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07:41 pm
[Link] | I feel left out *sniff*
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09:16 pm
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8th, Trocadero? 9th (daytime) other London stuff?
Okay, random plans are coming together, and I've finally decided what to do with the weekend of 8th-9th of December..
On the Saturday (8th) a handful of my workmates and myself are planning on heading to London, going to the Trocadero, and generally having fun (there will undoubtably be arcading, drinking, and probably other stuff too, don't know what though). Anyway, it'll be a good laugh, anyone else fancy it?
Also, what with Rodrigo Y Gabriela coming up on the night of the 9th it probably wouldn't make much sense to go home and come back, so I'm currently thinking a good plan would be 1. Do Trocadero stuff 2. Stay somewhere 3. -blank- 4. PROFIT! Umm, gig.
If anyone has any ideas for the blank bit of Sunday I'd love to hear them, especially if they involve meeting up with people.
All and sundry welcome etc. etc. hopefully it'll fit some others plans :)
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: Serj Tankian - Lie Lie Lie
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10:23 pm
[Link] |
I was a fire and I burnt (last Wednesday)
( Mon the Biffy! )
Bill Bailey this week!
Current Mood:  bouncy
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02:37 pm
[Link] |
Any day now, hows about, getting out of this place..
( Blah blah blah.. )
Anyway.. I want to go on holiday at some point in the not *too* distant future, anyone else also feel the need to get away for a week (or whatever) sometime?
I guess the other important questions (if anyone *is* interested) are:
Any particular restrictions for timing or whatever?
-and-
Any great ideas for what we should do, where we should go etc?
There was talk of organizing a canal boating expedition a while back, and that's still something that I'd absolutely love to do again, so that's one possibility, but I'd love to hear other ideas (the more, and the stranger, the better!)
I guess it's obvious, but I aim to keep things entirely fluid for now, I just want to gauge potential interest, get some ideas bouncing and so on..
Oh yes, and please do share this with non-lj using folk, this isn't intended as private planning or anything.
( Other unrelated, general life stuff, might as well throw it in here :) )
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Biffy Clyro - There's No Such Thing as a Jaggy Snake
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11:16 am
[Link] | Well, it's been a rather long while, so, a brief update.
I (finally) got another job doing game programming stuff, and I've been gainfully employed for about a month now (time really flies!). Really enjoying it, even though I'm only really doing menu stuff at the moment, it's very nice to wake up and actually be happy about going to work :)
The downside is of course a rather significant lack of free time (especially once I've filled as many of the gaps as possible in with climbing), but being busy beats being bored big-time (how's that for alliteration?)
Living with parents remains a blessing financially, but as one would expect it's driving me a bit nuts. Fine at times, and at others (like this evening) it's infuriating. I really need to move out, and I might actually be able to afford to now, although Oxford pricing is going to make it more painful than I'd like. It is however looking increasingly likely that I'll be here for the immediate future, so I should really be getting on with it.
Off to the Peak District this weekend with what will be a *huge* rabble of UKCMC'ers which should be even better than normal, so I'm really looking forward to it. It seems more than a little odd however that this'll be the second last trip of the academic year with them. It really drives home quite how long I've been an ex-student for.
So all in all I'm pretty good really, and a *lot* happier about my situation than I have been in a long long time (heck, probably a whole year). I hope the rest of you are doing well too.
[edit: my computer date is wrong, and lj is being stupid and not letting me change the date, hence why this appears to be sometime odd, rather than 15/02/07]
Current Mood: content
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12:47 am
[Link] | Well, I'm planning on making my way to Canterbury this coming weekend, so here's the usual appealing for crash-space post.
The current plan is to come down Friday for the gathering at Kim and Alex's house, and stay till, umm whenever (but I'm very vaguely planning to head back on Monday). I don't require very much really, a small patch of floor space and if possible a shower is more than good enough :)
I'm not quite so sure about what I'm going to do Saturday night, I've got a Christmas dinner with the mountaineering club lot that evening, so the odds are fairly high that I'll end up moderately trashed, and leave wherever we end up rather late. With that considered it seems pretty unfair to impose myself on any of you guys (unless of course it's easy for whatever reason) that night, so I'm going to ask them-lot if they've space for me for then, but I'm not sure what I'll do if they haven't ;)
So, can any of you put me up for a few nights? Pwetty please?
