Oli

Had enough of your grassery

Tue, 18 May 2004 22:49:46 GMT

I had an excellent day today. I took Claire to Whitsands Bay and we had such a good time, without boring you with details.
And 24 hour 23, argh, must have it!

Absoluuuuttiiiooon

Sat, 15 May 2004 22:27:08 GMT

For today at least, life is good. Revision is going okay(ish), the house is harmonious, the weather is fantastic, I met up with this beautiful girl Claire that I met on Monday again last night, danced the night away in the union last night as well, I've just watched Predator, got C.S.I series 3 waiting for me now...can't complain!

It was supposed to be so easy

Thu, 13 May 2004 22:30:31 GMT

After much deliberating, I'm attempting to arrange my life so I can stay in Plymouth this summer. This requires securing money and a job - and so far this is looking extremely promising. Gary, Nick, Duncan, Antony, and Clare are all staying in our house too, with Kiera staying throughout the whole of June. Hopefully a wicked summer could be instore.
Been doing nowhere near enough revision but luckily there is still time. I went out with a girl called Claire (friend of Gary's Gill) last night which was good but Gary let this fact slip to my Mum when she rang the house during my absence, so I had to deal with her inquistion this evening. Poor old Ros is finally returning to Plymouth after a two week absence tomorrow, after the death of her nan, so that's good too. Also we have a goldfish called Steve in our house now.
So that's all my news. Not too exciting really. However I have watched 24 day three 10am-11am and (do not read on if you don't want it spoiled) was very satisfied. How the fook they are going to contain up to eleven outbreaks around America in two hours I have no idea. But at least that pretty Jane Saunders didn't come to any harm. And Tony, I really wouldn't mention Teri to Jack again if I were you

When the world ends

Sun, 09 May 2004 20:06:09 GMT

Had a hugely boring weekend. Literally nothing but revision. My next exam is tomorrow and I have a decent break afterwards, so it should pick up after that. For now, I'm bored, tired, and pissed off! Poxy exams!

I AMS A ROBOT

Sat, 08 May 2004 12:28:10 GMT

Had a very boring week, pretty much nothing but revision. However nearly our entire house went to our union last night which very good fun. Had far too much to drink mind, but for once I didn't embarass myself even in the slightest. Clare and I spent ages wondering what's happened to Jack's heroin addiction in 24.

Looked dead didn't I?

Tue, 04 May 2004 12:11:16 GMT

Exams finally started for the residents of Dolphin House today. Poor Nick has four hours straight today from 12.30, in the same room, before a two hour diving exam at 6.30pm! And he doesn't finish until June!
Good luck to everyone taking exams.

This is Bauer

Sun, 02 May 2004 14:09:41 GMT

So quite a while since my last update innit...I'll list the things I've done in no particular order in an effort to try and get back on track from today;
1. Saw Kill Bill Volume 2. Enjoyed it a lot, not as much as the first mind. As always, EVERYONE I know here agrees with me. I'm talking to you Tom!
2. Went out drinking with Ros the first four days I was back when we were meant to be revising. Got heinously drunk with her in The Roundabout pub on Tuesday.
3. Went out for Henry's 21st birthday - was largely uneventful but nevertheless very enjoyable. Good meal at The Old Mexican restaurant in Taunton too.
4. Went to the Quay Club with my housemates, danced, got lost on the way home. Got very excited when Dizee Rascal came on.
5. Saw Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - outstanding!
6. Watched four new episodes of 24 - only four left to go of day three now. The virus is out (Tony said that AGAIN in the latest ep). Also moved on to C.S.I series two, very good.
7. Went out with Ros' housemate Susan last night, didn't get home til 7.30 this morning, hooray!
8. Bought Kill Bill Volume 1 on DVD. Enjoyed it again.
9. Took drunken phonecalls from Henry at his barbeque - allegedly without the barbeque.
10. Revised....a bit.
11. Finished work on a sour note - nothing but muppets in so I just went home pissed off and returned to Plymouth within twelve hours.
12. Went to the beach, skimboarded (not very well), got sunburnt.
I think that just about covers it...today I've been revising in spite of my severe lack of sleep last night. Was woken up by Nick overly pleased at having cooked porridge for us. I wasn't interested. But the sun is shining now so off I go, out to revise some more.

Tea

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:10:54 GMT

Whilst moving bags full of rubbish at work today, one split and soaked the uniform box with tea. I was not popular!

