Today has been full of variety. After taking my fire alarm free shower (makes a change) and getting some brunch inside me, I paid a visit to Emily to sort out fresher t-shirts for next year. Although I told myself I wouldn't be doing them, unfortunately graphic projects just have this little hook about them and so I'm providing the artwork for the second year running. Usually, nothing disturbs my concentration, but unfortunately the temptation of cutting my way through another lump of Lost managed to pry me away from getting it finished. I aim to complete both projects tomorrow.

Flash took me and DDS to the degree show. I was impressed on the whole; maybe it's the new posh venue this year that's showing off things in their best light, but I reckon the quality of work is definitely higher. There are some interesting concepts; female urinals and treadmill bikes and it made for a good couple of hours browsing and left me scratching my head on how I would avoid making 'speaker stands' or 'a piece of furniture' for my major project next year. I think if you're going to spend a year of your degree/life on a project, you have to love what you're doing. It also helps if you think it might have made a contribution to life, unlike another bloody iPod holder or desk. Going to have to start getting some ideas together soon.

One Good Idea I bumped into today was being brandished by Richbrown who we tracked down at the degree show. He was sporting one of those new-fangled PDAs. Well, when I say PDA, it probably isn't quite what you're thinking. It's officially called a Hipster PDA and is a new little craze spreading from here. It consists of a slab of index cards all held together with a bulldog clip and a nifty piece of kit called a 'pen'. The thing fits in your pocket, and with a bit of wizardry, you can use it to help manage your life.

Modern technology. Isn't it wonderful? You can even 'Beam' stuff to other people, or 'mod' it. I might even consider getting one at some point. There's the bandwagon, and there's me thinking of jumping on it.

Had a play around with that new bit of kit by Microsoft, Codenamed Acrylic. It's only a beta version at the moment, but it's fully functional for 180 days and the closest thing I can compare it too is a cross between Illustrator and Painter. I don't know how it will fare (I don't ever see a MS product becoming the product of choice for artists/designers) but it's quite interesting this emerged and I'd like to know what gaps in the Adobe/Macromedia vacuum it's going to attempt to fill.

This evening Flash, Butts, Richbrown and myself all ended up at Chan's for an impromptu Chinese meal. The decision was made partially on the basis that we found out that Rufio was taking Caz there for a romantic meal (Sean? On a date? Have I been overdoing it on the Fabreeze? No it's true). We found out he had booked a table for 6.15pm, and so quickly booked our own table at the same time. The food was good (I can't get enough of Chinese), but the service was pretty bad and we opted to skip the tip. The one-coke-one-tap water rule didn't impress, but hey, their loss.

The Foo's new double album is out tomorrow and I'm on pre order. I can't wait to see that 20cm sq. envelope show up. I've listened to the tracks I have on repeat for four days now and it's awesome in every single way.

This weekend has been the most relaxing in a long while.

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