Lucy

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01

• So it would appear to not quite be cheap o'clock in Tesco yet. Meaning, I may have to hang around for half an hour to wait for cheap stuff. #
• Aha! That looks like the reductions person! #
• @scattermoon I came here for bread. She's nearly there. I dare not leave, in case it all gets sold. in reply to scattermoon #
• Ok, I've lost her. She was last seen discounting triffle, then hiding the fact that it was discount. #
• Well that was entirely unsuccessful. #
• 15p Bread. Oops. http://yfrog.com/1dcr7zj #
• You can run with us. We've got everything you need.
  Run with us. We are free. #
• About to watch a film about german gays, because I couldn't be bothered to walk home. #
• Why do I get more wifi reception downstairs than upstairs? The router is upstairs! #
• lol @ YouTube error message:
  while(1);{"errors": "I call shenanigans", "success": false} #
• 54 minutes until new Sonic 4 content! I seriously hope the game is not as disappointing as the website. #
• Congratulations, person who I am not going to vote for! You are currently scoring -20 points! #
• Hmm. Well, scores for those candidates: {-17, 15, -20, 47}. I think it's pretty obvious which one I'm going to vote for there! #
• Also interesting is how the website says "you have one vote", implying some people have more than one vote… #
• @welfaresami i've seen a lot that appear to be "but that's NOT your job!" in reply to welfaresami #
• @scattermoon I thought you said you hadn't seen Firefly in reply to scattermoon #
• @bma that's a lot for FOUR pairs of shoes. in reply to bma #
• TwitIQ needs a quicker login process. I do not want to have to click twice to log in, where twitter.com lets me use a cookie. #
• Woo! I'm now down to under 100 LiveJournal posts left! That's a whole 30% of my backlog gone through! #
• @scattermoon Win! in reply to scattermoon #
• Just been tidying my desk (no really). Found a letter. Apparently i'm an organ donor. #
• Just scored 77.7% on @Cravendale's Twitter Health: http://bit.ly/cXPx8s based on words including: LETTUCE, CHEESE, CYCLE, CYCLING, RUN, WALK #
• @dvojnost I don't know who that is! in reply to dvojnost #
• @scattermoon about time! in reply to scattermoon #

Lucy

This week has been a waste…

Current Mood: Sad & Tired

I’ve managed to miss… pretty much everything this week:

My wakeup times this week... or rather, the times I've been getting out of bed.

