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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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6:26 pm
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12:24 pm - Waddington Airshow
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I went to a brilliant air show yesterday! Though the traffic qeue to get in was huge, and the Red Arrows performed while we were still in it, got a good bit of film on dad's camera though. When we finally got there there was cool classic buses to ride up to the main area on. I had a terrible camera that only took pictures after a noticable delay from when you pressed the button, this made it useless for taking photos of moving aircraft, though i did attempt to take some pictures of a Spitfire. Instead i concentrated on taking ones of the static displays instead, which included classic cars :3
There was 3 Capris there, one of them a modified mk2. There was also a hen's teeth Vauxhall PA Cresta, which is beautiful. The usual Austin 7's and Minis, and also a Wolsely Hornet! Also you know you're getting old when you see cars you remember in a "classic" display XD. I remember the early 90's when Sierra's seemed to be everywhere (nothing in modern times appears to have acheived the same ubiquity), now there was one on the display XD. Not even a paticularly special one like a Cosworth or XR4i either. There was also a small indoor classic display with a 30's bus. The owner told me i should get into restoring old motors properly (and not let dad do it XD). Also the RAF are apparently desperately needing biomedical science graduates, whiiich is something else to think about :3
There was also some air displays (beleive it or not... XD), including the Battle of Britain memorial flight, i tried to film them but the SD card was full! i couldn't beleive it! So i had to get the Lancaster bomber on the photo camera instead, with no sound. Still i did manage to actually get a good still photo of all three aircraft doing a flyby, though that was more by luck than anything. There was also a 4-plane team using propellor planes, and a french one using jets who were really good.
At the end of the show a Typhoon took to the skies, it was amazingly loud, and could be thrown about with ease thanks to it's fancy computer-controlled controls. I think the pilot even did the Richard Hammond Veyron drag race trick of going a mile straight up in the air and then coming back XD
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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5:52 pm - Today again
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Didn't get that job -_-, applying for more. Or i would be if the folder with my qualification details in wasn't missing. Must be in Lincoln, along with some other nagging annoying things. Also started the dole claiming process. Annoyingly also lost a USB stick with the latest version of my CV on, so i had to re-do it, i've been mega-tired today too so just can't face searching for anything. Oh well will do it sunday after a proper lay in.
Also going to an air show tomorrow ^^
Jambuster EX is coming on OK, want to have it finished by July 14th, as that's when the "improve your old games" competion ends. It was originally going to end in May, but there was no entries so has been extended several times. There appears to still be no entries so it might be extended again XD.
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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6:19 pm - Today
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It's too bloody hot -_-
Working (slowly) on a quick re-make of my old Jambuster game (http://www.fagshategod.co.uk/other/games/dgames/jambuster) for a "re-make your old games" competition on a website. The car graphics are looking quite good, there will eventually be a Jambuster 2 with masses of different cars to wreck, but for this quick remake i'm sticking to just white, silver, blue and red ones, though they are identifiable types this time.
Oh yeah i also had a job interview on the 25th and am waiting to hear back, still not got a call yet -_-
Oh and also i'm going to Japan in September, hopefully ^^
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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5:55 pm - Bring back bedlam!
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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9:23 pm - We in the west will never understand the east.
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"In Feb. in Japan, we have an event like that. We try to drive the evil away from
inside our house by baked beans."
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5:01 pm - Dear America
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8104495.stm
You are awesome again.
Oh yeah i also went to some music festival called Download over the weekend and it was pretty good and shit. Youtube for "Faith No More Poker Face" and pause it at 2:03 and you can see a red dot that was me XD.
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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6:01 pm - Reet
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Not very long now until i switch off and finalise my Download packing, see everybody in a week, hopefully with pictures, videos and crazed tales to tell!
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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9:16 pm - Downloooooad
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I'm now back in Lincoln, and just about packed for the Download festival!
Me and some other people are actually starting it a day early at this bloke's house tomorrow. Then getting up early to drive over to Donington on Wednesday to set up camp. Annoyingly rain is pretty solidly forecast for the first two days, just hope it holds off as we set up >.<. The band days look like they will be dry enough though.
