Chris' Mad Ramblings

I has new jeans, they fit properly, woohoo.

Last night I downloaded the new Vidoll album and the new D'espairsray album which I had totally forgotten was coming out. I havn't actually listened to Vidoll album yet because Redeemer finished downloading first and is so frickin awesome! *prays for tour* wait I'm not even religious.... *prays some more*.

Chris has not had a fun night.

Chris missed LAS and visiting the pub with his friends for the most pointless and boring evening of his life.

Chris normally contains his rage but right now feels like physically harming someone would make him feel a lot better.

Chris thinks he should go to bed.

Chris wishes everyone a good night.

Well this has been a productive week, especially since I was fighting off some sort of bug that was making me feel crappy early on and made me miss Chris Kay's comedy thingy, woulda been nice to have been there to support the fella plus I'm told it was funny so bleh. For some reason right now I cant seem to go 2 weeks without feeling crappy, I know it's still the "cold season" but it's getting old, i'd like to feel well every now and again.

Anyway work at uni has gone really well, so well infact that I have today off to write things up which is always a good sign. Maybe I should get off the internet and actually write something.... nah.

Tomorrow I have to go to Manchester for a conference about the new DNA sequencing system we have been using which starts at 8pm. Gaaaaaaaay! I'm going to miss LAS and pub to sit talking to talk to a load of people from a biosystems company over what is sure to be a horrible dinner (they are always bad at these things) then sit through a load of presentations and a "discussion" session. I'm going to look on the positive side and say it's only one night and should score me some points with my supervisor since he said I didnt have to come when he saw my grimace, but said it "would be very good if I could go" *hint hint* 

On a lighter topic I'm getting a little worried about my cosplay stuff for the all nighter, I've had emails saying the stuff has been shipped but I've got one thing coming from a company in america and one coming from hong-kong (i think) and if they don't arrive in time I have half a cosplay. They still have over a week to come, but I have to modify them both once they get here so it's going to be a mad rush if they don't arrive soon. I also have to start thinkin about the pyrates v ninjas party since that's quite close and my only good ninja costume got covered in blood last time I assasina shrank at the dry cleaners.

Oh and don't you hate it when you meet someone you knew ages ago and recognise them but can't put a name to the face? Happened to me this morning when I was in sainsburys, bumped into a girl from my sixth form and we started talking, I knew the face just couldnt remember who it was but she remembered my name perfectly. Embarrasing -_-

Why is my room so freakin cold?

Oh Caramelldansen, how we love thee. 

I didnt have an mp3 of it and fancied a listen, so I went youtube hunting and the internet delivered as always:



There is even Ulquiorra:


And my personal favourite:


EPIC! That kept me entertained for hours ^_^

Time for a proper update of updaty proportions!

Ummm, I kinda forgot where to begin so I'll go over the weekend and fill in with randomness. That sound good? Good.

Saturday morning I was awoken by the sound of one of the bathrooms downstairs being torn apart and after gulping down a hot drink helped my dad destroy the place with hammers =D OK it was a bit more professional than I make it sound but there were hammers and I got to hit things with them until they fell apart. This kept me entertained until the room was totally dismantled, then we had to rework all the pipes and whatnot so they reached where the shower and taps were going to be after the redecorating. We had almost finished by the time I had to leave to go and meet some guys in Liverpool for random weekend shopping, I didnt buy much but we hung out in a coffee shop for a while and caught up since I hadnt seen them in a couple of weeks, so that was the main point of going, it also meant I was in a convenient place to pick up the folks who were coming over that evening but had some time to kill before then so went into the lab at uni and did some work. This working in the labs during the weekend seems to be happening more and more, I actually quite like it because I'm usually alone and can dance around the lab in my crazy fashion and still get twice as much work done as I would if everyone else was there hogging the equipment and getting in the way, win for everyone!

Anyway, sadly many people were hit with the ills or feeling crappy due to tiredness so the party didnt quite go as planned, disappointing at first but I had a good time anyway and I think the peeps who could come did too, so it worked out in the end. By the time we decided it was time to pass out it was almost 6am but I felt surprisingly awake the next day, although I made sure I got a good nights sleep on Sunday because I had a feeling it would catch up with me if I didnt and I had a lot of work to do in uni today.

