Busy. Still Alive.

Have an 8 week project I'm working on. It's for a hooooooooge company. Only been there four days. Feel a bit overwhelmed at the mo. I suppose it's because I keep being introduced as the person who is going to sort out their database *meep* *>.<* *full of the fearz*

It's hard enough just trying to remember who is who at the moment and get a feel for what the whole organisation is about, let alone figure out how all their processes go when information is sketchy, limited and here, there and everywhere and I'm not 100% sure who to ask what or even who is who lol Now I have reached the weekend in one piece I can hopefully get my head together and get a plan of action for Monday.

Found that by the time I cycle home, have a bath, make food, get my clothes ready for the next day, get lunch for next day made, washing put in and washing up done for the next day, it's just about time to go to bed already. I really needs my sleeps. I can't go to bed late and function as a real live human being the next day without it.

So I'm panicking as it doesn't leave me much time to read my HR book which I need to read all of by September. And I haven't had much time to search for and download any more journals let alone read the ones I have. I got up an hour early for work and sat by the duck pond with a coffee and managed to read and write some notes to just under half a journal. Looks like this, and keeping my Saturday as a day off (to keep me sane) and Sunday as my study day, is the only way I'm going to be able to do it.

Been walking and cycling about listening to my chinese stuffs. I'm registred for the beginners Chinese unit already but I want to make sure I can definetely pick it up. If I get to September and I am not progressing with it I will probably change over to the strategic management unit. But I hope it doesn't come to that. I'm determined to get this stuff to stick in my head. It would be nice to be conversant in at least one other language. I always wanted to learn Japanese, mainly because when I was Shotokan obsessed, I wanted to go and train there, but it makes more sense that if I'm going to learn a language it might as well be the one that most other people on the planet speaks, not to mention it will be handy in business :D

Anyway, I don't know why I am spending the one day of the week I get to myself waffling on here when no one's listening anyways :D I has wines and silly brain game to play. Back to enjoying my day of nothing while I still has some of it left :)

In a stupid nose scratching attempt whilst wearing leather gloves, I managed to hook out and ping my last surviving nose stud into the air whilst walking into the city yesterday. Thankfully Beaujangles did sparkly ones for only a squid each so I lost one and came back home with two sparkly new ones :D squee!

I just checked out my booklist for next semester at uni and was shocked to find that one book for Database design is £47, on Amazon with the cheapest copy of it being £31 *meep*

But I wasted a stupid amount of time last year filling in occasional surveys online for points and thankfully it wasn't all in vain because I can now get those points transferred into Amazon vouchers. It's such a relief because now I don't feel as if I have to spend an obscene amount of money on a book I might only use for three months. It almost feels like a freebie Squeee! :D

Right now have to go order my book and get back to doing a seriously huge amount of nothingness :D

Yes, yes, yes, yes YES!!!

I love Karma. Who needs (such a nasty but satisfying concept such as) revenge when you have karma. *hugs karma*

A message on the Elliots website, the estate agents that I used to work for. Well, I did until one of their directors saw the colour of my hair and got me sacked.

"Due to market conditions, Elliots have ceased trading and therefore like to thank all their past clients. All enquiries should now be made to William H Brown on 01603 760044. Thank you"

I was so happy when I saw their premesis empty I could have bounced in the middle of the street.

I'n not a spiritual person but it's hard not to believe in karma when it so often weaves it's beautiful form of justice right under my nose.



http://www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/nem.html

I have to post this as if I don't get it out of my system I will explode into a little ball of fiery wrath.  This is the type of moment when I realise that despite being part of the human race, I could potentially be capable of so much treacherous and torturous evil to another human being. 

....after reading this thread:

http://www.norwichdarkside.co.uk/ftopict-12935-45.html


Right!  I'm going to have to go for a walk to get rid of the bubbling revengeful temper I am feeling so I can stop imagining what it would be like to skin him alive and pour salt over him like the slug* that he is.  I am trying really hard not to go and tell him that I would like to feed ricin cakes to any mini slobdogs he might have now or in the future.  In fact I hope he inhales the poison and any children that he spawns pop out with tails and an ability to only talk in what sounds like a miaow. ....or failing that, just retarded would do.  Some people are just a waste of DNA.  He would be more useful to society if someone ground up his worthless hide and donated it for pet food.

