Mar. 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 am
I finally finished being a tool yesterday :-) Oh wait, I don't think I'll ever be done with that...
Anywho, the underground was an even bigger mess yesterday than it'd been Saturday. Fail. Plus Caitlin and I had a major Tube Fail. We were waiting for the last train (of three or four) we had to take on our journey back to campus, and one pulls into the station and we hop on, noting that the benches facing each other are really cool and the train itself is shockingly empty, considering only one line was going in through Mile End. Then we realized it was purple. Whilst a lovely colour, purple is not a line we take very often, as it is the Metropolitan. So we hop off at the next stop, run around, get back on a train going in the other direction, run around, and then succesfully make it to Mile End. Hey, it already took over an hour to get back to campus, the extra ten minutes really wasn't a huge deal.
Haider made us dinner, which was yummy- fajitas and nachos. And he made fun of me for bringing milk over, until Hilary brought out a box of brownies.
Speaking of brownies, I finally solved a mystery yesterday. See, I had purchased some Cadbury Chunk Brownie mix, and was debating making it the other day, but noticed it was MIA. I thought maybe one of my flatmates had borrowed it, but after a few days of it not being replaced/no one saying anything, I decided I should check with Caitlin as to whether or not she'd used mine when making brownies after dinner last Tuesday. She had, so mystery solved!
I went over and hung out at Adib's place for a while, and played an AWESOME zombie game on the Wii. I was pretty okay at it, considering I'm bad at most games. Then we played some Smash Bros, and he annihilated me after a couple rounds, but then I made a comeback and left while still on top. But it was fun, I really like playing video games and listening to my British friends exclaiming, "bollocks!" etc.
Thus far today, I woke up exhausted, went to Diff Eq, turned in some courseworks, and went to the gym for a bit. Enthralling, I'm sure ;-)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Beigles
Mar. 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Yesterday evening in the library, some lady goes up to the two guys sitting at the computers nearest me, and asks if they are maths students. They say yes, and she asks if they are first years, and when they reply yes, she starts to say something then suddenly turns to me and demands if I am a maths student and a first year. Once I explain that I'm on year three of four (it's always so awkward, since I'm not a second year but I'm not a third, either), she asks if I know how to copy over the text of an email that she sent to the wrong address so she can subsequently send it to the next one. I demonstrate briefly by highlighting the text on notalwaysright and right clicking, but she asks if I can come show her at her computer. As I follow her over, she asks me if I'm from Australia (I get that a lot actually, it's weird). I copy and paste the text for her, then retreat to my computer. I asked the two guys if they thought it was weird, and they told me that she's crazy and is always in the library asking people weird things. She came back over ten minutes later to ask me if "with regards to" or "regarding" sounded better for a professional email. Apparently you need to be a maths student to know how to copy and paste, and how to write emails.
We went to Hayfields last night for karaoke, but it wasn't quite set up when we got there, so we ended up playing pool a bit, and a version of Clue that was actually trivia (it was really messed up; I guess some girls were playing the 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' after we stopped, and they got out by saying that the minimum time one could get for a hockey penalty is ten minutes). Karaoke was really fun once it started up- Caitlin, HIlary and I did Dancing Queen, and Caitlin and I also did Video Killed the Radio Star, which was very fun. Also, everyone joined in on things like Living on a Prayer.
Today, Hilary filmed me doing party of my audition tape near the Houses of Parliament; two people rode by our spot on bikes, and the guy started ringing his bell in time with the music, it was really fun. Caitlin met up with us, and the three of us went to the Tate Britain and looked at many pretty paintings (after stopping at a cute cafe with yummmmy food, and a waiter who had stayed in Las Vegas for a while and got talking to Hilary about that; we decided the little cafe must be doing pretty well for itself if he can just extend his vacation as long as he wants and drop six hundred bucks for the best seat to Cirque de Soleil).
Getting to Westminster and Pimlico and back to Mile End was so obnoxious because of all of the line closures. It would be sort've nice if our weekend plans weren't made infinitely more difficult by having to maneouvre around all of the closed lines- especially the District, which goes through Mile End but is ALWAYS closed on weekends from Upminster to Embankment.
