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Now I can sleep!

I’ve been incredibly neglectful to my blog in the past few weeks - in actual fact it’s been over a month since I wrote anything here, other than to whinge about spam bots. The more observant of you will doubtless have noticed that this post was written in the small hours of a Sunday morning, and I think once again I’ve managed to reset my body clock. Perhaps that, or I’m just going funny in the head. Either way, I’m awake and I don’t like it.

In the last 3 weeks I went on my summer university open day visits (unfortunately limited to 3 by my school), and I’ve changed my opinions on where I want to study quite a lot. Originally I had my heart set on Bristol, a city I consider my hometown, as I spent my first few months of life there, and whenever I’ve visited it, it’s always had a certain charm that other places don’t. Still, I wasn’t very impressed by the university - perhaps my standards had been set high by visiting Imperial the previous week, at which I felt quite at home. Cambridge wasn’t originally on my list, but a look around the city as well as a tour of the computer science department has put it up to my number 1 preference, albeit aiming quite high.

A bit later today I’ll be heading over to Farrar’s for a band practice, as Battle Of The Bands ‘06 will be taking place next Friday, and as usual we haven’t done anywhere near the amount of rehearsal that we should. Still, everything will be fine as usual. Tomorrow, Max and the rest of the Germans are arriving at school around 9am, so with any luck I’ll be able to skip Physics first thing and have a fairly easy day. The Germans will be heading into town to do some lame quiz, and I’m sure that I and Dodge will follow them there in our free periods.

It’s pretty silly really, the number of free periods people have. Some subjects now only have 1 coursework lesson a week, others none at all until next term. Unfortunately, the subjects I’m taking have every single lesson still. I’m rather tempted just to drop German now, as I won’t be carrying it on to A2 - I’m asking myself if it’s even really worth it as there’s only 2 weeks of term left. I envy Dodge in a way because on a Monday he only has 2 lessons in the afternoon, and he’s too poor to get a public bus into school for those. Instead he takes the usual school bus in the morning and bums around school for hours on end.

On Friday I met Caley’s friend Hali, who is pretty cool, and one of the few openly gay people (who aren’t claiming to be for the sake of attention) I’ve ever met. I ended up buying her a Nintendo DS Lite in a rare moment of generosity, and then came home before going out with Lloyd, Jim and Robyn. We had fun, beer and golden syrup cake.

In hindsight, I have an unhealthy amount of meaningless stock photography on this page. Oh well, it looks nice.

I’m still ill, but with only 5 more exams to go, I’m feeling a little more positive about the next 7 days. Mechanics today was a pretty easy exam, and I managed to get through it without irritating the shit out of everybody with my coughing, thanks to the power of Beechams.

Last night I started work on the aVa clansite that I and Toby have been commissioned to produce - with a nice design to work from, you’d think things would be easier. After downloading the latest version, I decided to try and code it all using the Prado PHP framework, but unfortunately I couldn’t think straight at all last night. I’m not exactly sure what happened to me, but I suffered a complete mental block and was unable to think about anything, let alone learn something new and put it into practice. With any luck I’ll be able to focus better tonight.

So, I spent yesterday morning at the computing revision session, before leaving halfway through (with Dave, Chris and Toby), because it was shit boring, and we needed some munch. We ended up in McDonalds (with Joey), then decided we should all go home and play Counter-Strike. We’re cool.

Right now I’m chatting to my darling Caley, teaching Lloyd how to use his sound card properly, and listening to Waveform, who are a great-sounding instrumental band.