Skipped.

I didn't post yesterday since I was working on my case note and wasn't exactly enthused to write any more when I did have a break. At any rate, today went averagely well I would assume. I only had a seminar today but that itself kinda went awry. Since my working time has pretty much spent on the case note once I got the contract essay out of the way I hadn't prepared for the seminar. I was in the presentation group this week. So yeah, I ended up confusing some of the relative influences of the ECJ and ECHR which I really shouldn't have gotten wrong. On the plus side the teacher didn't seem to mind and actually, if anything, seemed enthusiastic. According to her she was happy that the issue was raised then instead of having people confused in an exam. That was vaguely encouraging... I think... Anyway, after that I came home then went to get a haircut since it really has been a long time since I got one. Afterwards it was back to the slog of the case note. Though I repeatedly took long breaks, I did get it done eventually. Once that was out of the way I actually relaxed again even though I do have the public law essay still to write, and it's about the reform of the House of Lords. That'll be oh-so fun to read up on, since the main quotation the question is based on is from a book which is currently loaned out of the library, with seven, yes seven, reserves for it. There's only six days to write it in. Quite doable, but I highly doubt the book will be available in that time frame.

I made a new Magic the Gathering deck yesterday, since on wednesday there'll be a MtG tournament. I tested it out a few times on Magic Workstation against my 'munchkin' mate and his red and black life steal/random creatures deck. Out of the three games I decisively won two, and utterly lost one. Seriously, having only two mana is a bad, bad thing. At any rate the deck does seem to actually work, though ironically I didn't actually get many of the combinations out. Ah well, I'll inevitably play test it more later on should I have any spare time before wednesday. Before I actually go to sleep tonight I reckon I'll do a quick search or two for the public law essay to see if I can find the reforming legislation. Tomorrow the general plan will be a tort seminar first (for which I have a good idea of what to say in the group discussion, so that's all good) then four hours of researching for the public law essay. That may not be overly enjoyable. Once that trauma is over it's time for the tort lecture. Lectures are always alright, so no worry there. Once that's done it's back home to actually start writing the essay. Ye gods it'll be a stupendously exciting day. For now though I think I'll be off. Till next time.

Quite overdue.

I'm 'many' hours overdue for this post, since when I got home I spent a fair while highlighting a law case for the Frameworks case note, spent some time dozing off, wrote about a sixth of the case note itself even though I was aiming for half, made the zombie poster as I was a day overdue for it (since I usually make it on the monday) then partially sorted through more Magic the Gathering cards. However I've entirely skipped ahead... So, to begin the day -

I got up relatively early since today was a full day and went into university quite tired. Contract went well and in the hour break I had breakfast, bought case books for contract and public law, then milled around for a bit. Public law similarly went well, then I did some work on the case for my case note, i.e. going through just over half of it and picking out important bits. As that bored me I decided, against my better judgment, to find my mates and so I did, played a game of Magic the Gathering then popped into Brighton. I bought a small-ish Spawn Reborn model which simply looked cool, as well as getting a few more core set, Mirrodin and Darksteel booster packs for MtG as well as another Time Spiral fat pack since I wanted the boxes to store the bulk of cards I have still in booster boxes. When the two eBay MtG lots arrive I shall have to find more room to put them all, heh. At any rate after all that I came home for a brief moment before setting out to Games Workshop.

When I got there it wasn't long till I was playing a 1,500 point game with my Chaos marines against a normal Space Marines army. The guy had a unit of nine Terminators which was a bit worrying, till they turned up and got shot to pieces. I didn't really want to let them do much damage to me. Overall the game went incredibly well, as in the end I'd only lost 17 men, and he only had a single man left who, if he moved, was likely to get shot by -many- big guns. Fun stuff. My girlfriend seemed a bit ill and admitted she had a cold, so I hugged her a lot anyway. I rarely seem to get ill, so that doesn't bother me. When she'd left I decided to have another incredibly quick 500 point game against some Eldar who managed to have some annoying Star Cannons as well as some Howling Banshees. 34 models to my 21. Oh dear. My men got absolutely taken apart by sniper fire, heavy weapons fire and got torn apart in combat. However through shooting I did just as much, and at the very end it was down to four Eldar Rangers and my Lord with two men left. My Lord just about made it into combat and duly killed all four with absolutely no difficulty. That was a damn close match and highly enjoyable as each death really counted for a change.

Once I got home I pretty much only did everything listed at the top of this post, though I also typed up and emailed some seminar notes for someone at uni I know since he'd lost his. I still have a load of anime to watch, as I didn't get to watch it yesterday, and probably won't till I finish uni, which is on the 8th. Gah, I'll finish then immediately need to start reading cases and all the textbooks I have. Bah. Till next time then.

Meh..... More work....

Le sigh. A strange day today overall. University wasn't too bad to start with as the lecture went well enough. However I went to look for a law case for my Frameworks case note and couldn't find it. That was a bummer so I asked the librarians to help, and they seemed to have it in store, but it wasn't available for collection till 4 pm. Since I was leaving before that, I had to get it reserved. I went to look for another possible case just so I could start, even if on a case that's not my first choice, yet the volume it was in wasn't on the shelf. Well... that was quite annoying. I then found my mates and played Magic the Gathering for an hour or so till I had to come home. When I did get home I pretty much freshened up, burnt some D&D stuff for one of the mates I was meeting for the buffet, then off I went. It was great to see my girlfriend again, and seeing my mates is generally always good. Though I only thought I was 'out of it', i.e. out of energy and quite apathetic, for a few seconds my friends and girlfriend said I was like that for a while. It's a bit strange since I swear it wasn't even half a minute long, but meh. I feel quite bad that I made my girlfriend worry. I hope she didn't feel too anxious. We all ended up playing in the D&D campaign my munchkin mate is running, and there was a room with a puzzle in it. I was quite slow on the uptake, since I didn't have any of my energy back and was doing my best to keep up appearances, but I eventually solved it.

When my girlfriend and one of my mates had to go I remained behind and played a few games of Magic the Gathering against the remaining friend using borrowed decks and it was quite fun. Admittedly one of the borrowed decks I was still a bit unsure of as I hadn't fully looked through it, I'd only played a single previous game with it. Even so I won with it again, then borrowed my mate's white/blue/green odd deck which I'd thrown together for him a while ago. I didn't do too badly and in one rather unfortunate game I was essentially a turn away from winning when he killed me. He was on one life, heh. After that I came back home again and, to my annoyance, I managed to find the case I'd been looking for, but online. It's not a 'hard copy' so it's not got the exact page references I need, but oh well. It is, however, 45 pages long. As such there's no way in hell I'm going through it tonight though I'd said to myself I would. I'll simply go through it tomorrow. With luck I'll be able to go through it and highlight important points, do the secondary research on it, go through all that, and potentially start the research for the Public law reform essay. The research for that may take a fair amount of work. I'll probably end up doing most of the writing this week for the two pieces of work on thursday and friday. I really, -really- have to finish at least one of the pieces this week, as I only have half of next week to write before the deadlines hit. Gah, it's all very stressful. Till next time then.

Work once more.

