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Had a nice time chatting to maudlinrose and writing my essay last night. The writing the essay wasn't that fun, and I now have to reread it, and see if I made any major errors. I don't think I did, but I was rather tired by the time that I finished it, and my eyes were hurting. They weren't sore for most of the time that I was online, which is a bonus. Yay.
I got set a writing exercise by maudlinrose last night - to write a piece without answering questions such as Who or Why as I normally do. I think that's one of the more interesting parts of writing for me - finding out Who - or Why, rather, because those two questions are so interlinked. Anyways, I couldn't post it last night, because when I was going to post it, MSN and Explorer both decided not to work on my computer, and nothing I could do would make them work again. Restarted the computer several times, connected and disconnected several times, so on and so forth. So I finished my essay and went to bed.
I went to N.'s RPG Confusion thing on Saturday - or rather, I went to two thirds of it. I ended up sleeping in the morning, which was badly needed, and very nice. Walked down through the Botannical Gardens, which were damp and pretty. Lots of bulbs around - the tulips aren't flowering yet - but a huge patch of flowering oxalis! I thought that was a really hard to get rid of weed. Oh well, I suppose they have to have a record of it somewhere.
Confusion was voted a success by all the gamers I talked to, and I now have a far greater understanding of what being in an RPG is. I never really realised before. I didn't actually play - apart from filling in at the very end of one of P.'s games - but it was interesting. I did play two games of Settlers of Catan, though, with N., G. (random gamer, vaguely know him) and a girl I know from the Chaplaincy, C., who's name is spelt differently, although pronounced the same, as mine. N. won the first game - or G. did - I forget, and I won the second with the use of two victory points. I was very pleased about this.
Flatmate T. has moved out, but her boyfriend, flatmate C. has not yet moved into her room. I am anticipating this happening in the next couple of days. At least, I hope it will happen then, because I'll actually have the time to move my stuff into C.'s room. Flatmate S. will then move into my room, and the green room is up for rent. If anyone you know needs a flat and you think I could live with them, give them my number. I am meeting a potential flatmate tomorrow at 2.30pm, which means I will go straight home from Greek, and then probably come back to uni again in order to do the Greek homework, which we will invariably have. S. reckons she is keen and seems nice, but there is something dodgy about her. I am vastly curious now, since he can't explain it.
I finished making Mum's birthday present on Saturday, too. I only had about half the bottom border to go, and a few random things. I think it looks really good, and I hope that I can afford to get it framed either for her birthday or for Christmas. Otherwise, who knows when it'll get framed. I costed framing it at Goldings on Sunday, when I was there to get the thread for the centre of the flowers on it. Two frames, one of light wood, one of dark, I costed, along with non-reflective glass (lady said that dulled things a bit, and I want the metallic to be noticed) and no matt. I have a bias towards liking dark frames, (think they're more impressive/noticeable or something) but the light wood one was nice, too. Got the numbers and stuff written down. I will also cost it at the framing shop/gallery (and they're looking for new artists, if anyone knows someone who wants to go there) in the Northland shops, and I'll cost Garden Verses and Footprints at the same time. I'll probably be carting it around with me for the next few days to show off to people.
Am seeing Jason and the Argonauts tonight in Hunter 220 at 6.30pm, and apart from having to go down to town and do some of Greek and hand in my history essay, I have plenty of time to kill. I should start research on my next essays... somehow I don't think I have as much time as I thought. *sighs*
I got set a writing exercise by maudlinrose last night - to write a piece without answering questions such as Who or Why as I normally do. I think that's one of the more interesting parts of writing for me - finding out Who - or Why, rather, because those two questions are so interlinked. Anyways, I couldn't post it last night, because when I was going to post it, MSN and Explorer both decided not to work on my computer, and nothing I could do would make them work again. Restarted the computer several times, connected and disconnected several times, so on and so forth. So I finished my essay and went to bed.
I went to N.'s RPG Confusion thing on Saturday - or rather, I went to two thirds of it. I ended up sleeping in the morning, which was badly needed, and very nice. Walked down through the Botannical Gardens, which were damp and pretty. Lots of bulbs around - the tulips aren't flowering yet - but a huge patch of flowering oxalis! I thought that was a really hard to get rid of weed. Oh well, I suppose they have to have a record of it somewhere.
Confusion was voted a success by all the gamers I talked to, and I now have a far greater understanding of what being in an RPG is. I never really realised before. I didn't actually play - apart from filling in at the very end of one of P.'s games - but it was interesting. I did play two games of Settlers of Catan, though, with N., G. (random gamer, vaguely know him) and a girl I know from the Chaplaincy, C., who's name is spelt differently, although pronounced the same, as mine. N. won the first game - or G. did - I forget, and I won the second with the use of two victory points. I was very pleased about this.
Flatmate T. has moved out, but her boyfriend, flatmate C. has not yet moved into her room. I am anticipating this happening in the next couple of days. At least, I hope it will happen then, because I'll actually have the time to move my stuff into C.'s room. Flatmate S. will then move into my room, and the green room is up for rent. If anyone you know needs a flat and you think I could live with them, give them my number. I am meeting a potential flatmate tomorrow at 2.30pm, which means I will go straight home from Greek, and then probably come back to uni again in order to do the Greek homework, which we will invariably have. S. reckons she is keen and seems nice, but there is something dodgy about her. I am vastly curious now, since he can't explain it.
I finished making Mum's birthday present on Saturday, too. I only had about half the bottom border to go, and a few random things. I think it looks really good, and I hope that I can afford to get it framed either for her birthday or for Christmas. Otherwise, who knows when it'll get framed. I costed framing it at Goldings on Sunday, when I was there to get the thread for the centre of the flowers on it. Two frames, one of light wood, one of dark, I costed, along with non-reflective glass (lady said that dulled things a bit, and I want the metallic to be noticed) and no matt. I have a bias towards liking dark frames, (think they're more impressive/noticeable or something) but the light wood one was nice, too. Got the numbers and stuff written down. I will also cost it at the framing shop/gallery (and they're looking for new artists, if anyone knows someone who wants to go there) in the Northland shops, and I'll cost Garden Verses and Footprints at the same time. I'll probably be carting it around with me for the next few days to show off to people.
Am seeing Jason and the Argonauts tonight in Hunter 220 at 6.30pm, and apart from having to go down to town and do some of Greek and hand in my history essay, I have plenty of time to kill. I should start research on my next essays... somehow I don't think I have as much time as I thought. *sighs*
