'Up is where we go from here'
Jul. 7th, 2009 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseApparently I haven't updated in a week. I have a feeling that my entries will now become a little more frequent as a new web filtering system has come into effect at work and the onyl website I can not get onto is the Popjustice forums. They were the only thing getting me through the day! God forbid that I should actually do some proper work. Things are desperate people, and there are no jobs out there *weeps* and that library job I applied for has come to nothing even though I had all of the essential and desirable criteria *double weeps*.
It isn't all bad though. Last Thursday I headed to Uni to return some library. Because things are never easy with Leeds Met it turned out that my library account had been stopped as my course end date was down as June. It was a blessing in disguise though as in talking to the admin lady in the postgrad offices I not only got my final result, but I was also told that there would be no November graduation. So I won't be graduating until next July! Very weird as I'm sure I'll have forgotten about the whole thing by then. Anyway, my final mark was for a management essay - 67 which I was very pleased with and leaves me with my total PG Dip marks as follws: 56, 63, 63, 65, 66, 68 so I'm doing pretty well. I can't seem to find out how much my dissertation counts for though. It's odd that I'm at this point, two years down the line. Soon I will be done and dusted and I can forget about it. I'm very pleased with it all though (even though writing down six marks doesn't look like a lot!). It's been difficult studying and working and it's been a long time coming. Now I just need the sodding job to go with it.
On Saturday we had one of our trips out with Bev and Charlotte. We went to the Thackray museum which is all about the history of medicine. It's quite fascinating although a bit grim. So grim in fact that I, errrr, fainted. It was very odd as I'm not usually squeamish. I can watch gore on the TV or at the cinema and I'm fine, but I think that the whole place was a bit unrelenting for me. We got past the gential impliments and we just reached the section called 'pus' and I just couldn't take anymore. It was odd, I've only ever fainted once before but this time I could tell it was coming, and then I was on the floor. I was prepared so I went down quite lightly. Very embarassing, especially in front of Charlotte and Bev. Thankfully Bev knew first aid so she looked after me. Annoyingly it turned out that 'pus' was the last historical horrible bit and we were nearly at the end! The whole thing was forgotten about pretty quickly and it was quiet day in there. Just as well. Honestly, I am useless sometimes.
Apart from that it was a good day. Dinner was nice and we got to play in the kiddie section. Giant board games ahoy! Maybe next time's trip out could be somewhere a little less gory! The weekend was fairly quiet otherwise. I watched bits of the Wimbledon finals. I was rooting for Roddick in the men's although I didn't watch the whole thing as it was long and they were fairly evenly match. Despite that though, I didn't think it was all that exciting so I just kept flicking back to it.
We watched Midnight Run over the weekend as well which was really good. Very funny. They don't do films like that anymore as I do like 80s buddy films. That reminds me, I need to do Lucy's poll! I always feel like the 00s has been a bit of a lull for films. I mean, there have been plenty of good ones, but every film seems to derive from a comic (although there have been plenty of those done well) and comedy has been reduced to the 'Movie' franchise (Scary Movie, Date Movie etc, ad nausum). It just seems like films have got lazier somehow.
I've recently sold a load of DS games on eBay and I sold 6 games for £70! I was very surprised by this and I've been itching to sell other stuff since. I don't really have a lot of stuff to get rid of though, especially not stuff that's worth its value! Still, I've been spending a little of the money on new games. I'm awaiting the Sega Megadrive Collection which I'm very excited about. I dunno, it's 2009 and I'm excited about a bunch of Sonic games from 1991! The thing is, I never had a Megadrive the first time round so I missed out on playing a lot of the famous games from around then and I'm one of these people who enjoys games no matter what their age. Speaking of 1991, next Friday marks the updated release of the orignal Monkey Island. I've been awaiting this for a while and I'm very excited. So yeah for that.
Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to spend my money though as I need it to pay off the package I got this morning. Yes people, my Girls Aloud boxset came! And my God it's good. There's so much stuff on it it'll take me ages to get through it all. And there's a brilliant book which comments on each single. It's amusingly called 'You Can't Mistake Our Anthology' and considering I thought that the Best Of should have been called 'You Can't Mistake Our Discography' I'm very pleased with this. this kind of thing is very novel for me. I'm not a traditional pop fan as such so I've never had the joy of collecting memorabilia really. Still, with the trend of Deluxe Editions I'm benefitting more than most at the moment. And while I'm here - the La Roux album - good but flags towards the end, and not as good as the Little Boots album. So there.
