| Date: | 2007-03-25 23:43 |
| Subject: | Another week! |
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| Mood: |  worried | | Music: | CSI |
Hmmm, posting far too irregularly at the mo!
Friday was dinner with friends and a cheesy night out afterwards at Embargoes - thanks to Charlie and Sierra for organising! X turned up part-way through which was excellent - although went home with her to make sure she was okay so didn't get home myself until 5. Got up at 10 - am I hard or what?
Saturday went to the Hogarth exhibition at Tate Britain with Charlie2 - was good. Unfortunately massive fvck-up on the phones - we were supposed to meet up with X and she never got my messages so didn't realise we were there - she waited in the atrium for 2 1/2 hours for us, when in fact we were in the exhibition and the galleries! She was amazingly sanguine about it - was a great pity though :-(
Today was Stuart's birthday - went to the Ice Bar off Heddon Street (off Regent Street) for some shots. Very cool place - literally and figuratively! Then to the Porterhouse for a swift one, then to Fire & Stone for some pizza - it's not like an ordinary pizza place, lots of different types you won't get elsewhere!
On the downside, X is going to resign from her job. Current plan is to go travelling to Europe and Australia. Sounds great! I think it will be too. Just might get a leetle left behind myself! Still, am sure it'll work out okay one way or another. Except a leetle nervous just in case it doesn't include me. Well, I like her. That's an issue :-)
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Yep, another one, so am probably not posting as much as I'd like!
Finally met elle on Friday for a drink with some friends. Nice lass. :-)
Saturday was spent watching the rugby - went to Fred&Kirsty's to watch the Wales v England game. Real shame about the result - although Catt's celebration when Ellis scored his try was ace! If Catt hadn't had to go off for the second half we might well have won, I think. Anyway then stayed at F&K's for curry from the Kennington Tandoori (as patronised by John Prescott and others) and then hotfooted it to Tiger Tiger on Haymarket for my brother's birthday celebrations. Arrived about 10 and it was quite full, apart from the bit they were in. Rather carnageful - we were near emergency exit doors and every so often a group of fucked girls would go past carrying an even more fucked mate and go through the doors and out into the open air. Next to us were some workers from a casino who were pretty odd - particularly one bloke who seemed to be giving the girls lap-dances!
Sunday afternoon was a second date with girl previously mentioned. Went well (introduced her to our old stomping ground, Pinkthulhu) except on her way home where a series of unfortunate events proved to be horrendously expensive. I don't want to say more on here.
Anyway, that's looking promising - as much as these things ever are in the early stages. Fingers crossed.
Watching Crystal Maze on ftn, going to have to do the hoovering and some study soon, though!
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Well, let me see. Big booze-up on Friday, punctuated by 3 hours of Book Club at the French House on Dean Street. Had an absolutely fantastic yummers blue steak, and the terrine starter was excellent too, so highly recommended for that and I must return. Wine was nice too. Then back to the booze up. Ended up in an ex-O'Neills somewhere or other at 3pm - I thought near Aldwych but as it took an hour to get home, perhaps not.
Saturday was mostly lazing around and recovering. Started tidying my room :-) Got called 'so fit' and asked out by a girl. So now I have a date :-) Lovely girl too. And from my grandfather's city of Newcastle.
Today, more lazing, and went to Tim&Soph's to watch the rugby. England 26 France 18. Excellent.
Do I want to go to work tomorrow? Possibly not...
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| Date: | 2007-03-09 08:22 |
| Subject: | Yawn again |
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| Mood: |  tired | | Music: | None |
Wee bit tired. Have book club today and have only read (so far) 175 pages out of 310. Would probably have managed it all last night but as I was leaving work I got a text from Guy inviting me for bowling and plastic curry in Surrey Quays. I don't spend enough time with Guy and Helen so I went along. Was good fun, except that I was fairly rubbish at the bowling and didn't even break 90 both times. Didn't get a single strike either :-(
Anyway, on with the book (Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault, as referred to previously).
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| Date: | 2007-03-08 07:27 |
| Subject: | Yawn |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | tired | | Music: | Radio 1 |
Back to law school yesterday. First two lectures of the Intellectual Property and Commercial Law elective. Was fine I think, but the pre-course reading says there's a good possibility of confusion between the various IP bits so I'll have to be organised.
Afterwards, out with IBP. Thai dinner at a place next to law school I've been walking past for 3 years, and then drinks at the Enterprise. Apparently she's lived in the area for 4 years and not been to either before :-) Was good fun.