Huge thanks in advance,
Piglet
In other news..
Saw Muse, they were awesome.
I no longer have a job (end of contract rather than anything more sinister), so I'm fully back into the rather unpleasent task of job hunting again, albiet in a better situation than I was 5 months ago. Hopefully it'll all pan out fairly well in the not too distant future.
Otherwise plodding along, not unhappy but not quite where I want to be (in both senses) either. Ho-hum.
Current Location: ox135pf
Current Mood: achey
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03:51 pm
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Canterbury for me this weekend?
Okay, I'm contemplating heading down to Canterbury this weekend (for the pirate/ninja thing and whatever else).
Transport is sorted but I'll need somewhere to stay for (probably) Friday and Saturday.
Anyone willing to put up with me for a while? :o)
Current Mood:  a little ill actually
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09:33 pm
[Link] | I lead Zelda, both pitches of it!
It's my second Hard Severe!
It was really rather scary, and more than a little exposed!
None of you care!
:D
Current Mood: content
Tags: climbing
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10:49 pm
[Link] | Well, the weekend (plus some) was really great. Had a superb time, so thanks to everybody. Apologies for buggering off a little sooner than I'd previously advertised, but having today at home's been really useful (and sleeping in a real bed was rather enjoyable too). Also apologies for not doing Nandos on Monday, I really wanted to go but the draw of climbing (and to be perfectly honest that of a certain person too) was too big.
It was a very much needed break.
Anyway, in other news..
Since David's moved to bath for Uni I've spent a lot of today moving myself into his room. This means I'm no longer living in the small box of a room that I did previously (hooray!).
Work has (I believe) extended my contract by a month or two, although I haven't actually had it officially, so I'll be going in tomorrow and saying "umm, I am still meant to be working here aren't I?" It should be fine though, and it'll give me more time to look for a job for afterwards. I really need to get my act together in that respect as so far I've been completely rubbish.
Oh, and a book that I bought on little more than impulse is turning out to be a seriously good read. Only a third through it, but I feel I can recommend it on that third alone. It's How I Paid For College by Marc Acito.
So, all in all life's been a hell of a lot worse. Long may this state of affairs continue.
Current Mood: optimistic
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05:17 pm
[Link] | my weekend was better than yours, so nyeh.
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08:24 pm
[Link] | Soooo, I've not been around much lately.. Spending time behind a computer screen is the one thing I least feel like doing when I get home from n hours spent doing the same at work, and my weekends have (as much for the sake of my sanity as anything else) been largely spent on and around various cliffs.
I hope everyone's doing well etc. The last month or so has been fairly alright for me (bar living for the weekends) I guess. It is however all becoming a bit much, work has remained largely unexciting, and the lack of social life/interesting things to do is all dragging me down a fair bit. My brother's shipping off to Bath uni soon, and that combined with Canterbury stuff gearing up again without me is making me feel a bit green really. On top of that my contract expires and the end of next week, and as I've been doing a typically rubbish amount of job applications I'll be back to being unemployed, for a while at least. So back to worrying about that sort of stuff.
I guess the flip side of it is I've accumulated enough cash for the immediate future, and I've no longer really got any strong financial or personal ties to any one place etc. So taking some time out to look for a job I'd like that's nearer somewhere more exciting than Garford (aka Nowhere Central) might not be that terrible. Still, there's a fair gap between thinking that and putting it into practice..
Anyway, I don't want to end on the same miserable note that most of that has been on, so.. TagLan is the weekend after next, and that's just after my last day at Oxsemi, my thinking is I should make use of the freedom whilst I'll still feel guilt free about it and maybe hang around in Canterbury for a short while afterwards. If anyone could put me up for a few days afterwards it'd be fantastic (I'll be coming by car so all I'll really need is a patch of floor, and after taglan probably a shower too ;).. DW said they might be a possible, is that still true?
