Not a lot happened this week so I haven't really had anything to update with. Spent the whole long weekend at home doing nothing because I have litterally no work to do during the week off, though I pretend I have heaps so the parents don't take advantage of the situation. I couldn't really be bothered calling up heaps of people or sending SMSes en ( Read more... )

Huzzah. I finally won a poker tournament tonight, pretty comprehensively too. The last five hands or something of the final table were just a whitewash - the cards loved me, which they don't usually. I now have a shiny silver-plated button for eternal bragging rights ( Read more... )

I missed my Media Law tutorial yesterday because I slept in. I could have come in halfway through, but my tutor is kinda scary so I didn't think that would be a great idea. I then for got my P217 tutorial was in the computer labs as we were figuring out how to use some statistical analysis web software, which has a whole lot of election and other ( Read more... )

Didn't do so well at poker last night, only came 15th out of 60. Didn't really get cards when I needed them and started at a pretty good table. Can't really explain what happened. It's not that bad though, I guess. Had a reasonably good day at uni going to the Tav and hanging around on lawns with a few people and ran a couple or errands ( Read more... )

So I made the final table on my second poker outing last night. I came 4th out of 59 players, which is an improvement on 8th from last time. God the final table is ruthless, it's a total crapshoot unless you have a serious bankroll once you get there ( Read more... )

Yesterday Sami made this reasonably large three-layered NYT recipe cake, so me and a few other people ate it over random card games (which I continue to lose comprehensively) and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, which is still an excellent movie. Fun was had by all until almost 9pm. Then I talked to Sarah on the phone for a couple of hours. I miss my ( Read more... )