Well... back in Manchester for the new term. Something like three weeks of lectures (or two weeks of proper lectures and one of revision thingummies) and then exams and then home!! So soon!
You may have been wondering though about the crazy yellow post below this one. Well, it was posted by a friend one evening at her house, when we were hunting for holidays for this summer. (Woo, hopefully there will be seven of us this year! Such funnnnnn. Which reminds me: Christina, if you're reading this, PLEASE TELL US IF YOU'RE COMING!!) Likely to be somewhere Spanish, semi-beachy, semi-cultural for a week at the beginning of September. All good stuff methinks. :)
And Simon and I have booked to go away together in June. :D We're going to Florence for four days just after Simon finishes uni for the year. Yayyyyyyyyyy! :D
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
New Post
YELLOW
Right now that's out of system...I have some very exciting news...Christina is officially a donkey's uncle's auntie.
That is all
(posted by Laura aka crazygirl)
please read all fine print before signing on the dotted line ...........................................................................................................
to confirm that you agree with this statement.
Right now that's out of system...I have some very exciting news...Christina is officially a donkey's uncle's auntie.
That is all
(posted by Laura aka crazygirl)
please read all fine print before signing on the dotted line ...........................................................................................................
to confirm that you agree with this statement.
Wooooo
Heehee :D Our exam timetables are finally up... and I finish my exams on 22nd May!! Yayyyyyyy!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Maths rep!
So, I won my position on the union council for next (academic) year as maths rep. (Something like 48 votes to 25... not many maths students turn out to vote.) All good. :)
Went out with Josh and Adina this evening to celebrate (or rather, that was the excuse for getting out)- they are also school reps on union council next year, like me, but for their schools instead (computer science and law respectively).
Last weekend was the UK Jewish chaplaincy weekend, so Hillel was rather packed with people, especially over Shabbat, with Jewish students from all over the UK turning up and wanting somewhere to sleep: I had three girls sleeping in my room... all lovely, my room just got rather messy and I keep finding bits and pieces of debris left from them and am wondering how I'm going to return half the stuff, since I'm only really in contact with one out of the three of them. We'll see.
The last two weeks have been rather sleep-deprivingly busy, and I am thus rather tired and greatly looking forward to the holidays, when I am sure I will sleep lots and relax and possibly not manage to do the essay that I need to write. Hm. Oh, and obviously see Simon lots too. :)
Anyway, beddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Went out with Josh and Adina this evening to celebrate (or rather, that was the excuse for getting out)- they are also school reps on union council next year, like me, but for their schools instead (computer science and law respectively).
Last weekend was the UK Jewish chaplaincy weekend, so Hillel was rather packed with people, especially over Shabbat, with Jewish students from all over the UK turning up and wanting somewhere to sleep: I had three girls sleeping in my room... all lovely, my room just got rather messy and I keep finding bits and pieces of debris left from them and am wondering how I'm going to return half the stuff, since I'm only really in contact with one out of the three of them. We'll see.
The last two weeks have been rather sleep-deprivingly busy, and I am thus rather tired and greatly looking forward to the holidays, when I am sure I will sleep lots and relax and possibly not manage to do the essay that I need to write. Hm. Oh, and obviously see Simon lots too. :)
Anyway, beddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Purim sameach!
Quite possibly the strangest setting for a megilla reading I've ever been in tonight. It was the dress rehearsal for Utopia (opening night tomorrow!!) and so seven of us gathered in the orchestra's dressing room during the set change between acts for a very quick reading of the megilla (the story of Queen Esther for those who don't know). Impressively, we finished just as Act II began, which was fine, since we were all chorus members and weren't needed on stage for a while. But it was rather strange. We were in fancy dress though, given the fact that it was the dress rehearsal. ;) Currently wondering if I'm going to wake up in time to go for the 8.30 reading in Fallowfield in the morning. Hm.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Thursday, March 09, 2006
The Nature of Blogging
I don't particularly want to ramble for ages on this, although I do have oodles to say on the matter. Rather, I will link you to two blogs: one Simon's and the other Zoe's where you can read my copious, lengthy and possibly repetitive comments on the matter. There will possibly be a long post on the matter, once my essay is out the way. The English (which seems slightly like a history) essay takes priority first though. Blogging this as I'm procrastinating as ever. :)
Friday, March 03, 2006
Update
I'm standing for School of Maths rep on student council... funfunfun. Vote for me! (If you belong to the School of Maths...)
Other news: it is cold, frosty, snowy here. Birmingham was similar, if not colder when I was there during the week. It was lovely to see Simon too. :)
Other news: it is cold, frosty, snowy here. Birmingham was similar, if not colder when I was there during the week. It was lovely to see Simon too. :)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Quick decision
Do I stand for union council?
Damn them giving us two days notice before the deadline, and only a day before the nomination forms are out. Grrr.
And if I do, do I stand for general council or as school representative (maths)?
And what do I write in a manifesto?
Arrrggghh.
Damn them giving us two days notice before the deadline, and only a day before the nomination forms are out. Grrr.
And if I do, do I stand for general council or as school representative (maths)?
And what do I write in a manifesto?
Arrrggghh.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Microwave usage
I think that all students should be taught how to use a microwave before coming to university. That, or microwaves should only be sold to those who know or have been shown how to use them.
Yep, you guessed it! Once again, my flatmate has managed to burn something in the microwave. Nowhere near as bad as the chocolate incident, this time it involved popcorn... She put the bag in the microwave and left the flat not realising that with popcorn you have to listen out and watch it at all times. You don't leave something burning on a gas stove, do you? *shakes head* I don't get some people.
