walpolian87

I'm so fucking sick of university and how it's affecting some future plans and the accommodation I'm living in next year. Such a shambles and I could hardly hide my annoyance on the phone to them earlier. Aargh, cunting fuckpisswank.

/obligatory uni rant

Well, I'm hesitant to call it 'all-time' as I tend not to make such proclaimations about anything but I'm taking a liking to an all black look I've been sporting for the last couple of years. Black t-shirt, black jeans, black socks and, before I lost it in a pub in Norwich, my black trilby (which I'm sure a lot of you know of due to me raving about it until my tongue goes dry). Someone told me it's quite a depressing look but I quite like it. It makes me feel moderately cool and fuck knows I need a bit of street cred ;). I feel a bit Tom Waits-ish too but that's frankly an insult to the good man.

Simon :)

If you could get your own house with 1 friend, who would you pick?
Vaughan, to live out our Peep Show fantasy...don't ask.

Which is worse, too-tight clothes or much too-loose clothes?
Too tight. I need to breathe, man! Then again, too loose ones make me pull my pants up every few minutes so I can't say either of them appeals to me.

Which do you prefer: french toast, bagels, pancakes, waffles, or cereal?
I eat cereal the most out of all of those. Waffles and french toast seem nicer to me but cereal is quicker to make so I'd be more inclined to do that. I'm not a breakfast person at all but when I have the time, it'd probably be cereal.

Yes or no: eyebrow piercings?
Nah. I like ear and nose piercings but most of the other ones I can't really comprehend.

If you jump, can you touch the ceiling of the room you're in?
Yep. My hand just about touches it.

If you had to be a teacher, what subject would you be able to teach best?
Musical history (nothing to do with playing an instrument) or English. I'd really like to teach the latter anyway but I don't know how good I'd be at teaching it given my poor grammar at the best of times.

Which do you think is worse: ear aches or tooth aches?
Toothaches although neither are pleasant to have. I drink quite a lot of coke so it sometimes plays havoc on my teeth while I'm eating things and makes it a bit painful, ouch.

In your opinion what is the worst type of weather?
"Boiling hot sun, something which at the time of writing should be stopping seeing as it's now September" - KEPT!

Do you look anything like your best friend(s)?
Friendship hierarchy for the lose.

Yes or no: Hawaiian pizza?
Pretty awesome. I know pineapple on pizza seems like preferential treatment to that fruit and fuck all the others but by gum, it goes well with what else is on there. Mmm.

Coffee ice-cream?
Sounds absolutely vile. Then again, I'm no coffee fan.

Would you rather be a hair stylist or a clothes designer?
I'm no fashion expert and I fuck about with my hair a bit but I don't think that would necessarily qualify me to be a hair stylist :P. However, I'll go with hair stylist cos hair interests me more than clothes.

If you could re-paint your bedroom, what color would you paint it?
Sky blue or a colour that wasn't too intrusive on my eyes. Nothing too bright basically.

Which smiley face do you like better: =] or :)
I couldn't possibly choose. I like the sort of lovesick face of the former and the simplicity and friendliness of the latter.

Sleep with anyone last night?
Oh yeah, I'm such a stud that I slept with 2 people.

Would you rather be 3 inches taller or shorter than you are now?
I feel comfortable with my height really. It does seem like I'm shorter than I am when I'm around people and I'm amateurishly (I don't care if that's not a word) trying to compare heights but there's an odd sense of comfort that comes from that with me. I guess I'm not too tall for a male but not too short either. It's fine.

If you could have any wild animal as a pet, what would you pick?
Axolotl, fox or badger.

Would you ever stay over at your neighbour's house for the night?
I don't know my neighbours on my right so if I was then it'd be pretty random and awkward. The ones on my left aren't even neighbours. It's a holiday house that is rented out to le publique. I could probably break in and crash in there if worst come to worst but it seems unlikely that I'd end up staying there in the event of such a matter.

Have you kissed anyone in the past week?
Did I kiss your mum? Probably.

Would you ever work at a fast food restaurant?
I think I would for reasons of tiding me over for a while rather than a permanent fixture. However, I'd put getting a job in retail, IT, factory or bar/hotel/restaurant work over fast food work any day.

