Prospectus smash and grab March 28, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentI went to the East Midlands Higher Education Festival with my school today. It was essentially just a chance to get lots of random university prospectuses that you have some interest in (perhaps only in theory…) although I think the intention was to ask some questions and get some more information but given that it was very busy and essentially just a free for all it really wasn’t the best time for me. I didn’t bother trying to get freebies, I think the best thing you could get was a personal radio, pretty good really and there was a lot of competition for who could get the best loot from the hour. Came back with a painful back from having my bag on so long and of course a nice bag of prospectuses from various universities, some of which I have no interest in whatsoever. Well perhaps that isn’t true, it’s a bit soon to be making any decisions.
Other than that it was a very boring day, I was very productive in my free period and just spent it reading violent acres archives. Interesting but didn’t really get me anywhere, having said that I did try to do something useful but there is a limit. We were supposed to be having a “band practice” this evening but our bassist is lacking his bass as he lent it to a friend. I put the quote marks because I’m not sure it can exactly sure it can be called a band practice for two main reasons: we don’t have a drummer (or we can’t play with our drummer) and we don’t have a name or any real band credentials. That’s just the tip on the iceberg of the things wrong with it, its essentially three of us and my computer playing along to songs, or for one song just playing with the drumming from a guitar pro tab in the background. It’s not great but it will have to do I guess, or it would have to do if we could actually do it, there’s usually something stopping us and its pretty much never due to me or the other guitarist which is perhaps all the more frustrating. Ah well, that’s how it goes I guess.
Really quite entertaining March 26, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentI was very surprised to see that I actually managed to be linked to from the girl who. I’m not exactly sure how I managed to sneak that one in but I am currently finding it really quite funny, should put me in a good mood for ooh…at least a few minutes. Nothing much has really happened since yesterday. School is exceedingly boring with half of my main friendship group away on a biology/geography trip so I don’t really have any company in free periods and of course I don’t really have the balls to go into the common room and…um lounge about I guess. Still, its a good oppertunity to get on with my homework so at least I’ll be on top of that for all of this week. Yeah this post is pretty pointless, I was just so shocked to have gotten that link, I get the feeling that was a bit of covert operations on my part (accidentally of course). I think I’ll work on getting a bit of music related writing up since I haven’t done any of that yesterday, and I would like to. Anyways, I’ve got to get off to putting the finishing touches to the old King Lear coursework.
“Armchair psychology” March 25, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentI quite like that term. I think we all like to do a bit of it every now and again, the internet seems to be great for it. At the moment I am quite enjoying reading http://www.thegirlwho.net although just because of what is going on in relation to other people, namely http://lundone.blogspot.com/ and input from http://www.violentacres.com. However against what the title suggests I’m not going to engage in any of that type of psychology. Perhaps because I don’t sit in armchairs very often, either way it is merely pleasurable for me to sit here and watch this fascinating series of events (although granted I only just caught on from reading about VA talking about enjoying watching it). This whole thing I find very entertaining, as do quite a lot of other people and I reckon if I were to try and take any kind of serious look at it it would just be stupid, so I’m not going to.
In other news I’ve copied up most of the dreaded King Lear coursework, tomorrows I intend to seek advice from my teacher about it and then add the finished touches, alongside finishing off my sensors physics coursework before Easter and then I’ve got a long time to finish off the handling data. If anyone were to ever read this (doubtable) then you wouldn’t really have any idea what I am talking about, all it really matters is a previously large mound of work is becoming a nice bit smaller and that is always good.
Made the move to wordpress
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentI decided to shift over here to word press, not that there was a huge need for it but I feel that it might be a bit better equipped to fit my needs, a bit more flexible and such. I don’t know whether that will actually be the case or not but I doubt it really matters very much.
Thoughts on hope and the future March 23, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentSo much seems to have happened yet I don’t seem to be able to remember any of it. I had my last session of the 6 week course at the university on Wednesday. It was pretty crap really, as it started I felt quite comfortable and happy but it collapsed into a pretty boring and otherwise uninteresting evening. Really its about the social side, I like to talk and be around people but I’m very bad at initiating and of it being the shy person I am. The big problem throughout the course was that all the other people there knew other people on the course as they went to the same schools but I didn’t so there wasn’t even the possibility of moulding my group with another because I simply didn’t have a group. After the first session I was feeling very positive because the ideas of these pre established groups didn’t really surface and I didn’t really realise the problem it was going to be. The first session was actually really good and lots of fun but it all started going down hill after that really, some sessions better than others but nothing anywhere near as good as the first one. That first session I felt so alive, really being around other nice people who I didn’t know but felt I could get along well with but any openings there were for me to join on to groups were quickly demolished by my shyness.
In the end I learned nothing I didn’t know before I guess, without that first session I guess there wouldn’t have been much hope for anything different. But there was. I was given that preview. “This is what your life could be”. The teasing little dash of possibility that there is a hope and better future for me. These things come along once in a while, when they come they bring me great joy, for those moments in time nothing could really be better, there is my heaven and paradise. The moment is gone too soon, only to be left with the thoughts of this as a real life, left in my memory, for me to meander over for days, weeks, months maybe. Its a pretty destructive process. All I can really hope for is that university will be what I need, allowing me to establish a mixed group of friends and finally find what I want. Without this hope…well I just don’t know where I would really be.
Various happenings March 18, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Uncategorized , add a commentI finally got around to getting a new mobile phone, after saying I want a new one for a while. Unusually for me on a purchase that is quite serious I just did some research, found a phone that fit my needs very well at a great price and then went into the shop and bought it…simple. I got a Motorola L6, it has all the features I was really looking for, camera, bluetooth and the like. No support for playing music but having a 30GB iPod its really not necessary for me to have a phone that can play music as well. My buying the phone also influenced one of my friends into hurrying ahead and getting a new phone - the same one as mine. I imagine my other best friends will go and get new phones soon too, we won’t really have that much use for them but I felt it really was time for a new one given the complete crappiness of the last.
On a more unpleasant note I have a lot of coursework to be getting on with, three physics pieces and a nice 2000 word essay on power in King Lear. In theory that’s what I’m going to go and do now but I’m not sure how close theory and practice will be together…we’ll see.
