Lazy Saturday (Now Sunday)
Today's been a good day. The last week's been a bit mental with so much work to do. For the course, we were given a project which was to go and understand a given house (mine was the Schroder House by Gerrit Rietveld), by A: Researching, B: Making and C: Analysing. Since, in the 'making' section we had to make a model of the house and I'd never done this before, it took me a very long time indeed. Twice during the week I had to pull all-nighters to get the job done. One night I went to sleep at 4 in the morning, which was fine because I slept in till 1 in the morning, but the night before the project was due to be handed in I had to work until 5.30 and get up at 7.30 to get ready... To say that it wasn't fun would be an understatement. Sleep deprivation was at least interesting, if nothing else. It's much like being drunk- all the time, and everything is a constant effort. By the time it got to lectures on Friday after handing in the project, every time I blinked it felt as if I was falling asleep.
Thank goodness that's over, for now. Next week we are going to Paris on an architecture trip- so it will be great to relax, since we have no set work over the week. I will upload all of my photos from the trip when I get back as well as pictures of my model for the project. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to take any before handing them in, so if it hasn't been torn to shreds by enraged and patronised judges I will be able to show all of you what I spent my nights wasting away with.
Today, with all my flatmates we made a group decision that everyone should go and decorate the kitchen a little. Since Dave was out, we took the liberty of making him a very charming poster:
You may be wondering why he's saying: "Oi! Jamie!" Well that's because it's a little nuance that he's picked up- calling me out to the kitchen for no apparent reason when drunk. Often shouting "JAMIE!" from the top of his lungs, bless him! So yeah, we printed this on A3 and slapped it onto his cupboard, I think he enjoyed it. On a completely unrelated note, this is a picture of dave eating a lot of chicken in one go, that I took tonight (I thought it was fantastic):
NICE!
My poster- I decided would be filled up with some of my best, and most stupid quotes since I've been here:
It's probably best if I explain some of the quotes, since they're really quite 'in' jokes.
One's enough for me- I said this when I first arrived, to Dave, when I noticed that the locks on the doors could be locked twice (?) I.e. You can twist them around once and they click into 'locked' and then you can keep going and the bolt goes slightly further into the lock. But since it is already in the lock, it seems mildly pointless.
Twenty pages a minute, baby- This is what I said to my flatmates when explaining how good my new printer was going to be, which they found quite amusing.
(To Vicky, dressed as an angel) Are you going out?- Pretty self explanatory, just one of those questions that are completely pointless... but you never know- It could be the new thing without having to go to a fancy-dress party!
So today has been a very lazy day, I spent the afternoon shopping with my good friend, James (who's blog is excellent, please read it- it's under my 'subscriber list'), in Gunwharf Quays. Since I was still tired, I was very lucid and lackadaisical... So much so in fact, that I managed to leave my scarf in Next whilst trying on cardigans, a minute later I kicked myself and I had to run back in case someone picked it up and tried to buy it. Fortunately, I was able to walk out with it without looking suspiciously like a thief. In the evening, I watched The 'Ghost In The Shell' with Audrey (A French International student) who had suggested I watch it, since I'd mentioned to her that I enjoyed anime films. She was completely right about this film, she said it was amazing- and honestly it was! The plot was very strange, about a futuristic world where people's souls are 'ghosts' and can be transferred from body to body, mostly in order to commit crime. It was really thought-provoking, and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good movie every once in a while. Afterwards, we sat, drank tea and coffee and watched funny French clips on youtube, talking late into the night- which brings me to where I am now: sitting at 4 in the morning writing my blog. What AM I doing? Right, time to sleep... Something that has become somewhat of a luxury to me, these days! Trust me, I wont be getting up for a long time tomorrow (or in fact 'today' if you want to be a smart arse).
Thank goodness that's over, for now. Next week we are going to Paris on an architecture trip- so it will be great to relax, since we have no set work over the week. I will upload all of my photos from the trip when I get back as well as pictures of my model for the project. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to take any before handing them in, so if it hasn't been torn to shreds by enraged and patronised judges I will be able to show all of you what I spent my nights wasting away with.
Today, with all my flatmates we made a group decision that everyone should go and decorate the kitchen a little. Since Dave was out, we took the liberty of making him a very charming poster:
You may be wondering why he's saying: "Oi! Jamie!" Well that's because it's a little nuance that he's picked up- calling me out to the kitchen for no apparent reason when drunk. Often shouting "JAMIE!" from the top of his lungs, bless him! So yeah, we printed this on A3 and slapped it onto his cupboard, I think he enjoyed it. On a completely unrelated note, this is a picture of dave eating a lot of chicken in one go, that I took tonight (I thought it was fantastic):
NICE!
My poster- I decided would be filled up with some of my best, and most stupid quotes since I've been here:
It's probably best if I explain some of the quotes, since they're really quite 'in' jokes.
One's enough for me- I said this when I first arrived, to Dave, when I noticed that the locks on the doors could be locked twice (?) I.e. You can twist them around once and they click into 'locked' and then you can keep going and the bolt goes slightly further into the lock. But since it is already in the lock, it seems mildly pointless.
Twenty pages a minute, baby- This is what I said to my flatmates when explaining how good my new printer was going to be, which they found quite amusing.
(To Vicky, dressed as an angel) Are you going out?- Pretty self explanatory, just one of those questions that are completely pointless... but you never know- It could be the new thing without having to go to a fancy-dress party!
So today has been a very lazy day, I spent the afternoon shopping with my good friend, James (who's blog is excellent, please read it- it's under my 'subscriber list'), in Gunwharf Quays. Since I was still tired, I was very lucid and lackadaisical... So much so in fact, that I managed to leave my scarf in Next whilst trying on cardigans, a minute later I kicked myself and I had to run back in case someone picked it up and tried to buy it. Fortunately, I was able to walk out with it without looking suspiciously like a thief. In the evening, I watched The 'Ghost In The Shell' with Audrey (A French International student) who had suggested I watch it, since I'd mentioned to her that I enjoyed anime films. She was completely right about this film, she said it was amazing- and honestly it was! The plot was very strange, about a futuristic world where people's souls are 'ghosts' and can be transferred from body to body, mostly in order to commit crime. It was really thought-provoking, and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good movie every once in a while. Afterwards, we sat, drank tea and coffee and watched funny French clips on youtube, talking late into the night- which brings me to where I am now: sitting at 4 in the morning writing my blog. What AM I doing? Right, time to sleep... Something that has become somewhat of a luxury to me, these days! Trust me, I wont be getting up for a long time tomorrow (or in fact 'today' if you want to be a smart arse).
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