More Diary

Yesterday I was very busy; up at 8:30am to go to the CU Breakfast at 8:45am, which was useful because Penny was really not a very good advert for CLC and didn't mention the work in King's Hedges which makes us stand out. Then off to CLC, talked to some new mathmos, saved seats, that kind of thing. The service was pretty good, although the speaker was a little overenthusiastic and hence had a tendancy to say the wrong thing. There was much amusement at his pronouncement 'These are the works of fallen man!' just as the WinXP startup screen appeared on the projector.

Afterwards there was supposedly many free lunches, but I needed to get back to my room and make it vaguely habitable, and write Jack a character. I decided to go with a heavily multiclassed d20-modern character to give him Tough, Smart and Charismatic talents. Douglas showed up 17 minutes early, so he got to sit and read until others showed up, at which point I told them to argue amongst themselves about where they'd finished up.

There was much D&D, and then we went off to Hall, where there was scampi and dead broccoli in cheese sauce and weird but very nice banoffee stuff. After that we disbanded to the CURS squash, where there were lots of people sitting in chairs looking nervous. This confused us, so we sat in chairs and looked nervous and occasionally taunted the commitee.

Eventually more people and sign-up sheets and a game of Munchkin showed up, and I ate a couple of bags of Monster Munch because they had the actually nice flavour, and said hi to last year's D&D party. I hung around talking to various strange roleplaying types, was informed that every RPG society had a Michelle who was the only girl and was vicious, tried to join Stuart's Everway game but got bored because ages were taken up with a meeting I wasn't part of, then wandered off to look at Ewan's completely random game.

It had turned into a Western, and there was much non-Euclidian architecture in a transplanted seaside town, Arksmouth, with a statue to the mayor L. Ovecraft. My character was Rasputin the Slayer, a mad Russian monk whose main skill was 'Kick Ass For The Lord'. Much randomness and fun was had by all.

Eventually I was a bit sleepy and Nicholas had shown up, so I found a way in-character to kill my character off ("You say that it feels like the gates of Hell have opened behind me? There must be so many heathens in there! I go 'Yeee-HAH!' and leap into the pit, ready to Kick Ass for the Lord.') and sloped off back to my room.

Saturday, didn't get up that early; when I did get up, I spodded merrily until 3:40pm, and then headed off to Poohsoc. There were *lots* of new people, nice scones and silliness; about four or so of the new people actually paid their Pooh levy and hence will probably come back. We worry about having enough space in rooms, when the new ones have all gone, and read the Oblivion Party minutes.

Eventually we disband to the Castle for food and Jack's Housewarming-Without-The-House, which is fairly poorly attended until many people arrive who we don't know. I am getting sleepy because I'm still quite ill, and I can't hear properly so I'm not talking to anyone but Nicholas, so I go home about 9pm.

Diary

This should have been posted on the 8th of October (i.e. Friday), so read as from then.

Today was mostly full of lectures; I suspect if I'd been listening more then it wouldn't have been so dull. I got to my first one actually before on time; it really does only take 20mins to walk to New Museums. I even managed breakfast and to check what time and where everything was.

Yesterday I meant to do some things and did other things instead. I got up and went to my Unix Tools lecture, and that was actually quite interesting. After that I planned to do lots of washing (myself, my clothes, the dirty crockery in my room), but actually I sat down and thrashed out a vaguely acceptable Tick 0 (it's rubbish and does some stuff wrong and contains one of the ugliest hacks I've had the misfortune to create, but it does behave like it ought to). Then it was time to go and eat food and wander off to The Call, although Hall managed to out-do themselves in providing nothing edible (curry, more curry, thing with onions, chicken burger with mayo) and so I had to eat more stuff in my room. Which was okay because we ended up waiting for the party including freshers, and then walked faster than them most of the way anyhow.

The Call wasn't bad but I felt a bit distant because I have the lergy and hence was mostly falling asleep. We were eventually rescued by some nice New Hall people, with which we had communion in their room. Then I went home and fell asleep.