My Brain!

My brain keeps leading me astray! This has been an ongoing phenomenon though thankfully only it happens on rare occasions. Today being one of those.

So on my way out of the Arts and Social Studies Library I bumped into Emma Simmonds, and during the course of our conversation she said "on your way home" so then when I left to go to the Bute Library I suddenly found myself going home instead! I had to make an embarassing U turn to go back.

I often find this phenomenon occurs while I am driving! I seem to just start driving without thinking where I'm going so my brain leads me on common routes eg to Tesco or when in London to my Grandma's house. Don't worry though it doesn't affect the safety of my driving it just takes longer to get anywhere, as invariably the way my brain takes me is the opposite way to where I should be going.

I think my stomach may have an influence - for example when I found myself looking for my flute in the fridge!

Forms

I had a day of filling in forms yesterday, the major one being my masters application. It's now in the post so hopefully I'll hear whether or not I have got a place in the not too distant future. But all this question answering got me thinking about some of the pointless ones you so often get asked. For example on a form aboput the proposed CPZ around our house there was the question: "do you consider yourself to be Welsh?"

The first thing of note here is that they are not asking whether or not you are Welsh but whether you think you are which could cause problems for some people with split personalities or something. But more to the point does this actually affect your parking ability? - now I could be really rude and say that it obviously does as Welsh people can't park or something of that ilk (ooo unusual word) but I won't. So why bother asking?

It also seems to be getting more and more ridiculous the number of different ethnic IDs you can choose from, I'm always tempted to check (ooo American term oops, tick) the 'other' option and put human. So far I haven't done this rebellious option.

Anyway I guess some of you have had similar stupid/pointless questions to answer too. I should probably go home now - can you believe I've been woking in the library/ computer room for 3 hours! Argh just had flash back of the exam paper I got given this morning ready for after Easter - I have been trying to block it from my mind as it is too awful to contemplate. Oh well all's fun in exams and coursework - no wait that can't be right?!?

Who Said......

So I have a mini competition for you all - guess who said this?

"When it comes to fluffy things and babies I'm quite girly"

Answers on a postcard (well on a coment), those who know the answer please don't spoil the fun for the others!

RAC Excitement

I had a dramatic evening (well not compared to a hollywood film but to my normal evenings) yesterday. Following a fun night at windband (eek very few flutes there so they could actually here us), I drove with the Liz to the Bute library to take my books back. OK so you're probably thinking this isn't very dramatic so far but here's the fun part. I got back into my car and turned the key and...nothing happened! Not a sound from the engin at all! So mild panic from me and slightly less so from Liz. What do we do? Stupidly I left my RAC card at home but fortunately the Liz is full of sense and so had hers with her. So we phoned them and they said they would be 75 minutes!
So now we both go a bit girly and think if only we had some guys with us to push the car or something, also became a bit paranoid that i ran out of petrol and would look silly. 10 minutes later after contemplating phoning CU to get any males there to come and rescue us the RAC man arrived in his orange van. He knew what the problem was immediately: apparently the key which has a code in it that the car recognises before it lets the engin turn on had become misaligned so the car thought it was a different key. The solution: go home and get the spare key, so we get very excited about going in the RAC van, a sereal journey ensued where we saw lots of people walking to my house for open house, the RAC man was glad he doesn't live next door! I was also panicing that the spare key was in London, however, it was successfully found in the first place i looked hurrah!
So it was back into the RAC van - making sure the two keys are kept separately so it doesn't happen to the spare key too. Then the moment of truth arrived would the spare key work? ...Yes! hurrah we are saved! I can drive home and enjoy open house! Thats the end of my dramatic evening!
The cause of all this was the library scanning system at the doors so all you drivers be warned!

The Destruction of Shima!