Lucy

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22

• So I moved from Palringo to eBuddy because Palringo lost some of my contacts. Now eBuddy has done the same thing. #
• Shh! I need to tweet this! #
• There is a tiny little Lily Allen in my iPod singing down a tube. A tiny little band too! #
• Happy cat is happy. I know, right? Doesn't happen very often. #
• Just walked past a sign that claimed "sporks will fly". #
• I have 5 weeks off at Easter, and then a 10 week term containing no lectures and minimal ad-hoc seminars. Hmm. Need to find something to do #
• @scattermoon eep! *hugs* in reply to scattermoon #
• @plastikscissorz "We're working on the server lag issues." apparently in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @plastikscissorz nom! Come here and make me breakfast! in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @dvojnost SPOILERS! in reply to dvojnost #
• @bma Also, my typo detectors were going wild at that article in reply to bma #
• Lewis's Bakery, you FAIL at using apostrophes! I hearby revoke your licence to use the English language! #
• I found the beanbags and now I'm struggling to get up. #
• I've just spent an hour and a half testing badly designed software! Well… the 'easier' mode was badly designed… Earned £10 for doing it! #
• @dvojnost Methinks they were mistaken! in reply to dvojnost #
• Good morning, Internet! I have actually had about 7 or 8 hours sleep tonight. Only 1 of which was in my bed, mind. #
• @ChrisSinjo "s's" always looks weird to me in reply to ChrisSinjo #
• @peppernom walk. cycling will get you there faster, granted. but it's cold, and cycling will make you colder. in reply to peppernom #
• @ChrisSinjo pishwaddle! it's wrong because i say it's wrong! in reply to ChrisSinjo #
• @scattermoon lol @ the wikipedia article on "Coming of Age". The word 'transition' appears 3 times within the first 2 sentences! in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon I'm going to need to be on campus at least once a week though for exec meetings >_< in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon I want a copy of that! in reply to scattermoon #
• "I only have 1 item, but because I have a trolley, I'm allowed to push in front of all you basket holders!" >_> #
• "My car is green, which means I'm allowed to speed up and beep to scare the people crossing the zebra crossing" >_> #
• @Shailiha more? MORE?! MOAR??!!!!!1 in reply to Shailiha #
• @lycangrrl what did you ask? in reply to lycangrrl #
• The Sonic 4 website is ridiculously underwhelming. #
• Having the disipline not to spend money on days when I don't have a token to do so… not easy I've discovered. #
• Silent bicycles annoy me. Just because you're wearing a hi-vis jacket and have lights, doesn't mean I can hear you behind me! Got hit. Ow. #
• I have an @scattermoon. How did that happen? #
• @bma Yes, I was thinking that too. If he went to all the effort to wear a hi-vi, and have the lights on… why cycle on the path? in reply to bma #
• @bma Presumably he was not on the road because he knows he is blind and runs into things. in reply to bma #
• @Shailiha SNOW WITCH! in reply to Shailiha #
• @scattermoon yah. Ich haber einen bruder! in reply to scattermoon #
• @ChrisSinjo nom! in reply to ChrisSinjo #
• @plastikscissorz he wasn't on a mountain bike! in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @scattermoon *hugs* in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon *actual hugs* in reply to scattermoon #
• @ Crash with @scattermoon. Slightly tipsy. Music is  so far. #
• @plastikscissorz true beans in reply to plastikscissorz #
• Two tipsy girls, standing in the corner on our smartphones. Fun times!
  Well… not exactly a corner. Next to a pillar. #
• Holy crab! This is the second free drink of the night! I should wear pretty dresses more often. #
• Hmm. This evening is awesome, and I am quite drunk, but it needs moar @plastikscissorz. #
• Conga line to The Can Can. Win!
  And now it's the hokey kokey. #
• Slow cat is slow. Took about 4 seconds to get @scattermoon's joke. #
• Also, hooray for alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. #
• Needs less hicoughs!!!! #
• RT @bma Walking in a cycle lane is bad enough. If you sit in one, I'm not even going to attempt not to run you over. in reply to bma #
• Nommy pancakes! Including tabasco sauce and lea + perrins! NOMMY! #
• Today's headline: World leaders have been shocked at an evil pancake created in Coventry. Locals described it as 'menacing' and 'delicious'. #
• I've just spent over an hour fixing my Chrome/Firefox bookmarks syncing. How cool am I? #
• Feeling down. Could do with an ego boost from peeps: http://twt.mx/R3AP #
• "Alcohol is maybe not the answer, but it's a good way to forget the question" #
• @bma I was sitting down in a cycle path in reply to bma #
• I've just had the best cheese on toast EVER! Brie, bacon, lettuce and beans, on a peppered baguette. Epic nom. #
• My Easter holidays are looking like they are going to cost £65 in travel expenses! Eep! #

Lucy

I need an ego boost

Current Mood: Sad

Fill in my Johari Window!

http://kevan.org/johari?name=StrawberryUtopia

I’ve just been re-reading the (hidden to non-exec members) Pride forum bitchiness explosion thread where IRA made their first public comments. It’s been about 3 months since that thread was locked, which has given me time to look at my comments with fresh eyes.

And you know what? IRA kinda had a point. While their original post has long since been edited, I can still remember most of what I’ve been told it contained. The thread was civil until I made my comments. The turning point was when somebody asked what the criticisms were that people had been saying behind their back (a rumour which I over-exaggerated from brief conversation snippets). From there I didn’t add anything constructive, but instead lied based on assumptions I made, which were in turn based on my over-exaggerated perception of second-hand comments.

And from there, the bitchiness ensued and personal attacks were flying left right and centre. And they all started as responses to my post.

I’m just scrolling through it now and everybody is bitching about everybody else. But amongst all the bitchiness, most people (i.e. everybody but me) is apologising.

