Quite a few things have been going on over the last weeks.
Gimme a moment to gather my thoughts....
Right, I've been in Swansea for 2 weeks to sort things out with the course transfer at the Institute.
Ya know, the usual things like filling in the long cryptic application form, getting referee's to fill it out and sign it. That kinda thing. Personally submitted it in person to the registry before the A-Level results came out (before the Clearing traffic happened), and it's coming up to its second week since then, and no word from the Institute. I went there again the following monday, and they said they had a back log and didn't start processing since last friday and I should expect something by next thursday/friday.
Next thursday/friday came. still nothing, <
Gave them a call, went straight to the longest answerphone message i've ever heard. It was about 45 seconds of english followed by another 45 seconds of Welsh before i'm able to hear a beep to leave a message... After over a minute of answerphone message, i forgot what I wanted to say, so i just hungup. and decided to send the bi-atches a fax using my tablet. (just to make sure they can read my crystal clear text.)
Academic stuff aside.....
I've been visiting Matt D alot. We've been going out to various places in Wales, like:
Margam for the Volksfest. - a VW car festival.
Llangenith for Bluepool - a 20ft(ish) deep rock pool to dive into.
At one point, I thought I lost my phone at the pool so me and matt spent a good 20 minutes running back to find it. Nope, nowhere to be found, later found it back at my house.... I got some stick for that :P
I also went on a night out in Wind Street with Matt's mates because they got their A-Level results.
Met one of Matts female associates, Leanne, Gorgeous red hair, and a hot body. Oh, she's a very nice person too. :D
Went to cinema with Matt to see: i,Robot (great film!) and The Village (an alright film).
i,Robot - stars Will Smith, excellent flic, reminds me of The Second Renaissence from the Animatrix episodes. Will get this on DVD when released.
The Village - ermm..... slow at first, kinda builds up, quite freaky at some bits. Good concept for film, but didn't satisfy me that much.
Hmmm... what else....
ah, Doom 3!!! I got my own copy, and can only play it on Matt's PC until I got home because I only had my inadequate tablet pc with me. Doom 3 is so awesome! It's such a scary game, it really does put fear in you because of the way it portrays the levels and the atmosphere. Even before you see any zombies or demon's you're jumping out of your seat and you start to sweat because of sudden power outages which make the game levels dark, or the inexplicable sounds. Such a superb game.
Shame I can't run it on my PC. I've got a 1.33Ghz oc'ed Athlon Tbird with 1gb of ram and a ATi Radeon 64. It just can't cut it at all.
Ah well, it gives me a fairly good reason to upgrade my system :D
Min Spec for next system must be a Athlon 64, with PCI-Express slots (preferably 2 of them so i'm able to upgrade to a pair of nVidia SLi-able super graphics cards). super mad system indeedy :)
Went down to Blue Pool again with Leanne, Matt and Chris (one of Matts mates). Chris drove. OMG, he had awesome driving skillz. I gathered that he recently been on a Rally driving course. Didn't phase me at all. Significantly agressive compared to my driving style, but it was similar. We went there just as the tide went out, and we had hours of great fun with the sea. The strength of the tide was immense. Matt, Chris and I were fighting against it. Everyone got wet including Leanne..... I'm such a perv ;)
