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[06 Apr 2003|02:58pm] |
I finally got around to listening to Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band. I wish I had never put it off because of other things, it really is all good.
If your interest is piqued, articles: 1 2 3 and another small one.
In other news I changed my lj interests a bit and will be driving for ~60 mins to get to a cinema that's screening the elusive Equilibrium later today. Here's hoping Christian Bale will be as good as he was in American Psycho.
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[27 Mar 2003|03:58am] |
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[27 Mar 2003|03:14am] |
I don't really seem to be able to fully enjoy being at home anymore. I think it's because I miss being able to do things when I want and not being disturbed. It's odd, because in many ways I should be absolutely relaxed:
The good:
Games. Enjoying splinter cell and doing miscellaneous little pieces in vice city. Seeing as work still doesn't have to ready for 5 weeks I can not feel too guilty about this.
Books. A 3 for 2 deal in WHSmith sorted me on some more stephen king (which is somewhere between an addiction and obsession atm). I also picked up 'Havock Junction' by Joe Donnelly. It was half price, british author, horror. Hook, line, sinker.
Transport. I've got a larger/faster car than I had before now.
The bad:
Mornings. Is it only students that don't get up at 9am?
Food. There's too damn much here. It's easy to counter the temptation of crisps at uni by not actually ever having any in the cupboard.
There isn't really anything particularly bad about being at home, which makes it all the more guilty feeling to be preferring to be at uni. It's not even that I don't get along with any of my family, far from it. I think i'm just too used to being able to lock myself away in a space that only I can control. I hate to think in what way that can be interpreted by others.
I'm well aware i've whined about such meager points compared to the other problems in the world. C'est la vie. At least I'm not doing any work here, something I will have little excuse not to do once i'm back at uni..
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| Your wheelies... |
[24 Feb 2003|02:55am] |
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..is garbage.
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[21 Feb 2003|01:19am] |
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| New Year, New Hangover |
[02 Jan 2003|01:52am] |
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Well it turned out to be a pretty good night all in all. In the tradition of New Years Eve in Newquay we had dressed up, this year as Arabians. At first we thought of going as Arabian terrorists for a laugh, but then wisely decided not to carry AK's through streets filled with inebriated people. Apart from being called 'Muslim cunts' on the way into town, we encountered no other hostility and set about exchanging cash for copious amounts of beverages. In the end the New Year was seen in safely by all.
My first kebab of 2003 (and hopefully the last) resulted in me slipping on some greasy steps and wrecking my watch strap and portions of my forearm. The first can be fixed with the application of money, the second time. Upon confronting the stereotypical Greek kebab shop owners we were quickly told to 'just go'. Such is life!
Iirc Rob may have received some crazy phone call(s) proclaiming a happy new year. In my defense, I was provoked by receiving a call first!
In other news, I finished reading Desperation which is very reminiscent of a silent hill plot/setting. Very enjoyable read, if a little too heavy on religious emphasis for my taste.
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[31 Dec 2002|02:45am] |
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For me, but for those reading I realise this test blows the big one in regards to being a great judge of personality disorders.
Last time.
( Now. )
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| For Rob: |
[07 Dec 2002|05:07am] |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND FESTIVE CHEER.
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[18 Oct 2002|02:02am] |
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Kings of Convenience should be mandatory national listening.
That is all.
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[25 Sep 2002|11:43pm] |
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Goodbye Cook Mews.
Got to be out of this room in just over 10 hours.
Bought a Zalman 6000Cu and NB32J, plus some neon string and an invertor as an afterthought from TekHeads recently. The Zalman cooler is really clean engineering, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend their products to others. Comes with everything you need, and does exactly what it says on the box. Neon string just looks generally neat, 'cept for the slight whine from the invertor.
Rewiring the USB header socket on some extra usb plugs atm, seems ludicrous to me that different motherboards don't use the same pinout, I might have fried a device otherwise.
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| On impulse buys |
[15 Sep 2002|02:15am] |
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Eating freshly charred popcorn, watching a hastily bought DVD of The Thing inspired by playing the recent game of the same name, these are some of my favourite things.
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| At home, spending cash |
[05 Sep 2002|01:47am] |
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Mmm, new tv.