- this is my normal voice -

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:39:54 GMT

All my friends from work and I went out and had a highly enjoyable evening on Monday. It was pretty uneventful but enjoyable, as is usually the case. I became quite enraged however by the lack of sleep by Steve snoring so loudly. I have to point out we weren't sharing a bed, just a room.
Then yesterday it was Tom's 21st birthday and my mum's birthday, so I spent the day going between the two. For Tom's we went to Woolacoome (spelling?) via the most retarded route around virtually the entire southwest coastline and almost vertical hills, which was enjoyable once we finally got there. We dug the obligatory hole, showed off my general ineptness at cricket, before sitting in a traffic jam for ages on the way home. At one point I foolishly let James steer for a bit, narrowly missing a cyclist. In the evening we decided to go and see Blu Cantrell who, to be fair, sucked ass but it was still good fun. Henry and I had to escape the attentions of some creepy girl who was out with her creepy brother, saying that tall guys were her type or something (I did my best to blank her out). It was also entertaining watching Ash show off his physio skills to my friend Charlotte's sister Chantelle.
Just read that Elisha Cuthbert is in serious trouble for spoiling the ending to 24 day 3 on some chat show. Oops!

Must. See. Kill. Bill. 2.

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:23:49 GMT

I was also very pleased to see Den and Dennis make it up.

...and wait for this to all blow over

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:17:34 GMT

Went to see Shaun Of The Dead on Friday and found it thoroughly enjoyable. I'd recommend it to all my friends. However, big fans of Spaced will notice several jokes ripped off from the series (although these days this is called 'paying homage to').
Also saw Spirited Away again (very good also), and got far too excited by the prospect of the Kill Bill sequel. Also got very angry by being reminded of the existence of The Matrix Revolutions by seeing every shop imaginable stacking the dvds up to the ceiling.
As you can tell, despite having only been a week, having no money and working constantly is beginning to take it's toll.

You are no longer in charge of your country

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:34:56 GMT

Well after the fiasco that was purchasing Glastonbury 2004 tickets (successfully I might add), life returned to some sort of normality. My friend Pippa from home came to visit me in Plymouth which was good, so we tagged along with all my friends for something of a drinking and dancing session in our union. It was good fun if largely uneventful; I had to walk home Ros' housemate Susan who had become worried after Ros disappeared following copping off with some bloke. Turns out she had looked for us, couldn't find us, and went home where she fell unconscious.
Then came the unfortunately obligatory return to Taunton, which is fast becoming a byname for 'the land of mindless shelf-stacking'. Seeing people has been good, working in Sainsburys fruit and veg section not so. It could be a lot worse, but it's just the fact that it's WORKING. With locals who only talk about fighting and modifying their cars to boot.
Inbetween I've had fleeting encounters with the likes of Tom, Dan, Henry, and Pippa (again), not to mention several of my restaurant friends. The most noteworthy of these being; me and Pippa were in a pub in town where we ran into my friends Oli and Pippa from work, which was a bit spooky; and today, when I managed to lose as per usual at Trivial Pursuit to Dan and Tom.
I am extremely miffed at how my piddly internet connection in Taunton cannot download 24. Now I have to wait three weeks.

5.32 am - Oli gets his ticket!

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:33:31 GMT

Got one! Bed! Poor Neil still hasn't got his! Night!

5am - 6am

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:15:37 GMT

Arrrgghh!

4am - 5am

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:05:53 GMT

This is seriously beginning to do my head in now. Luke has gone to bed ticket purchased, now Tom has been and gone having done the same thing, and here I still am!
Two more things; when I typed '12am' earlier it wasn't actually 12am was it? And wasn't Den nasty to Dennis earlier?

3am - 4am

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:12:32 GMT

Luke got a ticket about twenty minutes ago. I'm not having such a good time - I can't even get the order form up now! I'm going to keep trying.

2am - 3am

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:04:20 GMT

Hour six? Five? I'm going insane! Still no sign of a ticket!

1am - 2am

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:07:14 GMT

Into hour five. No luck still. Neil and Luke are on-line suffering with me, and I get the occasional supportive comment from Ros.

12am - 1am

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:47:21 GMT

I'm in hour four of trying to get a Glastonbury 2004 ticket. I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. Must. Get. Ticket.

Kyle Singer's the key!

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:07:18 GMT

If I see the new 24 trailer on Sky One once more, I'll create a deadly virus of my own and release it in the Sky headquarters. Jack Bauer in hazard suit; 'The virus is out! The virus is out!' No it's not Jack, and you know it too you rascal!