Now I bet you all thought Shima is a great person to have as a house mate - she's very studious, she enjoys cleaning, she loves cooking pasta, she is just an all round nice person, plus she provides wonderful entertainment with her Shimaisms! However, despite all this being true she is a dangerous person to have in your house. This was demonstrated yet again this morning, more of that later, but first some background to this conclusion:

Last year in good old 58 Dogfield Street Shima managed to break an A3 photo frame into millions of tiny pieces all over the lounge, block the drains with food (fortunately Beckrum's Dad was on hand to save the day) and on Smellon's birthday she blocked the toilet! Smellon being the one who had to get her hands dirty unblocking it - I managed to miss this less than joyous event as I was on the M4 travelling back from London.

So far this year in the house of lovliness (aka 3 Cosmeston Street) Shima has managed to break my cooking timer, break the washing machine by opening the door mid cycle and flood the kitchen in so doing and today she has blocked the toilet again! Unfortunately this occured first thing this morning before any of us had a chance to use it! So Beckrum and I had to make an emergency visit to Alison Joy Young's house to use the facilities. Hopefully we will be able to unblock it before open house tonight which is at our house eek! Otherwise make sure you go before coming round!

I would also advise bringing any protective clothing you own as Shima will be there........

CU Conversation!

I have participated in some random conversations at various CU related events recently.

Prayer meeting Wed 15th March:

Chavs
General themes: where are all the chavs, we should do a special outreach to chavs, who is the most chavish person in CU, shock reactions

Naked voting
General themes: Becky stating that she is going to do this, shock reactions


Open House Wed 15th March:

Ben Thornton
General themes: Why Ben thinks all the girls in CU are no good, general hole digging by Ben, shock reactions

Dave Corkish
General themes: Ian stating that he wouldn't want to be his girlfriend, general relief from Dave, shock reactions

Matt Bater
General themes: too numerous to mention here but see his appreciation society website soon! Shock reactions

Sex
General themes: following uncle Ben's instructions, sex education (the rubbishness of), shock reactions - including running away!

People looking like animals
General themes: Sam Orr looking like a goat (according to Ian), shock reactions

Masters!

Most of you know already but I have decided to stay in Cardiff to do a masters course in criminology and criminal justice next year! yay! I was talking to my personal tutor about it and it turns out he is the person who decides on the applications and he basically told me i would definitely get a place! woohoo! So now i just have to get round to filling in the form - why are forms so scary? They always seem so forbodeing (wow never typed that word before).

I got a free metro today which brings back lots of fnd memories of 6th Form when we would do the puzzle page everyday during break/lunch or just in our free periods - oops no wonder i was behind on work most of the time! Unfortunatly it is now quite wet!

Sorry for such a boring post I will endeavour to do better next time!

Liver

"Livers are important you can't live without them, hence the name" - This is a quote from Dr Gregory House in House last night. It was a good episode, a bit different to normal.

Beckrum!

I often wonder what is going on in the head of my ickle housemate. I am beginning to get very worried about her. For example yesterday we were chatting in the lounge along with Smellon and she randomly burst into song:

My name is Smellon,
I am eleven,
That is my mental age,
And i really do like sage,
I come from Exeter,
But Walsall is betterer,
That is where the best person in the world comes from,
Beckrum!

Unfortunately it is impossible for me to describe the sound of this song but the last note was really ear piercing! So you can see why I worry about her. Perhaps it is something to do with being a twin - and no, Ben Thornton, her brother is not identical to her! Although they do look remarkably similar hmmm....

No doubt Beckrum will complain about this post but I felt I should let you all know just how stange she can be.

Sexual conflict and the evolution of breeding systems in shore birds!