I still need to buy some nagging little things, not least of which is a Lincolnshire flag. Camp Lincolnshire has to be covered in them XD
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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12:04 am - Games
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I'm back in videogame making mode again. Attempting to 3D model a 50's American car (nothing specific, it's only going to be translated into a small sprite anyway, will have elements of Chevy. Cadillac and Ford styling). First i was doing it in Anim8or, but that was taking far too long with lots of vertex dragging. So i decided to try this thing i'd heard about called Sketchup, but that's horrendously shit. You think you're making good progress then suddenly you try and move something and it refuses to go in the intended direction. Or else the program tries to "help" you by snapping lines to where you don't want them. Trying to build elements of the car seperately and then put them together is completley unworkable too. Soo it's back to Anim8or, getting there, slowly.
In other news i'm not in Lincoln any more, but at home. Did pop back yesterday just to deposit various Download festival stuff in my room like the tent and big bags. Election on Thursday, Strawberry Fair on Saturday and then off to Lincoln on Sunday, and off to the pre-download party on Tuesday, then the festival itself on Wednesday :3
Also Yasue is snuggly!
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| Sunday, May 24th, 2009
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12:19 am - First time at Man On The Moon in ages...
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Awake are brilliant! the other bands, Rosewood, Raven and Party Visual were pretty good too, though i think Rosewood just edge ahead for second place. They had a very small pit going for one song XD.
There was also a tall guy with longish scruffy hair and a suit jacket who i thought was interested in me, but he left before the last band came on -_-, was very hot anyway XD.
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| Friday, May 22nd, 2009
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11:34 pm - A big one
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It's been a very busy couple of weeks!
Yasue & Deathfest
Back earlier in the month, after Yasue arrived, we wandered up to Lincoln Cathedral, it was the first time i have been properly inside and it's a lot more impressive than Ely. It's almost like a fractal, the closer you look the more detail you see, like there's arches on the walls, and those arches are "held up" by pillars, and then each of those pillars is actually three pillars. And they built all this by hand almost 1000 years ago too! Yasue lived up to the Japanese tourist stereotype and took many pictures. In fact that was true throughout the trip :3
After sleeping, and Yasue rubbing my unshaven face and cute-ly saying "I like this feel", i was woken up by her having a shower and taking a photo of the dawn over Lincoln. It was Deathfest day! After getting ready we went down to the station mega-early (after wandering the town to get some bits and pieces, but it was Sunday so the shops werent open) to make sure we didn't miss the one train. But the station wasn't open and the hot weather had given way to a cold snap that hasn't quite finished even now. So we went to a charity shop that had opened and tried to kill about 45 minutes in there. I did find a Sexton Blake paperback from the 60's and a "Best album of the next century" CD from 1999 with loads of also-ran late 90's pop bands on it XD. Will have a listen one day. We also had a can of Monster Energy, which is the best energy drink. It was at Download last year and then i never saw it since until Lincoln Morrison's started doing it recently for £1.01 a can. Which i suppose isn't bad with the amount in them (they're the size of beer cans).
The first part of the train journey was on a hideously overcrowded replacement bus. I was feeling sick a bit and Yasue was snuggling my arm, aww :3. We got to Newark Northgate and had to wait an hour or so for the train to take us to Leeds, that was pretty miserable but at least it was indoors. We reached Leeds and managed to find the hotel in a hassle-free manner thanks to a printed-out map. Deathfest had already started so we got checked into the hotel (luckily it didn't matter that there was two of us but i booked a room as one person months ago, was a bit worried about that). We then set off for Deathfest but i had forgot the map, and assumed if we followed a big dual carriageway (following it from a distance, which led us into several dead ends and a building site) we'd be OK. It wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't picked up some other people and told them we knew where we were going XD. After ending up outside the library of the other university in leeds (there's two main ones in the middle of the city that are practically touching each other, and both are GIANT, like whole towns in themselves) i decided to ask directions off the people in the library. This finally put us on the right track and we reached Deathfest! I was also worried about it selling out and there being no tickets on the door, but there was so Yasue got one and it was all serene.