The rigmaster

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:02:42 GMT

Yesterday my parents came to Plymouth to begin work prepping my dad's yacht to go back into the water at the end of the month. A bribe of free food (including beautiful bacon sandwiches) proved sufficient to entice me, Gary, Nick and Duncan down to assist with helping. Ros was too lazy. Queue hours of me and Gary scrubbing the decks whilst Duncan marched back and forth collecting buckets of water for us, wiping down the hull inbetween. Meanwhile, Nick helped my dad with the rigging. Turns out that next week, someone's going to have to go up the mast to sort out a dodgy rope. Pretty hard work but good fun, and it'll be worth it when we get to go out on it once it's ready.
My dad let us slip off early so we could see the navy warship Scylla being sunk off Whitsands bay. We had to queue for an hour just to get onto the car ferry over the river and over an hour on the way back - with all the driving inbetween we spend far too long in the car yesterday. But it was worth it, we got a spot right above the bay and even though it was brief, seeing a ship being blown up and sunk was impressive. Even if it was an hour and a half late starting after we'd raced to be there on time, and having to stand atop a freezing windy hill the whole time. It was surprisingly loud, the whole bay rumbled.
Afterwards we went on a mussel-gathering mission further down the bay once all the people had left (queue more scaling down cliffs) before returning for our houseparty for Dave's birthday. Predictably, I got wasted and passed out. There was a nice girl there who I managed to entice onto my windowsill, but I was unconscious before I could do anything else. Better luck next time, pisshead! Nick and I were also hurling waterbombs at people from my window, which was amusing (not for them).
Whilst today I'm doing more stats coursework, hooray!

More reoffending

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:26:40 GMT

Returned to Taunton this weekend and in the space of 48 hours I had to go out with my friend Neil for his 20th birthday, attend a party for a girl we know who was 18, spend a morning with my mum for mother's day, then return to Plymouth to go out in the evening for Kate's 21st. We had a crack at karaoke, my first ever attempt; I did 'Something stupid' with Clare and 'Suspicious minds' with Dave. My personal favourite was Antony and Gary's woeful rendition of 'Touch my bum'. Kate got heinously drunk and had to be carried home by six of us whilst she screamed. Memorable for all the wrong reasons. Scary. Very scary.
Last night loads of us went to this posh restaurant where you choose your meat and vegetables and the style they're cooked in. I had a hot mexican (very nice), a 'norman' (caremalised apples and cider sauce type thing), and squid in a carribean style (nasty, too sweet). Trouble is by the time we got to the club we were stuffed so badly we felt ill - Gary and I spent over half an hour in the toilet trying to make room. And once again, Ros got so badly drunk she couldn't stand on the dancefloor. Oli to the rescue as usual.

I hope the smoking man's in this one

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:12:20 GMT

I've had a highly productive and entertaining week so far. For starters, all day every day I've been doing my coursework, and have made a substantial dent in my overall workload. But more importantly I've been having lots of fun inbetween.
Sunday evening I watched Starsky & Hutch. I thought it was ok; I think Ben Stiller's a pretty funny bloke but he's rarely in anything worthy. It only made me laugh like three or four times but it still wasn't awful.
Monday Gary had a friend down and we went out for a couple of drinks. Twas uneventful. Then Tuesday Ros and I did the legendary 'going out for a couple' which resulted in us getting slightly plastered. Come midnight we said goodnight and she literally stumbled off into the night. So that was good fun and noteworthy as she reaffirmed an offer of going on holiday this summer, which I will probably accept.
Then yesterday it was St Patrick's day - in our local over the road they were giving away these crazy hats for every five pints of Guinness. Last orders came and we staggered home, looking like a bunch of extras from Gangs Of New York.
Must get back to work now. Cheerio!

Arrgghh

Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:37:24 GMT

Yesterday morning proved particularly amusing randomly - Nick, Duncan,
and Gary took it upon themselves to tie me up with duct tape and abandon me
in the hallway. Eventually I managed to crawl upstairs and cut myself free,
and headed downstairs seeking vengeance. En route I armed myself with shower
gel, and proceeded to cover Gary and Duncan. Nick had fled into Gary's room,
and after I eventually managed to get in, he had gone out the window, around
and locked me in. Next thing I know I'm being bombarded with smoke pellets -
from here it degenerated into minor warfare. Pellets were being thrown in
and out of windows into the street from all levels of our house, 'marmite
bombs' got involved as the state of our front door will testify, and I ended
up chasing Nick halfway to uni in my bed clothes armed with marmite on a
knife.
Back to work!

Just admit what you did

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:21:47 GMT

Mystic River was very good incidentally. Ros' random housemate Susan came along, and she was pretty cool, so I had a good time.
Must. Do. Work.