The day started off fine. Then, of course, I had to go to work. That wasn't quite so good, but meh. Nothing bad happened, nor did anything good happen. It was in fact a neutral day, but as I'm not overly keen on work it wasn't the most enjoyable way I could have spent my time, though it certainly was the highest paid. During my lunch and tea breaks I actually went to self scan to help out without pay, since self scan is something I actually enjoy. It was also hellishly busy in that area, and my mate who was the only guy manning it looked rushed, stressed, and downright peeved at the managers stating that only one person should be on it, watching four tills... After work I got to see my lovely girlfriend again, went back to hers and watched another atrocious episode of the 'Robin Hood' series that's currently running, then went onto the main feature. Before I started work I bought two books for my dad at his request, then bought the film Lucky Number Slevin for myself. As such round my girlfriend's place the two of us, and her parents, sat and saw the film together. It'd been a long time since I last saw it, and it was damn good. It's a film I quite enjoy. Not long after it finished it was time for my to leave sadly, but as I'm seeing my girlfriend tomorrow it's still all good.

I didn't do any law research today since I'll be saving the case note research for tomorrow once I get home, then writing the actual work on monday since I have a fair amount of time spare. I highly doubt I'll get it finished, but I'll at least make a start. Monday evening I'll be going out with my girlfriend and two other mates for the second buffet, so that's something to look forward to. With all the planning for that aside, I didn't do much tonight apart from play Magic the Gathering on Magic Workstation with a mill deck, burn deck and my white, blue and green sliver control deck. I had a very reasonably even number of wins and losses, so that's not too bad. My mill deck is simply fun. I've also just made a (technically) illegal artifact deck. It's 'illegal' as it has more than one of each Mox jewel, which are restricted to only one in a deck in DCI tournaments. Thank heavens I'm not in one of those eh? I'm just about to test it, and it'll be funny I reckon. Lots of Mox jewels, some normal land, and damn expensive creatures... Fufufufufu... Till next time.

Sleeping.

I had a blissful lie in this morning, not bothering to get up till 11 am. Woo, that's several hours longer than usual. When I did get up Neverwinter Nights 2 was done, and so I installed it and started playing. I only managed to complete the intro tutorial quest thing before I had to leave for university, but it was quite fun. University itself was similarly fun, since I only had to go in for a single lecture and it was Tort, concerning causation and so forth. I actually quite like the topic of causation, so it was enjoyable. After that lecture I came home pretty much straight away as I didn't feel like hanging around. After all, my girlfriend was coming round. When she did turn up I was quite happy, since she had felt ill on tuesday but seemed much better today. We watched some of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala movie together as I'd encoded it to DVD for her and her family (well, just her dad really) and she quite liked what she saw, so it's all good. After that, and after dinner, we spent a fair amount of time playing Neverwinter Nights 2 together since she likes that genre of game, but as she owns a Mac can't play them. It was great fun being with her as she took control of the characters and tried to get the game camera into the right positions. She did, however, have to go home. As such after I'd escorted her back home I went back to playing NN 2 and started trying out a few cheats to see what happened. It was rather entertaining.

Past that I didn't really do much. I checked the forum to see how the extra Storytellers were doing, and one had actually exp'd a post. Impressive indeed. Once that was all checked I decided to get Magic Workshop. hell, I have all the magic the Gathering card pictures, so why not recreate my decks and play online? I duly downloaded it, looked at it for a few minutes, then recreated my white/blue sliver control deck and my utter pure burn deck. Though there were a few false starts I did manage to get several games in, and got an even number of wins and losses. Not too bad really. My burn deck was the funnier to play, since I was doing damage every turn as well as playing a mana every turn thanks to the way my deck's built. Gee damn it was fun watching opponents trying to counter only to be burnt with exactly the same thing the next turn for even more damage. That ate up a fair amount of time though, which explains why this post is quite 'late'. For now though I need to sleep, as I have work in the morning. Till next time.

Got one done.

Mwahahahahaha! Finally. This evening I started actually writing my contract law essay, and finished the bastard. That's one out of the way and I still have half a week in which to get it done. Booyah. It's only 5 pages long (shorter if I were to remove the footnotes from the bottom of the pages) yet it has over 40 reference. Gee damn eh? Anyway, to start from the beginning of my day. Did I go into college early? Hell no, I had another couple of hours sleeping in. It was rather nice, and I damn well intend to sleep in tomorrow too. The lecture was incredibly boring, and bloody pointless. It was inane repetition on how not to write an essay. The lecturer had already told us what not to do in the last two lectures, and we've been emailed the actual projector slides. It was quite aggravating, as if I had simply skipped the utterly pointless lecture I could have finished off the research for my essay earlier. As it was, I went to Brighton after the lecture since I wanted something interesting to do, and I bought another Darksteel booster box. I happily went through it, and lo and behold - another Thought Dissector! Another Sword of Light and Shadow! Another happy happy pristine Angel! I'd also traded away my Sundering Titan and Darksteel Colossus (which is a freaking amazing card) for a lot of rares yesterday, and guess what? Yes, another Sundering Titan and Darksteel Colossus! Another Gemini Engine too! I now have three of those, funky. In fact the only rare I wanted and didn't get was Darksteel Forge (curses!). I want to make an entirely indestructible deck, so I kinda need the forge.... That and some Platinum Angels would be nice, but it'll be a while before I get those...

After Brighton it was back to uni for an hour before my seminar. In that hour I fully finished all the research I needed to do for my contract essay, then I had to go to the contract seminar. Funnily enough the second question to be discussed at the seminar had exactly, and I'm serious, -exactly- the same wording as one of the three essay questions to choose from. Funnily enough, it was the question I was doing. Who'd have thought eh? As such with a few probing questions I got the lecturer to describe the answer in detail, and I was pleased that he mentioned all the cases I'd grabbed. How convenient. After the lecture I pointed out the fact that the question was the same as the required essay, and he seemed a bit surprised. It was entertaining to see the vaguely bemused look on his face, and to hear him mutter, "Oh... If I'd known, I wouldn't have talked through it... I guess it's too late now..." Indeed, heheheh. After the seminar I just came straight home since I didn't feel like hanging around, and thus the procrastination started. I put off doing my essay for three hours, and then when I was doing inbetween every half an hour or so I took a twenty minute break. As such it took about four hours to write all in all, but it wasn't too bad to actually do. The only annoying thing was the sheer ridiculous amount of references I had to write, not to mention I had to write a bibliography even though I used the footnote reference system. Meh. I also easily had enough time to update the forum, and Neverwinter Nights 2 is coming along nicely. I should be able to install and play it by tomorrow. Rock on eh?

Till next time then.

Interesting advancement.

This morning I went in to university early but didn't get anything done as I didn't feel all that awake to be honest. The seminar went fine, though as I was tired the beginning was a bit hard to follow, especially as I was the first one to be asked a question. After that though I did a very, very small amount of work then went to the common room and hung around whilst surfing the net on my laptop. It wasn't exactly the most eventful day I'd had by then, but meh. Eventually a mate turned up but I had to go to my lecture. Once back from that I started to play Magic the Gathering. I didn't win, but got close in the main four player game I was in. Had I got either a Deathspore Thallid or Dread return I would have been laughing. Ah well. The zombies campaign went well, and I'm still quite pleased that everyone (as far as I can tell) is enjoying it. There's a lot more going on, with more fighting with each other over small problems and so forth. Essentially there's a lot more role playing going on, more fights, and people are actually playing their characters as gradually getting emotionally strained. Aside from one guy that is, his character is autistic and has practically gone insane. That, added with the autism, means that his inter-character relations aren't exactly brilliant. Next week I'll probably add the next type of 'zombie' or even the next two. There was a chance for them to appear this week, but luckily (for the characters) they didn't roll the right numbers for this to happen. Much hilarity would have been had by me if they had turned up.