Well it would have been alright if the barman hadn't ID'd us, despite our "Over 18" wristbands which you would think would be an "only show ID once then you're OK" measure but apparently it wasn't. Yasue wanted to go and get her passport and i had to explain about 50 times that "if you go out, you can't come back in". To be fair that was over very loud metal (the strains of Ingested, i beleive) and Yasue's English ability is not the best. I blame it on Can and Can't sounding too similar XD. I bought us drinks and eventually just started ordering two beers at once at a different bar so it was OK in the end. Ingested finished and we went into the "second stage" (a smaller room, but the stages were staggered rather than "see this or this") to see the truly bizarre Dragged Into Sunlight, who played with thier backs to the audience (all of 3 songs, they were very long) and had the smoke machines going constantly creating a doomy, foggy atmosphere. They also had a 3-candle holder flickering on the stage and almost no other lights, a memorable performance. Once they finished we nipped over to buy some T-shirts etc (i got an official one that were apparently quite limited) then watched Desecration on the main stage (a much bigger room with several levels). I put it on and snuggled with Yasue a lot. We had also quite passionately kissed several times already :3 :3.
The festival continued with us alternating between the stages and attempting to take photos, i don't think i got a single decent one until Vader at the end. We saw Infected Disarray, The Rotted, Black Sun (also took pictures of us with them XD, a balcony area on the second stage ran right past the stage), Benediction and Reth (very screamy, and rather boring). We then had some burgers, missing Akercocke, and caught Lazarus Blackstar. We then went to see Origin in the main stage and remained there, missing Dam. Oh we did go and look around the merchandise section some more, Yasue also got a deathfest t-shirt, i think, and i got Saxon Live at Donington, recorded at the first Monsters of Rock 29 years ago! We then went back into the main stage and balanced on some stairs to watch Repulsion, who were brillaint. Sounded like Thrash to me but somebody who knows (and cares) more about metal would say they aren't XD. Then it was time for Vader, the band Yasue came to see. We missed Leng Tch'e on the second stage to get a good place for Vader as Yasue wanted to video thier set. Vader came on and were brilliant, though the moshing crowd down the front were knackered and couldn't really go truly crazy XD. After the show these guys asked Yasue for copies of her film, i had to be the go between as she'd learned to understand my accent XD. Occasionally when we talked she still couldn't understand me so i had to write things on the notes function of my phone rather than say them, so cute :3.
I didn't initially want to stay for the after party, but Yasue did, and Epic coming on persuaded me. Also the drink prices went down. Yasue met a guy she knew from one of the bands, got an AAA pass and vanished backstage while i hung around. 'Least i drunk her beers XD. I also think i briefly met the guy from Vader. About 2 in the morning we were both too tired to carry on so went back to the hotel, we "got busy" so to speak and i told her i loved her :3 :3 :3. She is so beautiful.
The next day we got up early and washed, then went back to Lincoln on the train. Yasue slept the whole way. Then we got to my room and she slept for hours in there too XD. I did the laundry and read some Sexton Blake. After she woke up we snuggled a bit and ate. She took to saying i was "kawaii" (cute) constantly when i did little things like rubbing my lips after drinking tea XD. We also cooked in the kitchen which was an excercise in nervousness. She wanted to wash up and dry up all the filthy washing that's always laying about, but the girls of the flat (well the two that are here most often) don't like other people washing thier stuff and certianly don't like people drying it (not that they ever do either themselves, when they do wash up they seem to make a bigger mess, and NEVER put stuff in cupboards, it's just left on the nearest available surface, normally exactly where i want to make my own food). Whenever she went to dry something i had to say "No, not that", then she'd try and dry something else instead XD. Still we did ok. Several more days of sitting around, love making and wandering Lincoln followed before she had to go off to Poland on the Wednesday, she cried ;_;. She also would talk in Japanese when she got emotional and said something with "arigatou" (goodbye) in it, which i assumed was "i don't want to say goodbye". We got stamps and posted postcards, then went to the train station and kissed a lot before she had to leave. I had a few tears on the way back from the station.
I'd also told Dave (or Captain McSlow) that Yasue was my girlfriend. He seemed upset despite saying he didn't mind if i "had others". I actually got pretty angry at him, but actually he had meant he didn't want me to have other actual lovers. He was then not sleeping, off his food and drinking himself senseless for a few days - over a guy he'd never met that he'd have to share! I wasn't that bad about Chrissy when she got engaged! All my friends said i should get shot of him, but i determined to make another go of it and things seem OK between us now. A bit.
