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I’m off to that small country called America a week tomorrow, visiting relatives in Kansas for the first time. The first time in Kansas mind, not the first time seeing the relatives. I’ve a feeling its going to be very strange, seeing them transplanted from surburban Harrogate-Yorkshire to Ottawa-Kansas, tornado alley. They have a storm cellar, I mean, yikes. So anyway, I get a train home on Thursday and I need to sort of some of that american money, and pack and buy shorts and suncream so I don’t burn like a muppet. All very boring things which you probably won’t care about in the slightest.

This will only be the second time in an aeroplane for me that I can remember (parents went to greece when i was ~1) so I’m looking forward to all the shenanigans, the waiting, the duty free, the waiting, the cancellation, etc.
I’ve no idea what to expect of Kansas though, everyone says its flat, and hot, and windy. I shall soon find out…

Fellow Edinburger and waterstones fave Charlie Stross finally gets married: Charlie’s Diary

So I did go out last night, contrary to the previous post. Good night aswell, ended up Opium. Which was cool as it was £1 a drink all night.

Saturday was a fun if extremely tiring day at work, we did nothing but watch the harry stocks and sell harry all day. Plus there was an absolute army of us, basically everyone was working. I started at 8am and it was pretty quiet until about 12 noon when the shiznit hit the fan. Five people at the front till and three at the back and we still had queues (and yes, we’re uber-fast). I’ll let alex provide the photos and details about the midnight opening shenningans (I’m not that kerazy). On saturday we sold out, more than a thousand in less than 24 hours, insane.

Yes, its the day after the summer soltice and hence my birthday (whoah, check out the bold). I must be some kinda hippy wild child, or maybe not. Anyhoo, it was another eventful day at work in the post-potter frenzy. Much comedy was had though with other colleagues who were all in kkkkerazy-giddy-kipper moods. After doing five days in a row my feet are killing, so much so that I actually soaked them in the bath tonight. I thought ‘soaking your feet’ was something old women did after going to the bingo or something, it was quite nice really. I really feel I should do something to celebrate tonight but I was at Kev’s fantastico cutty party last night so, hrm.

Colleague At Work : “What is you do at university again Olly?”

Me : “Computer Science *sigh* ”

Colleague : “Oh, hrm, I thought you did something more, erm, interesting…”

I think that was a compliment…

The extended exam celebrations have finally finished. With everyone finishing at different times we had multiple nights out as groups had their last exam. Last Friday has to be the Keraziest though, Kev invited me to the pub at about noon where we proceeded to drink the afternoon away in the sun. Then went back to Kev’s and drank more of his alcohol mountain and watched Challenge TV whilst drunk (highly amusing). We somehow went for lunch amongst all that which was comedy, what with kev almost dopping all his food and then forgetting we’d paid and then looking for our (non-existent) coats.
Native State was the agreed meeting point for the rest of the possee and we had lots of expensive drinks in there before moving on to Honeycomb. Which rocked, in fact for most of Saturday I still had the ringing in my ears from the massive drum’n’bass beats. Just remembered about Native State today and immediately checked my bank balance (ouch), bad places to buy rounds.

Started my full-time work shenanigans yesterday aswell and found that I’m working Wednesday-Sunday this week. Friday-Sunday being HARRY POTTER JUDGEMENT WEEKEND, that is going to be harsh. :/

Festival fever is also hotting up, with most of the programs being released this week. Should be a good summer 🙂

olly out.

Well, had my last 3rd year exam today, and it was the worst of the lot. Oh well. By my calculations I’m still above the 4th year threshold, which is nice. Went to the pub immediately and then bought cans and sat out in the sun, which was very pleasant. We’re in the process of going out again tonight, slowly.

Oh and on another note, our group for the System Design Project got 72% which was joint top in the year. Big up the Innovex krew!

Two to go, one this afternoon and one tomorrow morning. The end is in sight!

Three left, monday, tuesday and wednedsay morning. I can’t wait.

Just checking my referrer logs (all the sites that have linked to me) this morning and I see a link from the bbc’s scotblog page. It seems I was listed as a ‘tasty’ scottish blog. \o/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/webguide/scotblog/view.shtml?1054639675

Ben joins in the blogging shenanigans. It’s what all the cool kids are doing.

Well, it was bad, but not that bad. I am so tired now after getting up at 8am, it’s a shock to my system.

Warm, very warm. Too warm to sleep even. I’ve got a very nasty exam in about 9 hours that is going to be bad, very bad, my worst one infact. I just want to get it out of the way and not being able to sleep is not helping. gah

Nullsoft have developed a p2p app for small groups of people (10-50) that creates a network allowing file sharing, chat, searching etc. Seem quite cool stuff and its all ninja encrypted so no eavesdropping. Of course AOL/TimeWarner (their parent company) pulled the whole project two days after it went up. Can you guess why kids? Once something is on the net though its on the net:

mirror of the waste website 🙂