Dungeons and Dragons went relatively well too. Though I was standing next to the villain when he 'died' I wasn't able to grab his sword. For a start the guy stood up, started his classic evil speech, stuttered, then exploded. Looks like his sword had a side effect. Regardless I still wanted it, but the dwarf paladin grabbed it first. Well, bugger. That wasn't pleasing at the time. On the way out I ran past the assassin vine again whilst the others went and killed it. Like hell I'm willingly going to fight something I'd managed to run past before. That way I stay alive far longer. When we fully exited the giant dead-ish tree thing the half-orc barbarian and myself managed to safely avoid the giant spider. The paladin was, however, not quite so fast, and the barbarian stayed behind to help him. The rest of the group decided to go back to town since it was practical. As such, the ridiculously huge spider utterly wiped the floor with the paladin and barbarian, and only didn't kill them as they ran off without having done anything to it. Silly people... That's why running is always a viable option. In town I managed to get one of the magic rings we'd obtained, and which my diabolus is now wearing, identified though it won't be till next week till I find out what it is. I also decided to go for some ranks in craft and got a mentor for the skill. In a week's worth of training I'll have a rather nifty masterwork two-ended sword for slightly cheaper than it's normal cost. Sweet. I also managed to grab the slightly shiny black sword the villain didn't need anymore (as he'd exploded) and so that made me happy. From what I can tell it made the Paladin dislike me even more. Meh, I have the sword, I'm happy.

When I got home I was going to do some law work, but the remaining cases I need are all pretty old, so I need to find the hard copies of them in the library tomorrow and photocopy them, as well as finding the hard copy references for the current cases I have. With luck my free time tomorrow afternoon from 4 pm should allow me to get a fair bit of it written. I'll be aiming for around 75% to 90% completed tomorrow, which means I can finish it off either over the weekend after I get home, or on monday. On monday I do need to do research for the case note and second essay. With more luck I'll get all the case note research done on monday, allowing me to start writing it on either tuesday or thursday, as well as starting the research for the second essay on thursday. It's all good to have it planned, I just hope I manage it...

Till next time then.

Tired.

Today was generally uneventful for me, if only because I felt quite tired so probably missed stuff. Due to various reading, preparing, forum tasks etc and so forth I didn't actually go to bed till 7.10 am this morning. As I had to get up at 7.55 am this morning, it wasn't exactly a long rest. My first lecture I semi-dozed through, though I did make notes which I found impressive later on in the day. Afterwards I had something to eat and felt better, then had the large two hour lecture which went fine, though in the second hour I was starting to feel tired again. In the three hour gap I played Magic the Gathering for a while before going to do some law work. Unfortunately it took ages for a computer to be free, but I did find the actual hard copy of the article I'd got a title for, so that helps my contract essay a fair amount. I didn't quite finish going through it, but meh. The last lecture was Frameworks and was entirely focused on pointing out lots of bad points about a really, heinously bad essay. I had my eyes shut through nearly all of that and was happily cat-napping as I listened. I didn't bother taking notes however, as I'm confident in my spelling ability and general essay writing skills.

After uni it was down to Games Workshop where I had intended to play a game. Unfortunately when my girlfriend arrived she was feeling a bit ill and didn't look all that healthy, so eventually I managed to persuade her to go home, and I went with her. She had a temperature, headache, pain in her neck and hip and her eyes hurt. That's probably not good all together, though the hip pain was due to straining a muscle earlier in the day as far as I know. At any rate I just stayed with her and we both relaxed, and thankfully she felt slightly better by the time I had to leave. Once home myself I decided to have a bath, update the forum, get the relevant anime torrents (for which there weren't many at all) and read the webcomics I follow. I didn't get round to doing law as through everything which I did I felt intensely tired, so in fact I'm going to call it a day here and go to bed now. Till next time.

Late again.

Meh, sorry, sorry. Another late post. Anyway, my day went quite well, if not overly productively. I went into uni early and treated a mate to breakfast as I was quite bored. After that it was time for my single hour of lecture, which was quite entertaining. Once that was finished I went to do some law work. Needless to say my motivation wasn't quite brilliant, and so I met up with some mates instead, went into Brighton and bought a few more cards. A black core deck, five core set boosters, a Mirrodin booster and a Darksteel booster. Though most of the stuff was alright, I did get Wrath of God and Worship, two highly nifty cards which I'll eventually put into the white and black deck I've been planning for a while. It'll be fun, heh. When the day hit late afternoon however I did get to doing law work, and got through the main case I'd printed. Once home I put off doing any work for a while as my motivation had died a horrible death earlier in the day. Regardless however I eventually got around to it, did some highlighting, printed another case and got the title of a highly appropriate article. I also got round to coverting the Fullmetal Alchemist movie into a DVD with a rather simple menu. Quite a nice program really and simple to use. Hmm. There was also the forum to update, though I've not managed to do the zombie poster yet. I'll be doing that after this post.

As it's a monday I also got through anime as per usual. I managed to watch two episodes of Crescent Love, two of Death Note, Tokimeki Memorial, two of Zegapain, two of Aria the Natural, Kiba, Naruto, Inukami, Welcome to the NHK and two of Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru. That's 15. Not overly bad, but a bit less than usual as I watched a couple of episodes during the week too. In brief then, Crescent Love had a bit of mutual lovelorn pain but a happy declaration, Death Note was just damn cool. The way Light manages to find out names is entertaining. Tokimeki Memorial was pretty good too, and similarly Zegapain was good though for entirely different reasons. Seeing Sin and Abyss meet their end was fun. Aria the Natural was again quite whimsical, though Kiba was riddled with harsh problems. Getting kidnapped had got to suck. Luckily Zed managed to (mostly) take care of himself so now it's all down to what he does. Naruto was again filler with a vague plot. Inukami had more strange perverted villains, Welcome to the NHK had the main dude overcoming his problem even more from seeing someone worse than him and in Otome there was a ghost. The series was vaguely serious till the ghost. Oh dear... I'll probably keep watching it anyway, meh. Now I really should go and make the zombie poster, so till next time.

Stress, relax, stress.

A mixed day really. Work started fine since it was vaguely dead all morning. True, I nearly always had a customer to serve, but there were gaps and one or two were several minutes long. This went on till about 12.40 pm-ish when I had my break, and thankfully I was able to do someone else's break first instead of having mine. What was better was that the break I was covering was on self scan. Excellent stuff, that kept me interested for the half hour it lasted. After that I actually took my own lunch, and ended up spending much of it hanging around self scan and chatting with one of my colleagues there as I didn't really have anything better to do. After that ended it was back to the normal tills unfortunately, and work definitely picked up. It was rather annoying and I wanted to simply leave for a fair amount of the afternoon. Thankfully, as always, work ended and I was able to meet up with my beautiful girlfriend. Seeing her after a (relatively) stressful day at work is bliss. Whilst at hers we spent ages simply chatting, then watched the rest of her Rune Soldier anime DVD. Not the best anime I've seen, but still fairly entertaining. I'll next be seeing her on tuesday at Games Workshop, and I'll be bringing an actual army for a change. Since I recently, and luckily, obtained a Fabius Bile chaos lord model and three chaos Obliterators I'm going to be writing up a new army and seeing how it turns out. I'm hoping I can fit in my Havoks, a small squad of Raptors, the three Obliterators and of course some normal men and the (new) Lord.

