Friday, March 31, 2006

A brief history of mime

Just thought of a snappy title for a book if there are any budding 'History of Mime' writers out there. Alternatively you could right about crime, lime, grime, etc etc with the same effect.

Friday has been brillig and i must not gyre or gimble too long for i am hungry and the food is downstairs (hope all those jabberwocky fans are happy). I went into town today, in the sun, which was amazing. I guess sunshine makes you appreciate the world. Though i must confess myself to be a big fan of rain too. There's something amazing about the sound, sight and feel of rain-only heavy rain mind, none of this rubbish english drizzle

I watched 'The Island' this evening. If you haven't seen it: i wouldn't bother. With the technological status of a plough and the intruige of an empty museum, its only redeeming factor is its cheap action sequencing and sexual interest. I mean any film with Scarlett Johansen is sure to draw some crowds, however the plot is poor, the chase scenes are old, and the ideas are stolen. That said...if you want a half entertaining film, just to watch, i would actually recommend it!

Tomorrow i plan to have an early start and be busy all day!

Thought for the Day: Life is what happens while we are busy making plans

Thursday, March 30, 2006

3 pints of beer or a pair of almost new trousers??

Yes i know i am a cheapskate but today i bought a pair of trousers (jeans) from a charity shop for £6. How amazing is that. i think we should all go to charity shops more often...buy with a conscience at the same time! By the way of course it would be the latter anyway because i am not drinking until the end of lent. Katherine came round after her work this morning just as i was waking up at 9.20. Katherine and i then went into town (shopping) where i got my jeans suprisingly...then Katherine and i were invited to lunch by the youthworker of our old church. So that was all good and i got a nice lunch (i get bored of making sandwiches) and then Katherine went off to work again at 3 and i returned to do some work and guide Man Utd even closer to the title on CM. So all in all it has beeen a reasonably exciting day-though not overstrenuous.

Have you ever wondered who invented the Ear? well wonder no more, it was the russian scientist Kolon, who also invented the sewing machine and hydrogen before the ear. His name was also used to describe punctuation and a part of the digestive system. Quite a remarkable guy-if you dont believe me, jus check wikopedia!

Thought for the Day: What if your eyes are on the back of your head and you were just assembled back to front?

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

There is no need to adjust your clocks

Do not fear, your clocks are not wrong, i have posted before 11pm. Actually as an aside, your clocks may be wrong. Firstly the batteries may have gone or something, or as i found out, along with emma, it may be that the blog has not updated your clock. I found it easiest just to pretend i was african, and now the time is right! yippee!

Today is to be named cooking day, or maybe baking day-in recognition of the fact that i will have baked twice in one day. That is quite a rareity for me you must understand. First i have made mince pies this afternoon, and then i am making a pud of some sort tonight. The mince pies turned out great...if you like bottomless mince pies. Most of them are alright, but in about half of them, i put slightly too much mincemeat in and they leaked down the sides and stuck to the tray, so only the tops came out afterwards. O dear oh dear-just was well Oli and Taj don't read this blog! In all fairness i can cook very well-im not quite as good with the baking side, but even so im not bad.

I have resigned myself to unemployment for four weeks now. Wahoooo! But oh no-no money.
Well my little minions, that is about all for today, so i leave you with words by W H Auden, as a lament to the Earth?!?

Thought for the Day: Sob heavy world, sob as you spin, mantled in mist, remote from the happy

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Boredom sets in

Right...half an hour left, so id better write todays blog.
Today i got up nice and early so that i would be awake when waitrose calles to tell me whether i had the job or not. Well...i am still waiting, and to be honest, it seems rather late to me. Tch, supermarkets. So it looks like i am going to have less money and more dossing time, which could be good news for everyone perhaps steven spielberg.

Tomorrow i am baking! i was bought some bradny butter-my fav. so i am making some mince pies to go with it. I know its not very seasonal, but really who ever said mince pies were for Christmas time only? Well whoever it was must have been wrong!

In other news.....Aaaarrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Help me! I am going insane. I have to much to do in too little time and a doing not enough in the huge amounts of time i have to do nothing!

Thought for the Day: Boredom is merely defferred excitement or is it the other way round?

Monday, March 27, 2006

Wahooo over 50 posts and still going...

