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| Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | | 11:22 pm |
it's over, another year of stewarding out with a bang. so the jist of things. apologies for bad spelling or grammar but i'm exhausted and tired. and there is steak in the oven waiting.
2 events: the end (large piss up on the main campus squares of about 3000 students) and summer ball
It's been crap weather for a short while, which means noone will be drinking outside and the ball site (which is on the sports field) would be muddy.
thursday was the staff bbq, quite a good event. pissed some of the bosses off by beign a bit "why hasn't this been done, what the fuck is going on" but it was ok in the end. then had a poker game with them all. So the end of my freedom went ok.
up for a 10am shift (arrived at 9:30) for manual labour setting up the ball. at this point the tents are up and the basic decor is ready. layed out the carpet, set up the tables and helped with the walls. was working up to aout 2pm then had to go get food. at 3pm the first night shifts started, had to be there to organise it. 4 people meant to be there picking up glass. 2 turned up, 1 was late and 1 didnt bother. but it was still raining and so i decided to leave it be.
by 8 we had the 2nd shift of glass collectors arrive, st john started and a few of the bouncers arrived. getting busier by now and rain stopped.
10pm and the mai nshift starts. hecktic now, about 2000 students on the squares drinking and breaking glass. running out of staff as we are divided between the 2 bars, setting up the club an collecting broken glass to stop people hurting themselves. eventually i say fuck the bars and drag what staff i have left downstairs and to the squares. by midnight i quit the squares and left the students to their ownh devices (survival of the fittest)
so the club sold out and we made quite a bit of money, all the hard work paid off and there were less casualties than last year.
finished 4am. an 18 hour day.
back on campus for 12 noon. helped set up the stewarding aspect of the ball (which has now been nearly completed). first plat-customers turn up for 5pm for the meal. that goes smoothly and with little problems. come 9pm the main guests arrive and by now, ignoring the fact the ground is like a thick brown soup with only fabric and wood to seperate the ball from a swimming gala we are ok. the tent is still standing (much to our amazement) and only a few jobs reamain that need doing. i was in charge of radios (need to find out how that is going, last year lost none but less confident this year) and cloakroom. but eventually self apointed myself as the problem sorter. i figured the fastest way from A to B was through the mud and my legs were covered anyway. kept wandering around and seeing all the staff but a few positions i kept forgetting. also got to watch some of the students trying to jump the fence, eventually a call went out on the radio from the head bouncer "message to all stewards, please only alert us when the student is actually jumping the fence. we'd rather they got into the venue so that we can find an excuse to drag them through the mud to make it easier to spot them later in the night"
then one guy we caught UNDER the fence, "no mate i was just passing". after a few minutes of arguing and my coworker threatens to break the guys legs. wouldn't blame him because he waqs saying "come to this side of the fence" knowing 3 guys twice our size were behind the van next to us.
then one guy who is already in was drunk and high (snuck E in) and was the greatest sight to watch. passed out in a portaloo. thought of tipping it over... but decided against it. when we got him out he spent 2 minutes upright waving backwards and forwards convincing us he was sober, then spent another 5 minutes on the ground doing the same thing. he was a pain, didnt even want to leave when the event had ended.
but enough anecdotes, have plenty which i will simply save for better ocasions. thanks to the SU student staff the event was a sucess, my department came through and helped other departments run their part as well as our own. i had a 20 hour shift and finally made a choice regarding who has stolen my heart, and need to figure out what i am doing tomorrow to explain to the other one.
also tomorrow i have a staff party where i will be getting drunk, tuesday a st john bbq and wednesday comming home for a few days before heading back here to count the days to my new house and get a job.
and again i cant be arsed to check this all for spelling mistakes and errors, i need sleep and want to think about suff.