Anywho, we finally got HIlary out to Brick Lane for dinner, then successfully found the 24 hour "Beigle" shop (a little girl was in there in her slippers buying a donut, she was adorable), and then went to Cookies and Cream, where I got ice cream. The majority of our conversation for at least three hours was this game Kevin taught us, where you name a famous personnage, such as "Orlando Bloom," then the next person has to name someone whose name begins with a B, such as "Barney Rubble." If anyone says a double letter, for example "Rowena Ravenclaw," it reverses. Hilary and I had a pretty epic string of double Ps working for a while, though neither of us came up with Peter Pan, surprisingly.
Yesterday evening in the library, some lady goes up to the two guys sitting at the computers nearest me, and asks if they are maths students. They say yes, and she asks if they are first years, and when they reply yes, she starts to say something then suddenly turns to me and demands if I am a maths student and a first year. Once I explain that I'm on year three of four (it's always so awkward, since I'm not a second year but I'm not a third, either), she asks if I know how to copy over the text of an email that she sent to the wrong address so she can subsequently send it to the next one. I demonstrate briefly by highlighting the text on notalwaysright and right clicking, but she asks if I can come show her at her computer. As I follow her over, she asks me if I'm from Australia (I get that a lot actually, it's weird). I copy and paste the text for her, then retreat to my computer. I asked the two guys if they thought it was weird, and they told me that she's crazy and is always in the library asking people weird things. She came back over ten minutes later to ask me if "with regards to" or "regarding" sounded better for a professional email. Apparently you need to be a maths student to know how to copy and paste, and how to write emails.
We went to Hayfields last night for karaoke, but it wasn't quite set up when we got there, so we ended up playing pool a bit, and a version of Clue that was actually trivia (it was really messed up; I guess some girls were playing the 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' after we stopped, and they got out by saying that the minimum time one could get for a hockey penalty is ten minutes). Karaoke was really fun once it started up- Caitlin, HIlary and I did Dancing Queen, and Caitlin and I also did Video Killed the Radio Star, which was very fun. Also, everyone joined in on things like Living on a Prayer.
Today, Hilary filmed me doing party of my audition tape near the Houses of Parliament; two people rode by our spot on bikes, and the guy started ringing his bell in time with the music, it was really fun. Caitlin met up with us, and the three of us went to the Tate Britain and looked at many pretty paintings (after stopping at a cute cafe with yummmmy food, and a waiter who had stayed in Las Vegas for a while and got talking to Hilary about that; we decided the little cafe must be doing pretty well for itself if he can just extend his vacation as long as he wants and drop six hundred bucks for the best seat to Cirque de Soleil).
Getting to Westminster and Pimlico and back to Mile End was so obnoxious because of all of the line closures. It would be sort've nice if our weekend plans weren't made infinitely more difficult by having to maneouvre around all of the closed lines- especially the District, which goes through Mile End but is ALWAYS closed on weekends from Upminster to Embankment.
Anywho, we finally got HIlary out to Brick Lane for dinner, then successfully found the 24 hour "Beigle" shop (a little girl was in there in her slippers buying a donut, she was adorable), and then went to Cookies and Cream, where I got ice cream. The majority of our conversation for at least three hours was this game Kevin taught us, where you name a famous personnage, such as "Orlando Bloom," then the next person has to name someone whose name begins with a B, such as "Barney Rubble." If anyone says a double letter, for example "Rowena Ravenclaw," it reverses. Hilary and I had a pretty epic string of double Ps working for a while, though neither of us came up with Peter Pan, surprisingly.
Can't Touch This
Feb. 27th, 2009 at 05:05 pm
Yesterday was super busy. I had class, tutorial, did some work and took a twenty minute nap, went to my second tutorial rather late (but I only had one question), and then left that early to boogie on over to the underground. I met up with Paul at Waterloo station, and we went and caught up in Wagamama's (I had the apple and lime juice, my favorite! And the Wagamama Ramen, I honestly don't know what was in it. I was talking to my food, asking it what it was, and then would eat it and still not know).