Speaking of uni work I now have a job! Kinda. I'm going to be demonstrating to undergrads in practical classes and getting payed for doing so, hopefully this will fund my trip to america if we can ever figure out a date for it, having a bit of trouble right now because my holiday doesnt match the guys in the US and I'm already taking time off in March to see An Cafe (woo!) so can't really justify taking more time off to go on holiday so it may end up being set back until the summer in which case they tell me I will fry when I go over there because Florida in the summer is hotter than satans toaster.

Which brings me neatly onto my next point... an very bad and annoying song I heard on the radio today which not only sampled but stole half the lyrics from close to me by the Cure. DO NOT WANT! Even the DJ playing the song disapproved. May satan personally grill the perpetrator of this crime in his fiery toaster and eternally assrape them with the many pronged butter knife of DESPAIR! OK enough of that, I'm starting to want toast.

Last but not least PANCAKES! DO WANT! Pancake day tomorrow and pancakes will happen, infact pancakes may happen later today if I can stay away from the toast. I love pancakes, the only thing wrong with them is you can never decide what manner of deliciousness to fill them with.

Holy crap I've been feeling odd. I've been in the oddest of moods/mindframes for the past couple of days (started monday afternoon) and have been alternating between feeling crappy, sick, depressed and generally ill and feeling great and a little hyper. This change seems to occur randomly and very quickly, I assume I have some form of ills because it's making me feel sick but it is kinda messed up to feel good and hyper when you are ill. Apparently Jacks has been getting exactly the same thing so it's not just me going insane.

My guitar strings havnt fixed themselves, they've had a couple of days to settle in now and I've given them quite a beating so they should be starting to wear in, I think I'm going to have to start fiddling with the neck which I don't like doing. It doesnt help that I can't get the strings for my good guitar until my order arrives and that could take another week, the Liverpool shops fail for running out at exactly the same time as me.

Modos was fun and I'm glad I stayed out after that because I got to know some of the LAS people I don't normally talk to much a little better.

I shall go to bed now, I should probably go in early tomorrow since I took today off, but it will depend on how I'm feeling in the morning.

So I just finished trying to clean up, repair and generally make-good my first guitar which has seen much abuse and been left in a corner with half the strings broken for who knows how long. I got it into a playable state and fixed up the wiring, but the strings are buzzing like crazy, so either I've put the wrong thickness of strings on (couldnt remember which I had it set up for) or the neck has warped a bit and I need to start messing around with the truss rod (eek). New strings always suck so I'll give them a few days to settle down and start tweeking if they are still causing problems.

We have a house. After a lot of worrying about rushing and logistics and gas bills and lots of other things we went ahead with it. I still have a few worries but I guess what we have now is a canvas which we can work our magic on to turn it into something great. I'm sure the advert for the house said double glazing, we should harrass them about that, my aversion to the bottom floor room would be greatly reduced if it was double glazed, otherwise Tom can have fun in there sleeping to the sound of ambulance sirens. I guess the next stage is starting to get to know the folks who will be living there, I barely know 3 of them and am just getting to really know a 4th. Becci will hopefully be coming round on Saturday so that should help, Jacks and Tom will be turning up late if at all (if you're reading this Jacks you guys had better come! no pressure :P ) so we might have to do some house celebrating since it will be 4 house peoples +James, and James can celebrate anything he likes, probably pie knowing James.

Our night out was most entertaining, some good photos came out of it along with some very bad ones (of me anyway) but the best photo was taken the following morning. You know how it is, you wake up in gorgeous girl's bedroom and what do you do? Put on the cat ears of course!



Anyone got a hairbrush?

As I sit deep in my dusty old leather computer chair in my cavernous mansion bedroom, with a glass of brandy cup of tea clenched in a claw like hand and a scone (yay!) the bitter single guy in me wants to say bah humbug to the whole cheesy commercialised holiday, but after reading Sazzys story the other part of me thinks that if it can make people happy then surely that's a good thing?

Meh.

Burning the candle at both ends again is starting to catch up with me, so this will be short, many things have happened with the house and whatnot and to talk about the endless thoughts, emotions, joys and frustrations that go along with all that would require more time and effort than I have in me right now, so I'll do that later. I am however going to say a big thank you to Pam for doing all the work.