xx | | Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | | 1:12 am |
just want to see if anyone else gets this reference. friend is a huge disney fan. i like her and gave her a thimble today. she looked back at me confused. somebody, please dont say i was too smart for my own good! | | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 9:32 pm |
| | Friday, May 30th, 2008 | | 10:48 am |
i cant do it. i have an exam at 2, and there is just no more room up there. i have revised and stored, over the past month, enough information that has allowed me to write for 5 2-hour (and 1 3-hour) exams. Even then there is extra that was revised on the off chance my chosen topics did not come up. i calculate almost 20+ hours of continuous information stored, and i have another 2 exams left. which will require about 4 hours of information processing each. i just dont have that much space! i can feel stuff falling out of my mind. this is annoying. whats more annoying is that i should be able to do this as it is not that hard. I actually have half the information i need up there but need to find ways of memorising key words to help me retrieve them. ironically part of my essay today is on working and everyday memory also, if you are interested in the strange and biblically meaningfull, look up adventures of mark twain on youtube. especially the one including satan. it's creepy but quite interesting also. | | Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | | 12:30 am |
i need a rant not just any rant, an epic rant this house, using the terminology a mate mat uses, is the most omitigated piece of crocking shit i have ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes on. you know what, it's 12:30am, it's dark. i need the toilet, sorry but that bit is relevant to the story. our upstairs bathroom does not lock so i have ot go down. now recently the cord that is our lightswitch snapped (for the multipl-th fricking time) and so we have to stand on tip toes to turn it on. now i cant reach it today in the dark, so i stand beside the shower. upon grabbing what i thought was the cord, my right arm goes numb and i'm knocked on the floor. yes, my house tried to kill me! but not only that, it had the decency to blow the bulb aswell. so now i have no other options past waiting till morning or sitting on the can in the fucking dark. which feels silly. other attempts at my life, being too fricking cold, making me wake up with hayfever every morning due to the god-dam mould on the walls, flied enjoying the moulding curtains, the number of stomach bugs picked up from that infested, disease ridden, moulden graveyard of a swamp lake on a hot summers day (with a cart full of multiple variations of crap fermenting in the heat)... that i call my kitchen not only that, guess what somebody did at the begining of term... they called premium rate phone numbers. for 20 fricking minutes... twice... IN THE SAME DAY! and noone out of the 5 of us will own up. so now, instead of £8, i have to fork out £20 for the month. what else is wrong with this? our back garden has grass about 3ft in height. 3ft. you could actually loose a kid in that thing! and just the general condition of it is making me sad. people wonder why i spend so much time at work and on campus. its not because i need the money, not because i find the library easier to work in, not because i'm always meeting friends (well i use them to keep me entertained). it's because simply being outside my bedroom in here makes me depressed. being inside my bedroom is ok as long as there are distractions. lord strike this pile of crap down! | | Monday, May 19th, 2008 | | 4:25 pm |
after talking to many people at uni, friends and strangers of both, and then as usual my changing mood, my opinions have once again changed. so being impatient? probably. unreasonable to think without confirmation? yea. but unfair? i still dont think so. i'll see how it goes after exams. with any luck that is whats holding her back, and the fact that she's still getting to know me better. sooo, more date ideas need developing! plsu she still has my coat! | | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | | 11:45 pm |
ok rant number 2. this time aimed mostly at myself so feel free to ignore. ther are 2 girls. tara and karley. karley is a psych student you probably read about in a previous post. well 2 months and still no proper interest from her. she says she likes me, her friends say she likes me, so why is it taking her so long? 2 months? multiple dates? even an explanation would be nice. and then tara, a friend from st john who is very flirty, quite sociable but really very shy. i think she likes me, she's had a tough year bless her and i make her smilewhen she's down (not that i'm the only one). well we spent 4 hours today hanging, went for an adventure in the local fields (i made a corn angel) and campus (found a family of ducks) shared a couple of drinks together and caught up. we will be living just a few doors away next year so no doubt would spend lots more time together. so my dilema, do i gve up on karley who aparently likes me but wont show me and is making me wait? and if i do, do i follow my desires and speak to tara, who never said she likes me but has shown it? or do i say fuck it and continue making myself better this year with my projects? been a busy one this time, become the president of the st john society, team leader for the stewards, my degree, swimming, gym, actually trying to keep my social life alive and prevent my workload from suffocating it, then theres the stuff i do for friends within the SU (getting things sorted, finding the right people to talk to), working with the tech crew when they are short of staff. Next year i could take up 3 more things: american football, nightline and possibly helping out with or creating a radio show with the campus redFM. doesn't sound like much reading back over it but the hours are demanding at the bets of times. and while i moan, i'm not unahppy. i'm learning to just enjoy everything despite whatever happens. i could loose everything tomorrow and yet i will make sure i apreciate only what i have. once you mourn over what you loose or dont have then you find only that which you want and cant have, and from there it only gets worse. I'm adam, i have no less than what i need and want no more than what i have. and my new moto: never find the meaning of everything, just learn the value of what you have. silly but the best way i can explain the state of mind i'm in ad out x | | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 8:48 pm |
dear Kos
oh dear god i've wanted to rant about this for a while. and by the way, akosua, if you are reading this (no idea how you would know about it as only one person at uni saw this but doesn't know my account name, though i wouldn't put it past you) then stop... your actions are creepy evenby my standards! so now your friends, the people i met you THROUGH are not allowed to talk to me because it's "betraying" you. i dont mind you hating me, effectivly i did end it with you (wont use the word dump because it sounds too harsh) and that gives you the right to not want to talk to me. all is fair, we were friends but eventually you didnt want that. but then, and for a 28 year old this is sad, you block me on facebook, delete my number, contimplate quitting/changing your course (or so you told me), tell your friends they are betraying you if they speak to me, refuse to see your close friend at her house because i live with her (despite ME introducing the of you) AND avoid me at every chance you get even if it meant skipping revision classes (though i'll give you the last one). so please, and this is only humerised by the fact a teenager is saying this to a lass a year and a half from her 30's, grow UP and stop being so petty, it was hardly like we'd been dating for years (unless you count it in dog years, then how long is 4 months?). move on... for everyones sake. | | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | | 5:40 pm |
taking it's time
I want a rant.
