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Well, results are in… sort of. I got a 2:1 — but there is the possibility of a first. The reason is, the comp sci department seem to have screwed up my final year project mark. Apparently I got 10.1% for it… I can’t believe that I would get such a low mark for something I put such a lot of work into! So I’ve emailed them and hopefully if it is a mistake, it will be rectified shortly.

But if it isn’t (or I still don’t get a first), a 2:1 is something which I would be more than happy with! Well, that’s virtually another chapter of my life over, just to graduate now.

Still no news on the job front, I’m going to go in and hassle the agency tomorrow…

Well, my board of examiners met yesterday, so the results should be out today. I just checked online, but apparently they’re not available yet. I’ll check again later… this is quite nerve-wracking, just waiting for the results to become available! I haven’t really been worried about it until the past couple of days, I just want to check it and not have to wait! What makes it worse is that most of my friends have already got their results, because for some reason the computer science department is the last one… doh!

Ah well. Not long now, hopefully…

I’d like to apologise for the dodgy link I posted a couple of days ago to NationStates. If you’d clicked on it, it would have taken you to some place holding advertising site or something.

The real nation states URL is www.nationstates.net (not .com!). The sites appears to be moving hosts at the moment, but the URL should remain the same.

Albeit not particularly exciting news for anyone except maybe myself, but there you go.

Firstly, I received an email today from the company I had an interview with in Chelmsford, saying that I hadn’t got the job (but they’ll keep my details on file in case another vacancy comes up). So I’ll probably never hear from them again.

However, I did go into town (I’m currently writing this on one of the library computers), and signed up with an employment agency. They said they’ve got a similar vacancy with a company in Framlingham, so I have to email them my CV. It’s all good 🙂

Um, yes. And we should be getting broadband next week, yay! And also yay – I’m going down to London this weekend to see Philippa. At least, I’m planning to, I haven’t got the tickets yet but I will do. Um, and that’s about it for now I think.

See you soon… (well, I won’t see you, and you won’t see me, but you’ll read it here first. That makes no sense whatsoever, Mur Ha HA HAA!!!).

Check out Nation States. It’s basically an online game where you make decisions on issues that affect your country (you start a country when you sign up). It doesn’t take too long, and it’s quite interesting! Check it out.

If you do, then join ‘Gorgan Central’ — contact me if you want the password (send a telegram on the site or something — my nation is Wivstock 😉

Nope, I haven’t done anything particularly exciting since I last post. Such is my life at home! You’d better get used to it, because it’s permanent now 😉 I might have to actually think of some interesting things to say here, that would just be terrible!

Anyway. I went up to London yesterday for my Aunt’s funeral. It was a ‘good’ funeral, which seems like a bit of an oxymoron but I think people found it helpful! At the crematorium, they played ‘Always on my mind’ by Elvis, which really choked people up. The words are very poignant!

Um, but yes. Still no sign of work, still nothing back from the company I went for interview with in Chelmsford. I think on Monday I’m going to have to sign up with some agencies! I didn’t really want to do any agency work, but I think I’m going to have to until I get a proper job.

I think that’s all I have to say for now. Laters…

Well, sort of. I took half of my stuff home yesterday, and that’s all safely at home now. I currently have the rest of my stuff in the car on campus, I’m sitting in a computer lab. I came back just to pick up the stuff and do a bit of cleaning, which is now done. I’ve left my keys in the house as well, so I won’t be able to go back there for a while! :-O!

So, hopefully the stuff isn’t being stolen as I write this, if it is you’ll know soon enough!

It feels strange to have finished, but as I’ve gone out about that for a while, I think I’ll just leave that for the moment. I’ll tell you what — I’ll post something here when it stops feeling strange, how about that? 😉

Anyway. I wanted to write about ‘Henmania’ (as the tabloids have dubbed it). Why is it that the British public (or the English public) are so masochistic? I mean, what has Tim Henman ever done to merit the waves of English / British people cheering him on? It’s ridiculous, it really is!

He always gets up to the quarter- or semi-finals and then loses. He’s pretty much done that every year so far — and yet, people think that this year is somehow going to be different? I was watching the game today, and I was actually hoping that Henman would go out in the first round. At least that would mean no more Henmania (until next year, unless he retires or something). But luck was not on my side, he’s still in the tournament.

Come on Tim — do us all a favour and win the damn tournament, then maybe we can relax…

…living at number 39! That’s a scary thought! So, what did I get up to on my last day here? Not much really. Basically just packing. Went out for a walk a couple of times (well, three if you include the time I went out and it started raining – perfect timing!). Um, and that’s about it really. I watched ‘Booze Cruise’ this evening, and that was pretty good 🙂

My next blog will probably be from home (as the broadband connection gets deactivated here tomorrow), so — until then, happy hunting!

I’ll see you at the beach. Or something…

This is a strange feeling. Although I haven’t graduated yet, I’m not a student anymore. What brought this home to me? The fact that almost everyone has left now. Suzi and Ash left a while ago, Alex left today. Phil P is away somewhere, as well as Sarah. This means that I’m alone in the house… it’s not so much the being alone that gets me, it’s the whole “not coming back” thing. Alex will be coming back after the summer, but I’m not going to be… I can’t get used to that at the moment. Me not coming back, that is – I’m fine with Alex coming back 😉

Also, Philippa went home today as well. I met up with her and her parents and we went to the Tudor tea rooms in Wivenhoe to have lunch. That was very nice, it was a good time! But after that, she went home. Again, it’s a strange sensation — I don’t know when I’m going to be seeing her again! Well, at least, I have a rough idea but it’s all a bit up in the air at the moment.

I think the worst thing is, I just can’t get used to the idea that I’m going home only for the summer… I keep thinking that I’ll do things “over the summer”, but then I realise that I’ll hopefully have a job then which will go on after the summer. After the start of the academic year, and so on. That is again something strange.

Ah well. At least I do have one thing that remains constant: God. I can at least rely upon Him to be there, even if everybody is at home over the summer! And it’s not all bad. Whilst I do feel that one chapter of my life has ended, another is starting (just perhaps not quite started yet!).

Anyway, I think I’d better wrap up now before I bore you completely to death. Later…

We went to Cambridge on Wednesday. It was pretty good! Philippa and I got there about lunchtime, and went to a Wetherspoons pub to have some lunch with Rich and a friend of his, and Kim (one of Philippa’s friends from her Cambridge days).

Then we went to Cafe Nero and met up with Fran and Diana (more of Philippa’s Cambridge friends) for an hour or so, and then we went to Newnham (which was Philippa’s college) until we had to leave.

It was a good day, albeit very hot and with a very high pollen count! Yesterday we spent some of the day cleaning the house, and then in the evening me, Phil P, Alex and Kevvy B went to the Playhouse to watch the football (yay England!) and have a curry and a pint. Alex decided to go for a chicken phaal, which is apparently the “hottest of the hot.” It was very hot, I had some of the sauce and had to take a long drink afterwards!

Anyway. I think that’s just about it for now… I have some photos to put up here; I’m going to scan them in now so hopefully they should be up later today.

All for now!