Exams
Also after Yasue left, it was time to write one more essay about blood products. I winged it as there was no transfusion books in the library, nothing finable in journals (the essay was on the basics that were discovered decades ago) and i could hardly reference the NBS website that used language like "these little guys deliver oxygen to your body". Think i was 200 under the word count too, and had 3 references. I handed it in anyway (and a day late), i just didn't care. Then it was exam revision time! Concentrated on Biochemistry as that was the hardest subject. There was also an hourly comic day on May 10th, that one's not been uploaded yet (will be soon). It was better than my last one.
First exam up was Haematology & Transfusion science. Think i did pretty decently, it was the only one with short answer exam questions, a few of which were about identifying ABO and Rh blood group by well reactions, which i'm actually good at. I think i did pretty decently on the longer questions too. The next day it was Microbiology, i knew quite a bit on certian subjects so chose those in the essay questions, should be a good one. May 15th bought the dreaded biochemistry! I revised serum enzyme release up until we walked in the room, especially Creatine Kinase. Opened the paper and what's the first question about - serum enzyme release and creatine kinase!! I'm actually most confident about Biochem, which is saying something i can tell you.
Pre-Download meet up
The weekend in between those three exams and the last one was marked with a meet-up of Camp Lincolnshire, who are going to the Download Festival this year. We held it at this bloke's house who lives in the middle of nowhere, so we could have the sound system up nice and loud. Me and two guys called Adam and Luke went up there in Luke's car, he kept missing turnings and almost killed us a few times by pulling out in front of Audis or reversing into a canal. But we got there in the end, then piled in John's Hilux and went into Skegness. He only took 2 or 3 corners in an F1 fashion. Well it is 4 wheel drive, better grip XD. We picked up Ian, the guy who we were getting from Skeg (he runs a shop called Wasted Youth-so visit it. Hands off the British comics though! I want them when i can be bothered to go up there). We then went to Tescos there for booze (i didn't know that was happening so had stuggled through Lincoln carrying a ton of bottles and cans in a Morrison's bag for life). The woman on the "express" checkout was THE SLOWEST till bint ever. Yeah i know, you think you've been behind a bad one, who cracks a crap joke when the old dear forgets her pin number etc. But this one was 10 times worse than that. She stared at my driving licence for 5 minutes because the date of birth was in a slightly different place to where it is on the slightly older ones (i had to renew mine only a year ago after losing the old one at Download). Anyway we finally got through and the people who were on the non-express checkout ended up waiting for us.
We went back to John's at not such a fast speed (would have broke the bottles!) and when we arrived the wind had picked up and the Gazebo for Download was upside down with two broken legs. Still we fixed it OK, the legs are held in place so long as it's the right way up XD. The party started properly and Luke and Adam began to put up tents to sleep in (i'd decided to borrow John's caravan instead XD). The rest of us sat there and mocked them. After a few beers Ian decided that, as he had missed me getting overly drunk at the last meeting, he'd get me drunk on "shots" (more like a third of a small glass, whilst he poured rather less for himself each time) of various powerful stuff. I remember nothing from finishing those to waking up on John's sofa several hours later with a dog on top of me, wearing different clothes. Video footage of what i got up to in the "missing" period is on Youtube under "Pre Download meet up 2009". It's not pretty.
When i woke up it was dark, and Vix, Charlie and Ellie, other campers, had arrived. I drank a bit more as i was completley sober after waking up. A few cans gave me a "relapse" and i got drunk again pretty quickly though. I was cold, so the obvious thing to do, in my drunken mind, was start a fire. I pathetically tried to light some ripped up cardboard... before long i was being helped with assorted planks of wood, cuttings from trees, BBQ lighter and even a big tank of petrol (really felt the heat off that one!). There was also a BBQ going but it was largely forgotten. I did stick a burger on the end of a knife and hold it on the coals for a few seconds at a time before taking bites out of it, surprised i didn't throw up again after that XD.
Some assorted other stuff happened, i think Ian offered me a job at one point XD. Me and him then went to sleep in the caravan. I woke up at 9 the next morning, with a dog on top of me. The others hadn't even slept. We ended up sitting around in the living room watching telly while Luke slept so he could sober up and drive us home. It got rather boring for a while, then we turned the gymnastics on and made up double entrendes from the commentary, well with phrases like "she nailed it perfectly before the dismount" what else could you do?
Luke got up and we hung around another 2 hours while he properly sobered up, also there was tons of rain. Luke then drove us back, the journey was non-scary and i got to Lincoln alive :P. It then rained some more. I slept properly for many hours.
