Week 7+8: Course Change and Actual University Work

So once again this is a combination of this week’s post and last week’s belated entry. Apologies. But, at the end of the day, you couldn’t give a shit and neither could I!

So, contrary to whatever my last post may have said, my old course was rubbish! It was too dull and non-Englishy for me, so I have swapped course to English Language for a new challenge – so far I am enjoying actually having a routine which involves lectures and classes! I actually feel like I am doing a degree now.

So recently I have been getting bored of going to the same two clubs whenever I go out. There are a number of possibilities for future nights out. 42’s, South and Tiger Tiger are yet to be experienced. Went to the Deaf Institute the other night, good place but Saturday probably isn’t the best day for it – bloody pricey drinks and 60’s music ain’t ma cup of tea, but a weekday for Deaf Institute is a must-go.

So recently I’ve gone completely insane. Last week I couldn’t stop playing F1 2006 and listening to Coldplay and U2, this week I now can’t stop playing PES 2008 and listening to a bizarre array of music which will make up my tracks for this blog:

1. Scatman – Scatman John
2. If You’re Not The One – Daniel Bedingfield
3. Shake Your Coconuts – Junior Senior (as per usual)
4. Wearing My Rolex – Wiley
5. They’re Taking The Hobbits To Isengard (10 hour version)
6. Mad World – Gary Jules

If this wasn’t weird enough, today I decided to watch the football league show, and as soon as the highlights for my beloved Crystal Palace came on, I fell asleep. I’ve been falling asleep at random all week and all last week and it’s down to a combination of late nights at weekends and the fact that my body can’t cope with pre-9 o’clock.

In other news, it was my birthday last Friday (the 7^th) which was good, went out for a buffet meal with my bitch, Cath… I mean girlfriend. She got me some clothes, the peep show box set (FUCK YEAH) and 2 books – The Damned United and Alone In Berlin – which I can’t wait to start reading. My flatmates threw a mini-shindig and made me some nice brownies too. Got to see a few of my mates from Cheshire too which was good. Went home at the weekend (9^th) to see the (grand)parents, always good seeing the rents and get lots of free food and a nice roast dinner – missed roasts!

Well I’ll probably wrap this up here, it’s 11 and I need to skype the missus and defecate.

Inabit lads/lasses

Coombes

Week 2: Core Meltdown

So this last week has been a rather apathetic one. I think me and my friends have finally realised that they all just want to go to uni now! Considering the high levels of apathy, I need to think of something to talk about…

SIMCITY – I have been playing it a lot recently, to the point where the population of my city reached 18,000 people and everything was running rather smoothly. This was the case until my financial advisor said I had no money left anyway. The reason for this? My stupid ignorant citizens wanted me to build an £82,000 (A LOT IN SIM LAND) university which sapped my budget dry. I raised all taxes to 20% and cut everything and now my city is in complete turmoil and everyone is dying. I feel bad. I fell as if I could have done better, I could have saved them but I just couldn’t do it… sorry, it’s been an emotional time.

UNIVERSITY – Not many developments on this one but now have salt and pepper mills which is nice and comforting, don’t think I could live without them. However, it has dawned on me just how badly I need and how hard it is to get a job. Greggs rejected me today based on a ten question scenario based quiz, now I feel embarrased and sad. I have applied to work at the Reebok Stadium as well, but that is 17 miles away from where I live, so that might be difficult to attend. Argh. The advisors at uni are going to get a severe badgering.

RETRO – If anyone reading this can find a copy of Hogs of War for less than a fiver, please buy it for me. Please. I will literally do anything for it. OK, maybe not that, but yeh, I REALLY want this game. To fill the void I have been playing Ratchet and Clank which is just fucking weird (albeit brilliant) and Crash Team Racing, but there’s no one around me to play it with me, single player is boring. So yeh, that’s my plea done for the week.

MUSIC – It has come to terms with me just how much I love trip-hop recently. So basically, Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky. Figured I’d share some of that with you this week!

FOOTBALL – I cannot believe that the one time England actually put in a half-decent performance, I don’t watch the game. Gary Cahill looks like a future England Captain to me, a real player. In other news, Crystal Palace didn’t play due to the international break, so I get to enjoy another week of the dizzying heights of 6th in the Championship. That’s so high considering how we’re favourites to go down. It’s so high that I’ve got altitude sickness. Hopefully this magnificence will continue with a victory over Leeds this coming weekend. Bloody scum.

So yeh, generally a dull, apathy-crammed post there, but when something exciting happens in my life and on the off chance that you actually give two shits then it’ll likely be posted here.

Sianara!

Coombes

Week 1: Wiping the slate clean

I have decided to re-ignite my old blog for uni! I feel the urge to document my life at uni and stuff while I’m there so yeah, this will likely be a weekly thing or something!

Well I guess introductions would be a good place to start. My name is Kris and I come from a humble parish in East Cheshire called Haslington. Around 5′ 11″, 11 and a bit stone, ginger mop of curly locks, been in a grand old relationship for 10 months and still going strong. I like fruit polos, fried rice dishes, a variety of terrible musicians and bands (unless you like what I like, in which case I have an outstanding music taste), lava lamps, Peep Show, writing incessantly emotional heartfelt poems, Crystal Palace Football Club, sleeping and strumming my often out-of-tune cheap guitar.

I am preparing myself for the next big step in my life, which is going to the University of Manchester to study Language, Literacy and Communication. This requires me to move away from home and live in a flat full of potentially insane folk who I’ve never met and am terrified of meeting. At least I am discovering new room mates by the day, and despite having never seen the inside of my accommodation, I already love it. From what I have heard, our local bar has Sky Sports, a Wii and Karaoke! But best of all, allegedly, the house I am in contains three banks, a McColls and a Greggs! Literally a few staircases away from pastry heaven! So there’s a lot to look forward to there.

Currently I am angle-grinding my way through the expansive list of crap I have to do before I come to uni. I have just created my IT account for example, and I now have a ridiculous new username and password to attempt to remember. I have also been buying some stuff to take to university with me – and this is where I discovered the unerring brilliance of local car boot sales. Brand new stuff for pocket change! So far I have picked up loads, with the highlights being 4 razor-sharp pizza cutters for 50p, an entire crockery set for £2 and a George Foreman grill for £3, ALL BRAND NEW.

In light of me having no money for the next three years at least, I have been acquiring and stockpiling methods of cheap entertainment – mainly in the form of retro PS2 and PC games. If you can find games for less than a fiver that are more fun than that shite that is Call Of Duty – which is over £40 – why the hell would you bother with a major console? Makes no sense to me. Currently, I am searching for games like Worms, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot and Sims for bargain prices!

Suppose I have little else to say really, here’s a song for you all! I usually affix songs to the ends of my posts, because that’s how I roll. This is Shake Your Coconuts by Junior Senior. It’s not an accurate representation of my taste in music by any means, but it is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine.

Inabit!

Coombes