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Defining Gravity?

2008-05-26T20:38:00.002-12:00

So I was thinking.. that original conversation between Isaac Newton and his assistant Whiston... just after he got hit on the head... may have gone just a little bit...like this?

NEWTON:
Something has changed within me something is not the same
An apple hit my head and now I’m going quite insane
Too late for second-guessing too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts close my eyes and leap

It's time to try Defining gravity
I think I'll try Defining gravity
First: it can pull fruit down...

WHISTON Can't I make you understand, you're having delusions of grandeur...?

NEWTON
Lets try creating limits on how an object falls
Some things I cannot change and so I’ll make physical laws
Too long I've been afraid of falling objects on my head
But now I see that they’ve been helping me instead..

It’s time to try Defining gravity
Kiss me goodbye I'm defining gravity
Second rule: it pulls the moon

Whiston, come with me. Think of what we could do - together.
We’re limited By gravity we're limited
But we can still be the greatest team there's ever been, (in phyics),
Laws the way we planned 'em

WHISTON
If we work in tandem

BOTH
There's no force we cannot name!
Just you and I Defining gravity with you and I Defining gravity

NEWTON
They'll never prove us wrong... Well? Are you coming?

WHISTON
I hope you're happy Now that you're choosing this...

NEWTON
You too - I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end I hope you're happy, my friend...

NEWTON
So if you care to find me I’ll be just down the hall
As an apple showed me lately - Gravity will teach a thing to fall
And if I'm working solo I’ll get all royalties
The whole world needs me To get a physics degree…..
Yes! Because I Am defining gravity!
I'm going to try Defining gravity!
And soon my laws will have renown
And nobody in all of physics
No Scientist that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!

The Vagina Monologues

2008-02-15T09:33:00.004-12:00

The following link is to a clip from the TODAY show which has shocked America... Jane Fonda and Eve Ensler discuss 'The Vagina Monologues' and mention the word Cunt (oops... I said it too!)

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=d3d61789-453b-4107-b858-a3bbcc482117

On the 4th and 5th of February I directed and performed the Vagina Monologues with an amazing group of women from Swansea University. We are the only group (according to the VDAY website) to be performing in Wales this year as part of the VDAY campaign raising awareness about Violence against women all over the world. With 11,441 recorded rapes in 2002 in the UK and only a 7% conviction rate for rapists this is an area that needs as much awareness as possible raised.

The monologue mentioned by Jane Fonda (Cunt..oops again!) is actually one of 2 monologues I performed as part of the evening and it's all about "reclaiming" the word, turning it from an offensive swear word into what it is supposed to be...another word to describe the vagina...there are lots of them...just read the introduction to the monologues! If we live in a world where just saying a word that means vagina can cause tv stations, presenters and celebrities to make public apologies no wonder women don't feel they can speak about their vaginas!

VDAY has been around for 10 years, it has raised over $50 million for charities fighting for justice and safety and basic human rights for women. If talking about your vagina makes you uncomfortable, whether you hate your vagina or find it fascinating it doesn't really matter, what matters is that women around the world are still being treated as second class citizens. In the words of the White Ribbon Campaign:

If it were between countries, we'd call it a war.

If it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic.

If it were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster.

But it is happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair.

It is violence against women.

It is sexual harassment at work and sexual abuse of the young.

It is the beating or the blow that millions of women suffer each and every day.

It is rape at home or on a date.

It is murder.

However you feel about the word the important thing is not to let it distract from the mission..to end violence against women.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the women (and men) who helped make our performance of 'The Vagina Monologues' such a huge success, we raised £675 for VDAY and Swansea Women's Aid and more importantly we raised awareness. As Eve says in the clip, performing the monologues builds amazing friendships and it's been fantastic spending time with you all. I'm so proud of all of you who've written your own notes about the monologues, so proud to see that the monologues have made a difference to you all, we need to break the silence if we're going to make a breakthrough.

I would like to make it quite clear that this post was not intended to offend, I strongly believe that women's rights are a huge issue in today's world and that the work done by VDAY is worthwhile. As I have already mentioned, the whole point of the monologue the title of which is found offensive by so many is to attempt to regain some dignity for a word that has been misused in todays society.

Adnabuoch 'r Rhyngrwyd all chyfieitha Cymraeg atat?

2007-08-19T22:19:00.000-12:00

Where is the snow?

2007-02-07T22:48:00.000-12:00

No really... the whole of the UK is coated in snow EXCEPT Swansea! Cardiff has snow... so why don't we!?!

Looking on the BBC website I discovered that the 5 day forecast for here says that the weather today will be predominantly heavy snow BUT the 24 hr forecast does not have any snow whatsoever! Also... there is one school in Swansea closed today due to snow...what???!!!!???

I am tired and cold and I WANT SNOW!!!!

THE PANTS SAGA!

2007-01-29T09:48:00.000-12:00

I am one of those people who really likes to play a good old practical joke (as long as nobody returns the favour) but this has to be one of the best this year!
I arrived home last week to find a heated discussion in progress on the problems of evil pants! Evil pants (as many of you will know) are those which are not produced organically. As soon as Becky left the house we realised that something must be done to save her from herself!
Emily and I journeyed up the stairs and entered Becky's room where she was yet to unpack after the christmas break. Rummaging through her suitcases and cupboard we managed to successfully extract all the evil pants in sight leaving a sign to demonstrate that our actions had been for her own good.

Becky's pants were placed in a plastic bag in the cupboard in our living room cunningly hidden with all the other bags!

After a few days during which Becky had to do a lot of underwear washing I decided that it was time to turn the tables... I returned the pants to Becky but kept the fact from Emily. The house was informed of the situation and part b of the plan put into action!!

Becky spent the next few days complaining about her lack of undergarments and looking traumatised!

Meanwhile we removed a large number of plastic bags from the cupboard and readied ourselves for the big day - 29th January 2007...

I persuade Emily that the time has come to reveal the location of the pants, we plan to artistically strew them across the living room whilst Becky is upstairs (Becky uses this chance to hide her pants in case Emily comes to check). Upon opening the cupboard Jess (acting) and Emily are shocked to see that the bags have gone!