What would be an ideal first job for you, (if you haven't already had one)?
Writer, probably of the musical variety.

Do you live in a house or apartment, or other?
House at home. Flat at uni.

Have you ever in your life been depressed?
More than likely but I'm a bit wary of calling it 'depressed'. It's not like I've been diagnosed with it but feeling shit for massive lengths of time and general uncontented attitudes towards life does make me feel like I am depressed.

Listening to music at the moment?
No but I want to listen to The Orb so I may do that later.

Name somewhere you'd love to travel to?
Japan. The cities look mesmeric and there are a few other reasons why it seems so attractive to me. I had a friend who went over there to be a teacher and he put up a lot of photos on his Facebook of the place and it was just captivating.

How bad are the winters where you live?
Well, they're not too bad. We usually get snow of some kind so it makes me feel slightly happy with the weather in that particular time.

Have you ever seen the last person you texted naked?
Haha, no.

Will tomorrow be better than today?
How the hell could I possibly even answer that? Life is full of unpredictability.

Do you like coffee?
See coffee ice cream question.

Do you prefer the ocean or pool?
Pool. I feel wary going into an ocean cos I fear I might be dragged out to sea or killed by a fish. My stepgranddad survived a tussle with a jellyfish though.

Where were you at 4:02 this morning?
I was in my room beavering away on my laptop. Probably playing Mafia.

Do you have trust issues?
A bit. I feel generally trusting of people though.

Will you be dating in 6 months?
I kinda hope so.

Ever liked someone whose name started with a J?
I haven't.

When was the last time you sang out loud?
Probably a Therapy? song of some description. "Die Laughing" or "Potato Junkie".

What do you do when your phone rings at 3:00 am?
Well, I'm usually up at that time so chances are that I'd answer it if it's someone I know and not an unknown number.

Has anyone told you that you have pretty eyes?
Yeah.

Have you ever liked someone way older than you?
When I was a kid in Year 2 or 3, I liked a girl who was in Year 5 or 6. I never talked to her. I was just enamoured by her appearance.

Did you hug someone today?
Your mum.

If you could change your eye color would you?
Maybe things would've been different if I had blue eyes...joke.

Do you think somebody likes the same person you do?
I don't currently like anybody. Well, not in the way you're implying.

Where is the boy/girl you want most?
Leave me alone.

What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Drinking a cup of tea and going through LJ.

What is your current mood?
In a bit of a rolleyes mood although the attitude my mother gave me was partly understandable.

What are you doing tomorrow?
I have nothing planned.

Simon :)

Work last night went well. I was glad that I didn't feel tired throughout the entire shift and it only kicked in on the journey home. We finished pretty early as we got through all the stock quite quickly. I filled in about 4 sheets in total and spent about an hour in another queue that I had been sent to just to see if there was any more work going. Got near to the front and a man announced to the entire congregation that no more work was left and we could sign out. Looks like I'm getting paid for an hour of standing about as well then :P. It was easy enough work. All we had to do was count books and then jot down how many books there were. Dust was everywhere on the second floor so a few people were complaining about that. I didn't bear much of the brunt of it, thank fuck. I'm a bit finnicky when it comes to stuff like that as if somebody mentions dust or something then I'll automatically think it's in my eye or up my nose. I think some went in my eye but I blinked it away so s'all good. There were about 550 copies of Catcher in the Rye in that warehouse which made that the largest quantity of books I had counted out of the lot. I feel sorry for any poor sod who has to read that ;)...oh, and an ordnance survey map. Same sentiments really :P. I don't know how much I've being paid. A guy I got talking to said it might be 9 quid which was a bit more than I thought so fingers crossed. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that I might get paid less because we finished earlier but another part of me, the more hopeful part, thinks that they'll pay us more for ploughing through it quicker...but maybe I'm being naive there...

Erm, so yeah, we finished at half 3 and after an apologetic phone call to my dad over picking me up earlier than I had anticipated I went home. However, that wasn't before some girl shouted stuff in my face in an exaggerated Norfolk accent in my face. Fuck knows why she did it. She was with someone so I guess she did it to 'look hard' or to show she could be an annoying showoff of some sort. Maybe there was nothing to it and I'm just blinkered by my past with people yelling obscenities at me. It was irritating anyway. She went over to the smoking area on the other side of the car park and I kept thinking everything I could hear coming out of her mouth was directed at me. I fucking hate feelings like that. I moved behind a bush when she had gone inside too. Eurgh, why must people make me like this...