Enterprise is good - Victorian tiling, nice wooden decorated bar, model of a ship, some nice comfy seats. It's popular with background music but you can still have a chat.
I see HoC have voted for 100% elected HoL. This is bad in a bad way. Sigh.
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| Date: | 2007-03-05 20:00 |
| Subject: | Back to work |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  drained | | Music: | None |
Was fairly dull. As I expected, I'd missed the exciting week. However, this was a good thing.
Apart from that, nothing much to say. Oh well! :-)
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| Date: | 2007-03-04 21:06 |
| Subject: | Alizee |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  accomplished | | Music: | CSI |
Am v much liking her at the mo:
Lolita
J'en ai marre
Wish my French was up to understanding the songs, though - some of Lolita I can do but none of J'en ai marre.
Have ordered the albums they come on - perhaps repeated play will improve my French!
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| Date: | 2007-03-04 19:20 |
| Subject: | London: Life in Maps |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | accomplished | | Music: | American Idol |
So, went to this exhibition at the British Library. Not the best laid-out expedition - it was chronological and kind of also thematic, but you didn't know where to start each section or which direction to explore it in. Was the last day so v popular but they did control the number of people going in.
Anyway, some interesting maps there - particularly some pretty good early ones and Hollar's v detailed one of Covent Garden with every building accurately depicted (he hoped to do all London but the Great Fire put an end to that plan) were particularly good. Also a v interesting one of the Grosvenor Estate (now belonging to the Duke of Westminster) - some random young lawyer had bought up a lot of land (no idea where he got the money from) but then died of the plague in 1665. His daughter, when she grew up, married Sir Thomas Grosvenor and brought the land with her. In fact, her trustees had already started the development work.
Have ordered the book from Amazon as they had sold out there - will be a while though :-(
Was also my first trip to the British Library. Prince Charles had slated parts of it, I think probably right, and also from the side it looks like a ship (although this is not necessarily a bad thing!) but it was quite cool inside. Particularly liked the tall white lift tower, and the King's Library in the middle - several stories of bound books from I think George III's collection behind glass filling the center of the atrium - the downside is that they're clearly there for decoration rather than reference.
Work tomorrow, after a week away. I wonder what exciting things have occurred in my absence?
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| Date: | 2007-03-04 09:56 |
| Subject: | Broon |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | tired | | Music: | Roxette - Go To Sleep |
Simon Jenkins really puts the boot into Brown in the Sunday Times. I can't remember whether SJ is left or right wing - it seems a bit harsh but actually he's right. I've heard one or two interesting things about Brown and they weren't good. Plus if he has been allowed free rein over domestic policy, well. It's weird - loads of money has been spent and some of it has clearly changed things - shorter hospital waiting lists, electronic whiteboards in schools (although do we really need those?), yet there's the mismanagement of hospital finances, the fact that 30,000 trained doctors (who have spent years of their lives training) have only 22000 jobs to go to, or they might otherwise have to leave their country to find work in a job the government effectively promised would be theirs at home.
Anyway, I hate to seem too political. But it's an interesting article, and probably right for the most part.
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| Date: | 2007-03-04 08:59 |
| Subject: | Freedom! |
| Security: | Public |
| Music: | Roxette - Sleeping in my car |
Well, relative freedom. Had my Business Law & Practice exams yesterday and now don't have any law to do until Wednesday! So have got the music on, have time to read Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish', visit the last day of the British Library's Maps exhibition with pinkthulhu and bigHair, and maybe even update my website.
The exam was in two parts - problem-based questions for three hours in the morning, and then multiple choice questions in the afternoon. The morning was fine, although I now know that I failed to spot the need for a shareholder's requistion under s.396 of the Companies Act to remove a director, because of the balance of power in the boardroom. The multi-choice were actually quite hard, particularly as the phrasing of the question has to be absolutely correct to be right, and in the post-mortem afterwards we established that we'd all got a few wrong! Said post-mortem conducted in the Hamilton Hall (Wetherspoons in Liverpool Street station) with Gail and Helen from my group, everyone else seeming to have buggered off to rescue their weekend. My Intellectual Property and Commercial Law elective starts on Wednesday and they aren't in that so shan't be seeing them in class for a long time!
It was also Peter's birthday yesterday. This is a guy who was going to live with Vu and Dwight, but he's a private school teacher and he got offered a room/flat in-school which was considerably cheaper so he went with that instead, and I was picked for this place in his place. He got on so well with Vu and Dwight that he's been friends with them since, and I know him a bit now. He's a great cook (did fabbo Red Snapper in banana leaves a while ago) and is good fun as well as being pretty knowledgeable. I'd always felt slightly guilty around him because I thought I was chosen for this house instead of him, but lately I've found out it was the other way round so that's cool.
