The Cambridge Chat Thread

Ah, I walk very quickly, but I'll take your advice in hand. I get a lift out there, but then I must find my way back.

Depending on exactly where you are, and if you're not adverse to paying the cost, then the Uni/Citi 4 stops on JJ Thomson Avenue (runs down between WGB and the Vet buildings) and on Madingley Road somewhere near Churchill. It's then about a 10 minute ride to Silver Street, outside Queens', which would cut it down a fair bit.

Are you going to the swap tomorrow btw? I signed up for it thinking all the reps/people from the exec would be there, but no-one I've asked so far is actually going...

Bah, internet went down in my accommodation again, meaning that I couldn't send the piece of work that I'd spent all day doing, meaning that when I turned up to my lesson my teacher was less than impressed and clearly didn't believe me. Computing Office have thus far failed to fix it. I'm trying to work out if I should tell my tutor, my DoS or both... Not having the internet really disrupts my work - yesterday, for example, not only did I have this piece of work to email to a teacher, but I also had Spanish through Audio Visual media work to do, which involved watching several videos... on the internet. I was planning on starting this quite late, couldn't, have just missed another deadline for a teacher whose class I missed a couple of weeks ago and whose translation work I still haven't sent, and everything just suddenly fell on top of me and I had a huge panic attack which kept me awake too long and then conked me out completely, with the result that I slept through my alarm and missed a lecture this morning that would have been relevant to the essay I'm writing this week.

And I still have three essays due for Wednesday. Bah. Since when did Week 5 blues hit in Week 3?

I hate panic attacks on a night

In other news, I'm up FAAR too early for an arts student :/ I think I'm still in shock...

In Cambridge everyone seems tired even by doing nothing. It's as though it's mentally exhausting just being here...

Grr, the university now thinks that I am an international student, and wants to photocopy my passport so that I won't have to pay international fees.

Tutor: Changing subject won't be a problem, you not going out will be.

^^summary of meeting

I just realised my green top and purple jacket I went out in makes it look like I've dressed up as Barney the dinosaur

I'm having some serious bike rage issues today - why do so many people feel the need to cross the road without looking?

Because if they are me, they are wrapped in thought, being self-aware enough to notice if a car is making a loud noise behind them but not if a bike is speedily advancing... I can't count how many times I've nearly been run down in Cambridge.

I have had a terrible day so far. Woke up absolutely shattered, just survived my lectures, had a two hour lab, which admittedly was OK because it was based on A level electronics. Then lunch and I headed to CUSU to do some photocopying for the ceilidh band. After there were some problems with the paper jamming in the scanning feed it went fine, until there was a major paper jam that involved me opening it up, pulling enough of it out such that I could open up another bit and remove the rest. After that I had to rescan, which was a pain and I'm a little worried that it didn't do it particularly well. Then it ran out of paper and printed 20 sheets on some random CUSU letterhead, so I had to stop again and sort that out. I loaded up all the paper from all the various trays in both photocopiers but still ran out with 10 folders to go. There was no more to be found, so I had to stop. I then realised that although I had my Ceilidh Band card with me I had no idea what the PIN was, so I paid by cheque from my own account. It wasn't until I was out the door that I realised that she could keep the cheque until tomorrow when I should have a PIN from the other card. Unfortunately it was already in the system and she didn't know how to get it out. I got back with half an hour to spare before walking to West Cambridge for my supervision. I need to leave in about 15 minutes and I'm already shattered and haven't quite finished the work because the photocopying kept on going wrong.

And tonight I'll have to sort through the 132*20 sheets of paper to check that we have all of them in the correct order.

I somehow managed to scalpel myself today in dissection. On the plus side, Dara O' Briain tonight

I somehow managed to scalpel myself today in dissection.