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cybermuleBlech - feel like shite :( I need even more sleep and I think I might be allergic to pasta, if such a thing is possible.
Anyhoo -
Fairly busy weekend - the two main highpoints were celebrating my bro's birthday. Despite having to clean my mum's place up (*rolls eyes*, we still had a good evening watching THe Untouchables and X-Men. Didn't notice until now that Xavier is played by the same guy that played Sejanus in I Claudius (a veritable breeding ground of quality actors :)). The films were both quite good (OK, I'll be honest, X-Men definitely didn't bear a second watch, and I fell asleep!) and the curry was damn fine!
Sunday was nearly a total washout - I didn't realise Big Fish would be so popular, so turning up 10 minutes after the start of the afternoon showing was a mistake! However, it did give me chance to get tickets for the next showing and buy a couple of t-shirts for work. And I got them from ASDA for less than £2 each, so I am now the queen of uncool. Nyah! :p I hate buying clothes for work, especially as there's an enforcedly higher turnover than my everyday clothes (I still have clothes from when I was 14, and I'm proud of it!)
Big Fish was rather ace, but I'll leave the review until tomorrow, as someone has bought me a ticket for tonight too :) (Get out of the work pub-quiz - YAY!).
Monday was the first day of my Old English course at Bristol Uni. I was already rather nervous as I've never done an arts course, and arriving 5 minutes late to find the old(er) ladies in full-flow of translation was off-putting. It was just like being at Uni the first time around - I was strung out, I'd done no work, and I didn't know where I was supposed to be. Decided that I didn't like the old ladies (loud, rude), and finally found my feet and showed off a little :) Also decided that social workers are almost exclusively scary after having a long debate with one of the guys on my course regarding whether I was going to eat when I wasn't hungry. I always get the impression that they're personality-typing and psychologically assessing me :) Oh - and one of the girls in my seminar is breathtakingly gorgeous, so that provides eye-candy in the duller moments :)
Anyhoo - the short summary is that I eventually felt that I liked the course* . And that I ate sushi for lunch :)
* More and more I come to the conclusion that this is the main definition of the "Feeling" MBTI type - that we make our judgements based upon a transitory and personal impression. So first I hated the OE course, then, even though nothing had changed, I liked it. Whereas "Thinkers" tend to be more logical and constant. For me it's mostly stress-related - I don't deal too well with new environments and (forced ;)) sensory overload, so I tend to react with my heart rather than my head, I think. Would my MBTI result be different if I'd never taken the test before and I did it now? (note: INTJ/INFJ/ISFP have all come up as results at various points.)
Anyhoo -
Fairly busy weekend - the two main highpoints were celebrating my bro's birthday. Despite having to clean my mum's place up (*rolls eyes*, we still had a good evening watching THe Untouchables and X-Men. Didn't notice until now that Xavier is played by the same guy that played Sejanus in I Claudius (a veritable breeding ground of quality actors :)). The films were both quite good (OK, I'll be honest, X-Men definitely didn't bear a second watch, and I fell asleep!) and the curry was damn fine!
Sunday was nearly a total washout - I didn't realise Big Fish would be so popular, so turning up 10 minutes after the start of the afternoon showing was a mistake! However, it did give me chance to get tickets for the next showing and buy a couple of t-shirts for work. And I got them from ASDA for less than £2 each, so I am now the queen of uncool. Nyah! :p I hate buying clothes for work, especially as there's an enforcedly higher turnover than my everyday clothes (I still have clothes from when I was 14, and I'm proud of it!)
Big Fish was rather ace, but I'll leave the review until tomorrow, as someone has bought me a ticket for tonight too :) (Get out of the work pub-quiz - YAY!).
Monday was the first day of my Old English course at Bristol Uni. I was already rather nervous as I've never done an arts course, and arriving 5 minutes late to find the old(er) ladies in full-flow of translation was off-putting. It was just like being at Uni the first time around - I was strung out, I'd done no work, and I didn't know where I was supposed to be. Decided that I didn't like the old ladies (loud, rude), and finally found my feet and showed off a little :) Also decided that social workers are almost exclusively scary after having a long debate with one of the guys on my course regarding whether I was going to eat when I wasn't hungry. I always get the impression that they're personality-typing and psychologically assessing me :) Oh - and one of the girls in my seminar is breathtakingly gorgeous, so that provides eye-candy in the duller moments :)
Anyhoo - the short summary is that I eventually felt that I liked the course* . And that I ate sushi for lunch :)
* More and more I come to the conclusion that this is the main definition of the "Feeling" MBTI type - that we make our judgements based upon a transitory and personal impression. So first I hated the OE course, then, even though nothing had changed, I liked it. Whereas "Thinkers" tend to be more logical and constant. For me it's mostly stress-related - I don't deal too well with new environments and (forced ;)) sensory overload, so I tend to react with my heart rather than my head, I think. Would my MBTI result be different if I'd never taken the test before and I did it now? (note: INTJ/INFJ/ISFP have all come up as results at various points.)
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:59 am (UTC)Either that or you come visit us over here, then you can drag me back yourself. Actually I've learned to do okay with flying (Aisle seat please though), just not enough to be willing to take that long of a flight alone. I was starting to get nervous after 2.5 hours in the air last time I flew.
The other thing is I'm poor! I'd have to use my income tax return for it, and that means putting off some of the remodeling and not buying my new recliner!
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Date: 2004-02-06 06:19 am (UTC)Heheh - OK :D Sounds like a plan. We have to have opposing aisle seats though, cos I get mildly claustrophobic. But I don't mind planes too much, even though I don't actually enjoy them. But like you, I'm poor and already possibly overcommitted on holiday plans this year, so maybe in 2005...
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Date: 2004-02-06 07:22 am (UTC)And yet I love to go rock jumping, don't even mind hoping over gaps that are 50-100 feet deep... I am weird...
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Date: 2004-02-07 03:55 pm (UTC)