Emily: where are the bags?
Una: Oh, don't worry I took them to Tesco's to recycle them.
Emily: what?
Una: you know, the thing outside where you recycle the bags
Emily: no not where... when did you do that?
Una: um.. well what' today, monday? So that would have been friday?
Jess and Emily exchange worried glances
Becky (entering): What's going on?
Emily: Shall I tell her...proceeds to explain the whole thing!

Anyway.. after much fantastic acting on the part of the housemates Becky runs from the room in tears only to return brandishing her "only two pairs" of underwear. After a bit more discussion and offers from Emily to rush immediately to Tesco's and make enquiries Becky leaves again returning amid much excitement with all her pants!

All in all... a classic prank all round!

It's official...

2006-12-07T23:09:00.000-12:00

...I've created a googlewhack! Marvellous!

Just a Joke?

2006-12-05T23:16:00.000-12:00

How sad... google says that JAJ stands for Just a Joke :(

Stupid google...and I haven't created a googlewhack!

Is half-spasticated teletubby a googlewhack?

2006-12-05T23:09:00.000-12:00

So anyway... moving on...

Went to the drama christmas ball last night dressed like this:

Well the email did say "wear tinsel"... and it got me a lot of free drinks!

Hurrah for being a student!

I love hats!

2006-11-21T04:52:00.000-12:00

It's amazing what you can do to a pub full of students when you put your mind to it...

Here's what we did in JCs last night! :

Welsh Jokes...

2006-11-15T07:02:00.000-12:00

When you can see the coast of Devon from Swansea it is going to rain. When you can't, it is raining already.

...maybe you have to live here!

Don't you just love lectures...

2006-11-14T23:29:00.000-12:00

I am in the gap between my second and third lectures of the day (yes it is only 11.00!) but I just have to blog some of the gems my lecturer (Professor Brain - no really!) said in the lecture today!

A warning against anthropomorphism...

"people often say ah, owls, they are so wise, BOLLOCKS, they're just chickens.... and eagles they're just bloody chickens too!"

We also learnt about sado-masichism in elephants ...
"whipping the male into a frenzy with her trunk"

And learnt quite how great we are at zoology...
"So... can anyone tell me what a cow is?" ... *silence* ..."a cow?"...*silence*..."ok well they are 4-legged hoofed animals who live in fields."

HURRAY for a University education!

The Vision - Pete Grieg

2006-11-08T22:09:00.000-12:00

So this guy comes up to me and says, “What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?”
I open up my mouth and the words come out like this...

The vision?
The vision is Jesus:obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is of an army of young people.
You see bones?I see an army.

And they are free from materialism—They laugh at nine-to-five little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.They wouldn’t even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the West was won.
They are mobile like the wind.They belong to the nations.They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting, dirty and dying.

What is the vision?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.
It makes children laugh and adults angry.
It gave up the game of minimal integrity long ago to reach for the stars.
It scorns the good and strains for the best.
It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, from every conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps—their Satan games.
This is an army that would lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day, its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great “well done” of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They don’t need fame from names.
Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”

And this is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making, foundations shaking, revolutionaries dreaming once again.
Mystery is scheming in whispers, conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground.
And the army is disciple(in)ed—Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.

Winners.Martyrs.Who can stop them?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed?
Can fear scare them or death kill them?
And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulfuric tears and great barrow loads of laughter!

Waiting.Watching.24-7-365.

Whatever it takes they will give:
Breaking the rules,Shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide,Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs,Laughing at labels,Fasting essentials.
The advertisers cannot mold them.
Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late-night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive on the inside.
On the outside?They hardly care!
They wear clothes like costumes: to communicate and celebrate, but never to hide.

Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their lives, swap seats with the man on death row, guilty as hell: a throne of an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as though it all depends on them.

Their DNA chooses Jesus.He breathes out.They breathe in.
Their subconscious sings.
They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping malls.
Don’t you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdoes!Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes!

They walk tall and trees applaud.
Skyscrapers bow.Mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the Hound of Heaven and evoke the dream of Eden.

And, this vision will be.
It will come to pass.
It will come easily.
It will come soon.

How do I know?

Because, this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the spirit, the very dream of God.
My tomorrow is His today.
My distant hope is His 3-D.
And, my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking, great “AMEN!” from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself.

And He is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.

Dreaming of a white christmas?

2006-11-02T05:17:00.000-12:00

Don't you just love those evenings when it is freezing cold but the air is so clear and fresh that it doesn't matter, when it is only 5.00 but the sun is already setting and the moon is already out. It just reminds me of Christmas and late night shopping...only 7 weeks and 4 days till Christmas!

Here is a shot from the uni webcam

Isn't Wales beautiful?

Sitting in the library, listening to student radio, eating hula hoops...happy :)

WORK

2006-10-24T22:53:00.000-12:00

Just to show that I did work... Here are some of the fascinating insects I learnt about today!

a whole colony...they look just like thorns!

They're all just so cool!

I should be working...

2006-10-24T21:50:00.000-12:00

...but I feel mega guilty for not blogging all summer! So here is a superfast sprint through my summer....

- I was a bridesmaid at my Aunt's wedding, here is me in the dress which I mentioned in previous posts...aww

Ok so you can't really see the dress...but it is there...and it's such a lovely picture...

- ADVENTURETIME!! This years theme was Cowboys...and I played a goodie and a villain woo...multi-rolls! It was a fantastic time with over 100 kiddies each day coming along to learn about Jesus (and cowboys!)

- TURKEY...we went on holiday to Turkey (yes when the bombs were happening) and I learnt to do flying Trapeze wooo....(Chris...please provide photo!)

- MARMY... my hamster! (well the house hamster!)

-BACK TO UNI ... Living at my new student house and getting stuck in to the madness that is being a second year... 28 hours a week!!!!

Here are a few pics of a student trip to the Gower organised by my church... (we built a sandcastle :) !!!)

Me and Becky...

(They're standing by the sandcastle...it had a forest and everything!)

