My feet smell like popcorn

I'm really excited by all this photo blogging. I need to find someone with a camera I can borrow so I can do one next week but for now I'll try Juliet's challenge

First though, a quick rundown. This week was pretty rad, I went to this Islamic cultural appreciation event and saw a Qawwali band and got free curry which was sick. Nobody even caught us drinking JD and coke in an Islamic event - Bi-winning. Monday I went to the St. Piran's Day celebration at my union bar and jammed with this awesome Cornish folk band who were SIIIIICKKKK and really hard to keep up with. Last night I went to the pub which was fairly uneventful, just a quiet drink with friends but nice all the same. I honestly can't think of anything I've done this week during the day besides play 007: Nightfire and pick my 3rd year modules (The Ku Klux Klan module looks awesome). But yeah, that's it. It's a beautiful day outside in Falmouth today so I'll be going for a bike ride when this blogs over.

On with the challenge (this is going to make me homesick):

In order of blogging days -

DAVID

David is my oldest friend from kittens and probably the oldest of all my friends today so choosing a photo would be difficult. David already used the one of us playing songs at Lydiard which I would have picked first. I wish I had a photo of the night we played Oh Mandy at Kate's house (it was Kate's house, right?) and it was awesome. Even though me and David could rock it out from time to time, I've chosen this photo from Trees 2011. We were trying to fit a gas canister which definitely shouldn't have fit onto my camp stove while being pretty drunk, the propane sprayed all in my eyes and on David and it almost broke our fingers but David stuck to it by my side and got that goddam gas canister on despite the fact that it was blatantly not sensible. That's why David is such a friend and a true true bro - he will always have your back.

CATH
This photo was taken in revolution a couple of summers ago and I'm pretty sure this was us singing 'sex on fire'. I couldn't really find a photo that sums me and Cath up better than this but if there was one of us in Chemistry class at College then I would totally use that because it was the first time I really started hanging out with Cath, she made chemistry fun (an impossible task) and drove us places when we decided to skip class and took a lot of Paul's heat off of me. Ever since Chemistry, I have considered Cath one of my best friends.

JULIET
Going home on Thursdays between college classes to eat food and watch films will always be the defining times for me and Juliet in my mind - I think that year we really became friends. And like Juliet said, that time we got pissed on Aspall, went shopping and watched Mouse Hunt so hard it made us 20 minutes late for uni was fucking brilliant. I was going to use a photo of us in London when we stayed at Juliet's Dad's flat because he likes me more than her but I could just remind you of that here instead: Hey Juliet! Nick loves me more than you :)

TOM (I'm counting Tom in this)

This one is from London, the first time I really hung out with Tom besides seeing him on the Commonweal playing field. This guy was crazy and I swear he almost fell on Tom which was pretty fun. Tom's a real bro and its weird trying to think back to the first time we hung out, it seems like a really long time now.

WILL
This is easily my photo for me and Will a) because its awesome and b) because it reminds me of all the times in the summer in Will's car. Like Juliet said before, I think the summer before uni was the best one ever and I owe a lot of it to Will, it was also about this time when I got to know Will properly and I've never looked back.

Well, this has made me sufficiently nostalgic and homesick. I'm going now.

EDIT: I forgot a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjlxG0WU22w

Boo. You whore.

CATHERINE RACHEL SMITH.
I reminded you that morning. I am ashamed.

Will - I assume you didn't sufficiently wash the neurotransmitter from your ileum between doses.
Rookie mistake.

AND PIZZA POLICE.
I've yet to cook, but when I do it shall be marvellous and I shall update this to show you.
I love this challenge.
I love cooking.

My week.
Thursday - after blogging I did not go to the art show, but I did go to Folk Night at the Ale House, then to Martha's and then to Silk. After it closed I went to the swings with Georgie and some random guy. I think he was Bosnian? Bolivian? I dunno but he followed me home, and I was drunk enough to believe this was a normal thing.
Luckily Owen emerged from his room and scared him away.


This is us at Silk.
(Me, Caoilfhionn, Georgie, Martha and Meriel.)
Additional challenge - guess how to pronounce Caoilfhionn.