Faith No More performed at Reading/Leeds festival recently. Here's an impromptu performance of a certain soap theme:



Billy Gould, the bassist, is a fan y'know. I'm glad that the cover seems to be of that reason rather than a "lolz, soaps suck so let's be ironic and cover them" reason.

I've started playing Mafia too. It appears to use the same graphics engine as the last few GTA games and comes with a map inside the case. However, the onscreen map makes fuck all sense to me and the other map isn't exactly helping matters too. I think I'll end up playing this in short bursts. I've had to retry the starting bit about a dozen times already.

Simon :)

There's a couple that spring to mind. Mr. Warren was a great Maths teacher and probably the only Maths teacher I can remember who realised that not everybody was fantastic at the subject. He would go out of his way to help the ones who were struggling by giving up his lunchtimes for extra tuition and I really admired that in him. I'd be one of the students who would go along the most and although he did try to persuade me to do Foundation level Maths (I was one of the worst in the class), I was adamant not to and would press on as much as I could and he respected that. I did get a D in the end but that was a hell of a lot better than what I was expecting.

Mrs. Patterson, my second English teacher in high school, was ace too. She would make the subject interesting and wouldn't drone on and on like our previous teacher, Mr. Murphy, did. I felt that maintaining levels of interest in a class was quite important and she adhered to that. We would read out books we were studying and I would sometimes put on voices for certain characters which she actually did encourage and would take that as a sign of us being interested in the subject. English was fun to me. Everyone else seemed to think it was boring but meh. Some people couldn't resist doing the "can I have a jam sandwich please, Mrs Patterson?" routine on her :P.

I think my fear of spiders has completely dwindled. Well, of small spiders and daddy long legs. It's decreased gradually over the years but now I can happily watch a spider climbing the wall near my bed and not feel frightened. I did love insects as a kid (ladybirds particularly) and it seems I can now add arachnids, well some of them, to the list. They served a purpose of being the only time I had power over my brother too as he is frightened of all insects. Even moths. I don't think I ever flaunted that power over him though.

That didn't relate to the question at all but whatever.

Simon :)

I can't recall buying a drink for a stranger. I've probably offered free drinks to people I'm not so familiar with. Definitely cups of tea when I've been at university. I felt quite awkward asking though and my mind was thinking that they'd see something wrong in my politeness.

Drinks being bought for me has happened a couple of times in clubs. I think the people in question have been pissed out of their skull before asking if I want one though and I'm not one to turn that down :P.

Just goes to show that strangers can be generous and the whole "don't talk to strangers" stuff can be thrown out of the window. However, I did get swindled out of money by a con artist once so that cow balances it out.

Must...finish...work.

Simon :)

My nan informed me of a job in the papers. Well, it's not really a job. It only lasts a day but I get paid for doing it at the end. I just have to help 349 other people in a stock take at Birchams in Norwich. Counting books basically. I've got an appointment on the 20th just to look over identification crap so they know I'm who I say I am. Maybe I am not who I think I am? *has self existential crisis*

My dad seems a bit hesitant about it. Says it hardly seems worth it and that it might be a scam. For the former, I can see where he's coming from but I get paid for it so it's better than nothing. Not sure how much but that should be answered on the 20th. For the latter, well, I'm putting more trust in people than he is. It was advertised in the job section of a newspaper. It's not like I found it stuck to a wall in an alleyway or through a junk email with gratuitous spelling mistakes plastered all over it.

I'm becoming a bit more of a gamer recently. I just completed the main story of Mario Sunshine which I've had languishing in my collection for a while. Working on actually getting through Hitman Blood Money now. I know what happens in the end (one of the greatest twists in any game I've played) but I want to experience it for myself.

Dean is steadily getting me into Therapy?. Question mark is intentional. SAY IT LIKE YOU'RE UNSURE OF YOURSELF!

Also, I apologise to people who I haven't said much to recently. I've been feeling a bit shit about not knowing what to say to a lot of people lately and I feel like a bastard for letting conversations die. I'm finding it difficult to speak to a lot of people, bah. Hopefully, it'll fade out. I really do want to talk loads but it's just failing me at the moment.