Right...now I will do some work...woo!

Googlebombing

2006-09-11T11:01:00.000-12:00

Google the words LIAR and FAILURE and see what comes up! Here is the official explanation from google:

Googlebombing 'failure'
9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM
Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web ProductsIf you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

Graduation ceremony

2006-07-19T00:02:00.000-12:00

I am currently back in sunny Swansea for the Graduation ceremonies, I am reading the proclamation (in English) at the beginning of all 12 ceremonies. I'm currently half way through.

If you are bored you can watch me :)

Use the link below to find a page about graduations and then scroll down to the bit about the live broadcast. You can watch in Windows Media Player.

Ceremonies today are at 10, 2 and 5 and on Thursday and Friday at 10 and 2!

http://www.swan.ac.uk/news_centre/releases/graduation/

CONSERVATIVES CLEAN UP

2006-07-06T23:02:00.000-12:00

Maybe I should have called this post “In even more conclusion” because I am pleased to announce that the graffiti is finally gone! Here is a diary of the events of the past week.

30 June 2006 - comment on my blog

Could you e mail at: ------ with the location of the graffiti Ben Abbotts failed to remove and I'll get it removed. Many thanks Cllr Nicholas Bennett

03 July 2006 - email

Dear Jessica-Ann

Many thanks for your email. Co-incidentally I found the location this afternoon after using your hints about it being only a few metres from the LD HQ! I photographed the scene and raised it during a supplementary to a question I had already tabled for tonight's council meeting on graffiti.

I'll keep you informed of progress.

05 July 2006 - email

Dear Jessica-Ann

I took Bob Neill, Cllr Colin Smith, the cabinet member for the environment and two of the ward councillors to see the graffiti this morning. Instructions to have it removed this afternoon have been given. I will check that the whole of the alleyway is done (previous experience of one opposite my house was not encouraging and they had to come back).

I'll take some pictures and e mail you.

Once again very many thanks for spotting this.

The people in the photo are: Bob Neill MP, Cllr Colin Smith, Cllr David Hastings and Cllr Stephen Maly

07 July 2006 - email

Dear Jessica-Ann

The graffiti has been removed and I attach a photograph taken this evening which you may wish to put on your blog.

Thank you for your fantastic detection work and exposing the spin.

Well...there we are! The complete story and no photoshopping of politicians involved! It's true that this will be a great bit of press for the conservatives and please don't all comment to say that they have only cleared it up because of the publicity, since April 2004, 23300 instances of graffiti have been removed from buildings and street furniture in Bromley, this isn't a one off.

Oh and I feel I should mention two other things:

1. Those of you who were slightly worried by the comments by a Dave II of Swanley asking me out for drinks, they were not posted by some internet wierdo but my boyfriend who has a wierd sense of humour and has been told off for scaring me.

2. This blog was not set up to air my political opinions, most of the time it will be full of me talking about the random things I get up to at Uni etc. so please don't be disappointed if you check back to find that I have done nothing but talk about sea mice for a month! I have enjoyed my meander into politics however and who knows, maybe I will be a bit more political in future posts!

In conclusion...

2006-06-29T23:39:00.000-12:00

I was amazed by the response I got on my blog to my VOTE post, in less than 24hours I had a full blown political debate taking place.

I'd just like to thank all those of you who put my mind at rest about the little old ladies in the factories, maybe the nightmares will go away now!

Also a huge congratulations to those of you who tried so desperately to prove that the wall had been re-tagged and even bigger congratulations to any tagger good enough to replace a tag so accurately!

Here are the results (well most of them) and a few comments made by the candidates. What it highlights is that the election turn out was unbelievably few! It seems that the huge quantities of paper that came through peoples doors did nothing to encourage most of them to actually go out and vote.

As my mother so wisely pointed out the first time I was able to vote, women died to give me the opportunity, I have to use it. We live in a country where we have the freedom to express our opinions about how our country is run. We have the right to argue our opinions over the internet, in the streets, in the media, in our workplaces and homes. Even if it seems that our opinions don't always seem to change much apathy is never the answer.

If you have the chance to vote, use it.
If you don't think any of the candidates are worth voting for, void it!

Bromley and Chislehurst
Bob Neill (C) 11,621
Ben Abbotts (LD) 10,988
Nigel Farage (UKIP) 2,347
Rachel Reeves (Lab) 1,925
Ann Garrett (Green) 811
Majority: 633
Turnout 40.45 per cent
Swing: 14.32 per cent C to LD

"A minority of candidates, principally the Liberal Democrats, have chosen to fight this campaign with the most vigorous and underhand example of cynical personal abuse that I have encountered in 30 years of politics. If you [the Lib Dems] sometimes wonder why it is that people in this country are turned off by politics, get a mirror and look at yourselves,"

Newly-elected Tory MP for Bromley and Chislehurst Bob Neill

"The Conservatives tried to take the support of local people for granted. The result, as is absolutely clear, is a disaster for Cameron's Conservatives. Make no mistake this is an absolutely sensational result for the Liberal Democrats,"

Bromley and Chislehurst's Liberal Democrat candidate Ben Abbotts

VOTE!

2006-06-28T10:09:00.000-12:00

Tomorrow I get the chance to vote. This is only the second time I have been able to do this and I take the responsibilty very seriously. As many of my readers will know, Bromley has been a conservative borough for quite a while now but since the death of Eric Forth our old MP almost every party going has decided to try and grab this constituency.

I have had leaflets pouring through my door from UKIP, Conservatives, LibDems, Green, English Democrats etc. (Nothing from labour by the way!) As well as all the loners who thought they'd have a go because they have a politics degree and even...the Monster Raving Loony Party! I heard tonight that there is a group going under the original name of The New Party!

Well.. the one person who has really been annoying me in the run up to the polls has been the LibDem candidate. His name is Ben Abbotts and like the rest of them he is brilliant at telling us how awful the other candidates are and rubbish at giving me any good reason why I should actually vote for him.

