and it was AWESOME, Thursday I don't even know what I did and Friday/the weekend I went back to swindon but noone was really around so I just hung out with ma famille which was actually real nice. My Dad bought a shed and Newcastle won the football :)

All in all a good week, though my lack of work outside of lectures is starting to worry me.
This is how I feel when my tutor tells me he emailed me work to do for the tutorial we're currently in:

Juliet I'd like to point out that the challenge explicetly said not people and yet 3/5 of yours were people.... I'm pleased everyone did the challenge.

SO PLACES:

• Croft woods
• Somerford Keynes
• St James' park (the football ground, though the park is also nice)
• Upcote farm
• Southbank

I think, that list was a little bit rushed to be honest, I might return to edit it later.

Will I'm so pleased you're enjoying parks and reck, Josh watch that after HIMYM you won't regret it! (alos Will, week off, jim lockey gig on thursday ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;))))))))))))))))))

I wouldn't be adverse to us always putting songs at the start of our blogs, Joshs was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLJ84jEofE

I'VE RE-ADDED CATH, someone change the blog asthetics?

lovelovelove

USA USA USA

Perfect week YES.

I am currently watching the super bowl (spell check suggested I change that to ‘super owl’, that sounds more enjoyable to). Americans are so gosh darn American. There are huge flags, soldiers and guns all over the place. There is a guy called Tom Brady that everyone keeps going on about, he looks like a pussy. I don’t think American football is a very good sport.

So this week I have been in hospital for my placement. I have poked an awful lot of tummies. Other than that it has been enjoyable but fairly unremarkable.

I can’t decide who I hate most, people who feel the need to point out it is snowing on facebook, or people who complain about those people writing about the snow. I do realise the hypocrisy in this.

I have this week off university which is nice. I really need to start my big 5000 word essay but at the moment that just doesn’t seem too appealing to me.

I really can’t think of much else exciting to talk about. I have a blog ideas list on my phone but I seem to have made lots of additions to it whilst drunk. The ideas for this week were “I love kidneys” and “war is a bad thing”. Although both those statements are true, I am not sure how to work them into a good blog.

Josh suggested on facebook we should try and jazz things up a bit, maybe we should try role playing? I seriously think we should do vlogs though, maybe only for a weekly challenge or something. I think it would be fun and might just do it anyway.

David, you will be pleased to hear I have got into Parks and Rec more since I last talked to you about it. I have finished season 2 and am halfway through 3 now. I do indeed care a lot about the characters now. I can’t begin to decide who I like best; it changes on a weekly basis. I can safely say Jerry is the worst though.

Right, got to run otherwise I’ll miss the kick off. Do they even have kick offs in American football? We’ll soon find out.

BYE

I'm in a lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Ws4nvfdOw

And it's really interesting, but my lecturer is the most boring man I've ever met in my life (I think I did a picture of him before vomiting words), so I'd much rather tell you all about my week.

This week has been varied to shit, it started incredibly well with beautiful weather and [I JUST FOUND A WERTHER'S ORIGINAL IN MY POCKET!!!] a day of sailing up the river fal to Truro which was wicked sick but tiring. Then came Tuesday, where I spent all day in the library working on my mini-dissertation (cause I'm boring) and on Wednesday my supervisor told me I was doing it all wrong and needed to start again. So today has been a repeat of Tuesday - a much more stressful version but overall more productive in the long-run.

That's enough about work, it's all I've thought about for ages.
I've really enjoyed reading all you guys' blogs this week, I've changed my homepage to the mongooses (mongi?) so now I'm well up to date - I don't know why I didn't do this sooner. It's kind of kept me sane this week, so thanks you guys for being awesome!
Welcome back Tom! :)

I've been thinking a lot about my five favourite things since reading your blog, Will. Potatoes was an odd choice, by the way. How's about these apples:

• History and generally learning constructive lessons from the past
  
• Bike rides
• Local, live music
  
• Mushrooms (the food, not the hallucinogenic)
  
• You guys

Here's one for you, cause Juliet's already ventured into favourite people. Where are your favourite places?

• Jacob's Ladder pub
• The Rocks on Gylly beach
• Lawn Woods
• Will's house (it was my favourite place I can associate with kittens)
  
• Croatia (eh? EH?)
  

This week saw the end of my prison break obsession, it's been a problem for the past few months now and finally I am free of the addictive shit-cheese. There was this really awesome finale at the end of series 4 which left me totally satisfied and then I watched the special episode they made a year later and it totally destroyed my love for the show - one of the worst made, cheesiest, hate-inducing pile of TV I have ever seen. Literally. So my eyes now turn to How I Met Your Mother, which is awesome (I don't know how I never got into this before)

I know I posted this a while back on Facebook but it still makes me piss myself every time I see it:

Oh, and these:

Love to your mothers.