a big guy in a big city

Posted by Bone at March 16th, 2004

went out last night for Matt’s birthday, but I came back early cos I didn’t feel like going to Zanzibar. So despite getting home before midnight I ended up getting to sleep at 5AM I can’t wait to get home and be in my comfy bed.

Going out again tonight, for a guy called Rob’s birthday, he’s not the one from my house but I know him pretty well even though I only know him through Richard.

I was gonna put up some pictures of my Hall Ball but I lent Duncan my USB pen so that he could bring his essay to uni, and thats more important than a few pictures so you’ll have to wait till tomorrow when I have my free afternoon and go up to Manor Croft to download some movies from FilmWatcher.

I spent £65 on books today, I’m gonna of cleared out my account by the time I get home, oh well.

Cya guys.

Posted by Bone at March 13th, 2004

It’s my hall ball tonight, so I’m gonna be drunk for the first time in about 3-4 weeks, it should be lots of fun, we have a Grease theme though we have to dress normally, though I may slick my hair back in a some kind of shiny quiff style.

I bought a Kinks album yesterday, Preservation Act 1, its like a compilation of their good stuff, it was only a fiver, so I’m happy.

Me and Richard went into this posh spirits shop yesterday and the owner was really condescending to us just because we were students, like I asked him if he had any port glasses (cos Richard has some nice port and we want to look classy) and he repeated my question with an emphasis on the words that you say in a posh southern way as if to say that people from the North aren’t allowed to have enough money to spend on glass. This leaves me in a bind, there was some strawberry schnapps there that I wanted to get, but do I really want to buy it off this dick, or would it be a victory for me to prove to him that students appreciate quality. That really pissed me off that I was judged just for being young.

Iwent to a really nice Chinese yesterday in town, it was the kind of place that was posh and yuppyish at night, but did a £5.50 deal for lunch, which is semi-student friendly, though the guys in the house thought it was odd that I was willing to pay £10 just for lunch.

As I have said many, many times before, I’m not a typical student.

Posted by Bone at March 11th, 2004

OK guys, I’ve added a new link to the left bar.

It’s for the Hunger Site, its a website where all you have to do is click on the button and the sponsoring companies will give money to charities, who will in turn use that money to buy food for starving people. You don’t have to register, or even give your e-mail address. You can click once a day and there are little tabs at the top showing the other sections of the site, which if memory serves, are the same thing but for:

free mammograms (these are expensive so 4 million clicks only gets 100 mammograms, so its important that you click)

saving the rainforest (at the moment they are managing to buy an incredible 1 million square feet of forest per day)

child health (they helped more than 500,000 children last year)

animal rescue (providing over 500,000kg of food per month to animal shelters)

It probably took me less than a minute to click on all five sites, and whilst there is a lot of advertising, its not like you’re forced to buy anything, so I think it isn’t too much effort when you consider what you can do.

I promise I’ll write something funny next time.

Posted by Bone at March 11th, 2004

Ok, since I don’t really do anything I end up having to think about things, so here’s todays though.

Why do people seem to talk about Karma as if its this scientifically proven thing?

Like on TV (and more annoyingly in everyday life) if something bad happens (like you spill a pint) then someone, usually a girl, goes “well thats Karma for you”, but it isn’t, do you even believe in the religion Karma is a part of? (buddhism?) is there any possibly way to prove that Karma exists, or is it that people have confused the words coincidence and Karma.

Fair enough if you actually believe in it to its full extent, and have actually read/been taught about it, then I can accept that, but please for the love of God (see what I did there?) don’t just casually drop into a conversation as an explanation of something which was an accident.

Posted by Bone at March 10th, 2004

Just made a couple of tiny changes to the layout, so I have changed the number to version 2.2, some of you may have noticed that I skipped v2.1 but technically I had done that version and simply not updated the number….. as if you care, it’s all about the content!!!

Posted by Bone at March 10th, 2004

Just had a tutorial for my Europe module, and despite not having the sheets for a week (like the rest of the class) and just wlking in with the knowledge I had from previous lectures, there was still only me and Dave willing to give answers to questions and make points. It’s a total joke, why bother even turning up if you aren’t willing to get involved in the discussion. Sure I got a couple of things wrong, but its not like it matters, cos I covered up the mistakes with some interesting points.

I seem to be making up theories in tutorials and getting credit, which is cool, because I made up a rather idealistic middle east peace process domino effect theory, when I just kept talking till I was stopped, and the teacher was all like “thats very interesting, so you believe that peace and non-aggression in middle east states will spread due to there being no need for other states to be aggressive towards a country that just wants peace” so she like totally stole my theory. Before anyone gets angry/confused I know its totally unworkable in the current political climate, or any climate until I am President of the world and tell those Israelis and Palestinians to go down the pub and sort it out over a pint. Can Palestinians drink alcohol? Does their religion forbid it? I don’t think it does, but if it does then maybe thats the problem that they’re all pent up and relax, which reminds me, I simply must open a strip club on the Gaza Strip, it would solve everything. Maybe it Jewish people were allowed to put cheese on everything and grill it (like I do) then they too would be happier and willing to settle for peace.

