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Reply 40

weebl

Now there is nothing wrong with toast! With a nice cup of tea it is a perfectly acceptable meal. :smile:

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Reply 41

rosellen

I agree- I almost completely lived off toast last year (it is perhaps a better comfort food than chocolate...), and the only damage it did me was the one time where I continued to eat two slices of toast with butter, having realised that it tasted a bit funny... until it was all finished. Then I heard a screaming voice shouting, "Ergh! The bread's all blue and the butter's mouldy as well!" Apparently a dose of mould never hurt anyone but it did put me off it for a while. Oh... and I also have a wheat intolerance so I did put on about 10 stone as well over that period which until now has remained nameless! Good times...

Anyhow, enough of all this 'hillarity'... (is that supposed to have one or two l's by the way?)... I was definitely going to go to the meeting for Guys and Dolls, but now I think you may have convinved me to really get involved. I do love my draamar, and it will be a fabby way of meeting people outside the bubble of your corridor. I know what you mean about the societies though- Spotlights looks good for the chance of writing plays, and DramSoc for the more 'serious' acting that I can't really choose between the two. I think I'll give the panto and musical theatre a miss though as I'll probably get the best of both worlds with the Manor MAD society... But I've got quite a few weeks to think about it so probably shouldn't stress out about it right now.

One more thing- I heard that one hall 'wins' the RAG barmy army pub crawl either by having the most attendees, or being the last ones standing or something... anyone fancy joining me in a bit of harmless competition. There's just the small problem that I hate losing!

p.s. I have food poisoning due to a rather suspicious avocado salad at Ciao Baby Cucina yesterday so a) if you know of one (I'm pretty sure it's a chain restaurant), please boycott it in support of the fact that I feel absolutely rotten right now and b) I probably shouldn't of told you the mouldy toast story because it's not helped in any way... so I'm just about to dash off so I can sit with my head in the toilet for a few hours. Good times!

Reply 42

Angela3371

It's frightening how immune we are to bad food! i had bad chicken the other day (that i cooked so you may want to avoid my meals if im on any rota!) and no salmonella yet!yay!

so it sounds like you're all gonna be doing guys and dolls-i didnt send back the form but im tempted to go to the meeting now to help with stage crew or something (you dont want to hear me sing or act!)

Reply 43

Steveee

For dinner today (yesterday) I had a sandwich...

White toast / ham / ravioli pasta / ham / White toast.

yes that's a ham and pasta sandwich. Heavy. Not quite as good as a curry sandwich, which is what I had for breakfast a few days ago.

Reply 44

DivineComedy

tashfinch

So I think you should ALL get involved in the drama, even all you sciency people! (of which there are many). But I was going to get involved in the uni drama societies as well. Just need to pick which ones, there are so many!

Well I feel suitably offended! Even us sciency people!!!! teehee! :smile:

Reply 45

DivineComedy

rosellen

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One more thing- I heard that one hall 'wins' the RAG barmy army pub crawl either by having the most attendees, or being the last ones standing or something... anyone fancy joining me in a bit of harmless competition. There's just the small problem that I hate losing!

OOh ooh I want to do that one too! I just want to do everything!

Reply 46

MonkeyOnIce

oooh..i want to hear from manor. maybe when they finally decide to get back to us they will tell us what they plan for us for freshers perhaps? I don't know. Their website doesn't seem to have much info on it.....

Reply 47

rosellen

The website is also about 4 years old as well I noticed. Good to see they're keeping on top of things!

Reply 48

DivineComedy

Woooooooooooooo! Finally. Thank god i'm in a single room! Manor have obv. staryed sending out their replies eventually..good to see they're getting use out of that book of stamps, they must have a huge warehouse full of nothing but stamps stamps and more stamps!!!

It includes freshers fortnight schedule, not much detail on each event but loads of stuff going on all the time! Help! Too much to organize!

Reply 49

rosellen

Yay, finally they've got their act together! Looking forward to receiving mine at the very last minute then...

Reply 50

tashfinch

DivineComedy

Well I feel suitably offended! Even us sciency people!!!! teehee! :smile:

Ohh dear, I'm making enemies already and I haven't even got down to Bristol!!