And now for my current thoughts:

Went out on Tuesday with a couple of friends from the Wirral, I wasnt really in the mood but I hadnt seen them in ages and after a few drinks I decided to be sociable. We ended up in the clubs in Liverpool (dance/rap music is most epic fail) and I fell into bet at 4am only to be up again at 7. The late nights and early mornings are starting to catch up with me again and we are going out tomorrow, don't want to be tired for that so tonight I must sleep well.

I'm currently debating if I should come home or not between finishing uni and going out, it might be a good idea to pop back and smarten myself up if we are dressing up a bit (are we dressing up a bit?) and it means I don't face the possibility of sitting in Liverpool by myself with nothing to do until 9pm. Suppose since I run my own timetable I could take the morning off to catch up on sleep and just work through the evening until party time, is that sad or hardcore? I dunno, nor do I care. Hmm, should stop thinking out loud, but isnt that what LJ is for? Oh fuck it, I'll work everything out in the morning, I normally like to plan everything in advance but right now I just want a hot drink, a good book and a long sleep.

( meme )

Sloth: Sometimes I can be lazy, other times I'm very active, meh.

Greed: Not really, I don't think I am particularly greedy.

Lust: I have very high testosterone levels... you do the math.

Gluttony: In the past I used to comfort eat a lot, these days I'm very careful about how much I eat (although I have been known to say fuck it and gorge myself on something now and again) so I guess not really.

Anger: I do tend to convert most negative emotions/experiences into anger, however I'm usually very controlled and able to release my anger through constructive outlets, e.g. working out. So I guess that yes I get angry, but no I'm not going to blow up on people every 5 minutes.

Envy: I think it's human nature to want to better ourselves and our circumstances, so envy is pretty natural to most people. I have never been jealous enough to act on it but I do see lowlife idiots earning millions for playing football, or "that guy" who seems to get everything he wants be it an item, a job, a girl, and has everything go right when youre having a shit time (I think most people know a "that guy/girl") and yeh I can be envious.

Pride: I am quite a proud person, very competative.

So which one am I most likely to commit, hmmmm. Dunno, all of them given the right situation. Right now I'm going to commit sloth by being too lazy to think up a deffinite answer. Or is that an answer? I dunno, but I do know I'm hungry and there's a pack of biscuits downstairs, time for some gluttony.

Feeling kinda shitty today, don't know why. I've got the day off and I'm just sat here feeling "urgh". It's probably boredom, feel like I should be out doing something, hanging with friends, but oh no Chris you live on the Wirral and everyone you know is in Liverpool, gg there my friend... gg.

Speaking of meeting people tomorrow there is an "interfloor social" at the phil so people who work in the same building/labs as me can get to know each other better. I always like meeting new people so it could be good, but if my previous experience of hanging out with people from work holds true all they will talk about is science and their work (I avoid the biosciences common room on my lunch breaks for that very reason, who wants to talk about work over lunch? Not I), resulting in me leaving within 15 minutes muttering "fucking losers" under my breath as I walk towards the nearest pub that isnt populated by work obsessed weirdos. Either way I shall be leaving in plenty of time to get to LAS since the other group are all going out to dinner somewhere expensive and I've been overspending recently, so ballz to that, I'll probably just go to tescos on my way to anime and grab a sammich, or chocolate if I've been forced to talk about work for an hour and need cheering up.

I like, infact I really like. It's rapidly becoming one of my favourites by them.

The single comes out just under 2 weeks before we see them live (woohoo!).

Speaking of which, I booked my coach tickets and I have to say funfares are most epic win, £10.50 to London and back is amazing, the regular price was almost 3X that much.

EXCITED!

Well thanks to my friends in the US I now have a buttload of new bands who's entire back catalogue I need to download, I even found a band I like by randomly clicking on youtube links attached to the videos they were showing me. Looks like it's time for another mass-downloading session.

I hurt my hand today =( I was doing a new technique in the lab where everything had to be kept supercrazywtfcold, so I had to use liquid nitrogen to freeze everything (-196°C). I'd never done it before and it was fiddly, so it was taking longer than it should and I was left holding a ceramic block that had just been frozen, with only a pair of latex gloves for protection. I've got a couple of burn-like patches on my hand due to frostbite, owies. The post doc who was showing me how to do it said "I never knew this technique could be so dangerous until I met you" which is funny now but earned him a nasty stare at the time with my hand feeling like it was about to fall off.