We walked from there down to Tower Bridge, since I forgot which stop was near Tower Bridge and wanted to find this certain place to record part of my internship video. It was really far. And then I was rapping and dancing, with tourists looking befuddled and street cleaners standing behind Paul (who had my camera) and laughing. But it's okay, it was really fun, and I get to do more of that tomorrow! Paul was a good sport for being associated with me.
I made it back to campus just in time to have to run from my room across campus to lend a friend a calculator for a midterm, and then book it all the way back across to meet up with Caitlin, hit up the ATM, and hope back on the Tube. After grabbing tickets for a show, we had a romantic snack at Burger King (shakes and chicken bites and fries). We ended up going to see Sunset Boulevard, which had good music and looked really cool, though we thought the amount of upstaging that occurred was a little strange... and it was definitely a weird musical. Also, the plot at the beginning was essentially nonexistant, there was way too much introduction and I had no idea where the show was going to go. Though I think when I get older, I should be crazy and melodramatic like Norma, because she was ridiculous. She reminded me of Madame. And the lead guy looked a lot like Kevin H.
The two of us went back to campus and booked tickets for Romeo and Juliet at the Globe for us and the rest of our friends- our seats should be pretty good. I'm really excited! That will be in May.
So far today, I got up, took a shower, took a half hour nap, went to class, took a nap for an hour and a half, put a pizza in the oven, took a nap for the ten minutes it cooked, went to lecture, came to the computer lab so I wouldn't nap again, had another lecture, and am back in the library. Actuarial got exciting again today- some guy came into the room halfway through lecture laughing, sat down at the back, and a half a minute later someone held their phone through the door with the ringtone going off, ran away, then came back two minutes later and yelled something indescernible into the room, and ran off again. Our professor laughed it off, so some of the class giggled a bit, but then the guy who came in laughing stood up, and storming indignantly down the stairs yelled, 'That was not funny! It was very disrespectful, Miss,' while lighting up a cigarette.
Yesterday was super busy. I had class, tutorial, did some work and took a twenty minute nap, went to my second tutorial rather late (but I only had one question), and then left that early to boogie on over to the underground. I met up with Paul at Waterloo station, and we went and caught up in Wagamama's (I had the apple and lime juice, my favorite! And the Wagamama Ramen, I honestly don't know what was in it. I was talking to my food, asking it what it was, and then would eat it and still not know).
We walked from there down to Tower Bridge, since I forgot which stop was near Tower Bridge and wanted to find this certain place to record part of my internship video. It was really far. And then I was rapping and dancing, with tourists looking befuddled and street cleaners standing behind Paul (who had my camera) and laughing. But it's okay, it was really fun, and I get to do more of that tomorrow! Paul was a good sport for being associated with me.
I made it back to campus just in time to have to run from my room across campus to lend a friend a calculator for a midterm, and then book it all the way back across to meet up with Caitlin, hit up the ATM, and hope back on the Tube. After grabbing tickets for a show, we had a romantic snack at Burger King (shakes and chicken bites and fries). We ended up going to see Sunset Boulevard, which had good music and looked really cool, though we thought the amount of upstaging that occurred was a little strange... and it was definitely a weird musical. Also, the plot at the beginning was essentially nonexistant, there was way too much introduction and I had no idea where the show was going to go. Though I think when I get older, I should be crazy and melodramatic like Norma, because she was ridiculous. She reminded me of Madame. And the lead guy looked a lot like Kevin H.
The two of us went back to campus and booked tickets for Romeo and Juliet at the Globe for us and the rest of our friends- our seats should be pretty good. I'm really excited! That will be in May.
