introduction
THIS PART OF NEWFORMULA IS NOW IN COLD STORAGE. I decided to move everything over to wordpress, with a clean start. Old posts are now under archive here, but for the latest please visit newformula.org
i realised i havent posted all that recently just now when i accidently launched the blogging app i use to post to this page. oh well. no big deal.
anyway... whats new. accomodation is now out of my mind. its not sorted as such, but i need to just leave it, and i am just too much of someone who likes to be prepared to do that. i need to move on.
tomorrow night is our end of term party on a boat on the thames, i have been roped into djing, it should be very cool, what with the amazing weather we are having now too. i am feeling so ready for summer. so my next job is trawl through the old record piles littering my room and hoik out what i want to take with me and play... it could be as much as a 2 and a half hour set, so i think i will be taking a few. one thing i need to remember is that i am playing to a party crowd, and therefore must create a party atmosphere rather than a club thing.. mustnt be too anal and play just what i want and think is cool. ill cope.
i have been working at snow and rock the last 3 days. i enjoy that job so much, i am so glad i have somewhere where i feel absolutely no worries whatsoever about going into work, i enjoy being there, and the people there, so its ALL good. last day tomorrow though, then home on wednesday to prep for the trip to america.
talking of which i need to call the guy who is employing me and providing my accomodation, so i will leave it here.
my washing needs taking out of the machine downstairs. any volunteers?
added another peek into me on the music page. i have actually played out at other places beyond my current bedroom, however this is the only pic I have currently. as soon as I get more I will update. see behind the decks.
thats pissed as in drunk. not pissed as in annoyed. just thought i should make that clear.
i found the best cd in HMV, oxford st. today... called funk soul brothers, a collection of classic funk songs from various era's, but oh so good, and well, funky. i think i am going to check out the sister cd tomorrow, when i return my classic deelite, groove is in the heart 12" cus it has like a freakin 1/2" warp on it. bitches. sorry, im quite pissed at the minute
just how obscene is the eurovision song contest
how proud am i of the brit music scene that we scored nil point
some people suck
things which are great about being home:
- food. so much food :)
- walking to get an appetite before dinner. for like 2 hours. through mud.
- things seem fine when you talk it through with your parents
- getting post from ages ago, and its good stuff!
- phone calls= free
- seeing my sister. of course the parents too, but she grows up too fast, its scary.
thats it for now, its a big list but thats what comes to mind
the feeling i have been looking forward to for quite some time arrived yesterday, the end of exams followed by a swift 1 to 12pm drinking session. such a wreck, but too much fun =)
and it gets better.. my housing options for next are looking up, it looks like i can live with the people i want and not the people i dont: bonus.
the icing on the cake. yes, episode 24 of 24 (obviously) has downloaded and is awaiting our viewing. goddamn!
p.s. another section, the very unambiguous 'other' is online. not much else to say there really, kinda speaks for itself.
this is the most drained i have felt, emotionally and physically in the last two months, i guess since the end of march, something like that. just bleurgh. i spent 4 hours studying with someone before my exam who i barely know, but managed to spend 4 hours with in one place with no problem, which was cool... then 2 hours of maths hell, 6 pages of visa form, and a couple of hours of geography reading/stressing and now bed. why do my legs ache? i havent walked that far today. weird.
1pm tomorrow and i will be feeling better, more free anyway. i will be able to do things i want to do which i have been feeling guilty about doing for the last month, definitely, without a doubt, a good thing. just 3 hours of bullshitting essays about not much to go. sigh.
sleep.
website updated... will be online soon. i think i am version 2.0 now? something like that. hell, it keeps me from revising.
bugger. looks like, due to visa problems (again), but not terminal this time, i won't now be leaving until about the 20th of june, earliest, and i quit work and everything. shit.
had an ok day. crap evening so far.
more things that are rockin'
great records. leaving them for a while. rediscovering them. flipping them over and finding theres something just as great, but different on the flipside. wow. happened twice today :)
thinking of a great idea to make the old web page look better. and it will only take about 30 mins to implement, when i can be arsed...
and im off to the pub!
how good and amazingly funny is this
things currently rocking my world...
the new doc martin fabric cd
my new records
3 new dvd's in the post... seven, donnie darko, ?