Yes, this post is the 51st of its kind, which i guess means we've overtaken letters of the alphabet and US presidents...next up...heinz varieties...only 7?!? to go? i think so anyway.

Today i got more shoes. This does not mean i have lots of money, rather that i owned no soes that kept water out before this week. Hence i decided i probably needed 2 good pairs of shoes. For some reason i always worry i sound like a girl when i talk about shoes. But..however i can assure you, despite worrying allegations, i have no little secret regarding my gender-I am most definitely male! there that ought to put an end to those rumours! lol

I went into waitrose today, and so they will be ringing me tomorrow to tell me whether they will employ me or not. I would like the money, but if they said no, it would be a handy excuse to do noting all holiday! Other than that i also watched the wallace and gromit film today for the first time-brilliant (with extra ice!)

Thought for the Day: Never eat shredded sheep

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Personal rant-do not bother reading!

I do not have much to say today. I have grumbled about the hour loss, and besides going out for a meal, and then listening to the football there is nothing to report about today. So instead i shall briefly discuss a radio programme i heard last night about Norman Kember. I am afraid that i am slowly losing all faith in humanity. There were loads of people ringing in (some anti-religous) saying how stupid he was to be out there

The reality is that the war was illegal and immoral and that for my part i wish i had the guts to act on my beliefs more. All those who were against the war, and then suddenly when an OAP peacemaker is out in Iraq, he is being called reckless and stupid. Shouldn't we be encouraging people like him and helpign iraqis see that we are not behind what the government is doing and that we disagree with it? Hes on a peacemission, hes not a missionary converting people.

I guess that the sad fact is that we work on a majority system of government. For once i am inclined to agree with Oli, that a country where the right people were in charge would be far better than a country run by the majority-who are usually wrong.

Thought for the Day: Majority rule sucks!! lol

Sorry rant over!

i hate BST!

We're gonna lose an hour??? Where has it gone??? That is most careless, lets just hope we find it sometime-and quickly-it took until october last time...

I hate losing hours, its so inconvenient to my sleeping plans. I mean i wouldn't miss 2-3 in the afternoon. Personally i think that would be far better than depriving us of an hours sleep. I mean thats just mean!

Well the big news of today is that i too have experienced caramel shortbread this holiday. Only this was Bettys of Harrogates finest Millionaire shortbread and was half the size of Andy's and cost 3 times as much. Still i didn't buy it so the cost is of no concern to me! And it was very nice!
I also managed to start the dreaded W word today through some light reading. I hope to scale up to full time revision over the next few weeks. Other than that i have had a very average day. I could spend hours ranting about the cheats that call themselves footballers, but i realise that none of you would be remotely interested in that, so i will spare you! Katherine is back with no bones broken which is also very good! I will leave you in peace now. Tara

Thought for the Day: If you have any problems today do not fear...don't lose any sleep over them, BST does that for you...

Friday, March 24, 2006

And so the rain came...

garrrr shouldn't have mentioned the rain yesterday. With all predictability it has barely stopped raining all day today. Ah well, it didn't stop my adventure into town this afternoon. Admittedly i have had more exciting days in my life, but i did buy some new shoes which i think is quite exciting! No more wet feet for me.

This evening i watched Donnie Darko which is a fantastic film. Its the second time i have seen it fully and it is near the top of my list of favourite films. Along with the Truman Show!
It did mean i was all by myself all evening, but everyone else was out having a life. Maybe one day i'll get a life too.

So tomorrow being a saturday will really turn things upside down. im not quite sure why, but when your not at Uni, or even during school holidays, it was always saturdays that completely threw me-just never managed to quite get my head round them. Think its kinda the fact that no matter where i have been i have always had saturdays off, so to have every day off makes saturdays feel strange. Anyways i shall lave you now with another sentence of complete lack of insight

Thought for the Day: The past is the wall upon which we stand-Try and take parts of it out, and you crumble, spend too much time looking at it and you fall off

Its not raining...nor pouring and i can hear no snoring

Thursdays are usually rainy. However today broke the trend because it did not rain. I have not done anything of note today, except perhaps going to a concert tonight at my old school. It was a very high standard though it did mean i had to suffer the head teacher once again. And believe me, it can be difficult. Anyways music was reeeaallllly good and i feel all cultured now! I also got to see some of my friends again which was brilliant. Oops ice tray is empty-youll have to do without. Ok well i have big plans for tomorrow. im not sure what, but after so many days of simply sitting around it is in my mind inevitabel by the laws of probability that i am due a biiigggg day! so watch out world coz here i come! p.s happy birthday vicky! woooo 19 today. pps my alter ego still exists...he gets lonely...real lonely.