I also made brownies and took them to the pub.

Friday I skipped my morning, turned up for a practical and played with various Molluscs.
Later another one of Owen's friends arrived. We made two HUGE lasagnes, played many drinking games and then went to HMV Picturehouse.
It was a very sad night, as vodka + mixer is £1.20. And I foolishly ordered a gin and tonic which was £5. Broke my heart it did.
I bought a round of Jagerbombs for me, Owen + his friends (Michael and Andrew), then attempted to buy a couple of drinks for me and Sam, but ran out of money and had to get her to pay for them.


This is use at Picturehouse.
Adam, Richard, Me, Owen, Sam, Charlotte, (Medic) Michael, Pete, Andrew and (Irish) Michael.

Saturday me, Richard and Pete had the longest game of Wizard ever. In which I lost horrifically, and me and Richard bullied Pete until he stormed out in the last round.
Afterwards we played lots of poker, in which I think I came second.
I spent the eve at Georgie's with Sarah C. We drank red wine, ate hummus, watched films and did generally nice things until 4am when we all fell asleep watching Chicago.

Sunday was a day of rest. Me and Harry saw American Beauty at FilmSoc.

Monday I discovered Peerwise. It's a thing we have to use in one of our courses.
People post questions. People answer and rate them. Etc.
But it comes with badges. And hence I have been tricked into learning. It's like getting achievements in games. For one badge you had to answer 20 questions correct in a row, AND BY GOD I DID.

Tuesday ordered in lovely curry with Fat Man and watched Megamind at Charlotte's of an eve.

Today me and Richard watched Sarah A play Lacrosse, if only to understand what a Lacrosse match looks like.
SO FRICKING COLD. But good fun. We had coffee after and then I had a practical.

AND ONTO THE CHALLENGE.

David stole my picture. Because David is a willy. And I love that picture so God damn much.
My leaving pub-crawl was gorgeous. Really made me realise how much I loved all you guys, and how much fun I'd had living in Swindon.

For me and Cath.

An unflattering photo, because we are both dying. It was taken on the way to the Debating Matters final. I had just vomited in the train toilets.
The night before was the darkest of nights. Croft. Vodka. Flushing.
Terrible times.
But so beautiful. A perfect representation of me and Cath being terrible people. All the nights at Croft making bonfires. And debate team, when we sneaked out and listened to Blur, stayed all night in Nathan's bed and Mohit taught us of his father's pillow.

For Josh.

We can pretend Cath's not in it.
Tried hard to find a better picture of this night, because it was a good'un.
For most of it I was wearing Josh's shirt and a back to front hat pretending to be Luke Danes, whilst Josh wore his coat and pretended to be Christopher. Naturally, there was fighting.
It reminds me of going to Josh's during lunch and watching Gilmore Girls and cooking pasta and arriving half an hour late to classes because we were watching Mouse Hunt, which we'd only bought in the first place because we'd gone to town drunk the day before after drinking all my cider whilst watching the Producers.

For Will.

OH YES. An absolute king of photos.
This is us, taken by JP, behind the counter of Mr Cod, Will on the phone to the police.
First night out in Swindon after I first went to Uni. This is in the Christmas Hols.
There were carols in the Wheatie, free mince pies, presents, a brawl in Mr Cod.
One of my favourite nights. Had THE BEST time at the pub, seeing everyone again and then just classic mental Swindon.

David.

Although you stole my photo. This is us at the beach, and a reminder of the awesomeness of our last summer before Uni.
Trees, Somerford Keynes, Y Not, the beach, and all the other nights at the pub, nights out, nights at our friends.
We really made the most of it and had the best farewell.
David really has been in the majority of my Swindon memories, and probably made up some of the best of them.

Because Tom will always live in the heart of us mongooses.

Dancing in the kitchen on my seventeenth birthday, when he bought me a caterpillar cake and surrounded it with fudge and soft mints because they were my favourite things.
And all the times when we went back to mine after the pub, and would dance in the kitchen to Muse, or cuddle and watch TV. And when he broke my broom trying to pogo and bought me a pretty new one.

To finish off, the original Fighting Mongooses.