When I got home from the bliss and relaxation of my girlfriend it all went to hell as the stress hit home again. I had to really put my mind to law work as I need to write an essay this coming week as well as preferably making a start gathering the resources for my case note and second essay. Bah. As such I printed off the uni guide to referencing and the main case for my Contract essay. I also make a rather incredibly brief essay outline with huge gaps in it. Currently I highly doubt it'd be close to 1,500 words, so I'll invariably end up putting in more than the five cases I currently have planned for it. Hmm, at least it's a start. Tomorrow after my single hour of lecture I guess I'll finish reading the main case, pull a bunch of quotations for it to back up some points, then possibly begin writing the essay. The beginning is simple enough, a brief introduction to what consideration actually is and the supporting three cases which define it. If I can get that written it'd be excellent. Thanks to this work and a desire not to cut down on my time with my girlfriend I'll most likely not see any of my uni friends, as the temptation to play Magic the Gathering would be far too great, and that'd most likely end up wasting a lot of my time and screwing me over. Bah. Bah I say! For the next two weeks at least it seems like I have a lot of work to do, plus after week ten when I start the Christmas holidays I need to start catching up on cases. Bloody things....

Till next time.

Work strikes again.

Another moderate day at work. I spent the first couple of hours on a normal till, then was thankfully able to get on the sefl-scan tills for an hour after my first break. I like being on self-scan, as it requires a hell of a lot less work, mainly pressing a few buttons now and then when something goes wrong and couting items. Compared to endlessly scanning items it's freaking great. It did only last an hour though, as I had to go back on a normal till since it was busy. Once back on them the day got a lot drearier and boring. Though it didn't make me feel down or anything, it was still quite mind-numbing. Also the thought of the law work I had to do wasn't encouraging at all. Bleh. After work, since my girlfriend is working longer hours for the Christmas period, I waited for a short while to be picked up. I had time to change therefore, and wore a new Primark shirt. I also bought two t-shirts today at ASDA, as they were having a 20% clothing sale and I have my usual (additional) 10% staff discount. So instead of £6 a shirt they were £4.20. How convenient and reasonably priced eh? I also bought my girlfriend's mum her Christmas present, got some chocolate for my girlfriend and I, as well as some to share with her family, and bought a ream of paper since my printer tends to eat the stuff.

Time today with my girlfriend was relaxing and happy. It was nice being able to cuddle and watch anime together. It was Rune Solider, an anime I've not seen before but which was strange and interesting enough to keep me watching. It was quite fantasy RPG-like and had a fair amount of comedy. The chocolate went down pretty well too and I was invited round to have dinner on Christmas Day since my step mum will be working and my dad will be working during the evening. That's quite cool, I get to spend Christmas with my girlfriend. I can't really think of a better way to spend it, so that's supremely excellent and something to look forward to. I do however need to get all my law work done in the intervening time, so the stress is ever present. Before I go to bed tonight I need to look through it all, pick out which essay needs to be done first, then get relevant chapters, cases and articles for it as well as noting down useful url's for the case note. It's quite a biref task really. Tomorrow after work I'll be starting to read through it, then starting monday I'll be ploughing into the damn work. Le sigh. The excitement never ends eh? I can see my upcoming two weeks filled with a lot of anguish and annoyance, having to read stupid amounts just to get select quotes and so on and so forth..... Bah. Till next time.

Another day passes.

The seminar this morning went well surprisingly. Admittedly I didn't strictly prepare for it. True, I'd read the relevant text book chapter, but that was a week ago and I didn't read any of the proposed cases. I still got through it quite well however. If only the exams at the end of the year were so easy, heh. In the four hours of spare time I had till my lecture I finished the text book reading for Contract and Public Law and popped into Brighton. I ended up buying a Darksteel booster box for Magic the athering this time as they're £30 which is still half normal price. No doubt I'll buy another eventually. The cards I got were all quite funky, especially so with the rares. My god some of them are spiffy. I got Pristine Angel, Sword of Fire and Ice, Sword of Light and Shadow, Darksteel Colossus and so on and so forth. I merely listed my favourites. I also bought another Tort law book when back at university about 'The Wrongs of Tort' as it's always on the recommended reading list. That was, roughly, another £20 spent on law. For the hell of it I also got a 'Japanese for Dummies' book since it seemed to be quite good and I've wanted to learn some japanese since I started watching anime and so far I know a couple of phrases. Which kinda sucks. The lecture wasn't too bad either, since I do find Tort to be a hell of a lot more interesting than, say, Frameworks. After that lecture however was a plagiarism lecture about 'what not to do'. The punishments are quite.... harsh, even if it's purely accidental. Gee damn...

Once I got home I was slightly disappointed to learn that my girlfriend wasn't able to come over thanks to college work. Very understandable though, so I got down to my usual practice of surfing for anime updates, playing Urban Dead, despairing about the upcoming law work I have to do whilst utterly avoiding any hint of plagiarism, updating the forum and checking my email. Etcetera etcetera. I also encouraged a guy from the Soul Society forum to start up a PvP against one of my XPC's since I felt in the mood to RP some fighting with an entirely new character. My Darksteel cards were next to me for a while as I intended to sort through them (further than the sorting I did on the train and in uni, which was to seperate all the rares and foils) but I never really got round to it. I've not watched any anime either, though I did watch two episodes of Black Lagoon yesterday after posting. ye gods that series is cool. The way most of the attackers were taken down was just funny and Revy rocks. It was also quite nice to have enough time whilst not feeling utterly stressed to watch anime. It makes a nice change from recent times. As for now I guess I shall be off, since I don't really have anything to talk about now. I can only hope that I'm assigned to self-scan tomorrow at work, since that is a hell of a lot more interesting than being on a normal checkout... Till next time.

Er... dang.

Looks like I forgot to post yesterday. That's probably because I got home from SWARM and was exhausted, so I tried reading a bit of law, failed, and went to sleep. To very briefly recap the SWARM experience yesterday, Magic the Gathering went well, though it took longer than I expected, and, without meaning to, I ended up being late to my only lecture for the day. Thankfully as the lecturer frequently spends a substantial length of time recapping the previous lecture I only actually missed the details for three cases. That's not too bad. The zombie campaign went rather well too, and I've got everyone into two groups, one of which is actually entirely made up of original characters. That's quite impressive. The uber-zombie managed to get to both groups, but only went uber on one and generally everyone was alright afterwards. One unlucky bugger got shot in the leg with a shotgun by an NPC as he was caught trying to steal his car. Whoops eh? After zombies I was in the D&D campaign once more, and that went rather spiffingly. Though I got to -9, and thereby was a single hit point away from permenant death, I was luckily stabilised and consequently healed. Not long after that we found the dwarven paladin again, and came across the main bad guy. We killed him just as the session ended, or so we all think. His slightly shiny black sword shall be mine, regardless of what the paladin says.

