The Life and Times of Me

Just come back form a feild trip with my Ecology and Conservation CLass at Loch Tay in a Christian Feild study centre.

The food was interesting. Breakfast was a good selection (but no porridge) and lunch as packed lunches with usually 2 choices of sandwich fillings cakes (they made gooooood cake) and chrips. Dinner on the other had was... interesting, I had cheese sauce with vergetables, pizza, fish & Chips (that was a meal out), Vegi burgers and vegi kababs, Fish & chips (that was also a meal out), some sort of mushroom stroganoff and mushroom pasta bake. I was having major cravings for protein at one point and so I have put on all the weight I had managed to loose by doing lots of snacking.

My tutor for the week for a short crazy northern irish man who is an insulin dependent alcoholic stonner and I think he may have ADHD. Can you imagine that combination? We travelled across Scotland to look at caledonian pine forest (one day it was a 9 hour round trip for 2 hours of feild work). We did quadrats and deer dung transects.

On one of the days, our group borrowed some tapes from Rob (who got his PhD last year) who was assisting one one of the other groups. Because his tape collection was sooooo impressive, I asked if he wanted to marry me and he said he would. This was all a bit of a joke which got carried away by my friends.....

There were some right K**bs on the trip though. One lad was really annoying and so some of the others thought it a good idea to feed him 12 laxitives in chocolates. You can imagine the result! I brought some water ballons (to trow at the k**bs) and tried to fill them up with left over pea soup, didnt really work and we never used them so we left them for the centre staff to play with.

We went to visit the cave in Monti Pythons Holly Grail (where the giant rabbit lives). Which was exciting.

One of the comtinuing themes of the week was how nice "healthy" men look in wet suits when the top half is folded down and their primal streek is exposed to the world. We were hoping to get a calander or just photos of this but it never worked out. It was also decided that men in climbing harnesses are equally as sexy. We spent the week taking pictures of catolog poshes, I think I have a whole films worth.

The Saturday of the trip was set aside to climb Glen Lawers. I didn't make it to the top (I went down with a girl who was having a panick attack) and I am suprised that the rest of the group did as the rain was horizontal and visiblility was very poor.

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I had a productive day today. Started by swimming 30 lengths although Malc wasn't impressed as it should have been 1km. Eric expect a parcel in Tuesday.

Had me first driving lesson since failing me test, new teacher, new car, new roads. All went well, no crashes. Booked a new test for the 12th of July and I have a lesson on Wednesday.

Put me tent up in the back garden to give it an air and mend the holes I managed to get in the ground sheet last summer. Although the tent is only two years old it is already full of memories. Texting to the person lying next to me so the other tents can't hear what we was saying (we was probably talking about bra sizes or something similar). Escaping small children last summer, a broken toe means you can't run from them as quickly as needed and my tent was out of bounds. I some other stuff which doesn't need to be gone into at this junction in time.

Tomorrow brings me a doctors appointment (I can find out just what the consultant said about me in Februray) and an all you can eat chinese buffet (good for the diet) and hopefully a trim.

I swore that I wouldn't be drawn into the world of BB5 but yet again I have failed, all the "stuff" that has been going on on that show has got me hooked.
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Possibly should be off to bed as I have to be in the Doctors for 9am.

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I am back in Liverpool after finishing uni for the year and failing my driving test (8 minors and 1 major). Hanging round do some "research" for my disertation and watching too much TV. I have got to go back to Dundee in just over a week for a field trip but them after that I am free for the rest of the summer. Any ideas on how to ammuse myself for two months or so?

Thanks to Simon for this:

On a scale of 1-5, 1 being the lowest and 5 being
the highest, you are.......Level 1 obsessed!
You like the movies, and perhaps have read the
books, but you're not quite ready to plunge
into Middle-earth. Keep going, and some day
you just might turn into a die-hard Ringer!


How obsessed are you with LotR?
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Yesterday was another dramatic day on the cricket pitch. I made one while batting, was caught behind trying to play a sweep, not got the hand of agressive strokes yet, but my defensive ones are FANTASTIC. My bowling figures where 3 overs, 2 wickets and 14 runs. Nearly had a 3rd wicket but I chickened out of catching a drive which was heading straight for my face.

This morning Dundee suffered a power cut at 6am, why should this affect me you may ask, well it set the fire alarm in my flat off and therefore I was woken up. I followed the instructions on how to mute the thing hoping that I could go back to sleep but oh no, the thing still bleeped every 30 seconds so I had to wait a whole hour for the power to come back on so I could reset the thing and shut it up!

HP 3 the film is excelent, much more grown up than the last one, dissapointing that there is not enough quidditch in it though (I knew that anyway due to Sean Biggerstaffs website). I know it didn't follow the book exactly and left some bits out but it was good, as the credits said at the end it was only "based on JK Rollowings book Harry Potter and the Prizanor of Azkaban." The night bus was great (my dads mates made than you know) and Ian Browns walk on part was excting!

I go this from the today program website for all those worrying about the price of petrol:
"Oil is extracted under difficult conditions then refined.One barrel is 159 litres and the cost is about $42 i.e.£23 which is 14p per litre.Most of the pump price of about 82p per litres is tax. Compare beer of about £2.50 per pint i.e.over £4 per litre. Ergo petrol is quite cheap."

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