So it's been approaching 2 months since karley and I first expressed an interest in each other, and still it's not happened yet. I keep getting told that all she needs it time. But how much time? She's not the type to play someone about, and I’ve integrated into her friendship group quite well (with her help) and can joke about when we date without her getting uncomfortable. But why is it taking so dam long? One thought is that it may just be because of exams. I mean we get on well, we have a lot to talk about (never get those weird silences), and we both like each other (of which her friends have had to confirm for me). Or maybe she’s waiting for me to do something to sort of prove myself more. I’m keeping all my promises and taking her on memorable dates (of which they have all been a huge success: last week had a bbq and it was not only sunny when it forecasted rain, but a family of ducks came over and said hi to us and we got to feed them and it was a great couple of hours in general) but may need to find a big one for the time after our exams finish. Could speak to her housemates and see if I can steal their house for a night and cook her a meal as a surprise, they take her out to the pub or something and when they return they let her in first and just walk off, to which she sees a romantic setup with fully laid table, candles, wine, rose petals (or wild flower petals, cheaper) and the works. AHHH, and I don’t want to bring it all up because I’d worry about scaring her off by seeming a bit too impatient or pressurising. But in a way, I quite like this feeling. To use cake as a metaphor, you have your 4 stages. When there’s no cake, you don’t care. When you are promised cake, there’s that excitement of knowing you may get it. Then the joy while you have it and most often the disappointment when it’s gone or the sort of moderate-enjoyment of having eaten it. I’m in the 2nd stage and I quite like this waiting, keeping me on my toes and knowing that it’s coming. Sort of like how when you are younger, Christmas Eve is better sometimes than the day. You can disagree but that’s what I found. I feel bad because I’m letting it get to me, and even thinking at times of making her explain where we stand. If I were better I could wait without letting it frustrate me. Why are you girls so good at manipulating people like myself? Anyway, going to get some work done now, hope you are all enjoying this weather! Much love xx Current Mood:  frustratedCurrent Music: the silent humming pf PCs and typing | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 10:55 am |
*tired* working untill 3am yesterday, would have been fine but i had been drinking before and after the shhift (not heavy drinking, but enough to feel). then got more drinks after work with the staff, got home to find housemates drinking so joined them. wake up today and have ot leave in 30 minutes to see a friend, then walk an hour back to uni for a revision class, back home and get ready for work at 7 (and i have to steward the vagina monologues... woop de fucking do) but a St John meeting at 6 so have to leave the house at 5:30, i'll only get in at 4:30 so an hour to eat, relax, tidy room and get changed. then with any luck i will finish work at about 3am. friday i have a date planned for midday and no doubt will get called into work or first aid in the evening. i wish i could sleep at times and not do all this, but i actually quite like the work and attention. | | Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | | 11:23 pm |
been too many bad posts by me so here goes a nice one. i really am puttign too much effort into this... oh well. feck it. peace out ya'al | | Monday, March 17th, 2008 | | 5:12 pm |
all my uni mates (as far as i know) dont know about this journal so just to get a few things off my chest. for the record life has been going ok but a few nagging messages i had to get out someplace 1. you just went to hospital because you cant walk 5 minutes without colapsing from an asthma attack: quit smoking, eat healthy (stop frying things!) and ocasionally use your muscles other than in the bedroom and by the pc. plus if you dare waste money on that god-for-saken "rock band" game then have the cheek to turn and say you cant afford bills i will have to hurt you. 2. your his fiance, you shouldn't be blinded by love you should try and take care of him and help him better himself. plus stop wasting all the money you guys have so little of! 3. you just became the promotions officer for our unit, stop shooting down my ideas claiming them dumb when you yourself have trouble in non-society related socials. i am now your president so you will do as i say or god-so-help you 4. our methods are different, i wont sleep with her after the first date (regardless if that seems old fasioned) and i wont tell you every little detail. and stop saying all my friends are ugly, you are a great gal but just because they are not up to your "standard" does not mean you can take the piss, your bf aint that hot either 5. you are awesome, i can see a future with you, and i know you can see the same, but i wish i knew how to make you come out of your shell a bit more. i want to get to know you. and what would we do about the easter holidays? should we rush it and gamble a huge crash, or risk letting it wait and gamble what we had just withering away? i could go on but those are the main ones for now. anyway hope you guys are all cool and enjoy your patties day! Current Mood:  aggravated | | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 3:52 pm |