5 Things about Ben Abbotts campaign that put me off:

1. There has just been so much of it...I only need one leaflet, once, not three per day...I don't care that it's recycled paper...it is still stupidly excessive!

2. The Chat style magazine we received with articles about him on EVERY SINGLE PAGE!

3. The printed post-it note they stuck to afore mentioned magazine saying "Don't you think he would be great for Bromley" to make it look like one of my neighbours had posted it through my door!

4. The printed blue letter on little bits of A5 paper made to look like it had been hand written and starting with the phrase Dear Neighbour! - Oh and the envelope with our address written on it by some little old lady in a factory somewhere!!!

5. The vile orange and yellow boards boasting that he's "Winning it for Bromley" and using the England flag to trick us into being all patriotic just because world cup fever is around!

So anyway....enough of the list of reasons... I might actually have voted for him...I mean despite all of those points, he seems keen, he lives locally (Not in Yorkshire like one of the candidates) and he does seem to know what he is talking about...if it hadn't been for this:

BEN ABBOTTS REVEALED:

This is the picture of Ben Abbotts cleaning graffiti...It is on his website, it was on one of his many campaign leaflets:

Oh and this is my arm, this evening, holding his leaflet right next to that same piece of graffitti which is....SHOCKINGLY...STILL THERE!!!!!!!!!! It's literally a few metres from the LibDem Bromley offices!

Just so cool...

2006-06-09T23:08:00.000-12:00

check this out...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animator

Sweet Voice!

2006-06-01T10:24:00.000-12:00

So...I have just checked my posts from the past few months and realised I never told you about my 3.00am singing experiences a few months back! I had been in Preseli helping Becky with her essay on Argentina and I had my guitar with me because I had been preparing a song for a CU meeting the next evening.
As I left the building I met a young man who appeared to be slightly tipsy and who entreated me to serenade me. Sadly I couldn't sing his requested song (WonderWall) so he had to make do with one of my own compositions (Paper Dissolves in the rain). The young man and both night porters who were listening applauded wildly before allowing me (finally) to go home and to bed.

Tonight I realised that we had run out of black sacks and went down to the porters to ask for some more. The Porter was one of the same porters who had been there that morning so many weeks ago! He remembered me (blast!) and said that he was a keen singer and maybe I should come down and we could sing duets together! Suddenly I realised he was serious (!) as he burst into song (can't remember the exact song - something to do with me being his girl!). I stood in shock until he'd finished... smiling kindly (you know the smile you give to lunatics in the street!) before grabbing the bin bags and hurrying back to my flat. "Goodbye Sweet Voice!" he called out behind me!

Thank goodness it is nearly the end of term! Everyone is going crazy!

Has to be seen to be...

2006-05-31T06:05:00.000-12:00

...laughed at!

Just watch this video!

http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/brolley_good_show/

Some of the stuff on this website is amazing though...also follow the links to look at the work of Julian Beever...his work is amazing!

Sussed!

2006-05-30T05:06:00.000-12:00

At 18:04 today Emily phoned me.... apparently there are only 2 new housemates in the BIG BROTHER house! Who would have thought it!

Despite my attempts at bluffing I eventually had to admit that Trevor, Clara and Simon don't actually exist!

It took her another half hour BIG BROTHER's BRAIN watching today before she finally realised! That is a total of around 4 hours of watching Big Brother to realise that there weren't 3 new housemates!

The hilarity!

No..really? Gullible isn't in the dictionary?

2006-05-29T11:59:00.000-12:00

It is 00:57 and I just can't go to sleep till I have shared this evenings events with you! For the past few days Emily has been joining me in the flat for revision and in the evening we all sit around (me, Em and Jo that is) and watch the amazingness that is BIG BROTHER! Now normally I do not watch such programmes and prefer the bug alternatives (see this time last year!) BUT this year has been a whirlwind of excitement and of course...I'm supposed to be revising!

Tonight Emily came round at about 21:10 having missed 10 minutes of BB. On the spur of the moment I informed her that she'd missed the arrival of 3 new housemates knowing full well that new housemates were being introduced later on in the show! We named the housemates Trevor, Simon and Clara..here is a bit about them:

Trevor, a Goth from Newcastle arrived in the BB house in full goth gear complete with mohican by bursting out of a large wedding cake!

Simon was found hiding in one of the beds, he is very gay and was wearing a pink shirt and mascara!

Clara looks exactly like Lia, big boobed and blonde. So similiar infact that to introduce her to the house she was placed behind one of the mirrors, when Lia wandered over to admire herself the mirror drew back revealing her doppleganger!

WELL....I guess you could believe that lot of crazy stuff...I mean...it is big brother! So we sit, and we watch and suprise suprise, no sign of our 3 new housemates. They are too busy recapping the days events. Then during the live section of the show we explain simply that the new housemates have been separated from the rest of the group because they are in on the fact that new housemates are arriving and aren't allowed to give the game away. Whenever Emily looks away from the screen we pretend to have seen a glimpse of our amazing new housemates - Claire and Sarah are brought in on the joke and join in with gusto!

23:05 - BIG BROTHER'S BIG BRAIN - the phsycologists analyse the new arrivals but do not mention Clara, Trevor or Simon - Emily doesn't actually seem to notice!

00:00 - BIG BROTHER LIVE - we kept the TV on whilst continuing to revise and although I had to do quite a bit of distracting Emily has now gone back to her flat to go to bed still firmly convinced that 5 new housemates entered the BIG BROTHER house tonight!

Aww...

I'll keep you posted on how long it lasts...it can only be a matter of time!

You've got to laugh really

2006-05-26T06:12:00.000-12:00

All links courtesy of google video

The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain

Hard Rock Hallelujah at Eurovision, the actual music video for Hard Rock Hallelujah

Daz (cleans whiter than white)!!!

WE ARE THE WINNERS OF EUROVISION

Don't know if this will work for everyone...it should open windows media...my fav song from Eurovision 2006

UPDATE:

Why Girls should go out clubbin' in pairs!