Simon :)

ONE.
Spell your name without vowels:
smn wlpl

TWO.
What is the date 2 days after your birthday?:
5th December

THREE.
How many pairs of jeans do you own:
Christ...erm, quite a few. Jeans are the garment that crop up the most in my clothes collection and I'll wear them practically every day. I think I have about 4 or 5 pairs of blue jeans and a couple of pairs of black jeans. Blue jeans are more for lazing about in and black jeans are more for when I'm out and about and want to look vaguely smart.

FOUR.
What color(s) do you wear most?:
Black and blue (me and the staaaaaaars stay up for yoooooou)

FIVE.
Least favorite color?:
I dunno, possibly something really bland like beige.

SIX.
Last song u heard?:
Florence and the Machine - Kiss With A Fist. Cheers Lucy :P.

SEVEN.
What's for dinner tonite?
Tonight has gone. I had fajitas with some barbeque chicken and salad inside. I put the salad inside anyway. Mmm. Also, there were potato wedges WHICH ARE BETTER THAN CHIPS.

EIGHT.
Are you happy with your life right now?:
I think 'slightly more contented' would sum up my current situation. I don't think I'll ever be truly happy again. Not in a circumstance where it will be for a looooooong time anyway.

NINE.
Anyone ever said you resemble a celebrity:
David Bowie, George Harrison, Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, Sid from Ice Age. I think, if anything, I look like Mackenzie Crook.

TEN.
In what state or country do you want to go to school in?:
Country - UK
State - Norfolk although it's referred to as a county in these neck o'er the woods.

And seeing as my schooldays have already passed you'll have to make do with that factual and dull answer :P.

ELEVEN.
Do you shop at stores like hollister, abercrombie and fitch and aeropostel:
I've never expressed interest in any of those brands and nor do I want to really. Fashion eludes me quite a bit. Never cared too much for it. LFO had a shit song that mentioned Abercrombie and Fitch. Well, I hate it now, liked it at the time. Nostalgia isn't always fondly remembered obviously :P.

TWELVE.
How do you make money?
"i don't, i just spend it" - KEPT!

THIRTEEN.
Last thing you bought over 50 dollars?
Most likely a train ticket.

FOURTEEN.
When do you start Summer Break?
Two months ago. Uni finished about then.

FIFTEEN.
Are you missing someone right now?:
A lot of web folk like Dean, SarahB, Sian, Rach, Sophie, Anna etc. My friend from back home called Chris. There's a few people from college/school that I sometimes wonder about. Good people just gone from my life...

SIXTEEN.
Tired

SEVENTEEN.
Favorite pair of shoes:
I only have three pairs. If I had to choose then it'd be my posh black ones that I can just slip on. No laces or velcro.

EIGHTEEN.
Do you own big sunglasses?:
I've lost both of my sunglasses. One was down to me leaving them in a bar and the other was nicked by some cunt at a Blur gig.

NINETEEN.
What would you rather be doing right now?:
Actually talking to somebody really.

TWENTY.
What should you be doing right now?:
Well, I've got everything sussed for the time being. No pressing things to do work wise. I've sent off some stuff to be analysed and sent back to me so I shouldn't have to be slugging my way through work a lot any time soon.

Simon :)

Such a good advert. I like how it brings you into another world.

I also enjoyed the Muller Rice advert with the captain with the feminine voice. I can't seem to find it on Youtube though :(.

Simon :)

Two Pikachus climbing a tulip.

Simon :)

I currently have next to no idea what I'm doing with this uni module I have to retake.

Trying to find things in my room is getting increasingly harder.

I don't feel stressed at all.

Simon :)

I can only remember one other solar eclipse happening and that was about a decade ago now. I remember the Beales on Eastenders going to Cornwall (I think?) and watching it happen. However, down here in Norfolk, nothing much happened at all. It was just slightly darker than usual but not in such a way which frightened me. I was feeling a little uneasy about it happening before because I thought it might make us live in total darkness for the rest of our lives, haha. So in a way it was a relief which made me see how utterly silly I was being but at the same time it was pretty dull. Something that seems out of the ordinary like that happening is bound to inspire some fear in some people. I'd know better now obviously. I may still be a paranoid fuck but I think I'm a lot more logical over how/when to project it.

