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.

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.