Everybody walk the dinosaur

The weekend went by in a relaxing way really and I didn’t get up to that much. Any trips out were put on hold on account of the crappy weather and we hardly left the house all weekend. The sleet was so bad on Friday night that James picked me up from the station. The exception to not leaving the house was Saturday night as me and James went to Sam Houstan’s  for tea. James had been a bit low over the weekend too so I paid for tea. I had ‘Mess ‘o Ribs’ and I have to say that it was a accurate nickname. Tasty as they were, the hassle makes me want to stick to their really tasty burgers from now on. However, the knickerbocker glory I had was really tasty so no complaints there. It’s funny, we’ve been there three times in total and we get sat in the same place every time. It’s so good having all of this tasty food round the corner from your house.

 

Saturday night also featured Harry Hill’s TV Burp. Brilliant as always except that this week it had the ‘Reggae reggae sauce’ man from Dragon’s Den on it, and Harry Hill dressed as a giant burger. Honestly, things don’t get much better than that. After we got back from eating we started to watch the first season of ‘Life on Mars’ because I hadn’t seen it and the new series is on this week. I liked it though. We also watched Primeval which was really good, although anything with a dinosaur in it is going to win me over. Speaking of which, I got my new dinosaur encyclopaedia which I’ll have to flick through. It’s really difficult finding a decent dinosaur book that’s not aimed at kids and I can’t seem to find any decent websites on them weirdly. I just need to update my childhood knowledge though really, it’s long out of date.

 

Do you ever feel like you took completely the wrong degree? I mean, everything I really want to do such as palaeontology, zoology, hell even acting (which I suspect I’m crap at but my new found love of plays make me really want to try it), I can’t do! The first two are also down to circumstance, anything in those fields only takes place in certain places. Which are few and far between where I happen to live. I keep thinking about what Chantal was saying a few weeks back. If I want to further myself in this job then I’m looking at management, and hell, I really don’t like my job enough to do that, so what do I do?!

 

Anyway, enough rambling. The brief mention of work reminds me, I’m in the new staff newsletter! And impressively, the bit about me and where I’ve come from is the biggest paragraph in it, apart from the Principle’s! this does mean that everyone knows my entire history though :s

 

I must mention that I’ve been flying through graphic novels of late and I’ve nearly finished all of the ones I’ve got and I’ve bought so much stuff of late that I can’t buy any more! I’ve just finished ‘Jar of Fools’ which is really, really good, although it’d really benefit from me not reading through it so quickly (the problem with graphic novels in general) because the story so coincidental and deep. I’ll definitely read it again though. I’m on Adrian Tomine now.

 

On Sunday I did some cooking. I couldn’t be bothered to get new ingredients so I made something out of what I already had in. Impressively, the new cookbook I bought delivered, giving me instructions on how to make mango tea bread. It turned out great and is really tasty, even if I do say so myself.

 

Last night I finished off my latest origami project too. I’d bought an underwater scene from the toy shop in Skipton the first weekend of being here and so I’ve been doing that. Impressively, all the fish and creatures are really easy to do and I’ve made one of each, now I just need to make some baby ones and it’s complete. It’s now sitting on the windowsill. I got a dinosaur origami book the other day too but they look really advanced! I will try one soon though.