Last night was course social night. This once in a blue moon occasion was organised the second year as a pre-party before Hey Ewe, and being one of the few official events we all get together on a night out it promised to be good.

The main bulk of third years (as opposed to third year/fourth years) was made up of me, Jim, Rosie, Lianne, Nikki, Big Chris, Guy, Dickie and one or two others who I don't properly know. I was the only person from my house yet. Being a pre-party, we had to be in Cognito for 8pm, which is far to early to go to the Union, but as we had no choice, we all obliged. We then ended up talking to the only lecturer attendee for the next half and hour, and were pleased to find out about what all the other lecturers got upto at prior social events.

Rufio is an A Grade prick.

Others around were Nature, Mike, Ads and Joe. DDS never showed despite a promise. It was a good night which terminated with a cheese and pickle sandwich and a milkshake back at home. In retrospect this was not a good move as this morning I woke with a dry mouth and reached for the first liquid I could find which was the pint of warm milkshake which I pretty much downed, and if anyone has ever downed a warm milk, the stomach/throat aches will be familiar to you too.

A dissertation tutorial later, I briefly stopped off at the Tower. Besty has got a new haircut - a Children In Need red mohican dyed bright red, and after some chatting with Nature, Em and Crazy Rach I decided to brave the rubbish weather and cycle back.

Part of the afternoon's activities included watching Countdown, prompted by the news from Swan (he does nothing else but watch daytime TV) that there was a 14 year old boy taking part and yesterday he had rinsed the competition, which he equalled today. I'm not even sure if I know what some of those words he came up with mean; I'm not sure whether he knew either - he suggested GLUMP as one word and you get the idea that despite getting MOTLIER and SOCIETAL he didn't actually know what they meant.

We're building a poker table.

UPDATE: Geek Test

Someone under the alias of Towers Dweller challenged me to take this test, and in good faith (and with some apprehension) I took it. I surprised myself with the result, even I think I'm more geeky than this... I'm only the next category up from Tech Support Nightmare and I answered everything 100% honestly.