Posts from ‘June, 2007’

The most annoying thing about living by yourself is that if you’re sick/in pain, you have to actually go get the stuff to make you feel better yourself, when all your instincts are telling you to stay put in bed. Right now my sinuses are absolutely killing me and it’s really getting on my nerves. [...]

And my sleeping patterns are already messed up. It’s 6am, and I haven’t actually been to bed yet. I had dinner at 3 in the morning while watching A Scanner Darkly, which I borrowed from Duncan. It’s not healthy, I tell you.
Defeated all the gang bosses on Crackdown, and even though a logical part of [...]

So I bought and enjoyed Crackdown on my 360, it’s a big ol’ barrel of fun. You’re a genetically engineered super-man, let loose to bring “justice” to a city full of gangs by a futuristic law enforcement Agency.
You have 5 major skills: agility, driving, explosives, strength, and firearms. Agility makes you faster and lets you [...]

I got an email through from the gym system at  Ethos (the Imperial sports centre) with a breakdown of my workouts for the month of May. Apparently:

I burned the calorific content of 3.5 ice cream sundaes
Lifted the equivalent of 8.3 African Elephants

That second one sounds a lot more impressive than the first!

So, my last exam was yesterday and I’m now pretty much home free for the next two weeks until everyone gets kicked out of halls. Then I’m home free at… y’know, home.
All in all I think the exams went not too badly. I’m nigh-on certain I passed everything, and fairly sure that I’ll get a [...]

I posted a while back that the most enjoyable thing about writing down stuff that happens to you is that you record the pointless minutiae of daily life that, with no reason in particular to stick in your mind, you quickly forget. Reading back those details takes you right back to that moment you sat [...]

I think it’s pretty good, but I’m none too sure about the tag cloud. Input would be lovely.
Earlier today I had an exam, and…. well, it was something. That’s what it was. I’m probably going to write about exams on Friday when the whole thing’s over and I can step back and take stock.
It’s also [...]