Think I've got tomorrow off, this is a good thing because it means I can sleep in, I've been trying to get to bed at decent times this week since I've been up at 7am every day, but I keep waking up through the night. Around 5am I wake up and feel wide awake, then by the time I start dozing off again it's time to get up and I feel super tired because I've just got back into sleep mode. Stupid internal clock, suck less please.

Last night was insanely fun with fun, food and frolics in the snow, plus the epic Italian waiter, MAMMA MIA! But now the snow is all slushy, still very cold and I slipped on some ice this morning. Damn you snow, why do you have to melt!

I just got out of a seminar where they gave us juice, cookies and donuts... I like these seminars, they should happen more often =)

Time to go buy some lunch that isn't donuts.

Bunch of wusses in my house, I cooked with half a mild chilli and they moan about the smell making them cough. Bah!

I present the product of my labour, teriyaki salmon ramen:



Yes I know that's a pasta bowl, I only have small japanese rice bowls, nothing big enough to serve ramen in :(

Anyway I was really happy with it so you get a picture =P It was most tasty and I shall cook it again, although probably with chicken next time because the salmon was expensive.

Yes that's my computer in the background, but in defense of my geekyness I was using it to watch TV while I ate =P

It's so freaking cold! 

I got home and was looking forward to some warmth, only to find that my room is colder than a penguin's ass.

Thank fuck I bought a cheapo electric heater a couple of months ago.

I'm browsing the All Saints (no not the crappy girl group, the clothes shop) website, I could spend soooo much money in this place, they have a sale on so their stupidly overpriced stuff is somewhat affordable at the moment. I think I need to buy some stuff that isnt jeans, t-shirts or jumpers, something a little more "out there" perhaps.

While on the topic of fashion and "out there"ness. I'm currently debating how I should get my hair cut, in it's current state it has been described as "cute" and heading towards the prince charming swept to one side look I hate so much because it reminds me of how it was during the period when I didnt care how my hair looked. I don't particularly want "cute" hair. I think the whole cutting it really short and maybe spiking it a bit thing is probably best, but it's kinda boring, if I could have my hair cut like Reita I would be in a state of follicular nirvana, I'm just not sure I would suit anything more interesting. My sister knows a couple of people with interesting hairdos, I might ask where they get it cut and see if the people there can provide some inspiration, my usual guy is one of those old fashioned gents barber types who I only go to because his place is up the road from where I live, I've been going there forever and going elsewhere never really occured to me.

I'm also considering trying contact lenses so I can see what kinda difference not wearing glasses makes to the look of my face, with a lot of places doing offers where you can try disposable ones free for a month there's no reason not to. I hope you can get blind as a bat strength contact lenses X_X

I keep seeing Ollie walking around campus as I wonder around aimlessly during lunch breaks. At least I think it's Ollie (I don't know him very well) if it's not then someone who looks a bit like him is probably getting worried that some weirdo keeps smiling at them.

One Word

USING ONLY ONE WORD! It's not as easy as you might think! Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to tag the person you received it from!


1. Where is your cell phone? Bed
2. Your significant other? nonexistant
3. Your hair? wet
4. Your mother? asleep
5. Your father? asleep
6. Your favorite thing? food/music
7. Your dream last night? odd
8. Your favorite drink? tea
9. Your dream/goal? dunno
10. What room you are in? bedroom
11. Your hobby? cooking
12. Your fear? fear
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
14. Where were you last night? home
16. Muffins? mmmmm
17. Wish list item? guitar
18. Where you grew up? England
19. Last thing you did? showered
20. What are you wearing? jammies
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pets? fluffy
23. Friends? crazy
24. Your life? decent
25. Your mood? meh
26. Missing some one? no
27. Car? dirty
28. Something you're not wearing? suspenders
29. Your favorite store? delis
30. Your favorite color? black
33. When is the last time you laughed? earlier
34. Last time you cried? distant
35. Who will resend this? shrug
36. One place that I go to over and over? liverpool
37. One person who emails me regularly? supervisor
38. My favorite place to eat? italy
39. Why you participated in this survey? boredom
40. What are you doing tonight? sleeping

Stolen from Pam.