I think I screwed up my dates somewhere around here, but these should be right now.
March 19th
This morning, I had to run to Metrogate and type up some homework. I had forgotten about it up until last night, so I decided to get up and do it now. That didn’t take really long and I got that sent off before heading out to the Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum. That was really cool. It was really neat to see all the old rooms just the way they were set up. I really liked the Churchill Museum though. It was a different side of him that I was used too. He was a lot more human than he is normally portrayed. They were really clear about his flaws and deficiencies. It was pretty cool.
After that I stopped by Metrogate to work on a paper. I spent some time there and went and made a small lunch. I sat around for a little while before I went out to go run. I wasn’t feeling really good for some reason, I’m not sure why. I don’t think I’ve been getting enough sleep and maybe I’m not quite eating right. I don’t know. I went out on that and was going to go to circuit training but I just wasn’t feeling that good. I came home and sat around for a while and than I had to go to a class tonight. It was my theater class because we had had it cancelled last week. It was a really fun class. We spent the first hour or two going through and playing games that were supposed to teach us about acting and feeling our position on stage. That was a lot of fun. After that we worked on some lines we had learned a while ago and went through doing funny things with that. We had to pick a certain way we wanted to portray the scene and then figure it all out. It was fun.
I came home and got myself ready for bed. I did some reading and watched some TV before calling it a night.
March 20th
I got up t run this morning but I was really not feeling well. I was just really tired and I was definitely was not on my game. It was also raining when I got up this morning, so I didn’t think that that would be a good idea. I went back to bed for about an hour and then got up and ready for work. I spent the first couple of hours finishing up the last of the Ireland entries. I only ending up scraping together four in total. There really wasn’t that much going on in there. Most of the companies that I contacted didn’t sell it anymore and they really weren’t promoting it in any meaningful way. Organic cotton is not a big thing there apparently. When I got done with that, Damien sent me on a break so he could get some stuff ready for me to work on. I spent the rest of the day pretty much working on stuffing some more envelopes to be sent out. I think I ended up doing about fifty of those over the course of the day. About two thirds of the way through I had to make a run to the printer and make a bunch more cover letters for the mailings. That was pretty interesting. It took me a while to get everything all figured out, but once I did things seemed to go pretty easily. I got those all finished up and with about half an hour left in the day Damien came and talked to me about my next project. He wants to get a DVD set up to send out to people and was wondering what I knew about authoring programs. It looks like it should be pretty simple, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.
I got done with work and headed home. My computer finally showed up so I picked that up from Metrogate. That was really nice. I spent a good couple of hours while I was eating getting my computer updated and backed up. That was really nice. I for that all finished up and then watched some TV for the rest of the night. I finished up the rest of my paper and called it a night.
March 21st
I got up today and got out for a run. I spent a bunch of time getting pictures uploaded onto Facebook, but for some reason I couldn’t get it up on my other site. I’ll try to get those uploaded later, but that’s going to take me some time because I have a lot of those. After that I did some reading for one of my classes today. That took me a bit. After that I had to go out and get some travel size shampoo and stuff like that. I hopped on a bus and was going to head to a Boots that was supposed to be pretty close. I must have missed that because I spent about a half an hour riding. I eventually muddled my way through it all and found one, but it wasn’t much. They really didn’t have much of a selection but I got what I needed so I headed home. I took the Tube because I was that far away from home. When I got back to Glouster I headed to a place to get some Euros for my trip this weekend. That didn’t take me very long then I headed to class.
Ethno today was a lot of fun. We started off going over the ethnic heritage and makeup which was pretty interesting. The really fun part came at the end though. We started tracing the history of Britain pop culture from the perspective of music. We looked at how Jazz and Blues had come in and shaped the British music scene. We listened to some really great old tracks. That was really amazing. I had to go print out some stuff after that and then went and grabbed some dinner. Class tonight was pretty cool too. We had picked a scene last class and we rehearsed the part in class. I spent a lot of time going over the scene I had picked with my partner, Austin. It was something different, that’s for sure. I definitely had some fun with it.