Now !  Off to the shop before I can imagine some other nasty way of finishing him off.
If I was a real dragon.  He would be a human kebab on a spine stick by now...... grrrr grrrr grrrrr grrrrrr *snorts little pink flame*

When I take over the world, he is the first to hit the fan.  Literally.  A big sharp one.

*Many apologies to real slugs everywhere.

Oh well, I don't suppose it would come to a surprise to my mum since the day I crazed her to buy me the sound track to Star Wars, buried my dolls in the garden, had an childhood obsession with dinosaurs and turned the dolls house she bought me on it's side and used it as a garage for my toy cars xD

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 Two years to gooooooooooooooo.

I can has passed my first year of my degree.  Yay.   No resits for me.  *sings* I'm a clever buuuunny, I'm a clever buuuuny *does the clever bunny dance*

The blokeys fixing my boiler actually said "We might have your heating up and running by the weekend". But it's going to snow *meep* :(

Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein, Pi and me :D

I am 12.10pi years old!
(12.096305506171 to be more exact) heheheheh

or also 3.85pi^2, 4.45e*pi, 7.48phi*pi, ...

http://toys.jtey.com/pidays/
http://www.piday.org/

xD

Meh! I can has the lurgy and am not happy about it *sniffle* Admittedly it is my fault. I said to my aunt yesterday. "I shouldn't really say this, but I haven't been ill at all for aaages" And TAAA DAAAAAAA the very next day...not in the next few days...No, the very next day, I get bloody ill. Sometimes I could be convinced that someone is up there looking down pissing them selves laughing at my misadventures.

I've spent most of today curled up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't get comfy whatever I did cos all down my neck and shoulders hurt as well as my glands, ears, throat and nose :( I drifted in and out of sleep most of the day with Sex And The City inbetween. I couldn't eat anything until about 2.30 because swallowing anything was so painful :( I'm dreading going to sleep because it's when I wake up again that my throat is at it's worst and my head feels like someone has riverdanced through it.

Yesterday was ooblycool. As I joined the moutain biking club at uni, I hooked up with them to go to the Thetford trails at High Lodge yesterday. It was scary as. We did the Black run this time, which I haven't done before including doing the "Beast" section twice. That was scary. I was going to put a video link of people doing it but you can't tell from the bikecams just how scary it is to ride, with sudden drops, sharp turns, holes and steps and trees coming at you, the vids online just don't do it justice at all.

The video seems to flatten it out. Plus whoever took that video did it when it was nice and dry and not consisting of small ankle sucking swamps of doom. My adreneline levels must have been through the roof. I spent most of my time thinking...omg I'm going to hit a tree, I'm going to slide off in the mud and I'm going to headbutt a tree.

At the start of the Black route is a Bombhole called Madgett's Pit. One of the MTB group guys, Ryan, was showing us how to do it. Unfortunately I rode down and up the other side of the hole to find Ryan sitting on the floor with blood pouring (and I don't mean dripping, I mean "tap like" pouring) out of his nose >.< He had landed wrong and gone over his handlebars *meep* Luckily he hadn't broken it or anything and carried on once the blood had stopped but it shook me up and made me ride with a little more care for the rest of the day >.<

I was starting to feel sick towards the end of the day. I haven't exercised that hard in years. We cycled round the Black and a short part of the Red route for a solid three hours. It was fun but I was sooo relieved when we called it a day. We went to bed early last night and still slept for eleven hours but it was well needed.

Ok. What the hell is going on? Has someone hit me with an invisible lucky stick.

I won tickets to the cinema to see Hitman in the uni magazine Concrete a couple of Fridays ago, I won a bottle of wine in the Children In Need raffle at work and I just checked my email and I've won a years supply of whiskey that will be sent to me at three montly intervals. :o I wish I liked whiskey. heheheheheh

I never buy lottery tickets but I am suddenly very tempted to go buy one this weekend :D

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Sorry but I can't resist a smugly "go me" for my first marked piece of work at uni. My essay I did under exam conditions, that I thought had been a pile of waffle, got me a borderline First. Well at least it would have done if the marks for this year counted for anything heheheh

Anyway, when I get my business info coursework back that, I have undoubtedly failed, I will ignore it and look at my 'puting essay instead to make myself feel better :D

Been given stuff to do for accouting over christmas Gah!! Two 3000 word essays to research and write, accounting stuffs, and organisational behaviour online test :/ *meep*

Awwwww it was my last day at work yesterday. I thought my last day was Thursday because my manager had said my last day would be the 6th but she meant the Friday.