Today went pretty well too. I went into uni early, intending to read Frameworks as I had a stupid amount to read before the seminar. That kinda failed, as it kept making me almost fall asleep. As such I had a big breakfast, lots of sugary drinks, and felt buzzed. I went to read it again. I nearly fell asleep. Seriously, that book can cure insomnia. I gave up on it but the seminar was fine anyway, as pretty much everyone was quiet and no one at all really asked or answered any questions. Ergo I didn't stand out, woo. The lecture was similarly boring, but more engaging the the text book at least.... After that I hurried home, got ready and so forth then went out to Eastbourne and met up with my girlfriend. We spent the afternoon shopping together and I bought her a rather nice tartan top, and actually bought myself two more shirts, the first bits of new clothing (not counting underwear, socks or my work uniform) that I've got in something like two and a half years. How useful eh? After that we went back to hers and I had a long chat with her dad about work and so forth before my girlfriend and I watched the first Ghost in the Shell movie. Damn that movie rocks. Again it was unfortunate that I had to leave, but with any luck I'll be seeing her tomorrow too if she's not got much college work to do.

My spare time this weekend and in the upcoming week is going to be inhumanly restricted since it'll be week eight of uni on monday, and by week nine I need to have written an essay and case note, and have to write another essay for week ten. On the plus side I don't have Frameworks lectures in week nine, so I have more time then for the public law essay I believe. It also means I'd have thursday entirely off in two weeks. Nifty. That's all for now then, as I'm going to watch anime (and it's not even a monday! Wow!). Till next time.

More sorting.

It was the long day of the week at uni today. An hour lecture, hour gap, two hour lecture, three hour gap, hour lecture. The first lecture wasn't too bad, though the new lecturer seems vaguely disorganised - she didn't actually follow the outline in the handbook. Oh well eh? During the first hour gap I basically just soprted through 64 emails which were in my university mailbox. It was only the second time I'd signed in for my uni email account, the first time being during fresher's week. Once that was done it was time for the longer lecture, and that went well as always. During the three hour free I went to brighton with my munchkin friend and another SWARMer I'm friends with and we popped into Dave's Comics then Daydream Nations. I purchased another card folder, for my foils, and also got another two tournament packs for Mirrodin more out of boredom than anything else. I ended up making a deck out of their contents and didn't do too badly in the game played afterwards. It had all three of us in it, and unfortunately I did die first. However the other two were on 1 and 9 respectively, so it wasn't that bad. For most of the game I actually had the most life. Getting whacked by a whole host of critters you can't block is slightly problematic, heh. The last lecture was boring as always, since it was Frameworks. Meh...

After uni I went round to my girlfriend's place and enjoyed seeing her again. The whole evening was taken up with watching the film Shaolin Soccer, which my girlfriend, her dad and her mum seemed to enjoy. That was all good then. Unfortunately that meant that most of the time was spent watching a film. Oh well. On thursday I'll be meeting up with her an hour or so past midday to go shopping, so that's something to look forward to. Though window shopping generally isn't my thing I'll be with her, so it's all good. As for when I got home, I went to actually sort through the most recent Mirrodin booster box I bought. After breaking it down into the main groups, i.e. colours, artifacts, specifically equipment etc etc, I ended up making a Myr and equipment deck. It'll be interesting to see how it plays, since there's only seven non-artifact cards in the deck, four of which are flying creatures (just in case) and the other three enchantments to prevent opponent's attacking me (again just in case). With luck the Myr, equipment and Coat of Arms artifacts will all work together well. I also printed a few more zombie rp character sheets as I know they're needed - several character dies last week after all. I'll also be taking in six MtG decks, so I'll probably get a few games in.

Till next time then.

Back to normal.

Aaah, today was a hell of a lot better than all the stress of my weekend, though this post has been rolled back several hours as my day ran out of time and I'm still not finished with everything I feel I need to do. Anyway, to start at the beginning - I went into university early to get some law reading done. I managed to finish both the public law and contract chapters I had to read, so once again I was up to date in the textbook. Note the past tense. I then had my actual contract lecture, and the lecturer managed to finish his topics on time, adding another chapter for me to read, before announcing that starting tomorrow we'd have a different lecturer for the rest of the term. Fair enough then. Of course the addition of another chapter to read wasn't exactly beneficial to my scheduling, but meh. After the lecture I went into Brighton, bought another Mirrodin booster box and entirely failed to get a Platinum Angel. I have therefore given up on booster boxes, and won't be buying any for 'a while'. However I'm still trying to find them, disregarding eBay, so I may end up getting one or two through trades. That'd be nice. I also bought a card folder, more deck protector slips and another triple deck box. They're handy to have. I do however need more card boxes to hold the 1000-ish Mirrodin cards I now have. I also need to sort out through the box I bought today but simply haven't had the time yet.

After my shopping trip in Brighton I came home, freshened up, then went out to Eastbourne to walk around the stores. Unfortunately one of the two stores I wanted to go to was shut, so I couldn't exactly check it out. Damn eh? The second store, Primark, was bigger than I expected. It was also messier, though that was due to the other customers who seemed to have an obsessive desire to pick clothing up, barely glance at it, then throw it back instead of putting it back onto the rails. How considerate of them. After that I hung around for a while, meeting one of the buffet-mates in Games Workshop, and eventually went next door to the pub to meet up with the second mate. A few games of Magic the Gathering followed, and one game resulted in a complete loss for me. Annoyingly I got totally mana screwed, and only having three mana for essentially the whole game was a bit of a let down. However in the rematch I slaughtered him. Excellent stuff. I also played another game against him later, with my altered artifact deck, and won as the match had to end early. He was on 18 life, I was nearly at 60. How handy.

Between the MtG games my girlfriend turned up and it was great seeing her again. We all had the buffet together which was also quite nice. It looked like it'd be a good snack for the full seven people, but as there were only four of us it was a pretty damn good meal. It certainly filled me up at any rate. having 50% off drinks thanks to cards we have was also quite handy. Once the meal had been eaten my munchkin pal continued his campaign, and we managed to get an adventuring job and leave the city. For some reason it took a long time, presumably as we all kept joking around which derailed him quite often. Eventually however my girlfriend had to go home, which wasn't all that enjoyable, but I'll be seeing her tomorrow after uni. I'm making an effort to see her a lot since it makes me really happy, and gets rid of a lot of my stress. Cuddling her simply makes me feel content instead of feeling the usual crushing pressure.

When I got home, after the later MtG games, I had a lot to do. I updated the forum, sent the SWARM emails out for my campaign and a few other notes, made the new zombie campaign poster and put all my rares into the card folder I bought, ready for wednesday so people can actually easily look through my cards. After all that was done it was getting pretty late. By late I mean 'past midnight'. How inconvenient. Regardless of the time I continued with everything I usually do on a monday now, most notably watching anime. I managed to get through the final two episodes of Kemonozume, Bleach, Naruto, the Kashimashi OVA, Kiba, Welcome to the NHK, two episodes of Tsubasa Chronicle, two episodes of Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori, The Gargoyle of the Yoshinagas, Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru, Black Blood Brothers, Asatte no Houkou, Negima, Tokimeki Memorial and Chevalier. 18 episodes once again.