Eclipses look nice in an aesthetic way. I bet Storm Thorgerson takes photos of them and keeps them in a binder waiting to use them for Pink Floyd reissues :P.

My parents have gone away on a cruise for a week. My brother is hardly going to be in my way so essentially I'm on my own for a week with the dogs for company. I think it'll do me good because a lot of the tension I've been feeling is down to the way my parents are behaving around me. My brother tends to keep out of my way more as he doesn't really give much of a shit about me and concentrates on his own life. I prefer that really even if that does sound dysfunctional and odd. It feels less claustrophobic and gives me more time to do what I want without feeling bothered.

Ooh, REC 2 is out soon. Can't wait :D.

Simon :)

I need to come see somebody for a while. I feel quite lonesome at the moment and I think some time away from here could do me good :(. Blah, I dunno...

Only books really. I don't think there's ever been much of passing stuff down in our family. Even with older generations. It seems like a lot of what is bought for us is brand new. I guess there's a family attachment in such a way that parents have bought them for us but it's not as homely as the feeling you get with heirlooms being passed down. Maybe that just shows off how dysfunctional my family can be :P?

My parents have moved a lot of their old books up into my cupboard. I don't think it's because they want me to have them, it's just that they're running out of space to store things after moving stuff around in other rooms. It's quite nice to delve into there and remind myself what books I used to find on the shelves in the dining room downstairs as a kid. Found some ones I never noticed before too. They must have been kept in the loft. I nick CDs off my dad as well but he doesn't mind as long as I put them back. I've done that for yeeeeears.

Talking of music, I've just given my dad back his old battered iPod he once gave to me. He's still under the impression that the fixed one is still fixed so rather than cause an argument by revealing that it's fucked I just gave him my old iPod without blithering. It's going to make going out seem a bit tough though. I love having music on when I'm out and about and feel I'll probably go a bit insane without it now :P. I get the feeling I'll be on edge thinking that people passing me by are laughing at me or are going to shout obscenities at me. At least with music I'd be blind to all that. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

Not sure how I'm feeling at the moment. Probably naff but not horribly naff. Blah.

/dullness

Simon :)

Woke up agitated,
Got lost on digital highway,
Felt better.

Is that right? I was wondering if there's a certain amount of words needed for each line in a haiku :S.

Simon :)

...THE CHEESE, OH MY, THE CHEESE...

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/c/corgan_billy/billy_corgan_pumpkins_reunite/corgan_chi_times_ad.jpg

Mind, I love Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Simon :)

Mark and Jez. They compliment each other brilliantly. They'll always be destined to stay together in some way even when new people enter their lives. It never usually lasts for long (Jez with Nancy, Mark with Dobby). I'm kinda still hoping that Dobby becomes more of a mainstay in Mark's life though. What impressed me quite a bit about Peep Show recently is how in Season 5 Jez behaved like more of a twat than usual towards Mark (ruining his chances with that girl in the first episode, making him look worse in front of Sophie's dad, ruining his chances of getting that book published) but he managed to claw back my respect for him in the very last episode during the final poignant scene just after Jez admitted to shagging Sophie!

Oh yeah, I received my results. I've passed everything bar one module which I'm being reassessed (again) on. I have to hand it in by August 21st. I emailed my tutor asking what I needed to work on and he got confused and assumed I meant the FIRST reassessment and re-iterated the stuff we talked about in his office. He seemed to think I had forgotten about that meeting. I thought 'ah ok, slight misunderstanding here' so to rectify this, I emailed him back saying that I had already handed in the first batch of reassessment work and I got a second reassessment with my results. I also asked if what I needed to do was still the same as last time. Got an email back this morning just saying in capital letters: "YES." Charming...I felt like sending him an arsey email but I decided against it. Maybe it was a slip of the caps lock or something but if he was being rude then he's a bit of a cunt really. Not like I was acting the same.

I'm feeling quite fidgety today. Keep getting up and pacing a bit. I think it's the waiting for Saturday. Aargh, ROLL ROUND SATURDAY!

I'll do that 'WORDS' meme Kelley gave me to do in a bit.

Nearly have all the Manics remixes now. Just one or two left to get really. /completist

Simon :)