I'm a Creator, I am the source, I'm the mind

Every time I go away for a weekend, something fairly major seems to happen... I suppose I'll just sit back and watch the politics unfold.

I left Oli's rather early with the first carload, as Diplomacy didn't really interest me all that much to be honest. Like Risk, it seems the kind of game that needs a few hours set aside for it, and I really just wanted to sleep before my classes in the morning. I'll have to teach you all "Siedler von Catan" at some point - does a game that's like Civilization in board game form sound boring?

I'm rather relieved that no one I've talked to has attempted this week's Computing practical. I thought that I was a bit behind, but it's so horrendous that it seems everyone's afraid to start it. Good. The lecture was more about the Towers of Hanoi. I remember having a BASIC2 program of that that I got from a PC Plus Superdisk that my dad had bought. Remember the days? I never completed it, you know.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and it's only just begun

I've updated this more than normal today... still. The practical went quickly, I didn't have to do much at all - just pouring things in to bottles and labelling them, basically. We were also taught how to use a spectrophotometer by one of the most useless demonstrators ever.

This afternoon I spent mostly listening to Gamma Ray (who are coloured blue), and had a game of table tennis with a few people in the middle common room - we'll have to do that again. I also got my laundry done - the machines may be more expensive now, but we get (probably unintentionally) free minutes on the dryers, so it works out as being less expensive.

Played chess again with Paul at dinner, where I managed, in a surprising turn of events, to checkmate myself.

I watched two films as well - the first was Princess Blade (NB not "Bride"), provided by Fiona. I didn't really understand it, but it had some good martial arts moments in it. The other one was in Paul's room, where I watched Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" for the second time in three days. I always liked Disney, the film are just as enjoyable now I'm older as they were then (or maybe it's because I'm a student and am impressed by nonsense like that). Unfortunately it has the most tragic part of any Disney film - turning the Beast in to Guybrush Threepwood.