Kemonozume had a good ending in my opinion, and Ooba or however you spell his name was a rather interesting freak. Bleach was not too bad and the animation looked better than the recent few episodes. Naruto again was slightly better, though still filler. It also had some of the most blatant and unstealthy ninjas I've seen in that show. Shame on them. Kashimashi took away the ambiguous ending to the series, so it provided good closure. Kiba had more good fighting, Welcome to the NHK had the joy of multi-level marketing tricking them all, Tsubasa Chronicle had the planar explorers (still...) fighting the dude with god-like powers and Jigoku had more interesting people sent to hell, though one seemed to find it funny. In Yoshinagas the little blond girl essentially got a proper family, Otome had the guy-posing-as-a-girl winning the main election and in Black Blood Brothers at the end Cain the Blue Wolf lived up to his name with a transformation. It was cool. The brother seemed to be fully coming to terms with the situation in Asatte no Houkou, and similarly in Negima more girls were becoming accustomed to Negi being a mage, most notably Nodoka. Tokimeki Memorial had the poor main guy runnng around, again, but it seemes like he's really found a girl he likes. Good for him. Lastly in Chevalier there was more plotting and attempted assassinations. That about wraps it up for the anime I watched then.

I still have an update for Crescent Love to watch, but I won't watch that today as it's so late it counts as early. I still have 14 pages of contract law to read, so now I've written all this I guess I better try and read some of it before I collapse. Till next time.

A bad day purchase.

Again it was a bad day, but instead of skipping the post as I did yesterday I figure enough interesting good stuff has happened so I can at least make a short post. Not long after I started work, maybe 30 minutes at most, I was finally moved to the sefl-scan tills for my training. I've been going on at them for a month and a half and I finally got it. Excellent stuff. That lasted till about 2 pm, then I had to go back onto the normal till till I finished work. That wasn't so bad as by then quite a substantial chunk of the day had gone so I didn't mind at all. Also, during my break, I went and bought something I've been whining about getting for the past two and a half years - a camera. It's not incredibly fantastic, but it is 5 megapixel with 4x digital zoom and can record at 30 fp/s. That's rather handy, and the pictures it takes are ridiculously huge and yet still quite sharp. Nifty. After work I of course saw my girlfriend, and it was generally nice being able to cuddle her again. I nearly always really enjoy my time with her, yet when I have to leave as a result I tend to feel a bit low. Thankfully I'm seeing her tomorrow when the pair of us, and two other friends, are meeting up to have a meal together in the evening. That's something nice to look forwards to. At any rate I don't feel like talking about anything else, so till next time.

Crap day.

My day went from alright, to shit, to tolerable, to much better, to shit. I can't be bothered to write any of it, and any questions about it aren't likely to be answered.

Till next time.

More cards.

Hmm. The past half hour has been marred by frustration at Blogger. I tried the new beta layout, and couldn't work out how to get my banner back at all. After a fair bit of frustration I switched back to the classic template. Meh. Anyway, onto my day. It started well as I popped into Dave's Comics in Brighton first and picked up the All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG core rule book. Though I have it in .pdf I wanted a hard copy for ease of transport and simply so I can flick through it. It'll also help people in my campaign as they'll be able to look through it without needing my laptop. I then went into David's Books and bought a Mirrodin booster box for £25 (compared to the other sets' booster boxes which were £60... Maybe Mirrodin isn't a popular set or something?) in the hopes of getting a particular card. Unfortunately I didn't, but I did get a feckload of artifacts quite understandably. I guess I'll make an artifact deck or two. It'll be interesting to see if a golem deck will work or if it'll simply be too expensive. After that I went into daydream Nations (I think that's what the store is called) and bought another 200 deck protector card sleeves and a tri-deck box with a nifty dark red undead design. Once all that was done I quickly went to uni to meet up with my munchkin mate who lives on campus. I played a few games of MtG with him, testing out my new burn deck and I even played my Fun With Fungus deck for the hell of it. I won three out of the four games, and the FwF deck flattened him. It was rather entertaining.

The lecture itself wasn't too bad. There wasn't much progress as there were quite a few cases the lecturer had to talk through, but as tort is the only subject I'm actually ahead in as far as text book reading is concerned, I actually knew of the cases when he started talking about them. Though I'm terrible with name I remember the details pretty well, so it was nice actually knowing what he was going to say next. Once the lecture was over I went straight home as I didn't really feel like doing anything else. On the way home I felt a bit low for no reason at all, which was annoying afterwards, and so the walk home from the train station sucked a fair amount. I soon perked up however as I treated my dad and step mum to a meal out, and simply being somewhere else made me feel a lot better. After the meal when I arrived back home I started sorting through the Mirrodin cards again. I'd already gone through them before I played the MtG games earlier in the day, but sorting through them again allowed me to seperate them according to colour, artifact type, rares and notable cards I wanted for other decks. I also picked out a bunch of cards for a potential new deck, though it needs a lot of work and I'll probably end up putting a fair amount of Time Spiral cards in. I think I now know why Mirrodin is cheaper than the other sets. The rares are rather good indeed, but aside from the equipment and spellbombs there isn't really anything overly impressive in the set. true, the Myrs are funny, but aside from provide mana for the most part they don't do much. Many of the creatures are hideously expensive too. I console myself with the rares, equipment and artifact lands. They're all rather cool and Imay end up building a red/black/artifact equip deck. It's interesting to think what cards I could add in from Time Spiral. I could take apart the white/green/red sliver deck I've never used to make a green/red/artifact equip deck and go for big creatures, equipment to make them bigger, and red spells to clear the opponent's field. It's an interesting theory, though questionable as to how well it'd work in practice.

At any rate it's getting late and I still need to read a bit of law, so till next time.

What to do?

How should I describe today? Hmm, I guess 'quite good' would probably cover it. University wasn't too bad. Instead of the Frameworks lecture another person was doing it, and it was about European law and so forth, so the first years have a better idea of what it is. It was less boring than Frameworks, and thus was 'all good'. I had two hours in which to prepare for the seminar, and thus went to a mate's as he lives on campus, and played Magic the gathering. Though he would have eventually won, the game ended with me on more life as I had to go to my seminar. That was vaguely funny. The seminar itself went well, as there was ten minutes at the beginning to prepare an answer to the problem in groups. I spent seven of those minutes getting all the relevant cases, and seemingly impressed the two other guys I was with, as they both said they were crap at Contract. It was mildly amusing seeing their expressions as I explained each case actually. The discussion in the whole class went well too, so that was a good seminar and helped me remeber the names of three more cases. Excellent stuff. After uni I had to rush home, as the seminar had overrun slightly, and I managed to thankfully still catch the 3.02 pm train. A hurried shower later and I felt fresh enough to actually see my girlfriend.

It was nice having her round again. Most of the time I go to her's, so it's a nice change to be with her and still have the setting of my room. We watched the rest of Dog Soldiers together, as ages ago we'd seen the first half but never got round to finishing it. She liked that movie too, so that was pretty convenient. We didn't do much else really aside from chat, mostly about how my munchkin mate's campaign is going to turn out. One of my other friends luckily won a meal for himself and lots of other people and it covers my munchkin pal and my girlfriend too as well as me, so this coming monday we're all going to meet together, have a meal, get some cheap drinks thanks to three of us having 50% off on mondays) and then play the campaign. Quite nifty indeed and something to look forward to. At the moment I'm going through the enjoyable practice of taking apart Magic the Gathering decks to make more of them. I'm currently working on a red and black burn and theft deck, and I'm going to make a white and green soon I reckon. Either that or blue and white. At any rate, till next time.