So yes. What I’m seeing from reading this back is a whole load of people being bitchy about each other and, amongst them, one person who seems to be fuelling the whole thing, pouring petrol on the fire when it starts to die down, lying and spreading rumours, posting harsh personal attacks and, unlike the others on the thread, not appearing to be sorry for their actions.

I’m looking back at these posts, and it’s hard not to agree with IRA.

So yeah. I’d rather I hadn’t seen those posts again, as I’m sure I’d be feeling better right now. But then, seeing the true account of events rather than my rose-tinted memory is probably not a bad idea.

But yes. My Johari Window. Fill it in.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=StrawberryUtopia

Of course, it would be unfair to just put up the Johari, so here is the Nohari:

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=StrawberryUtopia

Lucy

Hmm. 5am. How did that happen?

Current Mood: Tired

Yes, once again it is ridiculous o’clock and I haven’t been to bed yet. Bad times. However, as I now don’t have enough time to go to sleep, as I actually want to get to my 10am lecture, this technically counts as getting up on time! Assuming I manage to stay up all day, that is.

I woke up, yes woke up, at 8.30pm. Didn’t actually get out of bed until about 10.30pm though. I won’t go into the fail that went on in those two hours, other than to say there was fail. A lot of fail. A lot of fail involving several friends, the drama between them, and me possibly breaking up a few friendships. So, yes. A lot of fail.

But as for today… 10am lecture. Giving me 4 and a half hours to do… something.

In theory I have some coursework that should be done. I do want to tidy my room at some point. And there are things magnetized to my todo list whiteboard that I should probably get around to…

But first, Elaine’s LJ has decided for me that I must now go and make a burger for noms. So that is my plan for now.

Lucy

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15

• Lecturer: "The Da Vinci Code is probably before your time, but you probably all remember the enigma machine." #
• I'm down to my last can of free Schweppes, courtesy of Deutsche Bank! #
• @dvojnost When you find out, let us know. I'm curious too. in reply to dvojnost #
• New Sonic 4 content in 7 hours!
  This website is nowhere near as good as the Smash Bros Dojo was… #
• @presh5000 What's the video? Tweet a link and I'll retweet it. in reply to presh5000 #
• @bma "To Whom It May Concern"? in reply to bma #
• @lycangrrl That sounds like Monopoly. in reply to lycangrrl #
• On Weetabix: "it looks like somebody ate a cat and then vomited it up into your bowl" #
• ITV and BBC are on campus o_0 http://yfrog.com/3i98pnj #
• And now for anime! Hooray for WSC! ^_^ #
• @plastikscissorz Warwick Student Cinema in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @ChrisSinjo http://gomockingbird.com/ in reply to ChrisSinjo #
• @bma or NetBeans' built in GUI designer, for that matter. in reply to bma #
• @presh5000 aha! yes, i'd forgotten about that thing. in reply to presh5000 #
• @bma obviously, the GUI and in fact the entire system should be built using VBA in MSExcel… in reply to bma #
• @bma it's a choice between that and VBScript in reply to bma #
• @presh5000 your boyfriend's face is so smooth! Seriously, there was a queue to stroke it! #
• @rixxiii's face is less interesting. #
• "I think sperm would wear contact lenses" #
• @presh5000 all of the exec touched your boyfriend in reply to presh5000 #
• @bma what is this madness? in reply to bma #
• Just spent an entire week's food budget on one meal. Not sensible. #
• Worse, I managed to con everybody into letting me pay less! So I owe an abstract 'somebody' £5 #
• Ooh! Ooh! I finally know what Buzz is for! It serves the same purpose as my Facebook: i.e. It is to give my Twitter more followers. #
• Something called Great Universal wants to give me >= £15 of free stuff. They already know my name and address. No harm letting them, I guess #
• Presumably they wish to tempt me in with this offer and get me to buy more later. More likely, I'll take my >=£15 of stuff and leave. #
• @presh5000 Touch his face! in reply to presh5000 #
• @thecatwithfish yay! in reply to thecatwithfish #
• Aardvark is fun! http://vark.com/s/Ffp5 #
• @scattermoon *crosses paws* in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon woo! I went past 1K without even noticing. in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon you're going to write that on the application form? in reply to scattermoon #
• @presh5000 every friday is naked friday in reply to presh5000 #
• @dvojnost of course not. everybody knows that 'Unicorn Horn' is an incense stick flavour! in reply to dvojnost #
• @thecatwithfish nom in reply to thecatwithfish #
• @thecatwithfish was that @faekitten? pretty sure that follower stopped following you a while ago. in reply to thecatwithfish #
• @dvojnost wax tarts?! what is this madness?! in reply to dvojnost #
• @Jaynatopia transfigurations, you say? in reply to Jaynatopia #
• @thecatwithfish quick! nurse! get this man's twitter a bandage, stat! in reply to thecatwithfish #
• @la_sabre that question is just bizarre in it's fail. maybe i'm just used to people having sense. also, love your formspring background! in reply to la_sabre #
• @thecatwithfish *turns on the wii for some iPlayer action* in reply to thecatwithfish #
• @Jaynatopia But Gallifreyan Muffins are so much tastier! in reply to Jaynatopia #
• @Shailiha Twitter won't let me follow you in Google Reader! Damn fail Twitter. #
• Mmm. Tesco value economade. Nom. #
• @plastikscissorz *cuddles* in reply to plastikscissorz #