1. Tooters, the new event in Diva's on a Friday night is 2 tickets for £2 and 2 drinks for £2!
2. Girls cannot go to the toilet alone (this has been scientifically proven) and therefore need a friend (Girl 2).
3. Girl 2 can drag you away from strange men who make passes at you.
4. Girl 2 can carry you home at the end of the evening (and vice versa)
5. One of you can wear flat shoes and the other one heels and the 2 of you can swap shoes throughout the evening NB. This only works if you have the same size feet!

The end to another brilliant evening!

?!?!

2006-05-22T22:07:00.000-12:00

I want these t-shirts!!!

2006-05-18T00:20:00.000-12:00

(all taken from ONEHORSESHY.COM)

My easter...well some of it!

2006-05-08T21:52:00.000-12:00

Just a quick pictureful post (finally) with some of the highlights of my easter!

MY SKI TRIP IN SWITZERLAND!

Lookit mountains!!! We were right under the Eiger AND we skiid where James Bond skis in the opening of um...a film!

Me and My Skis!

Me at the Jungfraujoch the highest train station in Europe...it was very cold!

Me in the gondola

JUST A COOL PICTURE
A really cool google - Miro style (Miro is my favourite artist!)

MY TRIP TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL!

(You see this ladder...the red one...)

(that's this one!)

(This is where the other red arrow was pointing too)

A picture speaks a thousand words

2006-04-30T22:23:00.000-12:00

I am still awaiting photos with which to demonstrate my amazing holiday during which I skiied in Switzerland, bounced in Bromley and loitered in London. While you await tales of my adventures here is a photo of the loveliest coat in the world - yes it's orange :D

Good things come in threes

2006-03-22T12:45:00.000-12:00

Jess' 3 rules to a successful karaoke:

1. If you can't sing, admit it! If you can sing for goodness sake don't go wrong!

2. If you find a song you can do well...there is nothing wrong with doing it every time you go to a karaoke event - taking a fan club is good as well!

3. If you are half way through a song and a bit of tune/verse begins which you don't know either sing louder like you are singing the right tune or copy the audience!

Jess' 3 things you just didn't need to know from that lecture this morning:

1. The word Androgens (male hormones) means literally in the greek - man maker.
The word Oestrogens (female hormones) means literally in the greek - the twitching of cows being chased by flies!

2. In ancient egypt the placenta was thought to be the ghostly twin of the pharoah. When the pharoah was born the placenta was embalmed, mounted on a stick and carried into battle by the pharoah. Later these were replaced by material on sticks which became the modern flag!

3. Milk is actually dandruff (dead skin) suspended in blood plasma - mmmm!

3 of the languages Jess learnt to say the numbers 1 to 10 in today:

1. Welsh

2. Spanish

3. Swahili

(and a Zimbabwean dialect and mandarin!) - can only remember the welsh now though!

Achievements of the day:

2006-03-20T10:36:00.000-12:00

1. Actually blogged...I've meant to do it for ages and here it is..hurray!

2. Baked Bread...6 rolls and 1 loaf AMAZING and extremely yummy

3. Attended and stayed awake throughout 3 whole lectures on...FISH!!!

Ostracion cubicus - Yellow Boxfish
My new favourite fish!

4. Tidied my desk!

HURRAY for a day well spent!

Some photos of the picnic - thanks Jo

2006-03-08T12:57:00.000-12:00

It looks a bit pathetic from above but there were over 100 sandwiches!!!

Emily and I

Meeee!!

What a day!

2006-03-07T14:35:00.000-12:00

I can't believe it...it's now 2.20 am and I am blogging...might drop off half way through!!!

I've had a really amazing and exciting day. I had organised a food and fellowship event (picnic and prayer) for all the girls from Christian Union today because of the strikes there were very few lectures going on so it seemed the ideal time. When I woke up this morning though it was pouring with rain. I tried to move it to the Chaplaincy but after waiting for an hour with no sign of any chaplains I changed my mind! The picnic was moved to the floor of our kitchen, we laid out a rug and put the daffodils in the middle and the food round them. 17 people came! It was brilliant! We all sat round the edge and ate and had fun and then we had a time of prayer and worship! Woooooo!!! I'm so excited. It was so encouraging that people are getting excited about us meeting up for fellowship and prayer.

Afterwards Claire, Emily and Becky stayed till it was time for me to head off for DELIRIOUS!!! It was the most amazing gig ever, Delirious haven't been to Wales in over 3 years and we certainly showed them what they've been missing. Everybody seemed to know the songs already and we were singing louder than the band. At one point Martin Smith couldn't get his guitar to work so he just told us to "Sing one of your songs while I sort this out"..we just kept on singing with the band on our own! They did Majesty which was outstanding and at the end the Holy Spirit came down and loads of people started singing in the spirit and in tongues. Just a brilliant night.

"If you keep your hands clean and your hearts pure, you can take this nation"

When we got back Becky and I met up with Claire and Emily again to finish off a video we've made for our Student Sunday (all the students taking over church)...and that is why at 2.30 am I am only just getting to bed...yay and we have an early morning prayer breakfast tomorrow!

The funniest bit of the evening was when we were just leaving...Emily told us to wait for her but Becky and I pretended to run away. What we actually did was just to run into the kitchen and hide under the table. The problem was that the next person to enter the kitchen was one of Claire's flat mates who got really freaked out when he could hear us whispering and then jumped a foot in the air when we popped up from beneath the table!!!

Hurray for being a student!
Love Jess x

Counting my blessings..

2006-03-06T13:12:00.000-12:00

Today it was sunny in Wales..
...the daffodils I placed around our flat opened
... I managed to get up on time and have a shower before I had to go to my lecture
... I managed to get up on time and have breakfast before I had to go to my lecture
... my lecturer mentioned sea cucumbers, sea potatos and sea gooseberries
... my new Eden Project tea towel arrived in the post to replace the one I burnt!
... I kept seeing people I knew around campus
... I cooked a sausage lasagne all by myself
... I passed my geology exam
... we had a really great speaker at Christian Union
... everyone from Campus went bowling
...our cabbie was hilarious!
...Chris gave me some brilliant advice on how to bowl ("Knock the pins down")
... I got a STRRRIKE!
...we all went late night shopping in Tesco's

...now it is tomorrow :)

Apparently I don't blog enough!