Yep, you guessed it! Once again, my flatmate has managed to burn something in the microwave. Nowhere near as bad as the chocolate incident, this time it involved popcorn... She put the bag in the microwave and left the flat not realising that with popcorn you have to listen out and watch it at all times. You don't leave something burning on a gas stove, do you? *shakes head* I don't get some people.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
It couldn't possibly
be spring, could it? For the first time in a while it is actually sunny and bright outside without being freezing... one could almost get away without wearing a coat! *shock* Bring on more good weather!
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Sore throat today...
What do you want to bet I have a streaming cold tomorrow?
Plus a four hour MUGSS rehearsal this afternoon... throat did not take kindly to it. Nor did voice.
Plus a four hour MUGSS rehearsal this afternoon... throat did not take kindly to it. Nor did voice.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
A house!
We've found a house! And signed for it, paid deposit, etc. From 1st July, it is ours! Yay!
I'm currently trying to place dibs on the yellow and orange room... the walls are so beautiful. :D It isn't the biggest room in the house by far, but still big enough for a double (well, queen sized) bed, which is good. Front of the house, upstairs. The girls who are there this year asked to paint their rooms... and one of the girls chose the yellow and orange and there are extra printed shapes on the walls too, like butterflies on the ceiling and stuff. (The ceiling is mainly white.) *prays that the colour doesn't get painted over by the landlady*
Exciting!!
I'm currently trying to place dibs on the yellow and orange room... the walls are so beautiful. :D It isn't the biggest room in the house by far, but still big enough for a double (well, queen sized) bed, which is good. Front of the house, upstairs. The girls who are there this year asked to paint their rooms... and one of the girls chose the yellow and orange and there are extra printed shapes on the walls too, like butterflies on the ceiling and stuff. (The ceiling is mainly white.) *prays that the colour doesn't get painted over by the landlady*
Exciting!!
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Back to Manchester
For the next couple of months... I don't think I get any more random weeks off, unfortunately. :( No English lectures or seminars this week though: reading week, apparently.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Knock?
Where in the world is Knock? All I currently know about it is that Ryanair fly there for 99p (plus taxes). Hmm, I think it's a google job.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Fancy posting a hamster!
Yup... it's proof of my theory about super-intelligent people having less common sense than most ordinary folk. How can you not think it morally wrong? *shakes head* Silly Cambridge students. The tutors don't think to ask in interview what you would think of putting animals in envelopes and then in the post, do they?
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Strange
This actually happened on Thursday, but due to mobile stress (as well as others) that evening, I forgot to blog about it. It also happened shortly before I met Kajal, which was very nice, indeed. :)
So, I was standing outside Starbucks in Golders Green at around 3.30pm, waiting for Kajal when along comes a boy I know, who similarly, has arranged to meet people at Starbucks in Golders Green, and is also waiting for them. Now, I've spent a maximum of three weeks with him on camps, all between August- December 1998, as well as having posted messages on a message board, in possibly what could be conceived as quite heated discussion with him.
(Aside to this story, but a comment about the same person: he one time actually said hello to me and used my message board pseudonym in so doing... in public. For this message board I use a nickname I had for a maximum of two weeks of my life, if not less, and he did not know me in this capacity.)
Anyway, we were having the usual kind of conversation, the what-are-you-up-to-these-days one, and so I said I was at Manchester University, and he said he'd just applied there. So I asked what he'd applied for, he told me, and then he said, "Let me guess, you've applied... sorry, are studying English." (He was in that post-application mode where it was still at the front of the mind.) I found this odd, as I couldn't see how he would know such a thing, but nonetheless I responded, "Good guess, maths and English actually, but pretty close, well done. How did you know?" (or some reply of that ilk.) So he said I just seemed like the kind of person who would study English. Now, yes, he knows I am pedantic about grammar to a high degree, but being pedantic surely does not mean that I am quite probably the kind who studies English, does it? Anyway, I was rather surprised and found it rather odd. (And no, I hadn't expressed literary views or the like on the message board. Conversations on there tend to be about religion and politics, or where you live (and being derisive about anywhere else).)
So, I was standing outside Starbucks in Golders Green at around 3.30pm, waiting for Kajal when along comes a boy I know, who similarly, has arranged to meet people at Starbucks in Golders Green, and is also waiting for them. Now, I've spent a maximum of three weeks with him on camps, all between August- December 1998, as well as having posted messages on a message board, in possibly what could be conceived as quite heated discussion with him.
(Aside to this story, but a comment about the same person: he one time actually said hello to me and used my message board pseudonym in so doing... in public. For this message board I use a nickname I had for a maximum of two weeks of my life, if not less, and he did not know me in this capacity.)
Anyway, we were having the usual kind of conversation, the what-are-you-up-to-these-days one, and so I said I was at Manchester University, and he said he'd just applied there. So I asked what he'd applied for, he told me, and then he said, "Let me guess, you've applied... sorry, are studying English." (He was in that post-application mode where it was still at the front of the mind.) I found this odd, as I couldn't see how he would know such a thing, but nonetheless I responded, "Good guess, maths and English actually, but pretty close, well done. How did you know?" (or some reply of that ilk.) So he said I just seemed like the kind of person who would study English. Now, yes, he knows I am pedantic about grammar to a high degree, but being pedantic surely does not mean that I am quite probably the kind who studies English, does it? Anyway, I was rather surprised and found it rather odd. (And no, I hadn't expressed literary views or the like on the message board. Conversations on there tend to be about religion and politics, or where you live (and being derisive about anywhere else).)
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