Thought for the Day: The most perfect objects in life only get there by a lot of reshaping

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Escapism in action...

http://hgerfdthetransdimensional.blogspot.com/

Hello hello hello

Hoorah, hoorah to good weather! What a beautiful day today. I went for a morning stroll which i thoroughly enjoyed! I no some people dont enjoy solitude or relaxation-but they are right up my strreet (figuratively-they arent actualy at the end of the street on which i live).

Today if all goes well you will spot my alter ego in another dimension Hgerfd (which is pronounced Doo-saa-min in his language) has started a blog-i am translating it into english so you will be able to understand. So keep an eye out for that. I apologise that some words ma not translate. So..what have i done today-well i watched the commonwealth games diving:oh no sorry i mean i watched chelsea 'play' football. Which was depressing and really rather dull. i also tidied my room a little:yes i know this is a little extreme but hey!

So i think that is just about all today. The plans for tommorrow have not yet been drawn up at this very early hour. However an intelligent guess would be...nothing! I leave you with some words of wisdom i found in my room today that i wrote 6 years ago

Thought for the Day: Treasure moments, because you will not realise what they are worth until afterwards.

Piccies!!

Righty ho-following that awful post-i thought i ought to post some piccies to make you forget all about i-so here goes:









Tomorrow's yesterday

Well well well, another tuesday i will back upon with joy. I dont know why-theres just something about Tuesdays. Well actually no there isnt, i have never felt any affiliation to Tuesdays, it was merely that two sentences into my blog-i had already run out f things to say. Which would have been extremely embarassing if it were not for my super fast brain which has guided me through the first paragraph.

There we go now that wasn't hard was it now. All i have is another few paragraphs and it'll lookm impressive then i can sign off claiming i havent done much today, and people will think 'wow he didnt do much today and yet he still manages to write two paragraphs about it' Well at least some people will marvel at it while others will scorn the idea, seeing through its incredible transparency. In reality i guess it may be a good test as to whether people read my blogs or not-especially if i insert a random word somewhere around Plasticene which will test whether they actually read it with any care at all.

So that was today...I havent done much really. Signing off

Thought for the Day: Ode to a pigeon by Tim Marjoribanks

If i were a pigeon, id strut around and coo,
And if i didnt like you, id cover you in poo.

Oh to be a pigeon, and nod my head all day,
I guess i couldnt help it, because pigeons walk that way.

To follow in the footsteps, of brave old Cher Ami,
To serve my King and country, oh thats the life for me

And when the strutting was all done, and the cooing died away,
Id settle down and find a mate, and nod the night away

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Monday

Yes i know its a few minutes late but who actually cares...right well a lot tosay today

Firstly thankyou to all those (5) people who made yesterday a record breaking day for my blog, registering a massive 24 comments. I have contacted guinnes world records, but am waiting to hear back! So what exciting things have i done today...

Well last night i feel asleep at 2am with my laptop by my side-no i havent found attachment of a different kind...i was downloading 24 season 5 so i could catch up before tonight. The download took 11hrs and finished just as i was waking up at 9.30am. So i celebrated that by watching the first episode! After that i got up and had some lunch! Then perhaps the most exciting part of my day consisted of going for coffee with a rah-ther good friend of mine from school who is now at Cambridge-alas she is still a poor misguided fool, as durham as we all know is the place to be.

Following that frollicking, i resided in the house for a while, during which time i ate some tea (yum yum) and then this evening guess what...i watched the latest 24 (ep.8). It should be noted that while no mention is given..i had previously caught up the 3 episodes i had missed-but i did not think that news worthy of precious blog-space.

So, another day over, a new one just begun...hmm reminds me of a john lennon song. Imagine that-me as john lennon. Oh dear i dont like that thought very much at all. I think id rather be a pigeon...oh to be a pigeon...oooh in fact i shall include my 'ode to a pigeon' on tomorrows blog-now theres a good cliffhanger to finish on!
Au revoir

Thought for the Day: YYUR, YYUB, ICUR, YY4ME

Monday, March 20, 2006

The madness of it all...