Lucy

I keep losing friends

Current Mood: Sad & Tired

My mind is broken.

You might get sick of hearing me say that.

—– Edit: Here starts an epic over-reaction of fail. —–

I’ve managed to lose 3 friends now. The first, down to continually abusing her and taking her for granted for reasons that I still don’t know myself. She was too forgiving for her own good… until she could take no more. I upset her to the point that she couldn’t take it anymore, and managed to get a friend to come visit from the other side of the country to cheer her up.

I upset #1 to the point that her housemate, friend number 2, pretty much told me in as public an online place as possible to stay away from them. The implication seemed to be that I’m not really welcome round their house anymore (or at least, that’s how I feel). Friend 3… I haven’t technically lost, but as #2 and #3 are for most purposes the same person, and being banished from #2’s house means I’m unlikely to really see #3… I’ve essentially lost #3 as well.

I don’t know how it took so long for them to realise I wasn’t worth staying friends with.

I have no right to complain, and yet I do anyway.

—– Edit: Here ends the epic over-reaction of fail. —–

I very nearly lost another one tonight, and trying to make sure I don’t is the reason I’m still awake at ultra-ridiculous o’clock.

And I know there are more to come.

Several people in person don’t even try to hide the fact that they don’t really like me. And I have been informed by one of the few people left that I trust that several people have been saying really bad stuff about me. I do not know the identity of these people, but it is becoming really hard for this person to stick up for me, because all that results from that is these people telling her how evil and vindictive I am and that I should not be trusted and how I’ve got her wrapped around my little finger. I’m starting to believe some of that stuff myself. I wish I knew who these people were, but apparently knowing would make it worse than suspecting a lot of people (I’ve got a short list of approximately one person it could be, but I know there were several).

—– Edit: Here starts an appendix to the previous epic over-reaction of fail. —–

I imagine the people in question stopped reading my blog long ago. #1 must have stopped a while ago, and an attitude like #2’s builds up over time. But even so, I imagine that some of them might find this post anyway. I hope they don’t. I don’t want them to comment on here and attempt to portray me even worse than I am already doing.

—– Edit: Here ends the appendix to the previous epic over-reaction of fail. —–

In other news…

I was supposed to clean the bathroom over 7 hours ago, but I dare not sign off for fear that it’ll be seen as an excuse so that I can run away, and I’ll end up losing that other friend.

Lucy

Multitasking

I subscribe to a newsletter and, every once in a while, I actually read it. I’m glad I did this time, as it contained this nugget of lol:

Most people most days can walk and chew gum at the same time, and talk on the phone and consume oxygen and watch the ducks build snowmen.

