The clown died, but I still can't sleep...

Well today was...once again...Personal development.
The most....completely pointless and useless class I've ever been to in my life.
And today was no exception.

How did we develop, personally? Well lets see here, first we debated on weather or not flies would escape from a Jar before bees did.
Oh and then we came up with as many uses for a ping pong ball as possible. Favourites included miniature death stars, nipple guards, currency and my personal favourite, a new God.
Personal development is made up of a bunch of different groups, it's not just for Computer Games Tech people like myself. There's also multimedia, software engineers and Mathematical people there too.
So there was a competition to see who could get the most right answers in a bunch of riddles and questions they had. CGT won. We got like 5 points, Multimedia had 2. Computer Science had 1 and Maths had a big fat 0.
That was the highlight of my day.
We've all agreed to bring mascots with us now, CGT will be the official kick ass team of the Uni.

And tomorrow I think I'll take my camera around and document my day. Nicola should like that :D

Until then, here's a pic of me and the missus:



Now onward to bed!

Things are still going all right here. Carmy is 7 shades of awesome and I really enjoy being with her.
Money is getting tight, but I think I'll be all right, I just need to badger the work bank lots. I'll do that when I get a chance. Also, I should get about £600 from a bursary too, I just need to badger them as well. I got the number so I'll give it a bell tomorrow or something.
As much as I really like all of the friends I've made here, most of them don't seem to realise that if they have a problem with me - something I've said or done that they don't like - they should actually TELL me!
It pisses me off to no extent when I find out days later that someone was pissed off with me for whatever reason and tried avoiding me, then the very next day calls me up for tech support. I mean what the hell am I supposed to think? Is said person still pissed off at me and just used me for tech support or have they gotten over whatever reason it is that pissed them off in the first place?

Am I the only one that just wants everyone to be open and honest with each other?

Take for example when you go out to a club or whatever and attempt to chat up some unsuspecting individual. Wouldn't it be much easier if they just told you straight that they weren't interested instead of letting you waste all sorts of time and effort on them in vain? At least that way you can pick out the next target and continue on.

Perhaps I'm just too used to internet life where it's easy to just tell someone to fuck off without worrying about what might happen if you bump into them later.

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Oh well, tomorrow's another day and I'm sure Uni has yet more surprises in store for me, both good and bad. Maybe my lecture will actually teach me something and not be a total waste of time, effort and money =^_^=

Can't sleep, clown'll eat me....

Well it's certainly been an eventful past few days, hasn't it?
Lets see here, Friday and Saturday was certainly very...eventful. I had lots of fun with Carmy :) Later on when she went home, we went to Dee Dee's place to hang around for a bit while watching Cube Zero and stuff. It was a good night, we didn't actually go home until about 4am >_>
Then on Sunday, Vicki and Steve invited me and Dee around to their place for dinner. They cook a mean chicken and rice thing, we ate that while watching dodgeball. Top movie ^_^

On Monday I had a 2 hour lecture that was....you guessed it...completely pointless!
So far in this module, we haven't actually been taught any of the programming language that it centres around (Java, a different module does C++) but for some reason, the lecturer thought it would be fun to give us some code that wouldn't compile and then asked us to find the error, just to see if we could.
Thing is, the Java compiler itself doesn't actually work, so even if the code is 100% correct, it wouldn't compile anyway. But that wasn't the error, there was a different error he wanted us to "fix".
So for two hours we scratched our heads wondering what the hell it could be. I mean none of us knew any Java since it hadn't been taught and despite the fact that I could see what was going on in the code, I wasn't too sure either.
And you know the best bit? YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM!
That's right, the lecturer thought it'd be funny to give us code with an error that you can't actually fix (due to a limitation in DOS itself) as a way of getting cheap laughs or something. Cunt.
Oh well, it just makes me feel less guilty whenever I miss a lecture. I'd probably spend more time bitching about it than learning anyway >_>

After her lectures on Tuesday, Carmy came around and we hung out pretty much all day :)
Purely by coincidence, she doesn't have any lectures on Wednesday and neither do I. Quite convenient really. She's fast asleep beside me as I type this :)

Dear Diary...

Jackpot!