the upcoming boat party i am djing at
2 exams left
stats wasn't fine. bugger.
i am feeling decidedly unprepared for stats tomorrow, mainly due to be me being complacent as its an open book exam and i did further stats at A- Level... first time yet i feel underprepared. hmm. i will do my normal get up at 7 routine and cram for two hours outside the exam hall someplace. ill find me a cafe somewhere. it'll be fine.
right?
at last! i am honestly happy with my web page! oh.
that means i have to do work.
yesterday i actually managed to hit the mathematics for economics textbook for at least 2 hours, not bad, but when i dont have a hard exam (touch wood, stats tomorrow shouldn't be hard) until next monday its just not so urgent like the last coupla weeks.
need breakfast
christ, i was reading through my entries a bit earlier and realised i start a lot of my posts something like this...
so, blablabla
and i promised myself i wouldn't start the next one like that.
look below. im an idiot.
so, the website has been slightly adjusted. again. what can i say, i dont want to do any work, so i play and learn html, and its quite rewarding (although i look at all the amazingly well designed websites out there and just sigh). so, its not amazing, but i like it. the new layout is far quicker to navigate, not that there is much here anyway, but you can get from place to place without using the back button a lot, which matters.
i managed to avoid work ALL DAY. how impressive. what will be even more impressive is if I actually do a full day tomorrow. thats the plan, here's hoping.
so, rudely awakened at 500 hrs this morning by the fire alarm. not impressed, however i should have been far more thoughtful and grabbed my camera on my way out, what with the fire engines, dawn sky, there was a lot going on that even when i was in my sleepy state i could have done with taking a few pictures.
progress check :
house: coming along, options seem to appear and disppear weekly
24: hour 22
exams: 4/7
days until summer for me : 30
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -- Oscar Wilde
so, 'the world economy' exam starts in a coupla hours. i am quietly confident for this exam, i feel i should be actually able to answer the questions. i am having trouble typing today, i am going to leave it here before it bugs the shit out of me
so, yes, that geography exam. its actually all surprisingly interesting once you get into it, which makes revision that little bit less tedious. I am considering going to sit in the sun, whether its in the pub or in the park, i do not know, but definitely tempting.
i realise i actually do like geography, but the lectures I had this year were just so damn boring and so uninspirational i forgot why I liked it. It makes a good change from all the theoretical side of economics and you can start looking at the effect of all this stuff you have been studying. a good thing.
so, there are things which i feel like i need to update you people on.
- 24 Series 2 - 14 hours through now. need to catch up to 21 so i can watch the least few episodes with the guys in the flat
- Exams- 2/7 complete
- House status for next year - none found
- America for summer status- job found, flights booked, visa application forms pending
thats all for now, i'm out.
how good am i at avoiding revision? i am the king. i mean, i have taught myself html, (kind of), made countless music mixes, become addicted to taking random photos, built this website, made myself ill for 2 weeks, and to top it all i have started playing with this site (again).. all under the hood tweaks though like trying to get all the pages working with stylesheets so if i ever want to change it again it should be so damn easy. man, its a joke. now, i have 4 days to revise for a geography exam (international problems in geography, bit vague, yes?) which i know not much about. oh and the exam yesterday was possibly the hardest thing i have ever done in my life. well, kinda.
i think my blog is becoming to sound repetitive. its just me bitching about revision, but to be 100% honest thats all thats going on. not much more to talk about... oh tom and the others baked a cake that had half a bag of sugar in it. for something thats about an inch thick thats pretty impressive. everyone was a bit hyper afterwards
so. things seem to be up in the air right now. i am too ill to be doing exams to be honest, i cant sleep, i am not functioning, let alone revising productively. lets hope i can get the doctor to write me that note so i can get consideration.
i am seriously quite screwed when it comes to my exam tomorrow, worth 1/4 of my year, I should be really trying for this... but i am just too tired to think about it all. i need to be fresh tomorrow, i really hope i sleep tonight. 4 hours a night for the last 5 nights or something just isnt enough to feel human, i mean thats 1/2 of what i should be getting... so that means i am owed 20 hours sleep.. looks like with any luck ill be sleeping all saturday. please?
i want a lomo