so i am normally quite a happy go-lucky sorta guy, smiles all around and all that shit. gota get this off my chest though. right now all i want is to curl up in the foetal and die in whatever relevant manner possible to escape this ficticious wrath that circles my bain yet meaningless life. an eternal sleep seems like a haven for the desolate, deserted and crumbling land i call life. yet i am to proud to admit full defeat so i carry on cutting the wounds deeper, harder and wider hoping they will heal, yet i should just realise by now that i will slowly bleed to death in the most painful way possible rather than opt for the easy way out a long time ago. thank you for reading, have a nice day. | | Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | | 1:56 am |
studies
made me laugh, bought the guardian and one section of the G2 segment has a readers Q'n'A, readers send in questions and answer those others have sent in. one questioned, if oenology is the official study of fine wines, is there an official study of fine beers? multiple answers back ranging from "cheers" to something about beer never being a drink of the rich and so not worth researching, but the first and most amusing answer back was one word... University. | | Friday, January 4th, 2008 | | 9:54 am |
rant about modern economy
Now I mostly blame the daily mail and other opinionated media outlets for putting these thoughts in my head, and note I only read them when they are scattered around the house, otherwise I avoid that politically one sided crap with my life. What has happened to today’s economy? People are spending less, getting paid more, yet also paying more tax! Took me a while to figure out where the money is going, I thought the country had to have an amount of money that was still in circulation at any one time. Someone gets paid, they buy something which pays someone else who pays for something which… and so on. But if that is the case why are so may small businesses failing, people becoming unemployed? Came up with a few suggestions I did. First, unemployment, businesses are failing because the competition of large multi-chain stores is too much. Buy in bulk is all you need to understand to see why this happens. However this is not a problem, because it is the way of business, and all you have to do is find the things you can do better at. Take 2 places in my village as an example, newsagents and café. The café serves home made sandwiches as well as fresh pots of tea, coffee etc which a chain would find hard to compete against, they can’t offer that sort of customer service and choice and still be a uniform store. whereas the newsagents just sells sweets and papers. Of course the service in the newsagents was better but the papers people pick up during their morning commute or at the supermarket; and sweets are cheaper in large Tesco-like places. So why pay the extra 5p in the village? And this brings me to unemployment. I could not tell you the figures of who is and who isn’t, but I can think of 3 reasons why there are a growing number of unemployed (not including the failing business idea from above). As a technological society we are advancing faster than ever, and as such we make machines to ease the workload and so require fewer people to do the same job, thus the business saves money and time on training. Then you have the migrants who can work harder and for less, I have seen the stuff they do, a 40 something Portuguese working as a kitchen assistant (washing up plates and cleaning) about 7 hours a day 5 days a week, getting about £6 an hour, do you think a regular British 40-something unemployed man would do that? The dude was one of the hardest workers I know. And finally, Uni students who come out after 3 years with a degree, and are told “once you start earning money you can pay off your debt”, but they cant find a job related to their BSc in biology or their BA in modern lit, where do they go with that? Let’s just sit on the couch and relax for a couple years then think of going into work, waking up at 9am on more than 1 day a week? But once they have a job, their general spending habits could explain why our economy is starting to have a bit of a slip. This is true as many retail outlets have reported about a 20% drop in sales this Christmas, and stocks have fallen in price as a result (the FTSE 100 is down by about 10 points last I heard). Firstly, I am going to blame renting. How many 20-30 year olds do you know rent a house? Say on average 400 a week, and usually anyone with a house to rent out will be able to afford to own and rent out multiple houses. So that money will stock-pile making that one person/company unnecessarily richer. Then you have your debt as usual, we had a bad spending habit this millennium so far, that