Oh hi… yeah… er.. I’ve been busy. Sorry.
That’s as much of an apology as you are going to get. Well, at least in terms of my absence, I plan on apologising at length about the quality of that last apology to anyone who found it lacking.
So a quick update…
I did Extreme Blue. It was good. In retrospect I wish it had lasted longer, though there were some bits that were just crazy, I really really sincerely enjoyed the work and I would love to do some more fun stuff like that after university.
Then I came back to university
Then I moved rooms because the first room was too noisy. There were people throwing up, people screaming and laughing, and talking to themselves on the loo. And me lying awake hoping it would end. Luckily the lovely ladies at the university fixed me up a nice, if pokey, room in a post graduate building which is lovely and mostly quiet. The nervous eye twitch (seriously) that I developed in the first 6 weeks has nearly all gone. Ahh.
University accommodation is it is SO functional. It’s the Haskell of living spaces (OK, the extent of my knowledge of Haskell is that it’s a “functional” programming language, and that’s as far as this metaphor extends I suspect). I quite like it though, all the signs have quite reasonable typefaces, and colours, and the proportions of all the bits make me feel calm, if a little distant. My new carpet has chewing gum-esque stains on it and is the colour of newspaper pulp, the door colour is what happens when you mix green and grey together. All the university accommodation is painted in colours that were on offer in Homebase (or some such) at the time.
Here are some pictures:
This inspirational view is from my room. Note the student debris: some loo roll, a plastic bag, and some balloons.
Here are the signs that can be found in my room.
These pictures are on flickr if you want to see the notes associated with them.
