Ubos

Do any of you remember Ubos? That silly tv cartoon about magic that was someone's attempt to jump on the "love of magic Harry Potter" bandwagon. Urgh, I was just trying to think of a last "U" word because it is June tomorrow.

I'm sorry I haven't enlightened you about my life recently. I did make a video last week that included the things I would have blogged about and other than that I've done revision and eaten food.

Today I was trying to clear out some stuff from my hard drive instead. I have 5 gigs free, it is not a good state to function.

I don’t want to delete all the old Russell Howard and Jon Richardson podcasts I have.

Is there a function on Windows XP where I can see exactly what is taking up the space so I can see what I need to cut down on?!

Going to keep browsing around and deleting things here and there until I have at LEAST 10 gigs free.

Don't have time for that it seems. I need to make all the Switzerland video I still have into ONE video. Will have to add that to my "after exams" list of things.

I have a rather large "list of things" but as of yet I haven't written them down. They're all in my head and so next Monday, after my PinE exam, I shall have to consider what to do first.

TTFN

:)

Umbrella weather

I'm ever so tired so this is going to be short.

James' parents took us out for a day to go for a walk around the beautiful Lake District.
Unfortunately it failed as it rained.
We did less than 2000 steps between the car and various pubs.

I need to revise so much tomorrow to make up for my day off.

*yawn*

Umbridge

Yesterday, James and I went on an adventure and had our last gorgeous day off from revision before these exams start.

Bus to town, food and a train to Kendal set the ball rolling. We saw my friend Eri from Art with her husband at the station and then we set off to find Abbot Hall where there was an exhibition by Mark Francis. The sun was almost unbearably hot and we had to walk past a raucously loud fairground. But there was shade and ducks and the best company I could wish for. The exhibition wasn't really of the type of art I am fond of. It was repetitive and a bit *grr* inducing. However it was a welcome insight into the type of work being produced and there was also a few other pieces by various artists in other areas of the building which made up for it.

We spent a lot of time sitting in different places just chilling or, because of the heat, warming. We ventured into homebargains because it was huge and air conditioned and welcoming. 

We walked, sat and explored the afternoon away until decided it was too hot for a full on meal and so, instead of Pizza Express, we ventured to KFC. I felt fine eating a smidge of junk food as I had had a M&S fruit salad for lunch!

Jon Richardson and Shappi Khorsandi both provided splendid entertainment that made me feel all light and floaty and happy (as all good comedy does).

Our taxi adventure home cost us a full £40 but it's a good job we agreed this with the lovely driver before setting off because the total was over £60 by the time we reached campus.

We had a good old giggle about school teachers and their behaviours before we slept as a day as busy as that (tiring though it is) leaves your brain all in a fuddle that needs to be talked out a bit first.

Today, Sunday, was another very very warm day that sends my brain iffy and out of reasonable forms of concentration. I tidied. I got to speak to M on msn for the first time in AGES! We had lemon chicken for tea and watched Dr. Who, Outnumbered and listened to the Dave Gorman podcast. 

Unfortunately there was also a point today where I discovered, when going to pick up my art equipment from the studio, that one of my pieces of work, the only one that isn't a painting but still fits in the display, had gone. Nowhere to be found! I printed off a photo of it but it isn't the same. I'm quite upset and dissapointed about it's loss. *sigh*

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Just now, before I started to write this, I was saying goodbye to James (as we've decided not to share a bed during exam times to aid sleep) and I discovered there had been a small fire in the other kitchen. Their kitchen is now covered in a white powder. At least we're not on fire.

Goodnight internet. I am going to retire to my comfortable but quite empty bed (I still have my cuddly giraffe Gerald and turtle Duck) and listen to an audio book to lull me to sleep. When I say "audio book" I mean Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 

I really dislike Umbridge.

Useful career information

This morning I dragged myself out of bed a lot earlier than on a regular Wednesday.

This morning we had a 10am compulsory career talk.

This morning I sat through 40 minutes as a man who is a career advisor mumbled on and around the subject of planning your future.

"Look at where you are now. Know where you want to be. Take steps to get there."

He handed us sheets of links to art related websites that he admitted to not checking in the last two years - "...so they might not be accurate."

The thirty seconds in which Bill and Gerry told me about a newsletter I could subscribe to was infinitely more useful than Dave's talk.

Mind you. It has set me thinking about maybe buying a domain name and setting up my own website that isn't this blog. Although I know nothing about this so I will have to research it before I make any snap decisions.

