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alex_hk90
:woo: Lucky I didn't place that bet on X-factor in the end. :yep: :biggrin:

Definitely. I can't believe it got it though.
I really can't face work. Just thinking about it makes me miserable :frown: I did some yesterday and ended up writing 6 pages of stuff on my ideal political system.
SoapyDish
I walked into so many people. Humans should come with indicators.

I hate walking through crowds. I hate it when you find yourself going for a head-on collision with someone walking towards you, like a game of chicken... then you both move the same way... then you both move back the other way... argh!
SoapyDish

I walked into so many people. Humans should come with indicators.


Did you see Top Gear tonight? :biggrin:

I haven't started my Christmas shopping. Should probably do that.
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Craghyrax
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I just hate people being in my space, and I tend to walk extremely quickly so that's usually anybody else on the pavement :p:

I was disappointed to leave the snow behind in Cambridge, but it started snowing hard in Bristol tonight, and we all ended up on the street at midnight having a snowball fight with the neighbours :king1: First snowball fight I've had too.

I went to Cafe Nero and worked for a few hours this afternoon. Hopefully I'll manage more tomorrow.
thefish_uk
I hate walking through crowds. I hate it when you find yourself going for a head-on collision with someone walking towards you, like a game of chicken... then you both move the same way... then you both move back the other way... argh!

I hate this too! So I've changed my approach, I now draw myself up to my full height (I'm 6'2") and just walk in a straight line, for some reason everyone seems to get out of the way! :p:
Having said that i hate cambridge, particularrly on a weekend, I've come to the conclusion that 80% of the non student population must be brain dead for the way they dawdle along meandering so as to take up the entire path & road, managing to ignore your existance and the fact you're trying to pass them as you actually have something to do with your life and therefore actually need to get places at a decent speed! sorry i get quite worked up about this...
The funny thing is Joe is almost certainly going to overtake Rage next week and become #1 after all.
munro90
I hate this too! So I've changed my approach, I now draw myself up to my full height (I'm 6'2") and just walk in a straight line, for some reason everyone seems to get out of the way! :p:
Having said that i hate cambridge, particularrly on a weekend, I've come to the conclusion that 80% of the non student population must be brain dead for the way they dawdle along meandering so as to take up the entire path & road, managing to ignore your existance and the fact you're trying to pass them as you actually have something to do with your life and therefore actually need to get places at a decent speed!
sorry i get quite worked up about this...

It's okay, my friend, you are not alone. I tend to find standing as straight as possible, and canoning forwards on as linear a path as possible, tends to get people out of the way. Or you simply sigh heavily. Or resort to unleashing chemical agents in central Cambridge. Whatever, really.
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Nyet
The West Wing
The funny thing is Joe is almost certainly going to overtake Rage next week and become #1 after all.


Yeah but at least the gurning little geordie **** and that sexy but worthless chav **** who 'mentored' him won't have got that coveted xmas number 1.
The West Wing
The funny thing is Joe is almost certainly going to overtake Rage next week and become #1 after all.

Not really - the whole point was just to avoid X-factor being #1 at Christmas, which it has succeeded in doing. :smile:
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munro90
I hate this too! So I've changed my approach, I now draw myself up to my full height (I'm 6'2") and just walk in a straight line, for some reason everyone seems to get out of the way! :p:
Having said that i hate cambridge, particularrly on a weekend, I've come to the conclusion that 80% of the non student population must be brain dead for the way they dawdle along meandering so as to take up the entire path & road, managing to ignore your existance and the fact you're trying to pass them as you actually have something to do with your life and therefore actually need to get places at a decent speed!
sorry i get quite worked up about this...
Well yes, I just generally avoid going out on weekends in Cambridge. Its the worst time of the week. And yeh, I can't stand the tourists. Especially the ones who stand in the middle of Kings Parade completely oblivious to an oncoming bus :facepalm: although at least they don't get in my way there.
Athena
Gosh, there are so many people in Cambridge who are present or former TSR users - I was explaining to a medic how I knew Visesh, and I mentioned TSR... and both the people I was talking to turned out to be TSR users (from waaaaaay before I joined).

Hmmm... reminds me of the time I met you randomly in Robinson Bar... (I think you were visiting someone I knew from college?) and you said you knew Jacob even though you'd never met him... "ah what's your TSR name?" "Athena, what's yours?"

However the TSR people I've had things to do with (FTB, groovy_moose) I could've just as easily met through e.g. the ADC, so I tend to tell people I know them from there instead.
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Athena
Gosh, there are so many people in Cambridge who are present or former TSR users - I was explaining to a medic how I knew Visesh, and I mentioned TSR... and both the people I was talking to turned out to be TSR users (from waaaaaay before I joined).

Oooh?
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Athena
Scottish Emma medic & Clare engineer grad.

Ah, them :p: I don't think I ever met the latter though I seem to recall we had plans to buy lots of bitter in fresher's week way back when. The former is giving me a run for my money with regards to transplant call outs...

I thought it was another one of your bouncy people (not that either of them are TSRers as far as I know...)
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visesh
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In other news, I've got over my jet lag. It's an awesome 28C here, and the beach down the road is emptyyyy. And my little nephew is brilliant fun:biggrin:

Ah, back to work in less than 2 weeks, and then it's time to start preparing for the first of my proper final finals.:frown:
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visesh
It's an awesome 28C here...
Eugh! :ahhhhh: I'll stick with my 1C and ice crystals, thankyou very much!
visesh

Ah, back to work in less than 2 weeks, and then it's time to start preparing for the first of my proper final finals.:frown:

I know the feeling. I'm stayhing with family and its so hard to make myself try and do my dissertation.

I'm quite excited because my Aunt had two books by Bourdieu, one of which I'm using alot for my dissertation. I've been trying to pick up copies in second hand shops but there's nothing to be found anywhere. He's far too popular. And I use the books so frequently now that it just gets to be a pain constantly having to renew it at the library. Or return it in order to have space for other books I need in the short term and then go and take it out again :sigh: Particularly annoying was when I'd just done this recently and went back after vacation loans happened and the copy I'd been holding onto had gone :hmpf: I really do want to buy some of his stuff, but even on discounted websites each book is over £20 :pinch:
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smilepea
I've just made a gingerbread Christmas tree :grin:
visesh
Ah, them :p:
I don't think I realised you were on this Visesh, but then I mainly lurk.

I take it you made it to the airport in the end, how did you get there?
smilepea
I've just made a gingerbread Christmas tree :grin:


Gingerbread mmm. I just spotted on face book that someone had made a gingerbread Emmanuel College (don't know if the link will work: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=561640&id=1616970125&fbid=1174258329422). I hasten to add not me, not talented enough.
Athena
Clare engineer grad.


Ah, yes. The same chap who gave me a shock, on my first day in Cambridge, by saying to me "You must be FadeToBlackout". Anonymity? What's that?

He has now completely deleted his account, though.

****

In other news, the Dark Side have offered me an interview for the PGCE, which is quite welcome :biggrin:

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