Yes sir, music and computer games, that is my life. Which explains why I'll be watching The Saturdays in Manchester tonight. Finally!
PS - Torchwood was very good last night. They've finally made it good!
It isn't all bad though. Last Thursday I headed to Uni to return some library. Because things are never easy with Leeds Met it turned out that my library account had been stopped as my course end date was down as June. It was a blessing in disguise though as in talking to the admin lady in the postgrad offices I not only got my final result, but I was also told that there would be no November graduation. So I won't be graduating until next July! Very weird as I'm sure I'll have forgotten about the whole thing by then. Anyway, my final mark was for a management essay - 67 which I was very pleased with and leaves me with my total PG Dip marks as follws: 56, 63, 63, 65, 66, 68 so I'm doing pretty well. I can't seem to find out how much my dissertation counts for though. It's odd that I'm at this point, two years down the line. Soon I will be done and dusted and I can forget about it. I'm very pleased with it all though (even though writing down six marks doesn't look like a lot!). It's been difficult studying and working and it's been a long time coming. Now I just need the sodding job to go with it.
On Saturday we had one of our trips out with Bev and Charlotte. We went to the Thackray museum which is all about the history of medicine. It's quite fascinating although a bit grim. So grim in fact that I, errrr, fainted. It was very odd as I'm not usually squeamish. I can watch gore on the TV or at the cinema and I'm fine, but I think that the whole place was a bit unrelenting for me. We got past the gential impliments and we just reached the section called 'pus' and I just couldn't take anymore. It was odd, I've only ever fainted once before but this time I could tell it was coming, and then I was on the floor. I was prepared so I went down quite lightly. Very embarassing, especially in front of Charlotte and Bev. Thankfully Bev knew first aid so she looked after me. Annoyingly it turned out that 'pus' was the last historical horrible bit and we were nearly at the end! The whole thing was forgotten about pretty quickly and it was quiet day in there. Just as well. Honestly, I am useless sometimes.
Apart from that it was a good day. Dinner was nice and we got to play in the kiddie section. Giant board games ahoy! Maybe next time's trip out could be somewhere a little less gory! The weekend was fairly quiet otherwise. I watched bits of the Wimbledon finals. I was rooting for Roddick in the men's although I didn't watch the whole thing as it was long and they were fairly evenly match. Despite that though, I didn't think it was all that exciting so I just kept flicking back to it.
We watched Midnight Run over the weekend as well which was really good. Very funny. They don't do films like that anymore as I do like 80s buddy films. That reminds me, I need to do Lucy's poll! I always feel like the 00s has been a bit of a lull for films. I mean, there have been plenty of good ones, but every film seems to derive from a comic (although there have been plenty of those done well) and comedy has been reduced to the 'Movie' franchise (Scary Movie, Date Movie etc, ad nausum). It just seems like films have got lazier somehow.
I've recently sold a load of DS games on eBay and I sold 6 games for £70! I was very surprised by this and I've been itching to sell other stuff since. I don't really have a lot of stuff to get rid of though, especially not stuff that's worth its value! Still, I've been spending a little of the money on new games. I'm awaiting the Sega Megadrive Collection which I'm very excited about. I dunno, it's 2009 and I'm excited about a bunch of Sonic games from 1991! The thing is, I never had a Megadrive the first time round so I missed out on playing a lot of the famous games from around then and I'm one of these people who enjoys games no matter what their age. Speaking of 1991, next Friday marks the updated release of the orignal Monkey Island. I've been awaiting this for a while and I'm very excited. So yeah for that.
Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to spend my money though as I need it to pay off the package I got this morning. Yes people, my Girls Aloud boxset came! And my God it's good. There's so much stuff on it it'll take me ages to get through it all. And there's a brilliant book which comments on each single. It's amusingly called 'You Can't Mistake Our Anthology' and considering I thought that the Best Of should have been called 'You Can't Mistake Our Discography' I'm very pleased with this. this kind of thing is very novel for me. I'm not a traditional pop fan as such so I've never had the joy of collecting memorabilia really. Still, with the trend of Deluxe Editions I'm benefitting more than most at the moment. And while I'm here - the La Roux album - good but flags towards the end, and not as good as the Little Boots album. So there.
Yes sir, music and computer games, that is my life. Which explains why I'll be watching The Saturdays in Manchester tonight. Finally!
PS - Torchwood was very good last night. They've finally made it good!