So far today, I got up, took a shower, took a half hour nap, went to class, took a nap for an hour and a half, put a pizza in the oven, took a nap for the ten minutes it cooked, went to lecture, came to the computer lab so I wouldn't nap again, had another lecture, and am back in the library. Actuarial got exciting again today- some guy came into the room halfway through lecture laughing, sat down at the back, and a half a minute later someone held their phone through the door with the ringtone going off, ran away, then came back two minutes later and yelled something indescernible into the room, and ran off again. Our professor laughed it off, so some of the class giggled a bit, but then the guy who came in laughing stood up, and storming indignantly down the stairs yelled, 'That was not funny! It was very disrespectful, Miss,' while lighting up a cigarette.
Stop- hammer time.
Feb. 26th, 2009 at 01:55 am
I finally caught up on sleep, though I have undermined that by staying up late tonight.
I really didn't do much today- went to the gym, ate, took a shower, went to the library, did some maths, tooled around a bit. You know. The usual semi-productive stuff . There was an excellent program on at the gym that I watched when I was on the treadmill, about 2002's worst music videos.
I would like to reiterate how weird it is that the library is a social place on this campus- most people go there to run into people. Even me- it's a large portion of the reason I don't use the computer lab in the Queen's building. No one is in there, because no one is in there. Talk about your vicious cycles! I had a quick chat with USC Kevin and Dave on my way out of the library, since they were just getting in. The pair of them are so funny, but for no particular reason; it makes them fun to run into.
I had a chat with Sisi and Tien about the merits of frozen pizza- inexplicably delicious and oh-so-quick to make, especially compared to their (more appetizing and healthier) homemade veggie stir fries. I made pork with veg last night, so that counts for today too, right?
Caitlin, Vanessa and I met to try to book tickets to see a show at the Globe, but couldn't get a hold of Kev and Hil, so we ended up hanging out and chatting and getting hyper. Caitlin's chair is broken, which our little goldfish Vanessa kept forgetting, so she would lean back in it and end up going so far that she thought she was going to tip over, and pawed at the air like a cat. It was excellent to watch.
I spent most of the evening working on my application for the internship I mentioned in an earlier post. It's really fun, all I need to do now is actually do the video bits I have planned out and edit it up. That'll be my Sunday project, since I should finish my maths homework pretty easily tomorrow morning.You will all get to see the finished project, never fear :-) ESPECIALLY since I had to spend a dollar on a karaoke track for "Can't Touch This." Oh, now you're interested ;-)
I also got my computer working long enough to Skype Meg,and also got to talk to Vitty, Amy and Kimmy, and Mander on AIM, which was all very nice, especially since I was bored and getting homesick earlier in the day.
I passed a lot of tours on campus today, which was cool! I hope they do more tomorrow, I might follow along and pretend to be a prospective student, see what they tell them.
On an unrelated note, I found the eight pence Vanessa hid in a corner on my desk last night, and was going to try to return it to her bag, but left it in my room. I will get her back stealthily soon, mwahaha.
I finally caught up on sleep, though I have undermined that by staying up late tonight.
I really didn't do much today- went to the gym, ate, took a shower, went to the library, did some maths, tooled around a bit. You know. The usual semi-productive stuff . There was an excellent program on at the gym that I watched when I was on the treadmill, about 2002's worst music videos.
I would like to reiterate how weird it is that the library is a social place on this campus- most people go there to run into people. Even me- it's a large portion of the reason I don't use the computer lab in the Queen's building. No one is in there, because no one is in there. Talk about your vicious cycles! I had a quick chat with USC Kevin and Dave on my way out of the library, since they were just getting in. The pair of them are so funny, but for no particular reason; it makes them fun to run into.
I had a chat with Sisi and Tien about the merits of frozen pizza- inexplicably delicious and oh-so-quick to make, especially compared to their (more appetizing and healthier) homemade veggie stir fries. I made pork with veg last night, so that counts for today too, right?
Caitlin, Vanessa and I met to try to book tickets to see a show at the Globe, but couldn't get a hold of Kev and Hil, so we ended up hanging out and chatting and getting hyper. Caitlin's chair is broken, which our little goldfish Vanessa kept forgetting, so she would lean back in it and end up going so far that she thought she was going to tip over, and pawed at the air like a cat. It was excellent to watch.
