Right, that's the end of the celebrations for quite some time as far as I can see things. I've done worryingly less than I intended to on my major project, and I've got to pull my finger out in a major way to get back to where i want to be, but then again at the same time i want to enjoy the limited time that I have remaining at the end of uni.
Good weekend all-in-all, if not a bit random. Final exam went well, managed to fill a 12-page answerbook in the two hours, and strangely for me, stayed to the very end of my exam for the first time ever, and I think I said everything that I wanted to say... Even got a quotation from Bruce Shenier in about the security of public-key cryptography (i.e it's all based on our inability to factorise large primes, and if we figure out how to do that, it's all going to go tits up :o) )
Then began the celebrations, and friday was a very manic, but splendid evening. Went to the union at 3pm for a few drinks, and eventually left there at 7pm, (after watching neighbours and the simpsons there) for some dinner and chance to get myself sorted out... Then went downtown, met up with coursemates and wormed our way through the aber pubs, eventually reaching the pier, which wasn't great, but it eventually got to playing quite a few good hip-hop and dance tracks, which was good, and as we'd all been drinking since 3pm there was quite a bit of dancing going on. Towards about 1am, most people were getting bored, and everyone headed home, however, it occured to me that i'd not yet met up with Big Al for his birthday celebrations, so I phoned him and found out they were still in the bay, so headed over there. Got there at 1.10am, got in free, bought al a drink, then realised that the music was quite good... by the time i'd got there they were playing a good mix of what i can only describe as a mix of "indie anthems" and oldies (for example, they played Blink 182 - all the small things, The buggles - video killed the radio star, and Queen - don't stop me now... Basically all the good stuff that you can dance and sing along to when you're a bit pissed :o) All in all a splendid evening, and I had no hangover when I awoke on saturday, so happy birthday Al, and bye-bye exams until June.
Saturday night, I was going to stay in and do some work, however, after making a curry and having a couple of beers with it, i started working out some good arrangements in iTunes, and this sort of got me in the mood for going out again. So I dragged james up from town, and met with the other guys in the union that had talked about going to Reload (sort of 60s thru 80s party mix night, for the uninitiated) had another good night, didn't really drink all that much, but had a good calorie-busting dance, and really did sleep when I got back... Oh yeah, and there was a large contingent of emergency services out - Leggy police women with squeezy batons, a few nurses with fluffy hats, and at least one lara croft lookalike 8-)
Well, anyway, as I said, lots to do over the coming weeks, and I have a few people I want to see over the next month or so, so I shall have to see how the timetable and dissertation pans out... not looking immensely bad at the moment, but I've yet to sort out practicals... urrgh.
Currently listening to the judge jules saturday night warm-up from radio one, quite good music to do odds and sods to, actually (on the bbc radio on demand service).
Have a few things I want to do at some point in the future also (low-priority work stuff)
- Implement a proper online photo album for my photos
- UPDATE MY WEBSITE as I never finished it in the first place
- Get a tripod and take some good photos of aber by night, and perhaps in the fog or similar
Right, well now to complete the seemingly loads of emails I've written today, then get some kip ready for a long day tommorrow... The plan is to get up early and go for a run, but I am not 100% sure if that will happen yet :)
Sheesh, I've been typing for ages!
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