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Hehe, I’ve just found a random Daily Mail Headline Generator. It’s cruel, but it’s much fun to do 🙂

I’m currently sitting in csclab5, feeling rather bored. So I thought I’d update here… anyway. Monday night was pretty good actually! I enjoyed it, especially Greg’s set towards the end of my time there at least. Tuesday… went onto campus for my meeting at 9:00 in the morning, then had a bar breakfast with Philippa and Alex, then basically spent until 5:30 in the lab or in lectures / classes. That was actually quite a productive day! Then I went to Sizzlers for dinner, then CU, and then the bar before heading home. Bob Fuller was really good at CU… one thing he said that particularly stuck in my mind was the cycle of “Acceptance – Sustenance – Significance – Achievement.” Most people live their lives with that circle the wrong way round, at least partially. They think, if I achieve, then I will have significance, which will sustain me, which will lead me to be accepted. God says, “I accept you for who you are, no matter what”, which will sustain us, which will give us significance, which will enable us to achieve. It’s certainly something to bear in mind!

Yesterday was good too. I went onto campus for my 12:00 Final Year Project lecture, and then spent a couple of hours in the lab before heading down to the chaplaincy for CU committee meeting. It only lasted for an hour, which I was highly impressed about! Considering that last week’s lasted for the whole two hours… Anyway. Then I hung around for a bit, met up with Philippa and went to SX Express, then we headed to Paul’s house for Fusion. I think the meeting went really well. We were looking at the second half of James 1, and speaking for myself I know that it really challenged me. The difference between hearing and doing the word… it’s all very well to go to CU, to go to Fusion etc, but if our lives don’t change one bit then it’s all in vain.

After Fusion, Philippa came round and we spent the rest of the evening together. Today, I came onto campus for my 12:00 Formal Methods lecture, then I briefly went down to the chaplaincy before going to a computer lab to work on my project. I’m quite pleased with the way that my project is coming along, although having said that time is rapidly marching along! I’ve just had a couple of hours of lectures, and in a few minutes I’m going to meet up with Philippa and Alex and Welsh Phil in Mondo or something. Then theology seminar, and then home — have some dinner, and perhaps work on a piece of music that I’m composing. It’s all good 🙂

That’s it for now, I will update next time I feel like it…

I hope that you are well. I am well, but just a little depressed. I had a CC362 Mobile Robots lab this afternoon (2-4), and it just served to remind me of how much I hate Saphira and the Pioneer robots. They are stupid. I hate programming in C, I hate those robots, I hate this course, and in general this university. Couple that with the fact that I’ve just spent the past hour doing some (not very successful) research on Java, and it won’t take a rocket scientist to realise that I am not in the most positive of moods today!

Still. Yesterday was good. I went to Fordham in the morning (as per usual). It was a good service, apart from the fact that the church was so incredibly cold! The heating wouldn’t turn on until about half-way through the sermon, so we had to just sit there and huddle down into our coats. Anyway, afterwards I came home and had some lunch, and then did an hour’s show on DJ Source Radio. That went quite well apart from difficulty with levels and my computer crashing half-way through!

Afterwards, I prepared my fusion group. In the evening, I went to the quiz in the SU Bar with Alex, Anne-Marie and Paul, and quite a few other random people came as well (Gemma, Matthew, Toyen, Chris and another guy who I can’t remember the name of). That was good fun, although we didn’t win! And had to stand up all evening, because there were no seats available.

I’ve already told you about my incredibly successful day today; the only thing to add to that is I came in for chaplaincy lunch at 1:00 (which was nice). This evening, I’m going to Philippa’s with Gemma and Paul, and then we’re going to go down to Level 2 for RED‘s event. I won’t be staying too long as I have a 9:00 tomorrow (and given the day that I’ve had I don’t anticipate enjoying it much, I think I’d just rather lay down and die in a dark corner somewhere) but I was coerced into going by Andy C …

I think I might go and take a walk now, it’s getting rather depressing just sitting in this lab, not getting anywhere. See you later…

Nothing much to report really! Worked for most of yesterday. Then some of the lads went to the Rose and Crown (Gavin, Andy H, Matthew, Ian, Richard, Richard’s friend Martin, I think, and of course me, Phil P and Alex). I wore my new suit, and looked very smart if I do say so myself 🙂 Then we went to Cheesy Tunes! It was actually a really good evening, although they didn’t play much cheese really.