After that I came back and made a snack and worked on my blog for a bit. I watched some movies for the rest of the night then headed to bed.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Sunday, 18 March 2007
March 18th
March 16th
Work today was interesting. Everyone there was going through and cleaning out the various work spaces, and I just kind of felt like I was in the way. They really didn’t have anything for me to do with that, and I really couldn’t sit at my desk and work, so it was little awkward. What I did do was proof read the one of the quarterly journals that PAN puts out. This one was called Pesticides News and its just kind of a general publication about the big things that are going on with their work. This is the one where any articles that come from the Cotton section go into too. This issue is supposed to go out in March, and if you’ll look at your calendar, is getting pretty close to being out of time. I probably spent 5 hours going through all of that to look for typos and formatting errors and things like that. That was a nice change of pace.
Over lunch I called Fedex about my computer because I had gotten a packet of information that I wasn’t sure what to do with. I called the contact number and got that all sorted out. I even asked Damien if I could head home a little early this afternoon so I could get the papers faxed in and then hopefully get my computer in on Monday or Tuesday. So I got back from that and hurried around trying to get everything in order and then ran over to Foundation House to get it sent. I didn’t get it to my contact before she had left for the day already though, so I guess I’l just have to wait a little longer.
After that I stopped by Metrogate and then went home to make some dinner. I was going to a bunch of roasted vegetables, but that turned out to be a bit of a problem. Apparently, something had happened to out oven, so only the broil setting worked. So I “cooked” my food in there for about half an hour, before I tried one of the ovens downstairs. They have two, and I apparently picked the one that didn’t work right. It took me almost 2 hours to cook these things from start to finish. The rest of the night I just talked to people on the flat. There weren’t a whole lot of people around for some reason, so it was a pretty quite night.
March 17th
I got up this morning and got my run in and then headed out to go to Oxford. There were four of us going today and we went by train. I fell asleep almost as soon as we got going and I was out the entire time. That was a nice nap I have to say. We had to go and tour one of the colleges for one of the class requirements, so we set about finding one of those. Every single one we went to was closed and we couldn’t figure out why. At some point though, someone remembered that it was a holiday, so that’s probably why all the tours were off. From there we went out and found Iffley road track. I’m guessing that you won’t be familiar with this place, but its pretty special. This is the track that Roger Bannister first broke the four minute mile. There wasn’t much to see there really, but I’m still glad we went. We had a lot of time left now since we didn’t tour a college, so we wandered around. We came across a little canal that was renting boats and thought that that would be a good way to spend some time so we got one of those. I said I could row because I’ve done it before. I thought it wouldn’t be that big of deal, but I was quickly proven wrong. The water was really high and the current was really strong because they had had a lot of rain recently. That and the oars were continually pooping out of the oar locks made steering kind of difficult. As one of the people put it, it wasn’t so much that we went around the canal, but when from side to side on it. Oh well, it was a lot of fun.
We headed out to lunch at a pub after that. It was another one of these really well hidden places that you had to take a couple of alleys to get down, but it was a really nice place. They had all sorts of signs up about famous people that had been there, or famous things that had gone on in the premises. It was pretty cool. From there, we made an Epic quest to go forth and find the grave JRR Tolkein who was buried in a village that was right next to Oxford. We had to walk about three miles out of town. We came to a point where we had to turn and went left. We walked for about 2 miles or so before we realized we had gone the wrong way. It actually wasn’t that bad though because we passed over a really pretty canal and marshlands. It was really nice.
We got things straightened out and we were on our way. We made it there and it was interesting to see. I liked it. I have to say I felt kind of weird taking pictures of the grave. People had left all sorts of little trinkets on it too. Things like little dolls or even rings and a Silmarillion. We headed back on about four mile walk to the train station. I think we ended up walking 12 or 13 miles today. When we got back to the station, I found out that my ticket was gone. I had that and receipt in my back pocket and they just weren’t there. I though maybe that someone had picked my pocket, but I had my bad on almost the entire time I was there, and that would have had to been moved to get to it. It must have just fallen out. I had to pay almost £20 to get a ticket back for that night, which was not fun.
I did some homework and slept on the ride back which was a lot longer than the trip there because this train made a lot more stops. We didn’t end up getting back to the flat until almost 8 and I got around to making something to eat. I spent the rest of the night hanging out with people on the flat and having a good time.