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[30 Aug 2002|01:02am] |
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14 hours work today, very tired, just felt robs elbows, they don't work- died a little inside, now sleep.
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| From no work to a metric fuckton |
[21 Aug 2002|11:29pm] |
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Tired of getting no reply from the various places I had applied to for jobs, and passing over a grand into my overdraft I decided to head into a temp agency I had spotted just wandering through town this monday.
By midday tuesday I was signed up and likely to be doing a saturday waitering job at a wedding (£5/hr). By the end of tuesday, I was also signed up for another waitering job the saturday after(£5/hr), and warehouse packing work thu/fri + all next week at least (£4.30/hr). By the end of today I also have a 6pm-1am bar job (£5/hr) for three nights at least.
Mindless work maybe, but /fairly/ decent pay. And I'll be back at uni in just over a month anyway.
It's not so hard to get work after all.
Been playing Morrowind a fair amount, as apparant from my previous post. Hardly progressed in the 'main' storyline, there's just so much to do in this game it's amazing. I need to find out exactly how long it took them to make this game, there seems to be so much work gone into it. I'm a wheelin'an'a'dealin' imperial knight with shiny steel armour and a helmet that glows green.
Have procured a fairly decent laptop (thanks to rob) for a bargain price, which will be nice to net with from my bed. I need to work more on getting morbidly obese, don't feel like i'm filling the stereotypes quite properly yet. More pies, less work.
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| On gaming |
[19 Aug 2002|04:20am] |
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Been spending my time wisely.
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It's that test again. Cheers Rob for reminding me about it. :)
Did it again so I could compare to the last time I took it. Narcissism down, paranoia up. Not too shabby.
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| Long time no sea, dead fish. |
[10 Aug 2002|04:11am] |
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Today I was surprised to learn it was Friday. My watch battery had died on the 6th, and I had only noticed on the 7th. This adds up to show that I'm barely doing anything productive as each day goes past, and as such they tend to blur into one another. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do need to get a job at some point to start getting cash back into my swollen overdraft. Waiting back on a few places now to see if they'll give me a job, here's hoping.
Apart from that, life is just peachy. Nothing to moan about right now, touch wood. Kinda pleased with how I've tidied up this room more than my previous, which had carboard boxes of stuff on the floor for 9 months. Now I have plastic stack boxes on the floor, result! Think I'll tidy and do some sort of photo collage around the room at some point, should pass the time. Also, an incentive to tidy my room further. I have some ideal of a minimilistic environment, but there is just too much stuff and/or I'm too lazy to keep everything tidy and put away. I don't think Rob or Kay would agree that my room is tidy atm, but it's all /relative/ you see. Somehow I'm managing atm to have three consoles setup plus all my speakers and have the cabling look actually tidy. If you saw these rooms, you'd realise that isn't entirely easy with a load of stuff.
On books; currently reading Stephen Kings 'IT', thanks to the generousity of parental units when faced with a 2 for £10 offer. Being the King fan I am, it seems a crime against God himself not to have read this. I'm enjoying it muchly. Queued up Dreamcatcher, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, The Bachman Books (on order) and apparantly I _must_ read Neuromancer according to Kay. We'll see.
They all float downhere..
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| Celebrate good times, come on! |
[28 Jun 2002|12:40am] |
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Woo, back from a club celebrating finishing the first year of uni. Went pretty well really, just scraped a 1st (although the 1st year isn't graded). Bit of an effort to type legibly after consuming this much alcohol. Was a pretty good night though, dancing with someone else who loves trance music was nice.
So i'm staying in Exeter during the holidays which was kinda a last minute decision, although it makes sense considering I don't know anyone who lives where my 'home' is now. Should be good, if I get a job. Which shouldn't be /too/ hard. Then my life will be almost complete, yay! Life can be pretty good if you try, it boggles the mind that so many people complain about theirs.
Ack, i packed my PS2 away and I feel the need to run some people over. Fuck.
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| Holiday |
[14 Jun 2002|12:50am] |
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Exams finished, and they all went pretty well. More than likely passed everything.
Cue spending cash. Afterburner, messiah and donnie darko dvd all on their way. Life is good.
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[08 Jun 2002|12:05am] |
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The fear!
Not that i'm playing games while I should be revising.
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