I decided I would have an early night last night, and what could be earlier than the past? So I didn't go to bed. I had a lie down and closed my eyes but then after about 5 minutes of rest I got up and had a shower. Faulty logic aside, I'll be quite tired when it's a reasonable time to go to bed tonight after the England-Germany game and then I should be in more of a usual sleeping pattern for at least two days. I'm quite tired now so I don't know if that made sense and currently my attention span isn't long enough for me to reread it and check.
I have a rash on my forehead from being away from Liz for too long. It will surely only get worse over the next month.
I've just spent about 5 minutes watching my thumb nails go white and pink as I alternate the amount of pressure on them from the other nail. And people asked me how I was going to stop myself from going insane all alone in the flat for a week.
I didn't get much done on Oblivion last night because for some strange reason my health wouldn't recover past 70% of its total and I couldn't find a way to fix it other than go back to a previous save. I have been writing a journal from the point of view of my character while I've been playing the game so it was a good job I didn't write an entry since before the save I went back to.
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Friday, 25 June 2010
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
I know what you did in the car park.
It's day something-or-other on my own at university without Elizabeth. I miss her quite a lot. I'm so used to her being here. It's like when you always wear a watch - if you ever don't have it on you still look at your wrist to check the time, even if you know you haven't got it on; it's just a force of habit. This is similar to what it's like with Elizabeth. Without her next to me all day I feel lost. I don't know what time it is any more. I need her to tell me when it's time for food and when it's time for bed. When it's time to go for a walk outside in the fresh air. When it's about time I stop playing computer games and have a rest from the world behind the display.
Unfortunately, without Elizabeth here in the room, that world behind the screen is infinitely more interesting than Lancaster. It's brutal and I die quite a lot thanks to the realism mods, the levelling mods and the overhaul mod I have running in conjunction with each other. Nonetheless, I can cast fireballs and shoot arrows in roughly the desired direction. I can cloak myself in a shroud that makes light pass through me so I can only be seen by the ripples my body causes in the air, much like the blurry effect heat rising from the hot road has in summer. I can brew potions and poisons with the ingredients I find in the fields and caves.
What I can't do is get to bed at a reasonable hour. But maybe this is a good thing at the moment. This week at university sees the biggest raves since freshers week, in the form of the Extravs. Furness had theirs tonight and we could here the pounding rhythm of the bass all the way over in our Fylde kitchen. Granted, Fylde and Furness are neighbouring colleges, but Furness bar is still a significant distance away from our accommodation.
The Extravs have brought AJ back to the flat this afternoon, so now I'm not the only person here. He and Scott had plenty of stories to tell Dennis and I about their escapades in Spain over the last week or so. Not one of them is suitable for me to retell here. All of them were so outrageous that we'd have called B/S if Scott hadn't been there to confirm AJ's tales. A voice in the corridor might also suggest the return of Sam. At 1am, that conclusion seems silly, although I'll only know for sure in the morning. Or at least some point tomorrow.
My alarms are set for me to wake up, eat, eat, eat and eat for the next few days. It's no replacement for my beautiful girlfriend but it'll have to do.
Unfortunately, without Elizabeth here in the room, that world behind the screen is infinitely more interesting than Lancaster. It's brutal and I die quite a lot thanks to the realism mods, the levelling mods and the overhaul mod I have running in conjunction with each other. Nonetheless, I can cast fireballs and shoot arrows in roughly the desired direction. I can cloak myself in a shroud that makes light pass through me so I can only be seen by the ripples my body causes in the air, much like the blurry effect heat rising from the hot road has in summer. I can brew potions and poisons with the ingredients I find in the fields and caves.
What I can't do is get to bed at a reasonable hour. But maybe this is a good thing at the moment. This week at university sees the biggest raves since freshers week, in the form of the Extravs. Furness had theirs tonight and we could here the pounding rhythm of the bass all the way over in our Fylde kitchen. Granted, Fylde and Furness are neighbouring colleges, but Furness bar is still a significant distance away from our accommodation.