How could I talk about the Middle-East for that long, and manage to be just that ridiculous, I should probably watch out for Hamas dudes knocking at the door, or Israeli tanks for that matter (just so you don’t think I’m siding with one or the other, I haven’t decided yet).

That was possibly the most random post ever.

Have fun.

Posted by Bone at March 9th, 2004

Frankly guys I’ve done nothing of note of the past 24 hours so I’m just gonna have to free-form it today, writing about what comes to mind.

I bought the new Drive-Thru records boxset of rare CDs yesterday, its pretty good, especially the one by the Benjamins, who’ve broke up now but their CD is excellent.

I also bought True Romance on DVD because it was on special offer, haven’t watched it yet though, probably gonna tonight.

I’ve been looking at work-experience and internships for the summer, but all the comapnies i’m interested in are only taking people in the final and penultiamte year of their degrees. My thinking is that if I do a couple of weeks with a few different types of companies then maybe I’ll be able to decide what I want as a career, since I don’t know at the moment, which is why I’m doing History/Politics.

On the subject of jobs and my degree we had a guest speaker in a lecture today who was an Israeli Ambassador, and I thought it would be really cool to be an Ambassador/delegate type person, but then again I’m not very good at persuading people to do things so I might not be very good at it.

I’ve also started looking at things at uni in the light that they may help me further on in life, like I’m tempted to run for election as a rep next year, cos it looks good on the CV and I’ve been helping Paz run his election campaign (VOTE PAZ!!! HE’LL GIVE 110%) and it seems like a good way to network (since when did I think networking was important?).

I’m also thinking of joining the academia society at some point, cos it makes you look like some kind of genius, I would join one of the political societies but there isn’t a society for people who think “They just need to talk it through”. Joining the film society probably isn’t all that noteworthy when it comes to CVs.

Next post: tomorrow or thursday.

Posted by Bone at March 8th, 2004

The blog must be feeling really unattended with all the partial posts and gaps I’ve been leaving lately and unfortunately this will be a short one too, I’m meant to meet Richard so we can go into town for lunch.

Just thought I’d pop in to say that I’m doing fine, and I went to the Last Night At The Leicester Proms on saturday, it was cool, I waved a flag, sang out of key, with the wrong notes, and sometimes even the wrong words, but a good time was had by all.

Bigger post tomorrow.

Posted by Bone at March 4th, 2004

Bad news folks, feel worse today, I guess the ibuprofen was just really good, but I woke up today feeling bad, but I thought I’d better come in for my lectures today, but I feel pretty crappy.

They didn’t have any of the books for the question I wanted to do for my essay, and for once it isn’t my fault, I usually get my books on the monday, but because I was ill, really ill for me, I didn’t manage it and now I have to do some loser question about a loser subject like British Welfare Reform.

And I feel bad cos I told Tigg I’d go see him tonight, but I don’t feel up to a night of drinking tonight.

On the plus side, at he weekend mum and dad gave me this big box of small change to put in this machine at Tesco’s and then you get a voucher so that you can use it to pay for your shopping then you get proper cash back, so 2p’s and 1p’s are actually of use for once. And in this box they gave me was…. wait for it…..

£70!!!!!

How amazing is that, there was 422 5p coins like 900 pennies and another 500 2p’s there was also a load of 10p’s and 20p’s but I can’t remember how many of them there were, and there was loads of foreign change iun this box, including an Irish coin with a Salmon on it, and a Greek one with this funny owl. I did the mature thing and bought a crate of beer with my new ‘free’ money.

I haven’t done anything else except lie in bed, which doesn’t exactly give the opportunity for funny stories, though I did buy a DVD called Slackers and watched that, its not bad, just an average teenage rom-com.

I think I might go and get lunch now, the rush has probably finished by now.
Bone

Posted by Bone at March 3rd, 2004

I know its been over a week since I’ve updated so I apologise for that but I’ve been really ill, and I’ve missed all my lessons this week, and I have an essay in for next monday, so I have to catch up.

Its a flu type thing and I got all dizzy standing up, and I puked pure water cos I hadn’t eaten for so long (35 hours!!!) cos my throat was so sore. I’m feeling a lot better now though, ahhh the wonders of modern medicine.

Quick update cos I need to go look at books then I promised Rob we’d get Chinese so I’ll do a full update tomorrow in my mammoth 3 hour gap.

Bone