I spent most of the evening working on my application for the internship I mentioned in an earlier post. It's really fun, all I need to do now is actually do the video bits I have planned out and edit it up. That'll be my Sunday project, since I should finish my maths homework pretty easily tomorrow morning.You will all get to see the finished project, never fear :-) ESPECIALLY since I had to spend a dollar on a karaoke track for "Can't Touch This." Oh, now you're interested ;-)
I also got my computer working long enough to Skype Meg,and also got to talk to Vitty, Amy and Kimmy, and Mander on AIM, which was all very nice, especially since I was bored and getting homesick earlier in the day.
I passed a lot of tours on campus today, which was cool! I hope they do more tomorrow, I might follow along and pretend to be a prospective student, see what they tell them.
On an unrelated note, I found the eight pence Vanessa hid in a corner on my desk last night, and was going to try to return it to her bag, but left it in my room. I will get her back stealthily soon, mwahaha.
We're those people in the library now.
Feb. 25th, 2009 at 12:22 am
I managed to get up and out of my room this morning before the cleaning lady even knocked on my door, goooo me! I spent a bit of time doing some computery stuff in the library, was able to take my time a bit at the gym, then came back to my room. My computer decided to be nice (like it is at the moment) so I was able to do some more fun online things, shower, and eat a yummy yummy pizza for lunch. Sainsburys frozen pizzas are inexplicably delicious, and the personal pan sized one is only 46p. I love it!
I realized I spent a bit too long taking my time earlier in the day, as I no longer had sufficient time to nap, so I did a bit more stuff in the library (uploading pictures and whatnot) and went to class, where I was very sleepy.
I ran into Vanessa in the library after class. We kept hitting "reply all" to a thread on facebook that goes out to all our friends, so occasionally in the midst of making plans, there will be me saying, "I see you!" or her going, "I can hear you coughing." Having a broken computer is a bit more fun when someone else has a broken computer as well.
I made pork chops for the Americans for dinner, and it was delicioussss. (The recipe uses soy sauce, sesame seeds, and brown sugar. It's awesome.) Kev and Hilary brought nan to eat with it as well, and there were mashed potatoes and corn. It was so good! Then we went back to Caitlin's apartment to look at what days we might want to book Rom&Jul tickets at the Globe, and made and ate brownies. There was much hyperness while we ate brownies, we might've scared Caitlin's flatmate out of the kitchen.
After that, we took some time to watch fun youtube videos (I finally saw Jizz in My Pants, and some of us shared Moskau and Tunak Tunak Tun, and they finally understand my text message tone now), and then Velossa and I went to Budgens to top up our phones, and then chilled in the library until they literally yelled at us to leave.
On our way back, we saw USC Kevin in his kitchen window, so we stopped to say hi. His flatmate Dave came out to talk with us as well, and they decided to use the strawberry wafers I gave them to eat their soups, then used their pots and spoons to do an impromptu percussion show. Vanessa had been telling me how they are very much like Mr. Wilson on Home Improvement, and honestly, I have to agree. When they're home, they're hysterical, and it's lots of fun to stop by their window and talk.
It was nice to have a pretty chill day, but I'm thinking I might need to get back to work tomorrow.
Also, I booked train tickets for me and Ha to visit Carly in Wales, so that's exciting!!
Also also, I got double-carded at Hayfields last night. I showed my ID to get my handstamp to get in, and then the bartender made me show my ID again when I was buying my one drink of the night. I felt sad, since I'm almost 21 and I'm getting carded for an 18+ drinking age. I'll appreciate it when I'm a bit older ;-)
I managed to get up and out of my room this morning before the cleaning lady even knocked on my door, goooo me! I spent a bit of time doing some computery stuff in the library, was able to take my time a bit at the gym, then came back to my room. My computer decided to be nice (like it is at the moment) so I was able to do some more fun online things, shower, and eat a yummy yummy pizza for lunch. Sainsburys frozen pizzas are inexplicably delicious, and the personal pan sized one is only 46p. I love it!