Hey hey there crazy people reading this blog. Just a little mention of two very enlightening blogs -watchthisspace77.blogspot.com and vixisinsaneblogspot.com. Both a very good read. Though in reality its mainly you two who read this dull and boring text. Still free advertising cant be bad! (Cheques in the post please guys)

So what crazy madness have i been up to today...well i had 11hrs sleep which is the equivalent of 3 nights sleep in durham! Brilliant! Then i got up. had an amazing lunch (pork and potatoes both properly cooked) then played scrabble (i know, very intellectual but it passed the time), then i updated my website a little, then i had some tea, went to church in the evening, came back, watched Planet Earth and now i am here. And people say i dont tell them enough...

Plans for tomorrow consist of sleeping a lil more and going into town to buy things!

Thought for the Day: Spend a few minutes googling craig murray-its actually quite shocking

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Back to normality

Well today i arrived back in Harrogate for five weeks of pure nothingness and normality. In actual fact i shall be working hard and doing lots of exciting things im sure-i just don't know what they are yet! Ah well, i think i could do with a break!

So here i am, feeling all alone by myself with no uni friends accross the corridor, and no-one to just go and chat to. I have even started sorting out my uni notes through lack of anything else to do!

I havent really got anything else to say-except that i have actually lost my mildert freshers t-shirt it would appear-which had depressed me further.
Watch this space...

Thought for the Day: Absence is the main ingredient to recognising and appreciating presence

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Back to school

Don't give up hope...i am still here...just that i never seem to write on my blogs anymore. I guess that as soon as i get home they shall become daily updates again.

Only a fw days of uni life left now before easter. wahoooooo! Though in reality id rather be here in many ways-it seems a very long time to be away from friends i know so well. Still there is msn i suppose. Today we found our fourth housemate which is great. HIs name is Ellis and he coms from manchester-though he supports Sheffield United-oh dear oh dear.

Still he seems really nice-just waiting for him to confirm now, then we can all sign. Hurrah!
Tonight its back to school a the DSU so its all fun fun fun. We have decided all to get high on lucozade before we go-even better! anyways seeing as its now less than 2 1/2 hours before we leave!! Apparently i shud go and get ready!

Thought for the Day: Choice is active responsibility

Monday, March 06, 2006

Day of judgement

Hey ho from the land of insane nothingnness...what is insanity.
To claim one is sane suggests that one knows insanity from which to distinguish sanity. By logic there are two ways in which one might find out about insanity: through experience or from a friend. Now if it is the former then it is obvious that the person was insane at some point and so could still be classed as insane. If it was the latter however, then it creates a problem. However at some point there must have already been experience for the concept of insanity to exist, else twould be nothing more than a myth. Therefore at some point an insane man must have spoken from experience and someone must have listened. But the very idea of listening and going by the words of a confessed insane person would seem insane and so consequently the chain of insaity would lead back to the person in question.
Ergo, the claim of sanity by oneself, implies insanity. Hence there is a contradiction.

Anyway..just a thought. nothing mush has happened here at Uni. Went to see a play on friday and a film tonight which was fun. tomorrow is my biiiig essay hand-back day. Arrrrghhhhhh.
Oh well...ttfn

Thought for the Day: If someone told you they were lying-would you believe them?

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Is that a man or a woman??

Hey ho. I am still alive-no need to panic- althoug i have been rather busy as of late with essay hand in dates, and spending nights dressed as women...you know the normal stuff. This weekend has been a work free weekend though i did sit on the worky bench for a while-not that i worked for that time. Yesterday united lost again-but the weather was sooo nice even that didnt get me down
! so here i am standing on the brink of another crazy uni week-just ready to leap into it! I hope everyone out there is having fun
So long

Though for the Day: maculinity is a delicate thing

Friday, February 10, 2006

work-what on earth is that???

Its true-i have finall discovered the meaning of the word. I spent all day today doing my next geography essay that is still not due in for a whole week! how amazng is that! I must be careful not to get too keen though-who knows what would happen.

In other news....we're off to POS again tonight hopefuly and i have another full day's work to look forward to-yippee. anyway i think i should go sleep now-i seem to have enough mental problems already as well as being a druggy so i think sleep could do me good.

Thought for the Day: If you havent found something worth dying for then life is worthless