The Extravs have brought AJ back to the flat this afternoon, so now I'm not the only person here. He and Scott had plenty of stories to tell Dennis and I about their escapades in Spain over the last week or so. Not one of them is suitable for me to retell here. All of them were so outrageous that we'd have called B/S if Scott hadn't been there to confirm AJ's tales. A voice in the corridor might also suggest the return of Sam. At 1am, that conclusion seems silly, although I'll only know for sure in the morning. Or at least some point tomorrow.
My alarms are set for me to wake up, eat, eat, eat and eat for the next few days. It's no replacement for my beautiful girlfriend but it'll have to do.
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Best. Film. Ever.
After a long night of installing mods for Oblivion and hoping they don't break it (so far so good) I finally crawled into bed about an hour after the sun had risen.
When I awoke I found both Mass Effect games to be on offer on Steam with massive discounts. If you're reading this before tomorrow then you can get the first game for a measly £3.24! That's rather amazing. It's a brilliant game too, worth every penny of it's full price. I'd be so tempted to get it if only my laptop could run the sequel. As it is, although my CPU is good enough to run the game, it would sport unplayable amounts of lag. Definitely not worth the hassle when I can just get it on the 360 while I'm home over summer.
When I awoke I found both Mass Effect games to be on offer on Steam with massive discounts. If you're reading this before tomorrow then you can get the first game for a measly £3.24! That's rather amazing. It's a brilliant game too, worth every penny of it's full price. I'd be so tempted to get it if only my laptop could run the sequel. As it is, although my CPU is good enough to run the game, it would sport unplayable amounts of lag. Definitely not worth the hassle when I can just get it on the 360 while I'm home over summer.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Better late than never.
The last of the summer exams finished days ago and now the exam season seems like a distant memory. I did a massive amount of revision for my maths but I didn't leave the Great Hall feeling massively confident on many occasions. There's nothing I can do about it now though so there's no point worrying about it.
I did say I'd get back to blogging after the last exam on Wednesday but as my beautiful Elizabeth only had a few days left before leaving campus to go and begin her busy summer holiday, I decided to spend as much time with her as I could. Now that she's gone, however, I have nothing left to do apart from sit at my laptop for two weeks until I go home. Hopefully I'll get some creativity back into my writing in that time. It'll be nice to be more unrestricted in what I'm doing when I've been almost mindlessly running through specific algorithms for so long to find answers to standard (at least standard for university level) maths questions.
While I'm being creative I'll have a good opportunity to play some computer games that I was oh so eager to play instead of doing revision. I'm proud to say that I didn't even do one quest until my exams were over though, and other than playing a lot more chess than usual (because it's a quick game that promotes forward thinking and interpreting situations and is therefore nearly as good as revision) I avoided playing much at all. I think I'll be an Arch Mage when I get back to Garswood.
I did say I'd get back to blogging after the last exam on Wednesday but as my beautiful Elizabeth only had a few days left before leaving campus to go and begin her busy summer holiday, I decided to spend as much time with her as I could. Now that she's gone, however, I have nothing left to do apart from sit at my laptop for two weeks until I go home. Hopefully I'll get some creativity back into my writing in that time. It'll be nice to be more unrestricted in what I'm doing when I've been almost mindlessly running through specific algorithms for so long to find answers to standard (at least standard for university level) maths questions.
While I'm being creative I'll have a good opportunity to play some computer games that I was oh so eager to play instead of doing revision. I'm proud to say that I didn't even do one quest until my exams were over though, and other than playing a lot more chess than usual (because it's a quick game that promotes forward thinking and interpreting situations and is therefore nearly as good as revision) I avoided playing much at all. I think I'll be an Arch Mage when I get back to Garswood.
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Tea Time.
This is what I had for tea the night before my first important exam.
Have you missed me? I'll be back from my unannounced absence next Wednesday when my exams are finally over.
Brain food.
Have you missed me? I'll be back from my unannounced absence next Wednesday when my exams are finally over.
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