I'm too Arrogant for my own good >_<

So I actually went to my lecture today! YEY! And you know something? It was a waste of time for the most part >_<
The first part of it was interesting, a little history of the Computer gaming industry. Although when I say little, I MEAN little, since all sorts of important events and stuff were left out, but oh well. Just means if there's an Essay question thing, I can put in plenty of extra stuff.
The second part of the lecture was a bit on C++, which I already knew about. In fact, the guy left out a load of important points (Like how you're supposed to name variables and stuff) which will just mean that most of the people on my course are going to be able to program, but poorly. Great.
Mind you, when we went to the computer suite to do this little practice thing, I did the one I missed last week AND the one we had this week (with some improvements on the code itself and stuff) before anyone around me had even got half way through.
I'm not saying I'm some Uber 1337 coder or something, but it seems that little bit of work I did during the summer really paid off. And that this course I'm on sucks lol.
But I don't care, I'll have a degree at the end of it and the skills to do all sorts of cool, good Jobs while having the best time of my life here so it's all good :)

"This Ironing board is the best thing that's ever happened to me"

So yeah, I didn't do much today. Just washed my clothes really, turns out though that on the original timetable we got it says we have Mondays off. But actually, it was changed at some point and nobody told me, so I missed like a 30min lecture today. Rats. But it's ok, it wasn't anything important, tomorrow I will definitely be going because I've had such a good time for the past few days and I really feel like I've landed on my feet here ^_^
Oh yeah, Carmel and I are officially going out now (it was sort of unofficial before or something o_0) so all I can say to that is squeeee! :D

At like 1am, just as I was getting ready to go to bed, the fire alarm went off. Turns out that someone just burnt some sausages or something stupid, but I did bump into 2 people from my course (which is how I found out that I was actually supposed to be in today).
The two guys are called Malachy and Adam. Adam was pissed as a fart at the time, so when we went back inside and found a broken Ironing board, he immediately claimed it as it's own and hauled it around with him. He's planning on taking it to our lecture tomorrow.



On the left is Malachy, on the right is Adam and in the middle is the almighty broken Ironing board.

We must have spent a good hour using it as a surfing board going down the stairs >_>

Anywho the reason I'm up this late is because we dicked around so much. I'm gonna regret it tomorrow but what the fuck, it was a typical Student moment and it was fun ^_^

Oh and Dee has joined the ranks of LJers as greyshe_wolf :)

We're going to hell just for this much coke....

Right, so I need to recap the past few days.
Friday night was the first meeting of the anime society, I had already met at least half of the members that went before hand (I.E. Steve, Vicki, Dee, Joel, Kev (Who is quite possibly the most camp straight guy I've ever met. Or so he says) and a few others from my CGT class.) but still, loads and loads of people showed up!
It was good fun, we all had a laugh and pretty much spent the whole time giggling and making jokes about the weirdest anime I've seen for some time (Here's an example: "Tiger! Horse!" Yeah, don't worry if you don't understand, we were none the wiser either >_>).
Also, while there we met this crazy girl called Carmel, she is...well..crazy!
Although the really scary thing was how much her and I have in common, we sat up all of last night talking in my room, just the two of us. She's really nice.

And as a brucy bonus!....



She likes to dress up as Aeris. Yes, she's a Final Fantasy fan. Yes, she's a girl gamer. Yes, she's mine and if you come near her, you will have your arms broken. ^_^

Then on Saturday, a whole bunch of us went to the Krazyhouse again, once again a good time was had, although Vicki got hit on the head by a random bottle, which wasn't nice. But she's ok. So is the random guy that threw it, mainly because I didn't see who it was.

And yeah, then we all went back. Carmel stayed in my room cuz she lives a little out of town, we sat up most of the night talking. It was nice.

The next day, Sunday, Vicki, Steve, Carmel and I went to Chinatown and Met Dee Dee when we got there.

Now this is where Chinatown once again wins more points. Remember that little deal on the coke we found before? Well we went to a different place, Hondo's, only to find an even BETTER deal.

Not only were the crates of 24 LESS than £6 each, but if you bought 7, you got 1 free. That's 192 cans of coke/pepsi/fanta etc.

How could you possibly resist something like that? We couldn't! So me, Vicki, Dee and Steve all pitched in. Yeah, good plan. Except getting it all back was a struggle >_>
Oh hell, we managed.



Yeah...that's just mine.....

The guy in the shop was cool, when we trekked it to the counter he said "Party?" and we just looked at him and went "Uhh...no, personal use". He laughed, asked for the money (£41.83) and so I handed him £42. I said to him Keep the change. He said "Thank you" and I replied "Nooooo, thank YOU!". He laughed again and said "don't forget to wipe your mouth after you drink all that" as he threw in a free towel thing ^_^

Chinatown just gets better and better every time we go there :D

Mind you, it probably wasn't the best of Impressions on Carmy when we bought all that, I mean we'd only met her a couple of days ago but ah hell with it, if she is as much like me as I reckon she is, then she's probably got just as much at home >_>

Right, I need to go Job hunting tomorrow, even with super awesome discounts on caffeine, what funds I have wont last for ever.

EDIT: Due to popular request....

Here's what I look like currently with beard:



EDIT2: Just in case anyone's wondering, Vicki is psychobunnie86 and Steve is angelus01. Don't spam them. Much.