2006-03-05T11:28:00.000-12:00

It would appear that not everybody is satisfied with a few pictures of sea mice even though they are amazing so I will give a quick run down of what I did this week:

Monday - Lectures
Week 1 - Christianity Explored Course

Tuesday - No Lectures
Laundry - yay clean clothes!
Christian Union commitee voting
Christian Union

Wednesday - Lectures + lecturer custard pied for charity - yay!
Lifegroups with pancakes... proffessionally flipped by me :)

Thursday - Lectures
Field Trip
Bible Study - first one by emily (well done :) )
Tea & Toast

Friday - Lectures
Dinner with my Swansea Family
Gate-crashed youth group to watch Wallace, Gromit and the Wererabbit

Saturday - Cheerleading for the CU team
Food shopping
Film watching

Sunday - Church
Student lunch
Pub Quiz - 15/30 (but only half the team was there!)

There we are... I hope that satisfies and explains why I don't tell you about what is going on in my life and just talk about sea mice!

I love sea mice :D

Jess x

hippo!!

2006-03-03T10:01:00.000-12:00

Wow...a hippo:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/251178

click on ... watch this movie!

Field Trip

2006-03-02T11:12:00.000-12:00

We went on a field trip today to Oxwich Bay to look at rocky shore and intertidal animals...like sea mice :D

Here are some pics!

Oxwich Bay

Me! NB...WELLIES!!!

Me and Sophie studying hard

Jessie and I

WE SAW WILD SEA MICE!!!! WOOO!!

Oooh..a pretty dress how did that get in here??

Byeeeeee Jess x

So much for an early night...

2006-02-23T11:27:00.000-12:00

I just can't go to sleep until I have mentioned the amusing events of this evening...well not really amusing...actually quite silly!

I was just hurrying from my kitchen to the Hall Group Bible Study when my jumper caught on the handle of Lynne's cupboard which ripped :( worse however...the whole door came off! Yes, they don't make things the way they used to...my jumper stronger than MDF! Shocking!

I told the porters but apparently I have to go and tell the Housekeeper tomorrow morning...and she is really scary!!! EEeeek! I sense a fine coming along! Luckily Jo saw the whole thing because who would really believe a story like that and also it wasn't my favourite jumper so that is good too!

Also today on a different random note I had a really cool practical where we looked at loads of invertebrates. I even got to cuddle a sea mouse:

Aww...aren't they cute!

Ok, bedtime now, Jess x

NSL! NSL!

2006-02-21T02:44:00.000-12:00

Hurray for protests...this was us on Monday...there is another protest planned for Wednesday!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4731868.stm

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=16727373&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=students-stage-sit-in-protest-against-science-library-closure-name_page.html

Just and update

2006-01-30T09:34:00.000-12:00

So...I am now back to lectures and in constant rehearsals for my play not to mention filming for the adventures of Jeff. I went shopping at the weekend and bought exciting things like food, a sword, a raggy rug, rainbow coloured arm things and a cool elfy jumper (as worn by Jeff). I also had a rather painful incident with my blasted tesco value peeler and am now finding it difficult to type - I even had to have 2 plasters as I had just removed the little round one before bedtime and the stupid finger started bleeding again! You don't realise how important the very tip of the little finger of your left hand is till you can't use it...how do you do capitals??

Today I went to lectures on Animal Diversity, Cell Biology and Geology:the history of the earth. I was very annoyed because I specially got up and printed out the lecture notes before hand and then the lecturer gave copies to everyone anyway AND he told us there were these 2 books we needed to buy. This after I had got somebody to give me a completely different book for Christmas! He said that it was ok because one of them was only £25 but when I went to the bookshop later it was £48!!!! Not a happy bunny!

Rehearsal went well tonight ...for me anyway...although I only had to say 3 (long) lines in the whole scene and those right at the end! STELLLAAAAAAA!! he he (not my line by the way!) By a random coincidence I have found out that our stage manager (who keeps forgetting to come to rehearsals!!) is also the guy who I am in contact with about University Challenge!! Hmmph...I did rubbishly on that today by the way :( Bother...I was all happy before I started writing this post!

Ah this is happier...brilliant email I got today:

You know you're a 90's kid if...
You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air".
You've worn leggins and felt stylish.
You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.
You use to love playing with your MY Little Pet Shop.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had scrunchies.
You remember reading "Goosebumps".
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off".
You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze then the banning of yo-yo's.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You collected pokemon cards.
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down.
You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare".
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell".
You played and or collected "Pogs".
You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger.
You had at least one GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
You watched the ORIGINAL Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
Yikes pencils and rubbers were it.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes. You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" ... enough said.
You thought Brain from 'Pinkey and the Brain' would finally take over the world.
You were made to wear a pair of leggings with the straps on the bottom.
Bum Bags, or whatever you called them.
You collected tazos.
I'LL BE BACK!
2 words ... SPICE GIRLS...
peace out xx

Brilliant...he he he!

Further Adventures of Jeff

2006-01-28T05:20:00.000-12:00

After the amazing success of Jeff's first adventure a new blog dedicated entirely to recording the activities of this stripily clad hero has been produced. Check it out at http://theadventuresofjeff.blogspot.com!!!

The Adventures of Jeff the Fearless – Part 1

2006-01-27T11:26:00.000-12:00

Jeff the Fearless was sleeping dreamily in his bed when he heard a sudden scream, it was his beloved, the princess Josephina! Leaping to his feet Jeff dashed to the window and looking out into the darkness. To his horror, a terrifying monster was carrying off the beautiful Josephina in its gigantic claws! Luckily Jeff always slept in his knight-wear and so, stopping only to whistle for his trusty steed, he hastened into the night!