Still. Afterwards, some people went to SX Express for a hot chocolate. Which was nice. Then back home. And today I went onto campus to do my radio show, and tonight we will probably be watching Crouching Tiger. Or something. Phun…

Went onto campus for my 12:00 lecture. Then did a bit of work, then went for my Prayer Triplet at 2:00 in Andy’s room with him and Gavin, then went to another couple of lectures, then went to committee, then to theology seminar (it was very good, well done Alex and Philippa!) and then back to Philippa’s place, had something to eat, then went with a whole bunch of random people to Karaoke in Level 2. Overall, a good day! 🙂

Were fairly normals. Uh, yeah. Yesterday… went onto campus for bar breakfast with Philippa and Alex. Did some work for an hour, went to a Dunamis meeting at 12:00, went to my Middleware lecture, did some more work, briefly met with Chris T for fusion feedback type stuff, did some more work, went down to Mondo with Philippa, Alex and Hayley, went to my nonexistent class at 5:00 (well, it must have been cancelled that week), and then back to Mondo shortly afterwards. Then I went to Sizzlers for dinner, and onto CU. Then the bar, then home. My day in a nutshell! Hmmm…

Uh, yeah. Today, I haven’t done much. Spent most of the day with Philippa and Alex – I helped them prepare their theology seminar for tomorrow, played a game of the ‘Crystal Maze’ (board game), and then went onto campus for Fusion. After Fusion, a few people watched Dumb and Dumber. And then I came home.

Yeah, great fun…

… aren’t always the best days of the week. They’re not always the worst days of the week, either. Today hasn’t really been either! I went onto campus this morning (well, afternoon really) for Chaplaincy Lunch. I stayed there until about 2:00… went to a computer lab for just over an hour and worked on my final year project, then down to Mondo for a hot chocolate with a bunch of random people, then back to the computer lab for an hour, then went to Tesco with Philippa and Alex.

Caught the bus home, had dinner, went to the pub with Ash, Alex and Phil… that’s about it for now!

Fantastically exciting, as ever…

Hey there. Right, what’s been happening today? I went to Fordam this morning. It was very good, Mike Neville was speaking on Psalm 2. They’re going to be running a series on how the Psalms and the New Testament link together, I’m glad that I’m going to be there because it’s something which I would really like to find out more about 🙂

Afterwards, I went to lunch with Philippa and her parents, then back to her flat to help clear up. Then her parents left, and we came back here to Claremont Road, and … well, didn’t do all that much. Chatted to flatmates (Alex, Ash and Sarah are now back!) and listened to music and various things. She left about 9:30 on the bus, and then I just spent time chatting to flatmates and stuff. It’s so good to be back as usual! Holidays are always rather slow, but now I’m back things are picking up again. I do so enjoy being a student, although I don’t think I could take too much more of it in terms of the workload! Whilst I am capable of doing all the work, the cycle of assignments and exams etc does take its toll after a while. This is why I’m not doing a masters!

Anyway, I thought I might as well put another quote here which I really like…

It certainly spoke a lot to me. We should believe in ourselves, there is a lot to be said for ‘we can all live as high as the dreams we dare to live’. I would love to be involved in music production and DJing someday, professionally. Maybe it will happen (provided it’s God’s will, of course 🙂

All for now…

Once again, I find that I haven’t updated in several days. Well, that’s mainly because I haven’t done anything particularly worthy of writing here. Thursday evening, I went round to Esther and Anne-Marie’s with Phil P, and we chatted for a bit and watched ‘Carry on Doctor’. Yesterday, we had a wine evening (sort of). Gemma, Andy H, Esther, Anne-Marie, Matthew, Ian, Kev B and of course me and Phil P were there. It was a really good evening! Random chatting, dancing around to some cheese, deep theological conversations – it was all there!

Anyway. So that’s it. Tomorrow I get to see Philippa, yay! *ahem*

I don’t usually do this, but I think I’m going to add in a quote here. I don’t particularly know why, but I was reading an article on some website, and thought I might as well nick that quote and use it here.

That’s me over and out. Will update sometime soon…

Not much. Did some work this afternoon… went round to Paul’s for dinner… listened to some music… spoke to Philippa on the phone… uh, nothing exciting!

So yeah. Now your life can be complete in the knowledge that I am not doing much…