Yawn!

I AM TIRED.THERE HAS BEEN PLENTY OF TRAVELLING AND IT'S BEEN GREAT!

I have endured a long weekend, traversing the country in search of both frolics and fun. Leaving just after one on Friday afternoon I have visited, swtiched trains at or stopped off at 8 different stations(2 of which are the worst in UK apparently) and even seen 2 different countries in the process! This was my itinery, (colour coded in terms of counties in case you wondering how much of a procrastinating Geographer I was):

Burley Park--> Leeds-->Birmingham New Street-->Aberystwyth (fun!)-->Shrewsbury-->Crewe. (2 hours later) Sandbach-->Manchester Piccadilly (Rodrigo y Gabriela)-->Sandbach. (Sleep) Crewe-->Manchester Piccadilly-->Leeds-->Burley Park. (Blog)

So you can see I've been busy, of course this hasn't bidden well for work productivity, but what the heck - you only live once! & Rodrigo y Gabriela were fantastic, they far exceeded my expectations, and I knew they were brilliant to start with!! There are only a couple of weeks before Christmas now and I am muchly looking forward to the annual mince pie eating contest on Thursday after the Carol Concert at Uni. My clarinet is primed and ready, and although I have dreamt about it breaking I  shall stay positive and hope my loud high pitched squeeeks don't break anyone's ears!

In other news, I have found a mathematician far cooler than myself. She takes her calcuulator to gigs and festivals. Regardless of whether she got a chance to use it or not it's a lot cooler than me....

&Finally, I have a new spotify playlist for you. Check it out here, there will be a top 10 of 2009 and maybe a top 10 of the decade soon!


 

Chocolate helicopters...

First watch  THIS . This is going to take over my life for a while...after all I don't want to fall foul of the impending apocolypse do I! That's right I am now the proud owner of Left 4 Dead 2 and it is rather awesome! But very hard, the zombies are scarier, there are more of them and the US airforce seems intent on causing even more civilian casualties,me being the big target and loser here.

But there is one thing that will keep me going. One thing that allows me to keep raising my cricket bat and bringing it down time and time agian, agaisnt the infected. That thing? Well that thing is THIS.

Now if you excuse me I need to find that chocolate helicopter....whatever it takes to find it...I will go through with.

Strokes

"Gordon Brown says:

Is this it?

Yes it is."

Comment

On BT putting on a workshop about filling in online applications.

"HR People are IDIOTS. These type of things are more useful to a generation unaware of the capabilities of the online world surely? Though I guess it goes both ways as our generation are more liable to use various forms of shorthand and online speech, which you warily guys find far too informal, if you can even make any sense of it.

There is your short essay on what it'll be about, not forgetting the customary cup of tea and goodie bag of BT pamphlets at the end of course!

I don't need information about how to fill out application forms. I need to find the confidence to believe in myself, that I have certain abilities and that I am competant and capable of utilising them. Which is going to take a bit more than a chance meeting with the BT HR department."

Sorry if you are in or want to go into HR, but I haven't had good experiences with those i've met from inside the industry and after starting reading Lynne Truss's excellent Eats, Shoots & Leaves I couldn't help having a little bit of an angry rant!

In other news I am blogging again! Despite it only having taken four months to come up with some new material for your internet ears, I am back and most filled with enthusiasm.

Here's the customary song of the week: the brilliant Mathilda by Little Comets

See you in bits :)