For 7 nights and 4 days Jeff and Trevor galloped across the snow capped mountains (Trevor doing most of the galloping) chasing the monster, which dominated the stormy skies (above him). Finally the monster began to descend and hiding behind a rock Jeff and Trevor watched as the monster entered a corridor cut deep into the mountain. Leaving Trevor cowering behind a signpost, which read “The Infinite corridor of Infinite Torture”, Jeff followed the monster into the oppressive darkness!

Jeff hurried along the corridor, which was illuminated dimly by what appeared to be bioluminescent algae on the walls. Looking closer however Jeff saw to his horror that they were in fact radioactive cockroaches, “Yuk,” said Jeff, “I hate cockroaches!” The pulsating walls appeared to be moving closer together as Jeff bravely strode onwards. Nestled between two blue doors labelled the rooms of Impending Disaster and Impending Despair Jeff found “The Room of Doom”. Comforted by the fresh scent of the pine door, its pleasant rhyming scheme and the lack of the word Impending in the title, Jeff entered!

The door slammed shut behind him and through the murky darkness he heard an ominous snorting sound. Suddenly Jeff felt hot breath on the back of his neck, “Josephina?” he whispered as the shirt was ripped from his muscular torso, “I don’t think this is quite the time or the place!”

INTERMISSION

NOW BACK TO THE STORY

Waking up, Jeff looked around groggily, he appeared to be bound to an office chair and gagged with his own shirt. “Josephina,” he struggled to say through the thick gag, “ This REALLY isn’t the time or the place.” Suddenly the walls burst into light and Jeff saw the enormous bulk of the dreadful monster lurching towards him, casting huge shadows all around. As the monster’s claws descended upon him Jeff muttered the secret words he had promised never to share with anyone (not even the narrators)!

On a far away cloud, Fluff the fairy was gazing dreamily into the sky, her translucent wings fluttering in the gentle breeze. Suddenly she leapt to her feet, “I’ll help you Jeff,” she cried waving her wand in the air, “be not afraid fearless warrior!”

Immediately Jeff found his bonds were loosed and he was fully armoured, holding a sword and magic shield, “I’m not quite sure about the pirate hat,” he said. Gripping his sword firmly Jeff struck out at the monster, hacking at its body and wings. Suddenly the monster gave a roar of pain and fell to the floor, leaping on it Jeff gripped his sword in both hands and stabbed sharply downwards straight through the monsters heart!

Leaving the monster a mangled heap on the floor Jeff carefully wiped his blood stained sword clean and strode onward. Heading through another door marked “This way to the cave of mirrors” he found himself in a wide hall faced by 2 large metal doors. “Ah ha,” said Jeff, “This must be the way to the cave of mirrors.” Jeff pressed the strange buttons next to the doors but they remained firmly shut. “There must be a key,” Jeff said to himself, “But how will I ever find it?” Jeff sat dejectedly by the tightly closed doors, which he knew were the only thing keeping him from Josephine, suddenly a mystical key card appeared before him floating in the air, Jeff turned quickly, but there was no one there!

Slightly freaked out by the magically appearing key Jeff quickly poked the key card in the gap between the two doors. They slid gently open revealing a huge metallic cave, the walls covered in mirrors. Jeff could see Josephine tied up in a corner but the mirrors multiplied her a hundred times, imprinting the picture on his memory for future reference Jeff dashed forward groping to find the real Josephine. At last Jeff found he was groping the real Josephine. “ Hurry,” Jeff yelped as Josephine slapped him, “We must escape this terrible place!”

Jeff and Josephine dashed back through the great hall, over the monster and down the long dark corridor. Finally they saw a gleam of light in the distance and as they staggered from the tunnel, blinking in the daylight they saw Trevor waiting for them. “ Oh Josephine,” cried Jeff, “Oh Jeff,” cried Josephine, “my Hero!”

THE END

Eek!

2006-01-25T09:26:00.000-12:00

Dear Jessica-Ann,
Excuse my exclamation but WOOHOO!!!! And now that's out of the way, let me explain. Only two other individuals have applied, so we're slowly creeping up to that magic figure of five (one back-up person is required). I'm desperate for this to happen, so I'm glad people are starting to take an interest. Weirdly, no teams have applied as yet. If you would like to arrange a time for you to come and see me in the office then please feel free to suggest an appropriate date and time for you, because my time is relatively flexible. The TV company sent me a preliminary test for you to sit, so be prepared!

Best wishes,

Owen

Woooooo

2006-01-24T10:00:00.000-12:00

delirious? are coming to Swansea on March 7th!...I'm so excited...I want to go! Anybody else want to go? You can come visit and sleep on my floor...well not too many of you..and only people I know...but yay!

I bought a naked calender!

2006-01-23T00:37:00.000-12:00

And I look truely awful..I think I was attempting to pout...but I just look half scared, half grumpy...ah well...all for charity!! He he he...I have displayed the calender in the kitchen to await comment!

Has to be watched...

2006-01-22T03:29:00.000-12:00

http://www.koreus.com/media/men-in-coats.html

Thanks to my dad for this one...I'll be adding it to the "Some things to keep you amused" section of my blog as well!

Oooh the temptation:

2006-01-20T01:09:00.000-12:00

Got this in my inbox today!

WANT TO BE ON TV?

Is that Sunday night quiz down the local pub easier than warming up yesterday’s pizza? Fancy a shot at geeky celebrity status? How about buzzing for a starter for 10 before being shot down by Jeremy? Come on, come on!!!

It’s that time of year again when the BBC are looking for the nation’s finest tax-dodgers to compete in a new series of University Challenge, the quiz that inspires your bum to hug the sofa to see if you have any hope of passing your exams.

Pre-formed teams are preferred, but if not enough individuals show interest then we can compile a team. Entrants MUST be either undergraduates or post-graduates during the 2006/2007 academic year. The show producers advise is that you have a good grasp of general knowledge and that at least one of you is a scientist, or has a good A-Level grade in a science subject. Your Students Union is keen to have a team take part in the show, so if you’re interested then please contact Owen Morris, the S.U. Treasurer to arrange your preliminary application.