I realized I spent a bit too long taking my time earlier in the day, as I no longer had sufficient time to nap, so I did a bit more stuff in the library (uploading pictures and whatnot) and went to class, where I was very sleepy.
I ran into Vanessa in the library after class. We kept hitting "reply all" to a thread on facebook that goes out to all our friends, so occasionally in the midst of making plans, there will be me saying, "I see you!" or her going, "I can hear you coughing." Having a broken computer is a bit more fun when someone else has a broken computer as well.
I made pork chops for the Americans for dinner, and it was delicioussss. (The recipe uses soy sauce, sesame seeds, and brown sugar. It's awesome.) Kev and Hilary brought nan to eat with it as well, and there were mashed potatoes and corn. It was so good! Then we went back to Caitlin's apartment to look at what days we might want to book Rom&Jul tickets at the Globe, and made and ate brownies. There was much hyperness while we ate brownies, we might've scared Caitlin's flatmate out of the kitchen.
After that, we took some time to watch fun youtube videos (I finally saw Jizz in My Pants, and some of us shared Moskau and Tunak Tunak Tun, and they finally understand my text message tone now), and then Velossa and I went to Budgens to top up our phones, and then chilled in the library until they literally yelled at us to leave.
On our way back, we saw USC Kevin in his kitchen window, so we stopped to say hi. His flatmate Dave came out to talk with us as well, and they decided to use the strawberry wafers I gave them to eat their soups, then used their pots and spoons to do an impromptu percussion show. Vanessa had been telling me how they are very much like Mr. Wilson on Home Improvement, and honestly, I have to agree. When they're home, they're hysterical, and it's lots of fun to stop by their window and talk.
It was nice to have a pretty chill day, but I'm thinking I might need to get back to work tomorrow.
Also, I booked train tickets for me and Ha to visit Carly in Wales, so that's exciting!!
Also also, I got double-carded at Hayfields last night. I showed my ID to get my handstamp to get in, and then the bartender made me show my ID again when I was buying my one drink of the night. I felt sad, since I'm almost 21 and I'm getting carded for an 18+ drinking age. I'll appreciate it when I'm a bit older ;-)
Last leg of papers, movies, and Hayfields revisited.
Monday
I almost snoozed right through my Diff Eq lecture, but managed to think to check what time it was a couple minutes after I'd last hit snooze... it was ten to, just enough time to leap from my bed, power shower, throw on my flipflops, chuck an orange in my bag, and dash to class. Unfortunately for me, that meant I only had an orange to eat and flipflops to wear for the subsequent seven plus hours.
After Diff Eq, I met Vanessa in the library, quickly finished my Actuarial coursework and ran that to the Maths building, then returned to our computers. I had just whipped up my bibliographies for my papers and reformatted both a bit, and was working on my photo pages for my Architecture paper when... the fire alarm went off. The library was full (as lots of people had papers due) and everyone just sat there for a minute, glancing around, thinking, 'WAIT. Do I really have to leave?' Visions of my leftover quesidilla and refried beans from the night before were slipping from my mind, replaced by the gnawing hunger that this bell signaled. I was so close to being done, and almost had time to dash back to my room and eat before my one o'clock class! But alas, we had to shut down our computers and evacuate. Word on the street is that a student pulled the alarm. They are not on my good list.
Van and I went to the Engineering building, but I couldn't use the computers there since I'm not an engineer, so I had to dash next door to Queens. I just managed to finish fixing everything up and print off my photo pages when I needed to run to class. I'd been hoping to completely print my papers, but no luck. After my two hour architecture class, I went back to the library (completely unburnt due to the fact that there WASN'T A FIRE), finished my papers, submitted them on WEBCT, printed them off, submitted my hard copies, and then entered into an enraptured bliss as I was finally, finally able to eat. I love food so, so much. Prior to my first meal of the day (seven hours after I got up) I had been such a grumpalump.