But notice one thing — of the five things I just listed, all but talking on the phone are pretty automatic and don’t require conscious thought. You can walk without thinking about it. Ditto for chewing gum. Ditto oxygen. Ditto the ducks — unless they really are building snowmen. If that’s the case, as soon as your consciousness takes note of the snowmen, the phone discussion is going to shift direction radically.

In other news…

As I got up at 10.30pm toda… I mean, yesterday, I do not intend to go to bed until the same time today. Ish.

The plan for the rest of the unsociable hours is to dishwash, clean the bathroom (gasp) and tidy my room (double gasp). Might even get in some work for this coursework.

Lucy

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08

• There are no free chairs in this computer lab! >_< #
• @frandobagel as in… World of Warcraft? in reply to frandobagel #
• Holy Crab! There's a piano piece on this Crush 40 albu… oh. Introduction. #
• Need to write two speeches by tomorrow. And need to make them tomorrow. Do not want x2. Need to prepare myself in case IRA shows up too. >_< #
• Whoever came up with the idea of flash magazines, like this one http://tinyurl.com/y9o4wdu needs to be shot. #
• @plastikscissorz Nobody said the DVLA made sense :p in reply to plastikscissorz #
• I got in! 8 votes for me, 1 vote for RON. I don't know if that 1 was IRA, but their threat appears to have been empty nonetheless. #
• My iPhone is not broken! It just gave me a fright by being off and then not turning on for 10 minutes, hanging at the Apple logo. #
• @scattermoon but that's all the way over there! *points* in reply to scattermoon #
• @plastikscissorz I mean the person known only as 'I Remain Anonymous' in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @scattermoon It's 'programs'. Computers speak American :p in reply to scattermoon #
• Donner Kebab Pizza!! #
• @scattermoon Well, as everybody knows, if a woman's boobs shrink, they lose 20 years! in reply to scattermoon #
• @welfaresami Page not found!!!!! in reply to welfaresami #
• @peppernom beer! woo! fun times! in reply to peppernom #
• @bma did she get an answer? in reply to bma #
• @scattermoon Woo! in reply to scattermoon #
• @bma damn. now that the question is out in the open, i wanted to know the answer too! in reply to bma #
• Tempted to go to the AnimeSoc sleepover tomorrow night. Unfortunately, I'd miss the first 5 hours of it. Even so, that's 7 hours of funtimes #
• Wait… did I say 'sleepover'? Sleeping is the one thing we do NOT want to happen! #
• I'm annoyed that the local Thorntons is no longer with us. This means the nearest one is… somewhere on the 12 bus route. #
• @bma via jailbreak? or via Apple opening it up? The latter would obviously be preferable, but don't know whether you'd settle for the former in reply to bma #
• @scattermoon Seems the comments were better when you read it than when I did just now. in reply to scattermoon #
• Want to go to bed, but Apple say I must stay up for at least half hour with a computer that is borderline unusable. STOP FOCUS STEALING! #
• Good morning Internet! Yes, I'm awake and up before noon on a Saturday. Try not to faint.  #
• Why is nobody awake at this ungodly hour?! #
• Need to figure out what these Deutche Bank people want to do and how to represent that on screen. #
• @plastikscissorz I mean the one in cannon park (by Tesco) in reply to plastikscissorz #
• I'm considering moving my websites to the CompSoc server. Why this has taken me so long to think of, I have no idea. #
• After at least 6 hours, my websites are back online! #
• @plastikscissorz I know in reply to plastikscissorz #
• @scattermoon nah. The DB peeps we're talking to are from London, speak English, and are both named Paul. in reply to scattermoon #
• "If you don't want to use a plumber then purchase a cheap snake or rent a Pro snake and do it yourself" … What? #
• @scattermoon lolwut? What was this in reference to? in reply to scattermoon #
• @scattermoon ah. Though, I was actually refering to a tweet of yours from a few days ago. Your Twitter doesn't support "in response to". in reply to scattermoon #
• In the queue at the kebab van, I overheard the guy in front being asked "is that to take away?" erm… what is the alternative? #
• Trying out some new desktop twitter clients. So far, twibble is horribly slow. #
• This one has promise… #
• Hmm. TwitIQ looks interesting… #