Our art is getting marked on Monday and so I've been setting mine up. It looks small and a bit odd but I hope when the people marking it look closely they see what I want them to and are intrigued enough by it to want to look at my backup work too!

I have a massive urge to eat chips. I probably wont. But we've had rice and pasta and eggs and peas and things for WEEKS.

I shall now submerge myself in Order of the Phoenix; gosh I love Stephen Fry's voice. Although I wish he would do a different voice for Tonks.

LOVE YOU

Ullswater

Yesterday morning, while making sandwiches to take out for the day I had a small reminisce about Outward Bound with Megan as the topic of orienteering reminded her of an adventure and team building weekend she had been on with her school.

A fair amount of us SSAGOians met up to get the bus to Williamson's Park in Lancaster and then Matt offered a few of us a lift so Bekky, Ruth and I accepted. It meant we got there a bit earlier than the others and we sat down to eat lunch. James had walked in earlier, just because he wanted to and he met up with us there. We were split into three groups for the orienteering. Bekky, Ruth, James and I. Hannah, Lorna and a girl whose name escapes me and then the boys Chris, Matt and John. We spent nearly 2 hours wandering around finding the letters from the tops of wooden posts, looking at squirrels, swings, rabbits, ducks and eating ice cream. When we were finished and had collected 32 letters and letter combinations we headed to the monument and sat and talked in the warm and comfortable sun.

Last night's Dr. Who was pretty awesome I thought, after we had watched that, James and I finished the second season of Conchords too.

This morning we did our washing and I sat doing PinE revision while it span. One girl put her stuff in a machine that stopped working once she had left so out of the goodness of my heart I moved her things into another one and sent it spinning with my own pound. I even stuck an Out Of Order sign on the duff one.

James cleaned his bedroom and bathroom while his washing was on so after lunch we had to go for a walk so that the fumes didn't send us loopy. (Or something).

I've just edited some duck footage together to stick on my youtube page (which has been terribly neglected).

TTFN

Unlikely

There are many things you don't know about me readers.

Yesterday I snapped my nearly brand new SkullCandy headphones. They were pink and beautiful and are now in three pieces. I am sad.

Another thing is that, about 3 years ago, maybe longer, Hazel and I had a challenge, one we never fully finished. Neither of us won or lost this race to "get as many free things and samples from the internet". As that is what the competition was.
One of the things I sent off for was a Watercress Recipe Book.

I only remembered to tell this story because they just sent me the quarterly newsletter...
With gems like this:

Sunday - The Watercress Festival 16 May

Come down and join the fun at the annual Watercress Festival in Alresford, Hampshire (10am - 4pm), the home of British watercress. Watch the Watercress King and Queen bring the first of the harvest into town on a horse and cart and distribute it to the waiting crowd. Enjoy cookery demonstrations, Hampshire farmers market, street entertainment, live music, farm tours and much more.

Genius.

I want to edit Hazelizabeth and some duck footage for my own channel now.

:) 

Us

Wednesday already!

I know dream stories are boring, but I also know that mine was entirely bizarre. It included a part with numbered controlled invites, a real dead bear nailed to the wall with a fish on it's head, forgetting my bag, James staying to play pass the parcel rather than come with me and people trying to steal my camera  but me getting there first to find them charging the battery!

Art was good this morning, I finished listening to The Prisoner of Azkaban and have now painted 16/39 of my final piece water colours. I might end up re-doing some but I'll see about that next week. I managed to knock one of them into my water cup but it didn't suffer too much thankfully!

James and I walked into town again today because we needed more sustaining foods to last us and we won't be able to go this Sat because I am going orienteering with SSAGO. They were all out of Light Soy Sauce in the Chinese shop. But they did have Pocky biscuits for 55p!

Tea time soon and it'll be home made burgers again I think!
Yum!

x

Unticarial

Outside my window I can see two fire engines. They say "Lancaster Fire and Rescue Service" on them and they are fluorescent orange. One of them is backed up to Spar.

That was written on Saturday morning and even though it is now Monday night I still have no idea what they were there for.

On Saturday James and I walked over 17,000 steps into, around and back from town. On out trip we bought clingfilm (which was the reason for our walk other than a trip out) and stumbled upon a Dr. Who fan store which was quite scary but I high fived a fellow Chameleon Circuit listener and was told I am neither friend or foe. As I am a Sontaron computer. (Plus 2000 intel though!)

Anyhoo, on the walk back my neck started to get itchy then my whole body broke out in hives again. ARGH it's insane.

I've worked and watched Pokémon with James since then.

Life is good. (Except for my allergy to life...)