Anyway, that has all turned out a bit epic, hope to see all of you (or as many of you as possible) soon. For now I'll probably drift back into obscurity o/
Current Mood:  restless
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04:57 pm
[Link] | So, today I
* Woke up got dressed etc.
* Drove for 3 hours.
* Climbed for 5 hours.
* Pubbed for 2 hours. (nursing a pint of coke, see next point)
and
* Drove for another 2 1/2 hours.
I am v tired. (but happy)
[edit] also, my computers clock seems to be very badly wrong o.O [/edit]
Current Mood:  sleepy
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09:15 pm
[Link] | Recently http://n.nfshost.com/ has been mostly spiraling out of control.
This makes me happy.
Current Mood: unbelieving
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11:51 am
[Link] | arg! I despise windows
HATE HATE HATE
Current Mood:  irritated
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01:32 pm
[Link] | Okay, so I am going to Canterbury this coming weekend. So far I've only got plans for Saturday night (Kim+Alex flat warming), so if anyone is planning anything or even is simply free to do things Friday evening, Saturday daytime, or Sunday daytime then let me know :)
In other news I may well be trundling off to Oxford tonight to say hi to the Oxford Mountaineering Society, which should be interesting at least, there's however a part of me that is unsure if he can be arsed >.<
anyway, that's all for now o/
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Neil's radio bleeping/hissing/generally being loud
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07:38 pm
[Link] | Well, as I believe it's likely a lot more people are going to be around, I'll have a car available and I've actually got some money I'm considering actually getting round to visiting Canterbury next weekend.
I will however need somewhere to stay for a night or two :/, as crashing at fivegeeks is no longer an option.
oh and yes.. people are actually going to be around aren't they? :P
Works going okay, not perfect but a lot better than it started. Life otherwise has been predictably boring, and notable almost completely free of any form of social events, however there's nothing really wrong or problematic. I've been reading quite a lot, mainly for want of better non computer (spending all day at work behind one makes the idea less appealing) things to do. I'm really craving climbing at the moment.
Anyway, nn all.. I hope to see some of you next weekend o/
[edit] oh yes, and a result of boredom I made this earlier.. something for people with too much time on their hands (well, it entertained David for a bit [/edit]
Current Mood: tired
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01:14 pm
[Link] | 2:1 :)
okay, so a bit of me was still hoping for a first, but this was more likely and still reason to celebrate so yeah
Current Mood: accomplished
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04:53 pm
[Link] | so, no Canterbury for me this weekend at least (as I may as well ask it somewhere, how are people fixed for the weekend after, or the weekend after that>).
I've been trying to think of something else interesting to do with my weekend, but I'm a bit stuck, because whilst I can manage transport, and there are places it'd be nice to go, I've no-one to go with (reminds me of a song ;)
That's what I'm missing at the moment, I've time, I've (or at least, I will have) money, but I'm still going a bit stir crazy from lack of people and socialness :/
ah well, I guess I need to put more effort into it or something, it just feels so remote here, even compared to Highworth..
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Blur - He thought of cars
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05:35 pm
[Link] | Well, earlier today I was pretty sure I would go to Canterbury this weekend, but now it seems like even the (comparative few) people who are actually around are likely to be otherwise engaged anyway..
I'm probably going to give up on it and go a different weekend, which is a real shame because I was looking forward to going, but there's little point if I'm just going to be scrabbling for something to do when I get there (I can scrabble around looking for something to do here, and it'd cost a lot less).
but because I don't actually want to give up, please persuade me to come >.< :p
Current Mood: kinda disappointed
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06:51 am
[Link] | Have an attention grabbing userpic..
So, one final post trying to work out whether I should go to Canterbury or not this weekend, as it's still fairly unclear if anyone's actually going to be around..
My current plan to come down either on the Friday, or the Saturday.. Do something 1 week belated for my birthday on Saturday if possible (I just thought that going to the beach could be entertaining, and I'll have a car with me too ;), and then most likely end of fivegeeks bbq on Sunday before returning home.
but will anyone be around and wanting to do something (particularly on Saturday).. I've had a few positives and negatives so far, but if you've not let me know one way or another it'd be great if you could soon.. thanks
.. normal lack of service will resume shortly ..
Current Mood: calm
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