From the abyss it's the Savior's return...

I nearly managed to stay awake through Jon Lewis' lecture this morning, though Roger woke us all up later with his impressions of him and the way that he could be a game show host because of how he laughs after every sentence.

As for Chemistry, Neville Richardson's back as a lecturer. I last had him at the very start of first year. His new tactic for getting people to pay attention is to hand out pre-printed notes with things missing from them that you have to fill in as you go along. Otherwise, they're exactly the same as the projected notes, making his lectures in to a chemical-themed game of Spot the Difference.

The CS task for this week was pretty horrendous, but after close to a four-hour struggle our little group managed to get through about half of it. I have to say I don't understand the concept of pointers at all, I just have to throw some &s and *s in to the code wherever I feel like it and hope for the best. So I'll go back on Wednesday.

On the way back I saw a rubber Buchner seal at the bottom of the Melville path. I'm not sure how it could have got there.

In a while I'll go and speak with the duty warden about the state of the hall, armed with a printed copy of raphx's elegantly thought out discourse on Why This Hall Sucks. Wish me luck.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

I'm back from the "meeting". Guess what? There was no one in. I've e-mailed Kenneth instead - as you'll notice, using one of his own favourite weapons against him.

I've just been down to the general office to avail the "Resident's Advice
Service" that was advertised on one of the corridor notice boards (it
doesn't seem to have been publicized very well - might it be possible to
place this in a more prominent position so that more residents are aware of
it?) but found no one in, even after waiting around for a while and also
trying the porter's office. There were a number of issues that I wanted to
raise about the hall - did I just appear at the wrong time?

I'll try again on Wednesday.

Thanks
David K Newton

Don't know why I put "thanks". "Sod off" would have been more appropriate.