those alone can’t account for the drop in sales. That’s because of the wonderful place… the net. Why go into the damp cold and search through endless shops for that present you know your getting, just order it a couple weeks in advance and it’ll be on your doorstep, and cheaper! Problem is a shop dealing with the same number of customers as an online store, needs probably a hell of a lot more people to run it, as well as more money for running the actual store. So right there the customer saves money, but the employee’s slowly loose out. But in general, the world isn’t that bad a place. This country is still one of the greatest countries in the world, and the reason for a lot of our worries falls back down on the idea that the media is now selling. Unfortunately one paper once said “lets try and make people buy this, rather than just report the news” so that paper became more popular, it had what the people wanted even if it was not in the best media interest, and as for the other papers it was follow or fail. It’s why more people read the Mail than the Guardian, despite the guardian having a better reputation as a news reporter. And unfortunately in this age, people don’t want to be told that all is well, they want to read about problems and have something to moan about. I have no idea why I decided to put this on the net, I think I just wanted to vent my ideas someplace. Enjoy. | | Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 | | 2:00 pm |
forgot to say, i now have short hair, pictures are on facebook in my most recent album enjoy and see you all hopefully within the next couple of weeks. ad x | | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | | 11:36 am |
BIG NEWS
guys, this is big, something shall happen on saturday night which will change me most probably for life! sure i shall be watching the boxing match (mates got it on pay-per-view) and drinking, having a fun time, but the outcome of the match partially decides the outcome of something else for me. needless to say when you see pictures of me you'll be like "wha...who... why?" and most probably secretly think to yourself "it was for the best" and no i am not coming out of the closet. i did that to stu and stu alone! needless to say keep an eye out for a monday post, unless i chicken out. and if you do guess what it is i am talking about i shall buy you a drink (alcoholic, except for nat, i'll just buy you a regular drink of some sort like a smoothie or... erm... a hot chocolate) (actually i want a hot chocolate now, wish i had some hot chocolate powder. and milk. and sprinkles to put on top. and whipped cream. and a cadbury flake. and chocolate powder. i better stop now) | | Monday, October 22nd, 2007 | | 9:41 pm |
career choice
i once said to myself "becoming a psychotherapist may be a good idea, sounds like a good/well paid job" i have since then decided against it for the fear of hitting the space bar twice by mistake in one swift move, i go from being a psychotherapist, to... PSYCHO THE RAPIST! yea... great to put on my CV, i'm a rapist that goes by the name of psycho. woop-de-do | | Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 | | 6:02 pm |
hypothetically
Hypothetically, and purely hypothetical, is it possible to actually suffer physically due to stress? and can high levels of stress actually lead your body into a destructive phase? | | Sunday, September 16th, 2007 | | 9:30 pm |
ok so sorting out house stuff is kinda fun, spent the last 2 weeks in essex doing all that but heres the low down so far 5 bedroom detached house, not the best of quality but only 250 a month. " of the housemates are together and sharing a room so we actually have a guest rom and could cut our rent down to about 210 a month if we didn't mind the extra tenant. But we do have another housemate, his name is Pi and he's a hamster. Adorable little bastard. cant wait for the end of the year, i'm going to announce my newest experimental cuisine... Pi Pie. Sarah, sorry to say this but BT suck. Should have gone virgin media. For £42 a month (between 5) we have virgin media TV (which has all channels minus the sky owned ones, and virgin on demand which is pre-recorded programs for us to watch at our leisure), Virgin broadband (20GB connection speed) and virgin Phone (free calls to landlines). Virgin are like gold, almost every student in the area has it now! Photos on facebook will follow in the growing months as the house evolves and adapts to us all. At the moment only 3 people are there (i'm in hampshire for a week and the last girl arrives on the 20th) Main problem is lack of tumble dryer. I have to put it on a dry wash and iron, then leave for about 2 hours to get my cloths dry. And lots of spiders, i mean loads. And big ones too. Pretty darn cute and very few bugs though. May teach Pi how to hunt down and eat spiders. He's clever ya'know. Just need to now sort out how people pay me for the bills, i'm the most financially reliable there so it all goes through me. yay KT has experience in debt collecting if i remember correctly, i may have to hire her once a month.... so much to plan. |
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