I had time to relax a little bit before Actuarial, then met Vanessa outside my lecture hall so we could go see Confessions of a Shopaholic, which was so cute! However, the combination of the pair of us hanging out together and being overtired was ridiculous. She 'owes' me 8p since I let her print off two sheets the other night, and remembered while we were waiting for the movie to start. Now, I don't mind money, but honestly, I don't want coppers. They just take up space in my wallet and I almost never need to use them, so I'd rather not have them. Suffice to say, there was lots of, 'Hey Emily, can I give you eight pence?' My responses got more ridiculous, escalating from 'I don't want your eight pence,' as did her offers, until finally I exclaimed, 'I do not want them in a car, I do not want them near or far! I do not want them here or there, I do not want them anywhere! I do not want eight pence and s***, I do not want them, not a bit!'
Haider, when he met up with us to go to Hayfields, decided we weren't allowed to drink tonight and felt like he needed to catch up a bit to get on our crazy level.
Rewinding back to the movie, there was a funny moment when this guy pushed past us to go further into our row... twenty minutes from the end of the movie. And he hadn't been sitting there before. V and I were super confused, and then three to five minutes later he exited the row and rushed up the aisle. He was in the wrong theater. And it took him five minutes to figure out that the chick flick we were watching wasn't his intended film.
Fastforwarding back to Hayfields, that was pretty fun. We played a bit of pool, and I met some new people and talked to them; two of Damien's friends got really excited that I've got a chunk of Irish blood, as they're both proud to have Irish parents (though they were born&raised in Britain).
I almost snoozed right through my Diff Eq lecture, but managed to think to check what time it was a couple minutes after I'd last hit snooze... it was ten to, just enough time to leap from my bed, power shower, throw on my flipflops, chuck an orange in my bag, and dash to class. Unfortunately for me, that meant I only had an orange to eat and flipflops to wear for the subsequent seven plus hours.
After Diff Eq, I met Vanessa in the library, quickly finished my Actuarial coursework and ran that to the Maths building, then returned to our computers. I had just whipped up my bibliographies for my papers and reformatted both a bit, and was working on my photo pages for my Architecture paper when... the fire alarm went off. The library was full (as lots of people had papers due) and everyone just sat there for a minute, glancing around, thinking, 'WAIT. Do I really have to leave?' Visions of my leftover quesidilla and refried beans from the night before were slipping from my mind, replaced by the gnawing hunger that this bell signaled. I was so close to being done, and almost had time to dash back to my room and eat before my one o'clock class! But alas, we had to shut down our computers and evacuate. Word on the street is that a student pulled the alarm. They are not on my good list.
Van and I went to the Engineering building, but I couldn't use the computers there since I'm not an engineer, so I had to dash next door to Queens. I just managed to finish fixing everything up and print off my photo pages when I needed to run to class. I'd been hoping to completely print my papers, but no luck. After my two hour architecture class, I went back to the library (completely unburnt due to the fact that there WASN'T A FIRE), finished my papers, submitted them on WEBCT, printed them off, submitted my hard copies, and then entered into an enraptured bliss as I was finally, finally able to eat. I love food so, so much. Prior to my first meal of the day (seven hours after I got up) I had been such a grumpalump.
I had time to relax a little bit before Actuarial, then met Vanessa outside my lecture hall so we could go see Confessions of a Shopaholic, which was so cute! However, the combination of the pair of us hanging out together and being overtired was ridiculous. She 'owes' me 8p since I let her print off two sheets the other night, and remembered while we were waiting for the movie to start. Now, I don't mind money, but honestly, I don't want coppers. They just take up space in my wallet and I almost never need to use them, so I'd rather not have them. Suffice to say, there was lots of, 'Hey Emily, can I give you eight pence?' My responses got more ridiculous, escalating from 'I don't want your eight pence,' as did her offers, until finally I exclaimed, 'I do not want them in a car, I do not want them near or far! I do not want them here or there, I do not want them anywhere! I do not want eight pence and s***, I do not want them, not a bit!'
Haider, when he met up with us to go to Hayfields, decided we weren't allowed to drink tonight and felt like he needed to catch up a bit to get on our crazy level.