I got my pack through this morning, I'm in room 5.8. Hmm, doesn't tell me that much. Does it mean I'm on the 5th floor, have to walk up all those stairs? Oh well, it just keeps us in suspense for longer. But at least I now have some idea of what's going on. Although there's so much, with all my department things and SU events!!! Going to be fun!! :dancing:

Oh, slightly random question to anyone - are you buying tickets for the Fresher's ball etc. before you go? I don't want to be the only little fresher at the ball! But equally I don't want to miss out!!

I enjoyed the toast discussion btw. Very profound. Should just warn you that we don't get toasters in our kitchens - that may be a good investment. I've had many a happy time burning toast under the grill......really we want to avoid burning the hall down.

Reply 51

flamingoflo

yay thats something to look foward to on monday (damn i hate there not being sunday post). i desperately want a single room. please oh please....!!!!

so let me get this straight, there is a choice of:
- manor hall (single or shared)
- manor house (single (girls) only)
- sinclair house (single only)

is this right? where did everyone get in? i applied for manor hall itself.... hmm hang on ... there were only 4 option boxes. oh well.

btw, im doing sociology, so quite a big step away from both the dramatists and the scientists. woo!! any other social sciences people around?
looking foward to all the fun organsied freshers stuff.... i dont know whether im going to go to the ball. i think i wana go to the festival though. and maybe the party. so much choice.

my friend has bodger and badger and keith from the office as their guests at the freshers ball!

x

Reply 52

flamingoflo

I got my pack through this morning, I'm in room 5.8. Hmm, doesn't tell me that much.

lets hope thats the number of the room, not the size of it...

(an attempt at wit, how pathetic...) :redface:

Reply 53

lauraloo

Just got my Manor stuff through!! Yeah :smile:

Im in room 1.24 in Manor Hall. From what little I know about Manor Hall thats on the first floor!

Only 2 weeks to go! :biggrin:

Reply 54

MonkeyOnIce

ooh i want my pack now. anyone else apply for sinclair?? (this is assuming that i get into it)

Reply 55

rosellen

flamingoflo, I'm sort of doing a social science if that helps! However,I think Arch and Anth just comes in it's own special group of colourful stripy jumpers and trowel wielding folk. Oh what fun!

Good point about the toaster tho... I was going to wait until I got there to see what others had already brought with them that they wouldn't mind me using, but that was when I didn't think about how much second hand stuff my extended family were going to ply me with! I've got the microwave, iron, kettle and broken tv sorted... but no toaster- If you bother to read one of my many above posts the reason will soon become clear.

I sent off my ents tickets thingy yesterday for the freshers party, rag barmy army and ball... and wouldn't worry about going on your billy because there's bound to be hundreds going... if only to see Colin Murray.

Reply 56

DivineComedy

Ah, the delectable Mr Murray.

I think I'm going to order those 3 too...

Just did a planner of freshers fortnight!... (How sad am I)... so much going on!!!

Reply 57

tashfinch

I've found a different picture of Manor Hall!!! Well, it's not that different, but it's cool. If you go to http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6476/dscn16449kf.jpg it's there, taken from Cabot Tower (whatever/wherever that is!)

Reply 58

lolly1286

tashfinch

I got my pack through this morning, I'm in room 5.8. Hmm, doesn't tell me that much. Does it mean I'm on the 5th floor, have to walk up all those stairs? Oh well, it just keeps us in suspense for longer. .

yeah thats on the 5th floor, not only do you have to walk up all the stairs, you have to walk down loads of stairs to get into the building! You have a nice view over bristol from the kitchen tho...

Reply 59

Angela3371

ooo nice photo-pretty manor hall! not that it matters too much-as long as walking distance to lectures is minimised I'm happy! wow-lectures-i keep forgetting Im actually gonna have to work this year...

Hey flamingoflo-the "festival" does sound good, Im thinking of going. But they said in the union guide that not that many people turned up last year so we'll have to gather a big group!

and maybe Im being thick but-who's Colin Murray??

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