:D

Unimpressed

Politics was high on everyone's list of topics today, I don't want to blog about it.
I will just answer this intriguing language analysis thing that Ash posted.
:)

Age: 19

Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): Durham, UK

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Stream.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: Trolly.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: Pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Sofa or settee.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Gutter.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Patio?

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop. Or even just "soft drinks".

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancake.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Erm, sub I suppose. Usually though it'd be in a baguette so I'd call it that.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Trunks.

12. Shoes worn for sports: Trainers.

13. Putting a room in order: Tidying. Cleaning is like vacuuming but sorting things out is just tidying.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Woodlouse.

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: See-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza: I don't.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: We don't get that, we have car boot sales or take it to a fair.

19. What's the evening meal?: Tea. If dinner is to be used it's for the biggest meal of the day, either lunch or tea.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: A basement, or cellar, depends.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: Water fountain.

So yes. Just this from me as all I've done is wear clear tights for the first time in ages paint and eat.


:)

Uncertain Future

So, I'm supposed to be filling in a review questionnaire for my Psychology in Education course but seeing as I did it before the lab actually began (because I got here early to do my homework) I don't have anything to be typing. I was just going to listen to "World of Warcraft Ruined my Life" by ALL CAPS but then I realised that if I wasn't typing at all I might get singled out and asked what I was up to and then be caught watching nerds dance around in cosplay and it would all go wrong.

So I decided I would type in this blog instead.
This morning I walked past the little newsagents in the corner of the square at the center of main campus and there was someone selling "The Times" newspaper for 30p. Now, regularly I don't read the newspaper. Not through the fact that I don't care about what is going on, but I often barely glance and the Scan and don't have the inclination to actually BUY the news when much of it is so readily available online! But today I did buy it. This time it wasn't because it came with free food (as it has in the past). Oh no. Today was a free book. The woman was like "you can have more than one if you want" and honestly I was tempted to take one of all of them because I love books. But this would have been MASSIVELY unfair and not right for only THIRTY PEE. 30p. I know. I ended up picking "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Greggory and "The Tiger in the Smoke" by Margery Allingham.
I am very happy with this. I might even read the newspaper and it's supplement later, though my time might be spent better making a new video (as this is an avenue I have neglected quite terribly".

So, I have a letter to post to Hazel (well a note really) and then I have to head out and vote and then eat lunch and then probably attempt to actually do some art.

I should listen to Colin and this session now though because apparently we're going to get picked on to present our pov's about the task at any point.
It's sort of themed around the election.
:D

Unique flavours

I never thought I'd enjoy cooking like I do. When I get to experiment with new things it is often quite fun.
Last night (Tuesday) we made our own burgers (mince, onion and egg to bind) and to go with it decided to use up some ingredients (grated carrot, tomato pasata and garlic). This proved to be a very tasty accompaniment to a creative use of mince.

Tonight was even more strange. We had gammon steaks and were unsure whether pineapple would suffice as a side. So to supplement at first we decided that the pepper that was due to be eaten would be nice but I also added onion and a tomato and then garlic and then some herbs, lemon juice, soy sauce, salt, pepper and honey. It was very tasty, although a little strange. It was quite a quantity so we decided that the pineapple would be saved for tomorrow's second helping of gammon.

We walked into town today to get a few life essentials and just for the walk and recreation really.

Art is going well in my opinion. Just need to get started on producing my final pieces after all this planning and research.

Oh and James and I have started watching the very first episodes of Pokémon. We're 4 in. It's AMAZING.

Stylus' (in reference to two DS stylus(es)) was made into these two words by James: Stylusi & Stylupodi.
Unfortunately, adding "podi"to words, isn't quite how pluralising works.

'Til next time.

Unprepared

They had bags of revels with the coffee ones in in homebargains. I didn't realise 'til I got it back, I only got it because it was £1. Now I wish I'd got more.

Yesterday, James and I walked into town, had lunch with his parents at Wetherspoons, got very very wet in the heavy rain and bought food for the next week or two. When we got back to campus we dried off and I had a nap and then we went to see Sherlock Holmes. The one with Jude Law. It was magnificent. I adored the way it was filmed and the characters, I seem to have not seen a bad film that Regina George is in either.

We watched Dr. Who and the confidential on return to James' room and that was spectacular too. I smashing ending to that storyline. VAMPIRES (or so we think) next time!

It is now Monday morning. Yesterday was pretty lovely although I ended up feeling very tired.

Flight of the Conchords, the one with the cup especially, was hilarious!

Don't know what we're doing today, working I suppose even though it's a bank holiday.

ttfn