Rewinding back to the movie, there was a funny moment when this guy pushed past us to go further into our row... twenty minutes from the end of the movie. And he hadn't been sitting there before. V and I were super confused, and then three to five minutes later he exited the row and rushed up the aisle. He was in the wrong theater. And it took him five minutes to figure out that the chick flick we were watching wasn't his intended film.
Fastforwarding back to Hayfields, that was pretty fun. We played a bit of pool, and I met some new people and talked to them; two of Damien's friends got really excited that I've got a chunk of Irish blood, as they're both proud to have Irish parents (though they were born&raised in Britain).
Turned on some music to start my day...
Feb. 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Woke up, went to the computer lab in Queen's... it was kinda eerie, there was only one other person there, and two security guards in their office to let people in and out of the building (I literally had to ring a bell to get let out). Otherwise, it was empty. I managed to finish reading my stuff, then decided to go to the gym and eat a little. The gym took longer than I anticipated because I got caught up watching a re-run of Ant and Dec's Saturday night show thing, they were having a contest to see whose pop song would get the most downloads. I ended up running a lot longer than I meant to since I had to wait through a commercial break to see their song and dance, but it was totally worth it.
After I showered, I went to the library where I typed up my outline format, and spent a lot of time traipsing across the aisle to tell Vanessa "important" things. (Okay, I'll be honest, I was being ADD). We decided that when we got kicked out of the library at a quarter to seven, we would go have quesidillas. So we did, and it was delicious.
Since then, I have been shut up in the Queen's computer lab again, and FINALLY finished paper number two. I just need to write up the bibliographies tomorrow, and make sure the papers look pretty for when I print them out. HUZZAH!
Also, Vanessa found me my dream internship, which I am not going to get. Let's just say that it would entail having to go to Fiji, Australia, India, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Denmark, and a couple other places, and being forced to blog about the trip, and take photos and video. I'm still going to apply, because that would be effing AWESOME. I wouldn't make any money, but it would be a great experience and all expenses paid. They only take two people (increased odds from the last two years- it used to be just one!), so tomorrow I'm going to start writing my song about how I would be awesome at the job. Let's face it, I SO would be.
Sorry this wasn't very interesting, I am braindead so all of the funny things have flown my mind, and I am left in a state of ---------. Just like that.
I sort've want to play frisbee, but it got colder again. Boo.
Plus I'm tired.
Woke up, went to the computer lab in Queen's... it was kinda eerie, there was only one other person there, and two security guards in their office to let people in and out of the building (I literally had to ring a bell to get let out). Otherwise, it was empty. I managed to finish reading my stuff, then decided to go to the gym and eat a little. The gym took longer than I anticipated because I got caught up watching a re-run of Ant and Dec's Saturday night show thing, they were having a contest to see whose pop song would get the most downloads. I ended up running a lot longer than I meant to since I had to wait through a commercial break to see their song and dance, but it was totally worth it.
After I showered, I went to the library where I typed up my outline format, and spent a lot of time traipsing across the aisle to tell Vanessa "important" things. (Okay, I'll be honest, I was being ADD). We decided that when we got kicked out of the library at a quarter to seven, we would go have quesidillas. So we did, and it was delicious.
Since then, I have been shut up in the Queen's computer lab again, and FINALLY finished paper number two. I just need to write up the bibliographies tomorrow, and make sure the papers look pretty for when I print them out. HUZZAH!
Also, Vanessa found me my dream internship, which I am not going to get. Let's just say that it would entail having to go to Fiji, Australia, India, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Denmark, and a couple other places, and being forced to blog about the trip, and take photos and video. I'm still going to apply, because that would be effing AWESOME. I wouldn't make any money, but it would be a great experience and all expenses paid. They only take two people (increased odds from the last two years- it used to be just one!), so tomorrow I'm going to start writing my song about how I would be awesome at the job. Let's face it, I SO would be.
Sorry this wasn't very interesting, I am braindead so all of the funny things have flown my mind, and I am left in a state of ---------. Just like that.
I sort've want to play frisbee, but it got colder again. Boo.
Plus I'm tired.
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