More zombies.

I'll only briefly talk about today, as once again I'm quite tired. The seminar I had first thing wasn't too bad, though I wasn't that vocal in the beginning. As for my lecture, that went well. It was ever so faintly boring, but it went well. After that I pretty much went to SWARM and played Magic the Gathering for a while. I won a couple of games, lost a couple. Fairly even really. Once that session was over it was time for zombies, and that's when the real fun really well and truly kicked in. I had several NPC's firebomb all the windows they could see in the university, effectively forcing the group in the Grapevine with the quarantine status to move, and the group of PC zombies caught up to the incredibly well equipped 'zombie hunter' group. The zombie hunter group got annihilated. One of the zombies was inspired, with abilities that'd only work in a miracle situation. Going up against four people with the ability to dissolve zombies would require a miracle for a zombie to win. As such all his abilities kicked in, such as touch of healing, strength of ten and holy fire. It was funny when the zombie ran into the side of the fire truck and threw it through the air then set all of the insides alight with blue fire. Plus there was another zombie inspired with him who had visions and divine sight, so the zombies effectively knew what the hunters were going to do in advance. Yeah, three of the four hunters died, the last one left because she appeared to be infected, so was of no use, and also happened to be in a large puddle of zombie-dissolving ammonium. The zombies weren't exactly likely to touch her...

After that it was the D7D campaign, and the dwarven paladin seperated from the group. From what my character knew the dwarf had possibly been buried, but as the dwarf had been rather cruel and dismissing of my diabolus he wasn't all that bothered to help dig. As such the rest of the group went a different way, coming across some rather harsh vines. Eventually an evil person appeared, and he was holding a nice black sword. Not the same one as before, but I still want it and I swear I'll get it. I also bagged another 50 slivers for £3. I do have them all, but it just means I can now make a ridiculous number of sliver decks, heh. I also got some free films, as one of the members had been given a bunch of The Sun free films and handed them to me, so I took dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead and Gangster No.1. Two free zombie films. Rock on! That does however conclude what I have to say, so till next time.

Nearly there.

There was a slight amount of irritation today thanks to my lectures, as they added another twelve pages of contract law to read and three more chapters of public law to read, but other than that the day went well. During my three hour gap instead of reading law I went to Brighton with mates and visited the Daydream Nation card store and bought another two Disintegrate for 50p each. Considering it's X(one red) to do X damage to target creature or player which can't be regenerated, it's handy that I now have three. I'll be altering my red and black deck to have more burn elements in it. It'll be quite fun to have a sliver-ish burn deck which regenerates. After uni my girlfriend came over and I gave her an introductory game of Magic the Gathering. She did quite well with the artifact deck till I got Thelon of Havenwood and Verdeloth the Ancient in play in the Fun with Fungus deck. Yeah, a mass of saprolings kinda overran her... After that we watched the rest of the film Dogma together, as the last time she'd been round and we'd started watching it there hadn't been time to finish. She quite enjoyed the film which was pretty nifty, and though saying goodbye when she had to go home was a bit of a wrench, I'll be seeing her after uni on thursday and I have SWARM tomorrow so I figure I'll be occupied at least in the time we're not together.

Unfortunately I've not had the time to watch any anime at all, though I did manage to update the forum. Also on Urban Dead I have all the 'live' skills and I'm getting close to 200 exp. Once I get 2,000 exp I'll find a group of zombies and die so I can get all the zombie skills in one go. That'll be quite amusing. Of course finding a revivication point afterwards may be a tiny bit of a problem... That brings me to the end of my news today, so till next time.

Pressed for time.

So far the day's not gone badly at all, though I do feel as if I'd cope better if days were 30 hours long. I only had the one lecture today, but decided to stay in uni to meet up with friends and play Magic the Gathering. Reading law is all well and good, but a lack of breaks seems to erode at my sanity. As such I deemed it was practical and sensible to take an actual break and break in my slivers even more. I now actually have enough of each type to clone my main deck. How interesting. At any rate I played a couple of games and won them, then ended up switching decks with my D&D munchkin friend. He himself has said that he doesn't have a deck, but rather 'a load of cards put together' and true enough I lost horribly. We had a rematch and I actually beat my sliver deck with his. It was pretty funny. After that it was finally off home for me. I read law on the way back, had read some law during the day, and read more law when I got home. I therefore finished catching up in the textbook for contract, so that was pretty good. I then went and actually managed to enjopy another hobby of mine - anime.

I got through 17 episodes this time, a rather similar (possibly the same, I can't be bothered to check) total to last week. I watched Kiba, Black Lagoon, Tsubasa Chronicle, Naruto, Welcome to the NHK, two 'episodes' (four short episodes actually) of Dai Mahou Touge, three of Kemonozume, Asatte no Houkou, Death Note, Crescent Love, two of Chocotto Sister and two of Tonagura. Kiba had Zed's key spirit returned, though watching three fight at once was quite fun. Black Lagoon simply rocked as it always does. There were no twins, as they'd died, but it was still great fun to watch Revy shooting things. Tsubasa had the King-dude go evil, Naruto had more filler of death, Welcome to the NHK was entertaining as the poor hikkikomori got lured into a pyramid scheme and Dai Mahou Touge had more ridiculous violence which is always fun anyway. The sheer rate of change between 'happy' and 'evil' is great to watch. Kemonozume had more funky animation which I've grown to like a lot, Asatte no Houkou had the brother come to terms with the odd change in his adoptive little sister, and in Death Note 'Kira' sent his killing up a notch by getting one agent to kill a bunch of others. Harsh. Crescent Love had more about the moon princess, and she learnt how to swim incredibly well in three days. Not shabby. In Chocotto Sister Choco felt low as her brother went on a date, but the girl he liked got drunk and said some other guy's name in her sleep after she collapsed. The crying wouldn't make him feel much better either. Sucks to be him eh? Lastly in Tonagura there was an interesting situation for a cold. Odd, but interesting.

That wraps pretty much everything up. I just need to get the new zombie poster done, update the forum, actually eat dinner and then read nearly 60 pages of the frameworks textbook to catch up with that one. Ergo by tomorrow I'll only need to catch up in public law, then I can go onto reading important cases. Spiffy. Till next time then.

Remember, remember.

Well I guess I 'forgot' to post yesterday. This wasn't on purpose. My last two hours with my girlfriend ahd been spent dozing off, so when I got home I felt kinda tired. I went to read law and after ten pages felt like having a little 5 minute nap to get rid of some of the fatigue. When I opened my eyes it was 9 am. Hmm. That was vaguely annoying, but oh well. At any rate work went well enough both yesterday and today, and was tolerable in both cases. Nothing overly exceptional actually happened. After work on both days of the weekend I went to see my girlfriend and it was nice being able to spend more time with her. We watched some tv together and so forth, and got to the penultimate episode of Fullmetal Alchemist (I believe). It ended with an untimely death, so it's either the penultimate episode or the one before it. After the series ends next week I'll most likely lend my girlfriend, and thereby dad also, the Cowboy Bebop series simply because it rocks. Once I got home I did a lot to avoid reading law, but eventually got round to it. Instead of reading 90-ish pages I simply finisherd one of the two chapters I had to read, the first one. I still have 50 or so pages to read in the chapter on damages, but I'll be leaving that for a while. No doubt once I've caught up in the other subjects I'll go back and finish it as from this point on I intend to do my best to keep up to date with the reading. Tomorrow I only have a single hour of lecture, so I'll be spending a large amount of time reading law, and should hopefully either finish Frameworks or Contract, depending on which one I bother to read.