Last Exam!
It was Cellular Pathology. A subject i didn't even bother with the lectures for (he can't speak English anyway), so i was a bit worried. But there was a question about health and safety so i wrote all the stuff i remember from Cytocell (the great majority of which is not done at Lincoln, like "glove and no glove" door handles). Hopefully will be ok for "a 40". There was also jabbering in the next room and a constant humming/buzzing during the exam from upstairs, great.
I didn't really say goodbye to anybody after the exam, except for Thais, the rest all hung around and i just walked away. Shame as i'll probably never see any of them again... even if some people are under the mistaken idea that i'll be going to the graduation ceremony (or graduating, for that matter).
Zombie movie
On Wednesday i stuck around in Lincoln to act as a zombie in my brother's zombie film. The preparation and makeup work was done in a kitchen in the Junxion student block, a location i visited once before from which positive (at the time) things came XD. I took my wee £2.99 video camera to do behind the scenes filming, but the only footage i got was of bad jokes, stuff out the window, and people chatting about nonsense in general. Finally it was time for me to be made up and i had a gory hand so left the little camera behind. I probably would have been alright to take it with me though and got some actual "on set" (actually it was behind the science building) footage. Oh well, that said the gory hand did come in handy as my scene (the zombies were just chosen at random) had me reaching out for a girl after being pushed against a wall, i then got shot, for which a pressurised blood squiter was used. Not seen the effect of it yet, but little splats certianly went everywhere.
I also, after an un-tie of my hair and a change into a shirt, played a distant stumbling zombie. The true mark of the no-budget horror film, one person playing several roles XD. After that i did much Youtube uploading
Fenfest
I was planning on coming back home to go to a 3-day, 3-stage music festival held right near Little Downham! It was only local bands though, even the headliners werent that big, but there was a great metal band opening the second day called Spiral Dive, however the landowners pulled put and the festival got cancelled. My brother says the organiser was really incompetent and disorganised too. There's meant to be another one in August, but will it actually happen? XD.
Computer stuffed, back home
I was ripping tracks from CD's so that i could make randomised Download campsite mix CD's, when the computer's CPU use started to rock and hover at 60-80% even when task manager said nothing was happening. But i couldn't sort it out as i had to come home to save money. The journey was amazingly stress free, which is one thing at least XD. This morning i formatted the computer, but the formatting didn't actually delete anything o_O neither did it solve the problem.
I later discovered it was actually because of something called the IDE/ATA controllers resetting themselves, or something. Deleting the drivers and letting the computer restart fixed it, so my laptop isn't quite dead yet. I thought it had reached the end of my degree and then collapsed XD. Hopefully it will last a good while yet, if only so i can avoid Vista (and having to buy a new scanner and printer because Vista doesn't work with old ones "to ensure you get the best possible performance") a little longer.
Also i read my first Edge western on the train, it was brilliant! can understand why they are so addictive (and apparently can fetch £20-30 on ebay per book, they are only ordinary paperback size - luckily i got 4 of them for 90p each). It gave me a real blood-lust though, so i was fiddling with extra gore mods for Doom (my tweaks to Zdoom's Nashgore didn't work, so i made one for Legacy instead by copying just the blood splats out of a different wad) and making OBLIGE randomly-generated levels packed with enemies to blast. The latest version of OBLIGE makes really really good levels that are fun to play (except when it has spazzes and gives you only the rocket launcher in revenant-filled levels) and well-organised and laid out. It's a much bigger improvement on the old random map-maker, SLIGE.
The only problem is, i was working on a level that was supposed to be a fun blast through hundreds of weak enemies with the single-barrel. Now i see little point in continuing with it. Though i'll probably carry on adding a room here and there anyway.
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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9:14 am - *picard*
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| Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
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8:39 am - yaay
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Yasue made it! :3 Was a bit of a stroke of luck we met though. I decided to go and "wait the rest of the day" at the station, was there 10 minutes and up she popped, having just arrived herself :3
And now we're off to Deathfest. By "now" i mean in over 2 hours time, but there's annoying nagging things to buy first.
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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6:01 pm - FenFest
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*Was vaguely considering Fen Fest, but assumed it would be nearer Cambridge than Me*
*Goes back to the site just now*
*"Holy shit it's down Black Bank which is like NEXT to my village!"*
Local bands, a good bed at night AND drinking! gonna be great. It's a 3-stage, 3-dayer too!
