Got this for Christmas and it's ace, with a few drawbacks. Primarily among them is that Marius has a very weird accent... it puts me off a bit. Fortunately he seems able to control it while Eponine's dying and so he doesn't ruin his most powerful scene. It's not like I have a favourite Marius which he's not imitating (unlike with Valjean). It's ( Read more... )

Caramel Betty's post on gaming and gamers got me thinking and since I'd not updated this in a while, I decided to try and mould these thinkings into a post as a sort of 'I'm not dead yet' kind of thing.

( Body behind cut. Inform police. )

So, after returning the Astra to the rental place I was insured on mum's car (Toyota Yaris 1.4, 2007 reg, 25,000 miles on the clock). It was very much a let down after the 1.8 Astra SRi. Aside from the clutch only moving about an inch and being as hard as nails to push in, it accellerated like... well, like something slow that doesn't accellerate ( Read more... )

So, since I'm paying for an extra day's rental so I can get used to the car I figured I'd better stop twitching and gibbering in my room and go out and actually drive the blasted thing ( Read more... )

So, Easter is coming. In fact, it's come a week earlier than I had thought it was going to come. Checking what people tell you, often not a waste of your time Sleeter. Still, getting to go home a week before I thought I would is a bonus ( Read more... )

So, I passed my driving test last Wednesday on the second attempt. The first one I failed because I 'swan necked' five times. He let me off once, but still counted the other four. You get four minor faults and you fail. I had 10 minor faults in total that time and he said I could clearly drive, but he had to fail me. Grumble grumble ( Read more... )

So, I got my first piece of feedback for the year. It was from my Black Political Thought essay which I wrote on Malcolm X. My tutor said I had a fresh take which showed evidence of original thinking and a personalized research approach, which made me happier than the 2.1 he gave me. He also said that with the inclusion of a discussion on the anti- ( Read more... )

So, I has a werk. I dispense beverages, mainly alcoholic, in exchange for legal tender of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to current students of, as well as the occasional alumni and/or alumnae of, Cardiff University, University of Wales Institute Cardiff and University of Glamorgan... yes, I'm a bartender at the union ( Read more... )

Thanks to Caramel_Betty I am now sufficiently out of my dark and brooding mood to see that the failure of the Cardiff University electronic submission system and my lecturer's inability to reply to my e-mail before the deadline of 12:00 noon are not the end of the world ( Read more... )

So, just took my driving theory test and passed it. Very nice thank you. Got a reasonable score too, considering I didn't revise for it at all and spent last night drinking Sailor Jerry rum (mmmm, ice-creamy) rather than doing any last minute revision ( Read more... )