Unfortunately again I've not got round to watching anime, and wasn't able to easily grab updates as Tokyotosho was down. Well damn, looks like I won't bother till it's up then. Tomorrow if I manage to get free time at all (unlikely, though I may forgo reading law for a couple of hours anyway) I'll most likely watch the 18 episodes of anime that've piled up in the last week. It shouldn't take too long with any luck, since none seem to be .mkv encodes so it's all good. I do however still have the rest of the Burst Angel and Garasu no Kantai series to watch, and as they're both in .mkv I don't see myself watching those in the foreseeable future. Ah well eh? Naturally I've not had any time to play on my PSP either, so bah in general at that. Once I'm caught up in the textbooks I have to go back and start reading up on cases, so it'll probably be a while before I get much free time again, since as I catch up I also need to maintain an 'up to date' status.... Meh.

Till next time then.

A little late.

Sorry for the late post, I spent a great deal of today reading. I turned up to uni early as I had a tort seminar first thing. I'd actually done some reading for it, so it went rather well and I was able to participate a lot. Afterwards I had a four hour gap, so I spent an hour surfing the net and eating breakfast, then got down to reading. I spent two and a half damn hours of that tort text book and got through half of the ridiculously large chapter. The remaining half hour was spent grabbing a snack and heading to my tort lecture, which covered some of the seminar. Looks like the lectures are slightly behind. After the lecture ended, and it felt like it ended mercifully quickly, I was straight away off home. When I got back, can you guess what I did? Read more god damn tort. I spent another three hours or so finishing up the uber chapter of duty of care. Ironically when I finished it I realised I was ahead of the lecture by a couple of weeks. Hmm. I still have another two chapters in the book that I need to finish from previous weeks, so tomorrow and sunday once I get back home after being round my girlfriend's house I guess I'll do more reading. The plan is then to spend 1 pm till midnight on monday catching up in Frameworks and making a good start on contract. Then on tuesday in the hour gap I have between my contract and public law lectures I can read more contract, and in the subsequent three hour gap I should be able to finish catching up in contract if I hadn't managed it already. Then it's on to public law reading! Yeah, it sucks. Once I finally catch up for all the textbooks I need to go through all the lecture notes I have so far and list the important cases and start to read them. It's quite stressful, but at least I'm getting it done. I do realise I should've started this in week one rather than now at the end of week five, but meh.

Understandably I've not managed to watch any anime recently, and I have another big pile of it to watch. Since I'll be doing a lot of law reading on monday I may not exactly have the time to watch it, but I do hope to at least get some of it seen. Hell, it partially keeps me going. That and breathing. Food too. I'll definitely be watching Bleach after this, even though it's late, purely so I can burn another batch to DVD. At any rate tomorrow at work I'll start wearing the new uniform, though thankfully I'm going in early so I'll be able to change the large shirts they gave me to medium. As I seem to be losing weight slowly but constantly I'm now a medium shirt size. That's interesting. I have a few more PSP games, and I've not had the time to try them all which is a shame. When I get a 4 GB memory card for my PSP no doubt I'll end up playing 'a few' of them, heh. I also managed to update the forum today and get another level in Urban Dead, even though I didn't really have much spare time. I simply had to take breaks to keep my sanity. In Urban Dead I only need one more skill and I'll have all the 'live' ones. Then I just need to rack up another 2,000 exp and die so I can get all the zombie skills at once. As it's getting late I'd better be off. Till next time.

Cold and tired.

Since I do happen to be cold and tired, this post is going to be incredibly brief. I just want to collapse and sleep.... This morning i went into uni early, got a little bit of research done, then had my frameworks seminar and lecture. The seminar went well, the lecture was boring, then I cam home. I proceeded to curl up in bed instead of get law reading done since I was bloody cold. Just before going round to my girlfriend's house I had a hot shower to warm up. It didn't really work. Thankfully at my girlfriend's place snuggling made me much warmer. Once I got back home in the late evening I was soon cold again and had to rely on a hot water bottle and the heat from my computer (which isn't much) to stay warm as I didn't really know how to put the heating on. My dad has since told me. I didn't get much tort reading done either. I have over 130 pages to read, at least four cases, and various notes. I read three or four pages, glanced at brief notes on the cases from my lecture, and ignored the other notes. At least I got answers to all the questions, and got a rather good quote for one of them. That (briefly) wraps everything up. Till next time.

Converts.

It was cold this morning. Since I didn't have a lecture till midday I went into Brighton to the little room above a clothing store which sells Magic the Gathering cards. I last went there yesterday and it was quite cool, and today I actually brought my rares. After trading in some stuff I walked away happily with some handy cards, which had some slivers in them admittedly, a deck box and a hundred card 'deck protector' sleeves. Considering the cards I got it was quite nice. Unfortunately I'd arrived in Brighton at 9 am, and the little room-store hadn't opened till 11 am. When I first got there I was slightly annoyed but went into a Starbucks and sat for an hour after having eaten a slice of cheesecake and simply read my frameworks law text book. I got through about a fifth of the reading as my mind kept getting distracted onto more interesting topics, such as the weather. Meh. After I got the cards and so forth it was back to uni for my actual lecture, and after that it was SWARM once more. Excellent stuff. It started out with Magic the Gathering, obviously, though as I'd brought my rares I ended up doing a series of trades and got several more nifty cards. One such trade, which the club president knew was in my favour, ended up with me getting his three Sliver Overlords. He figured since he wasn't using them, he may as well trade them. It was rather nice of him.

After MtG the zombies campaign started once more. Again it was pretty fun, and this time thanks to the club swap I had a guy from the hockey club joining the campaign, as well as one of the current gamer's friends turning up. There was a lot more explanation as an editor and photographer from (one of...?) the student magazine(s) turned up pretty much to record the experience, so I needed to explain how the whole gaming genre worked. Unfortunately they had to leave early, but I hope they enjoyed their time in the club. It'd be quite bad if they didn't, hmm. The campaign itself is going well, though the large group who were on the downs are progressively getting into deeper and deeper trouble. basically, three of the group are now zombies and actively hunting down a fourth member who woke up to find them homing in on him. Not a pleasant experience for the fourth guy no doubt, heh. The group who were in the Grapevine didn't do anything, and I felt sorry for the three people who had effectively got roped in to my Games Workshop mate's plan for a quarantine. It's quite safe, yes, but they've not really done anything for two weeks, and one of the most fun characters, the ex-Nam guy, is essentially being wasted. I'm going to break into that room of theirs next week for the other people's sake, to get them involved in the campaign.

Once I got home I naturally didn't have time to watch anime as I actually had to get the seminar task for tomorrow done. That didn't take too long but involved a fair amount of page flipping in my text book. Now I just have to update the forum and I can collapse and fall asleep. Hurrah. Till next time.