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How long's it take to get from Japan to Moscow?
Yasue said she'd text me during the stop-over. I hope i gave her the right number o.o
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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11:26 pm - Myspace email notification writes:
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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11:49 pm - Pointellized update
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- I haven't finished all of my university essays after all, one more to do about transfusions. Luckily it's only 1600 words. I'll just do it about ABO transfusion reactions because they're easy, and also rare so i can put "luckily they virtually never happen" in the conclusion XD
- Had a night out with Download Festival board people, who i'm camping with :3 Four of them came to stay in my room and numerous others joined us on the night out. First stop was the Jolly Brewer where an unexpected live band were performing in memory of some bloke that hung himself. It ended with a bloke who looked like a Scottish version of Eddie Shit, and another guy in an extremely exaggerated scottish outfit (including a flat beret the size of a dustbin lid) belting out a bizarre bagpipe metal tune. Also at one point a stunning woman was performing that at least two of us fancied, turned out she was 40 ._. she was so beautiful. Also a member of the band Defnation was performing, and the guitarist from the same band was sitting near us, he is beautiful too ._. Later we went to Rock Haven, which place i havent been in for ages. A woman who had come from another part of Lincolnshire with her husband was throwing up after 2 pints! She hadn't had many nights out for months and months though... but works in a pub! We then went to Sugarcubes, where i danced to Dragonforce on the speakers on my own, while the floor was empty -_-. Then i was throwing up a small emount, so went home about 1 in the morning and vaguely slept. Before being woken up by the people that were staying in my room to be let in XD. Then i couldn't get to sleep and we talked until the sun was coming up. We also put a mucky film on, and then a stuuupid werewolf one. Nobody paid attention to either XD. The next morning, having ended up with loads of money left over, i had an Angus burger.
- There was a classic car show on the front that morning. I didn't really have the energy for a good look though. There was some 20's and 30's big ones, a Rover P5 and a wee Wolsely. Also the predictable MGB's and Triumphs. Also a week or two ago there was a Mini show on the front too. But i was going off to the library, and only noticed it when i looked out of the stairs window waiting for the lift. I'd left the library trip late, so didn't have time to have a proper look. Still both these missed car shows will be made up for by an upcoming real ale festival held in the same location... which is quite literally on my doorstep XD.
- My sexual orientation has become "i don't even know any more, just wing it"
- I had been emailing with a Russian called Ksenia but she didn't send me a message for ages. Then did again XD. I met her through Tamara off my course. She went a cute picture of her hand being held out with some grains in it, and a little bird perched on her hand to eat them :3
- I rediscovered the excellent website Fuckin' Otaku: http://catsonmars.com/otaku/ And recalled seeing a few of them in Cambridge taking up the Manga aisle in Borders, antisocially reading them all. At least those were decent-looking and cleanish XD. You get morons looking at the Manga in Lincoln Borders too, but they are of the smug-voiced middle class "raaandom" crowd who are going to get handed 25k jobs in daddy's firm when they finish thier pointless degrees... so at least they don't stink or sit still for hours on end (or ever). They do talk far too loud (at all) though.
- Had the last university practical today! We did PCR (making copies of bits of DNA over and over, useful for both forensics, diagnosis of microorganisms, and producing cytogentic probes) and Quorum Sensing (masses of bacteria = bacteria "talking" to each other in chemical ways and usually stopping growing. Some of them, though, 'work together' to flouresce and even MOVE in a "multicellular" way. Putting another nail in the coffin of creationism). It took "all day" though, 10-5 with an hour and a half off... what horrible hours XDD. I even had Tamara to keep me happy
- UK Deathfest on Sunday! And on Saturday Yasue arrives! She's coming all the way from Japan to see the headliners, Vader. Who are incedentally the only band playing at it i like XD. Though The Rotted aren't all that bad so long as they don't open thier mouths. The rest of them are all shouty noise metal... luckily, though it's boring on CD, it's good fun live... and always entertaining to laugh at the semi-knowing ridiculousness of it all. Me and Yasue send lengthy Myspace messages to each other. In her later one she recalled the time she had a Dutch boyfriend and visited him, saying she saw "pressed hedgehogs" on the road. Pressed!
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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4:03 pm - A "proper" British comic strip from The Victor turned into a film!
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