My last night out in Swindon.
I feel we should photoshop Will into this.

Prize for anyone who finds a group shot of the six of us.

Hey guys how are you I'm good thanks yeah same old really that's nice.

Song

This week has been cool, Tuesday was Chris' birthday and we all skipped lectures and played videogames and then in the evening some people came over and we drank and ended the night on this website so all in all it couldn't have been much better. Wednesday kate went home (booo) and I went out with CHOIR for a real cheap meal in notting hill and I also walked down the road of fanciest oh good god houses I've ever seen. Thursday me and Joe (housemate) played conckers bad fur day on the N64 and it was badass. Friday I don't want to talk about. Saturday it was Chris' birthday party and I drank so much wine and generally embarrassed myself left right and centre which was great. Sunday I was hungover.

I will now commence with Juliets challenge.

I have 2 pictures with Will which I want to use:


This first picture doesn't really have much significane to mine and Will's friendship, it's just my favourite picture of the two of us ever. This was taken on Kate's 19th birthday party, I had spilt beer on the ceiling and then Will had told everyone he could fit the mesh from Kate's gin bottle over his head.

This second picture is from the first 2000 trees, that was one of the best weekends of my life and I'd say it was definitely a game changer in our friendship. We were friends before yeah but this weekend/ that summer were really where we became bezzies (though I might be miss-remembering, Will?)

SO YEAH THERE'S THAT

Juliet there are too many awesome photos of us but I'ma chose this one

This is from Juliet's last night in Swindon before she left for uni (as I'm sure everyone remembers), Juliet and I have been enemys/friends for the longest time and her leaving swindon was pretty much the saddest thing so I smiled in all the pictures that night. It was good.

CATH THERE ARN'T THAT MANY PICTURES OF JUST US

This picture is from St Patricks day 2009, making Cath and I 17 and 16 respectively. As was typical for younger us, in this picture we are wasted. This pictures main significance is just that, for the longest time Cath and I were destroying ourselves buddies, and I shit you not when I tell you her hugs can save the lowest of low highs (if that makes sense) ALSO that night we played guitar/bass and jon keating was there! How fun.

THIS IS MY PICTURE FOR ME AND JOSH

Back ye oldie Swindon days josh (who happens to be my oldest friend in kittens) and I sometimes would get together to play some music and have a good old sing song and I personally think we sounded fucking sick when we did it I'm not gunna lie. We should probably do this a lot more this summer because it was great. This picture is of us rocking out in lydiard park the day after that party at kates house where we got really baked and oskar passed out and that was a really good time.

I'm also going to do a picture for tom because why not


Tom is the best bro a bro could ever bro for.

Juliet this challenge made me horribley nostalgic i hope you know that
Sorry I'm so gay everyone!

Love David

Photo blogging like a good friend.

David, I loved your blog a lot so here is my attempt. I decided I would give you a blog of Friday seeing as my Sunday's are always uneventful. Here goes.

I woke up at 7:45. I was all tired because I went to see some opera (Carmen if you're interested) the night before and we went out for drinks after with our friend who was in it.

After a quick shower I felt much more awake.

Due to my tiredness, I was up far too late for breakfast so had to go without. I left the house to walk to lectures at about 8:50 which is pretty much the latest you can leave and still be on time.

My first lecture was in the physics building for some bizarre reason and as I was late so had to sit right at the front making it too difficult to take a picture. The lecture was on nerves or something.

After the lecture I had an hour break so decided to go to the med sciences library and do some work. I also had a coffee.

My next lecture was at 11 and was strokes; this was to become a theme of the morning. It was actually pretty interesting.

I had another lecture in the same lecture theatre straight after covering almost identical material which was quite annoying. The lecturer also started 10 minutes early and then got mad at people who turned up "late".

At 1 o'clock I was done for the day. I walked to Sainsbury's to get food supplies for the weekend as documented by the following photos.

When I got home I consumed the soup I had bought for lunch. It was winter vegetable flavour and delicious.

I then played Skyrim for a while, who knows how long. This is my character. As you can see, he's a total badass.

I then went on reddit and talked to Frank Turner because I am cool. I also talked to some 2000trees redditors who seemed nice.