So i went to a biology seminar today! I know I'm having a bit of a weird day. So here's what happened:

1:05pm: Beckrum and I take our seats awaiting a fun hour learning about shorebirds.
1:10pm: Tim walks in and looks confused to see me there
1:12pm: Liz and Becky arrive and sit with us - they accuse me of being a geek for coming to the talk but I explain its either this or working in the library
1:15pm: the guy that people say looks like Beckrum introduces the talk - the guy comes from Hungry
1:17pm: guy says "I promise you to shut up at 2:45pm"
1:118pm: guy is talking about the Kentish Polva - which is not found in Kent so why does it have this name - I am confused perhaps it has similar characteristics to things from Kent.
1:20pm: he shows two short videos of birds eating - yay something vaguely interesting
1:21pm: I am confused as the guy says that females are at a huge advantage for finding a mate - how can this be I ask myself?
1:22pm: The guy finds a solution to Britain's increasing divorce rate: If you have a large family then divorce is less likely
1:28pm: the guy mentions Arctic sandpipers - I am confused as there is no sand in the Arctic
1:30pm: Liz discovers that the apple she is eating is rotten inside - Becci wraps it in clingfilm to take it home to dissect it later.
1:40pm Liz and Becky get the giggles - they explain later it was because one of the pictures looked like the bird is walking with an umbrella
1:45pm: people are walking out - how can they do this when the talk is so interesting?
1:46pm: I realise that the guy has broken his promise to shut up! How rude is that!
1:48pm: everyone is looking bored now!
1:50pm: lectuer guy asks a question - i don't understand what he is asking - shouldn't he be on strike anyway?
1:51pm: Liz and Becky giggle again - Becky has drawn a picture of the bird from the earlier giggling! - Shouldn't they be listening?
1:52pm: Tim asks a question which shows that one of the guys figures was wrong - great have been listening to a non expert!
1:53pm: guy asks another long question - apparently its to do with Liz's project - I'm so glad I'm not Liz
1:55pm: I realise I have manged to fill an A4 page with notes from the talk - how intelligent am I?!
1:57pm This is the 3rd time this slide has been up it must be the guy's favourite
1:58pm: question guy thanks the speaker for such an exciting talk - obviously he is hearing voices in his head!

My favourite bit of the research:

Stuck-in-the-mud
'88 '89 '90 '91
Bike - - - 1
Skoda 1 3 1 4
Jeep - - 2 3
All 1 3 3 8
So as you can see Skodas are rubbish at driving on mud, people are getting stupider as more people are getting stuck in the mud and Jeeps aren't as good as the adverts say!

So there you go that was my experience of a biology talk!

The Weekend

For those of you that didn't notice i was gone i went home this weekend! It was one of my school friends' 22nd birthday party and as it was at my favourite restaurant in London i thought i had to go! The birthday girl is Sarah in the middle with Sevil on the left and Maria on the right.














Other highlights of the weekend were:

• going to watch Palace play - although they were a bit pants so lost 2 -1 but we are still in the play off places so have a chance of winning promotion.
• The dancing on ice grand final - i'm glad Bonnie didn't win - can she actually skate for more that 2 seconds before she has to be picked up again?
• A quote from my mum regarding Andrea Borchelli and Christina Aguillera who were going to appear on Parkinson: "oh are they that married duet act?" - made me laugh for quite a while
• Sideways snow
• Mum's cooking!
• a house with the heating turned on during the day

Millenium Stadium

OK so this post is a little late as i went on Sunday. It was the Carling Cup Final between Wigan Athletic and Manchester Utd. My parents and 3 of my cousins came to Cardiff for the match (my cousins are from Wigan). They all met Becky Lamb who was in our house on her own randomly - hope we didn't freak you out too much. Anyway here's some photos:




Unfortunately Wigan lost but they did really well to get to the final beating teams like Arsenal on the way! I really love football matches - the atmosphere is just amazing especially with the roof shut like it was. However, there were quite a few Man Utd fans in the Wigan section which shouldn't have been allowed but when they scored they all stood up so the stewards saw them and chucked them out! I always knew Man Utd fans lacked intelligence! We were all asked on the way in if we had any cans or bottles as they are not allowed in case they are used as missiles, i felt like saying no i don't have any of them in my bag just a couple of hand grenades or some other weapon - which they didn't ask you about.

Beckrum embarrased herself in the library today by belching REALLY loudly - it was hilarious! Anyway that's all folks!