Part of me is really glad to have the time free now because I just can't fit in studying full time (well I am supposed to be :( but just haven't had time to), working part time, preventing the house looking like a batchelor pad AND trying to fit in the research for my essays that I have to write over christmas. However I was a little sad. Everyone there is so nice. The atmosphere is really laid back and there is no pressure. I know there wouldn't be for me anyhoo as I was the temp but the overall atmosphere was really great there and the people were great.

My manager got everyone together and I thought she was about to ask me to man the phones while the team had a meeting but she thanked me for the work I had done in front of everyone. I felt all silly >.< and tried (very unsuccesfully) to hide behind the card I was handed. It was full of comments from everyone in my team which was really sweet.
My manager said "A very big thank you for your support to the team. You have made a difference to our work. Hope all goes well with your assignments". Awwwwwww. Made me go all warm and fuzzy.

Rebekah had tried to buy me chocolate elves from the shop (she pushed me into an Elf habit) but there was an Elf famine in the building *sniffle* I must find out where they are sold out here in the world before I start going cold turkey. She told me during the week that she would miss me as she likes having me to talk to and the new, full time person, might not be as nice. awwwwwwww *insert another warm and fuzzy moment*

Just before I left, at the end of the Friday, my manager told me to keep in touch because there are times when they are short staffed, when people are away on holiday, and they would like me to help out again if I am free. Coolio :D

Right. I don't have time to do this..but If I don't take 5 soon my laptop is likely to become the most expensive single-use frisbie in the history of leisure toys.

We have to use a program at uni called PostgreSQL for our database work. I'm sure it works like a hooker who has just been offered a million pounds for a blow job, if you are using the program on campus. But if you try to get it to work at home it's like offering her 50p and seeing what you get. (That's not including the ones in Norwich because you might get a quickie for 50p - beggers can't be choosers xD).

Setting the stupid thing up has been a royal pain in the arse. I started trying to work on this at about midday and it's now after 4pm and I've done not much other than get the stupid servlet to finally display my table after many council-estate rantings of annoyance. The air is so blue in this room I have the fire on full just to stop the oxygen in the air from solidifying and suffocating us. The sql files for uni were set up with a different username and password to the one I have on my laptop so it wouldn't work. Then when they were synchronised, the username and password on my laptop didn't have the priviledges that would allow it to access the damned database without changing it to a superuser.

I'm sure I spend more time trying to get the software to work than I do getting any of the damned work done. No wonder I still don't know anything useful >.<

Working 24/7 stopping for just sleep and food inbetween is no fun :(

Does anyone want to go to The Hitman movie dressed as hitmen and women? I need some time off to look forward to or I think I will loose what few marbles I have left.

This transmission is coming direct from the new shinys.
I am an uber-stressed but, at the moment, happily distracted, bunny.

:D

Is anyone going carolling this christmas. I want to gatecrash and sing christmas carols out of sheer nostalgia and fun's sake but I don't want to go alone in case the scary religious people sense my atheism (which will shine like an angel's clean washing when they spot I'm not wearing any M&S) and try to convert me with their free tea and biscuits.

Probably a really stupid question to those in the know but it's making my brain dribble out of my ears and if I have to type in one more slight variation hoping it will work I am going to scream...

Does anybody know how you link a css file to a servlet?

I think Mr Benn should be made into a movie or at least a play. And if it happens just remember you heard it here first kids.

I can't believe it isn't already. Guy goes into a shop tries on a cowboy outfit, walks out of the fitting room *shhhhpprrrriiinnnngggg* he's in the middle of a Village People video. Yeah, ok, I know a very feeble effort was made in Quantum Leap but Sam Beckett never got to go home and he never got to keep his costume when the magic shop keeper appeared.

Never mind about the umpteenth version of Saw or the potentially squillionth part to Harry Potter and the zimmerframes of doom.

Mr Ben is untapped movie potential. You know you wants it.



Oh and you know your brain is fried when you get to the point where you are highly amused and entertained by trying to balance a bottle of Tipex on the side of a Bic pen. And I could do it as well until I started giggling. Go do it now, it's very satisfying in an oooooooooo and aaaaaaaaah kind of way when you get it to defy gravity :D

As an anti-rant. I've just made my first drop down menu form and submit form in HTML and CSS. Not very impressive to those in upper geekdom for whom it takes mere minutes rather than hours to put together but to me it's squeeable :D

....and it validates and everything *exuding smugness* Now I can start panicking about the servlets :/