Please keep in mind, the animals are dead!

So, Wednesday. The day where poeple in a relationship can be really romantic in the hope of covering the fact that for the rest of the year they’re not.

Course I’m single so…

I started the evening watching Top gear. In this episode, they tried to prove that it was easier to buy a car for a holiday in America than it was to reant one. Starting in Miami with a $1,000 budget. On the way they had to complete tasks from the amusing (tonight you’ll be camping out and eating only roadkill) to the, frankly, stupid and dangerous (paint slogans on each ohters cars that will get the driver shot or arrested in Alabama).

And then they reached New Orleans, their destination. The segment was filmed a year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and the devistation was still stunning to see. I think one of the hosts said it best when he said “How can the rest of America sleep at night knowing this is here?”

The aim when they reached New Orleans was to sell the cars and see who could make the biggest profit/lose the least amount of money. But after what they’d seen, it didn’t feel right. So they gave the cars away instead.

After Top gear, I had a shower and headed to the union where they were running Love By Numbers. As the name kinda sorta suggests, everyone gets given a number. There is a board on the stage. If you spot someone you like then you can leave a message for their number. And hopefully something good will happen for you.

Course the reality is that people leave wind up messages for their friends or messages for their existing partner.

Not that I’m bitter that I didn’t get any messages. No, not at all. I was speaking to this girl who is a geek, but sadly she also has a boyfriend. Damn.

Thursday and Friday I didn’t do much. Except on Friday I read my first Dashiel Hammnett story. Or at least I was until two complete random strangers decided that they couldn’t leave me on my own and dragged me over to sit with them. Good fun. (Now, if only I could remember their names…)

Saturday listening to the Aberdeen – Celtic game. We lost but at least we don’t have players who get injured while warming up :¬p

Sunday not much happened. Untill I came back from the shop and saw a small black thing run across the hall. Yeah, remember before when I said I thought we had mice? Not so much with the thought any more. Buggeration.

Last night was quiz night at the union. As usual, I took part with my friend Nikki. When I was at the bar inbetween rounds this idiot decides to show off to his friends by asking me to sing The Time Warp. I ordered my drink, nudges one of his friends and asked him to point out to the guy that it was the wrong night for kareoke.

Oh, quick question for the folks who’ve used photobucket for sharing videos. Is there a maximum file size? Cos I’d like to post footage of me singing The Time Warp in here but it’s too big for myspace.

I’m on a bit of a rock kick on my mp3 player at the moment. Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Offspring and Guns N Roses. Is there any better feeling than listening to an album for the first time in ages and remembering exactly why you liked it in the first place? That’s what the last couple of days have been like for me. My favourite of the songs I’ve rediscovered, in lyric form:

November Rain

When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin’ when I hold you
Don’t you know I feel the same
‘Cause nothin’ lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it’s hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain
We’ve been through this such a long long time
Just tryin’ to kill the pain
But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one’s really sure who’s lettin’ go today
Walking away
If we could take the time to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin’ that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin’ don’t refrain
Or I’ll just end up walkin’
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time…on your own
Do you need some time…all alone
Everybody needs some time…on their own
Don’t you know you need some time…all alone
I know it’s hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn’t time be out to charm you

Sometimes I need some time…on my
own Sometimes I need some time…all alone
Everybody needs some time…on their own
Don’t you know you need some time…all alone

And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain, ohhh yeahhh
I know that you can love me
When there’s no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
‘Cause nothin’ lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don’t ya think that you need somebody
Don’t ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You’re not the only one
You’re not the only one

Edited my last entry cos I kinda got one of the quotes wrong. Whoopsiedoodle! Also took the opertunity to remove all quote marks from the entry as well.

Was going to post the answers to my you think you know me entry, but thus far only one person has taken part so I’m gonna leave it a bit longer, just in case.

Found out the other day, while watching The Culture Show (what?) that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are recording a new album in the summer. Yay!

Can’t think of anything else.

No, wait. Pics!

The first two were taken when I was back home for the holidays.

Kari. My mums dog. AKA pest.

Greenfern Infants school. The first school I attended. I have great memories of the place which is why it’s sad to see that it’s closed and in that sort of state.

Now for more grafitti.

(Confession here. I saw a great piece when I was home that said ‘sexy in latin’ but when I noticed it the batteries in my camera ran out before I could photograph it. When I went back a few days later it had gone. :¬( )

Is is just me or does he look like Ian Brown?

I know I’ve featured him before, but that was before soneone added the pi sign.

And my favourite of the three.

Right. Now I’m finished.

Will