Work today was interesting. Everyone there was going through and cleaning out the various work spaces, and I just kind of felt like I was in the way. They really didn’t have anything for me to do with that, and I really couldn’t sit at my desk and work, so it was little awkward. What I did do was proof read the one of the quarterly journals that PAN puts out. This one was called Pesticides News and its just kind of a general publication about the big things that are going on with their work. This is the one where any articles that come from the Cotton section go into too. This issue is supposed to go out in March, and if you’ll look at your calendar, is getting pretty close to being out of time. I probably spent 5 hours going through all of that to look for typos and formatting errors and things like that. That was a nice change of pace.
Over lunch I called Fedex about my computer because I had gotten a packet of information that I wasn’t sure what to do with. I called the contact number and got that all sorted out. I even asked Damien if I could head home a little early this afternoon so I could get the papers faxed in and then hopefully get my computer in on Monday or Tuesday. So I got back from that and hurried around trying to get everything in order and then ran over to Foundation House to get it sent. I didn’t get it to my contact before she had left for the day already though, so I guess I’l just have to wait a little longer.
After that I stopped by Metrogate and then went home to make some dinner. I was going to a bunch of roasted vegetables, but that turned out to be a bit of a problem. Apparently, something had happened to out oven, so only the broil setting worked. So I “cooked” my food in there for about half an hour, before I tried one of the ovens downstairs. They have two, and I apparently picked the one that didn’t work right. It took me almost 2 hours to cook these things from start to finish. The rest of the night I just talked to people on the flat. There weren’t a whole lot of people around for some reason, so it was a pretty quite night.
March 17th
I got up this morning and got my run in and then headed out to go to Oxford. There were four of us going today and we went by train. I fell asleep almost as soon as we got going and I was out the entire time. That was a nice nap I have to say. We had to go and tour one of the colleges for one of the class requirements, so we set about finding one of those. Every single one we went to was closed and we couldn’t figure out why. At some point though, someone remembered that it was a holiday, so that’s probably why all the tours were off. From there we went out and found Iffley road track. I’m guessing that you won’t be familiar with this place, but its pretty special. This is the track that Roger Bannister first broke the four minute mile. There wasn’t much to see there really, but I’m still glad we went. We had a lot of time left now since we didn’t tour a college, so we wandered around. We came across a little canal that was renting boats and thought that that would be a good way to spend some time so we got one of those. I said I could row because I’ve done it before. I thought it wouldn’t be that big of deal, but I was quickly proven wrong. The water was really high and the current was really strong because they had had a lot of rain recently. That and the oars were continually pooping out of the oar locks made steering kind of difficult. As one of the people put it, it wasn’t so much that we went around the canal, but when from side to side on it. Oh well, it was a lot of fun.
We headed out to lunch at a pub after that. It was another one of these really well hidden places that you had to take a couple of alleys to get down, but it was a really nice place. They had all sorts of signs up about famous people that had been there, or famous things that had gone on in the premises. It was pretty cool. From there, we made an Epic quest to go forth and find the grave JRR Tolkein who was buried in a village that was right next to Oxford. We had to walk about three miles out of town. We came to a point where we had to turn and went left. We walked for about 2 miles or so before we realized we had gone the wrong way. It actually wasn’t that bad though because we passed over a really pretty canal and marshlands. It was really nice.
We got things straightened out and we were on our way. We made it there and it was interesting to see. I liked it. I have to say I felt kind of weird taking pictures of the grave. People had left all sorts of little trinkets on it too. Things like little dolls or even rings and a Silmarillion. We headed back on about four mile walk to the train station. I think we ended up walking 12 or 13 miles today. When we got back to the station, I found out that my ticket was gone. I had that and receipt in my back pocket and they just weren’t there. I though maybe that someone had picked my pocket, but I had my bad on almost the entire time I was there, and that would have had to been moved to get to it. It must have just fallen out. I had to pay almost £20 to get a ticket back for that night, which was not fun.
I did some homework and slept on the ride back which was a lot longer than the trip there because this train made a lot more stops. We didn’t end up getting back to the flat until almost 8 and I got around to making something to eat. I spent the rest of the night hanging out with people on the flat and having a good time.
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