Anyway he didn't stay living in the school for long as he found it involved him being a house tutor, including patrolling the school at night checking everyone was in bed rather than in the pub, so he moved out and moved into a houseshare just down the street - has been there for 18 months or something. Anyway, I went there last night for the first time as part of his birthday celebrations - a few drinks before going to a great Indian place nearby called 'Hot Stuff'. Imagine my surprise as the house looks familiar, and the housemates there talk about an 'Anthony'. I enquire, and yep, this was the same house as the one I looked at on the same day as I looked at Vu and Dwight's, but which I got rejected from!!! So in a parallel universe, I would be living in that house, and Peter would be living with Vu and Dwight!!!
It's a freaky freaky small world.
Peter says however that Anthony's doing too much coke now, so I should be glad I'm not living there, and in fact he's looking to move out. In any case, it's great living with Vu and Dwight, so I guess it all worked out for the best for me. Funny, though :-)
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P.S. Boo hiss to bloody antibacterial regulations. Ppl will be suggesting we use Dettol in the kitchen next...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1459347.ece
Only 13,000 tonnes of camemberts are still manufactured according to the recipe given to Marie Harel, an inhabitant of the village of Camembert, by a priest from Brie, fleeing French Revolutionaries in 1791.
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| Date: | 2007-03-02 08:13 |
| Subject: | Revision |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | stressed | | Music: | None. |
The exam is tomorrow, so painful cramming sesh today. At least I checked where the exam is and found out it wasn't where I thought it was!
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| Date: | 2007-03-01 21:18 |
| Subject: | Revision |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | rushed | | Music: | None. |
Argh! Spending too much time pissing about on Facebook. Have uncovered some people, but still everyone has more friends than me. Have Facebook envy. Why are my technocrat friends technophobish about this of all things?
Still, found pinkthulhu on there.
Back to Corporate Insolvency. Did you know that a Qualifying Floating Charge Holder can't appoint an Administrative Receiver if an Administrator has been appointed, unless the Floating Charge crystallised before 15 September 2003? I suspect not...
P.S. *waves to Mel*
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to any Welshies or ppl of welshie descent (like me) who ... are ... read... there isn't anyone is there?
Must study harder!
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| Date: | 2007-03-01 09:04 |
| Subject: | Weight Loss |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  pleased | | Music: | Radio 1 |
I would just like to say:
30 August 2006 - 13st 9lbs 7ozs
1 March 2007 - 12st 2lbs 2ozs
A loss of 1st 7lbs 5ozs or 21lbs 5ozs in 6 months... (one-and-a-half stone!)
Only another 2st 2lbs 2ozs to go! My tip - see me around Christmas :-)
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| Date: | 2007-02-28 22:58 |
| Subject: | Revision |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  bored | | Music: | None - studying. |
Argh. Started today revising/learning the rules for calculating Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, and Corporation Tax. I think I understand it and can therefore do it in the exam. I hope so anyway... Moved on to Partnerships, LLPs, and general revision. The general revision isn't going so well - some stuff is going in but it's quite haphazard. It was much easier cramming for last year's exams but it was very different information then. At least we have the statute book with us in the exam - trying to remember what is in s.378(2) for example would be quite hard! (It's the definition of a Special Resolutuion, which is actually quite important to know.)
So another boring day indoors, really. Even missed Dragons' Den deliberately. :-(
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Hmm, been a whiiiiiillllllleeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Am revising for Business Law & Practice Exam on Saturday. Lots to do. Not so much time to do it in now.
Looks like they've made some useful changes round here...
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Nuff said.
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Lifted this from another blog. Bold ones are ones I've done.
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s nappy
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse - but wasn't total where I was
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a six
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all UK counties
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in USA
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Gone for a midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Put your CDs in alphabetical order
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch rugby
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in cinema
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Got married
73. Been in a film
74. Crashed a party
75. Got divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Travelled in a gondola in Venice
80. Had a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programmes as an “expert”
83. Received flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Visited Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to start again
101. Walked on the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an aeroplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than UK counties
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
Hmm, 43. Still, some on here I wouldn't do. Saving someone's life, for instance.... :-)
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| Date: | 2006-11-15 22:32 |
| Subject: | Heh |
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I can only say "heh" to this masterpiece on Guido's blog
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