I had fish and chips for tea. We got them in a shop called Fishminster and it does the best fish and chips in all the land. They came in a box that looked like newspaper. I was going to post a picture of the actual meal but then I ate it all.

That concludes the photo taking part of the day, but for the rest of the evening I watched LA Confidential. It is a really good film but I didn't pay enough attention to it so Dan had to keep explaining to me what was going on. Interestingly, the film is where the name Rolo Tomassi comes from. There is a band of the same name that is named after this character. They're classed as math core and are second headliners on the Friday night at trees.

Other than that my week was very dull indeed.

Juliet, I have done that exact same experiment. Our guinea pig ilium got all broken when we did it.

Hey Harry, just proof I read your blogs.

LOVE

I STARTED WRITING THIS YESTERDAY

BUT OWEN HAD A FRIEND OVER AND I DIDN'T WANT TO BE UNSOCIABLE.

So. I don't have a camera, so no photoblog. But, I do have semi-exciting stories to share?

Em. I finished my essay. Got that shit handed in.

Friday was Gavin's birthday and Gavin's super awesome party.
He made fruit loaves, I made a key lime pie and a ton of meringues, Emma bought a chocolate cake.
I drank too much gin and had to be taken home. Gavin vomited in the garden, the stairwell and his bed - as only befits a true birthday boy. A very bad man (Mawdsley) pissed up the wall and on himself.
Vulgarities aside it was fantastic. Nice to see lots of nice people.

Saturday was a day of recovery and board games.
Wizard, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble. Nice.

Sunday me, Richard, Owen, Pete, Craig and Fraser went to the rugby.
Really fantastic game, despite the Scotland loss it was a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Good sport and a streaker.
Afterwards went to FilmSoc to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, followed by a really tense game of Wizard (which I absolutely blitzed).

Monday I made another pie - recipe of my creation.
Mushroom and potato with caramelised onions, sundried tomatoes and a creamy garlic sauce.
Brogan, Amanda and Sarah N came over to deliver birthday cheesecake for Gav.
Had one of the funniest nights of my life, Brogan ended up reading aloud from this bizarre sci-fi novel Gav had picked up to use in one of his art projects. So funny. We had Amanda, Gav and Pete contributing some of the voices.
Laughing became painful. I heartily recommend you read it.
Partially due to the rendition, partially because we came in half way through and didn't have a clue what was happening, and a large amount because it was a fucked up story, it was hilarious.

Tuesday I stayed in bed for lectures, went to my practical in which we exposed a guinea pig ileum to different combinations of neurotransmitters and antagonists and measured degrees of tension to study their effect. Went to see We Need To Talk About Kevin with Georgie, Gavin and Charlotte - awesome and hella creepy.
Went to Drouthy Neebor's for a few drink with Edinburgh Chorus + Richard, Gavin and Harry.
Hive afterwards with Richard, Georgie and Sarah C.
Probably owe Georgie a drink, as when drinks are a pound, and she gave me £10 to buy her a whisky coke, I assume she was probably expecting change.

Wednesday was my free day. Went to the theatre with Charlotte to see Of Mice and Men, very very good, and sad. Nearly cried several times.
Later on Owen's friend arrived from Belfast. Fun fact: He lived in the flat below Oonagh in first year, and Oonagh's flat stole his flat's sofa.
Then Owen's hockey team arrived dressed as Simpson's characters to pre-drink for a hockey social. Good craic.

Today I went to a couple of lectures.
My genetics teacher mocked her husband for being colour blind, explaining how she likes to think of him as a mutant.
She also included pictures of her children playing Twister adding "because they can"

Later I think I'm going to the third year art show at ECA, Gavin and Mark are taking part in an installation. Afterwards Martha's birthday drinks and Temple.

Hm. These days I really am just writing a diary. I'd like to talk about interesting things, but I usually end up blogging when I come in from lectures, and usually when I'm feeling tired and uninteresting.

I think we need a challenge.
Because I like photos, everyone post a significant photo of them and each member of this blog.
Significant can mean, first time you met, last time you saw them, some sort of important day or event, y'know.
I want photos and explanations.