Just in case you were wondering

2006-01-19T02:03:00.000-12:00

I realise that there are many people who probably do not know what I am actually studying at University so I thought I would just give a few details of what zoology envolves. It does not involve this:

http://www.rathergood.com/zoology/

That would be C102 Zoology and Genetics whereas I study C300 Zoology see here:

http://www2.swan.ac.uk/courses/zoology/

Zo·ol·o·gy n.; pl. Zoologies. [Zoo- + -logy: cf. F. zoologie].
That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification,habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

If anyone is interested enough to have read this far in this boring post may wish to read the following article:
http://zardoz.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb2/zoology.asp

However, the real reason I study zoology is so that I can go to thrilling talks about otter poo as I did in a break from revision today! Hurrah! Yep 30 minutes about soldiers and otter poo...it was great!

Hmm...this is such a rubbish post...and you just read all the way down to here...sorry!

Jess the floor rep strikes again!

2006-01-17T22:09:00.000-12:00

Life as a floor rep is supposed to be simple, once a term you find out who is staying over the holidays and that's it! Well...that should be it! I returned from the Christmas break to discover the handles removed from the kitchen door, the door frame cracked and a broom propping the door open!

I discovered (through my amazing detection skills - as used in the case of the unidentified vomit) that during the holidays a fault had occured in the lock trapping a number of students inside the kitchen. Fortunately they were rescued by our residences tutor who SMASHED IN THE DOOR! I wandered down to the lovely porters to inquire about the situation and was shown not only the poor dismantled lock but also the incident report sheet - broke down door to release trapped students - satisfied that the situation was under control I went back to my revision.

Yesterday a porter came to visit, he looked at the door, looked at us and sighed (you'd think we were trouble makers!) then he disappeared again. In the evening no less than 4 fire alarms went off (we thought they might be having drills) across the campus. When there are fires on Campus we become the fire departments priority as we have high rise buildings..except the alarms were only caused by people burning sausages so their time was being wasted.

This morning I logged on to University email to find 2 emails from our lovely friend a.h.kassem (see October posts):

Dear Langland, Caswell, and Oxwich Residents,The Fire Services Department came again today to inspect the premises, to see whether it is complying with the Fire Regulations. Unfortunately they raised the same issues as last term.1_ student are not allowed to leave their room doors open even if they are inside the room.2_ kitchen doors MUST NOT BE WEDGED OPEN at all at any time.From now on any report I receive from the porters or the cleaners regarding the same issue I will be issuing fines to the responsible students, the fines will be 15 - 20 - 25 and so on. (cap locks have NOT been added in!)

This email seemed rather pointed to our humble floor the problem was however...we have no choice. I wandered down to the porters again (yay my parcel had arrived, thank you daddy) where they were in discussion with...FIRE OFFICERS!! Anyway, um...I may have mentioned our little door problem in front of them...well..ok...yes I did..but I was actually asking for a piece of rope which we could use on the door so that it was no longer being propped open. I discovered however, that a temporary handle should have been put on our door already and with a bit of a grumpy look at me (and then the fire officers (oops)) the lovely Porter promised to affix a handle this morning...hurray!!!!

Jess wins again! (and will humbly offer cake to porter)

The amazing story of my student card!

2006-01-17T05:48:00.000-12:00

Student Cards are very important things, they are a valid form of student id, they allow you to borrow books from the library, photocopy, print and most importantlyMUST BE TAKEN TO ALL EXAMS!

As you can imagine, the loss of a student card during exam periods is a definite cause for alarm...enter me!

Earlier today I headed over to Presili to check the post. I took my student card as identification just in case somebody had sent me a parcel. Travelling back to my halls of residence (no parcel :( only bills!) I met Sarah and Claire who were on their way to buy chocolate and post a letter in Fulton House. The sun was setting sending pink streaks across the darkening sky, the air was fresh and a stroll seemed the ideal past time. We meandered down to Fulton house stopping to greet one of my cast members enroute. After posting the letter we headed upstairs across the walkway and continued up to the Level 2 shop where a chocolate bar was purchased.

As we returned to Caswell suitably refreshed from our outing I glanced down at the pile of bills in my hand, my keycard gleaming in the lamplight and the gap where my student card was not (gleaming that is! OR doing anything...quite simply...IT WAS GONE!!!).

Steps were retraced. The keycard was not in Presili, or in our post safe, or on the path, or by the post box, it had not been handed in at Fulton House, it was not on the walkway, the steps, the shop, the other steps...it was in every sense...GONE!

Suitably distressed we discussed the possible places a wandering student card might like to visit however the only place we came up with was the floor of the pub when very drunk (there are a string of lost cards hanging in JCs the Fulton House pub) and as I was a) not drunk and b) not in a pub we decided this was highly unlikely.

Sitting in my room back in Caswell I pondered what my own actions would be upon discovering a student card on the floor. I would (of course) hand in the card at a suitable place, memorise the student number and e-mail whichever student happened to be so unfortunate as to have lost said card. Could someone possibly have found my student card, handed it in and emailed in under 15 minutes? Well...no harm in checking...

"Your student card has been handed in at JCs!"

HURRAH...returned to the bosom of its owner..after only a brief trip to the pub!

He he...the fire alarm has just gone off in the residence next door...unlucky...or drat...tomorrow is wednesday..the fire alarm will be tested...eek...I hate the fire alarm.

Ok...enough blogging for one day (unless something else truely thrilling happens)...I'm off to study enzymes!

Jess x

Long time no blog!

2006-01-17T01:14:00.000-12:00

Hullo everybody, merry christmas, happy new year and all that Jazz, welcome back and apologies to all those of you who asked for there to be a celebrity bug brother...ok so that would be nobody...but there's still time!

Anyway..I am back in SWANSEA...huzzah where it is all lovely and cold and wet and full of exams! I am over 1/3 of the way through the xams (pronounced zams if you were wondering!) however la timetable is/was as follows:

Monday 16th January - 2.00pm
BI-104 Microbiology - 1hr 30mins
BI-105 Terrestrial Plants - 1hr 30mins

Friday 20th January - 9.30 am
BIB-111 Macromolecules form and function - 1hr 30mins
BIB-113 Biochemistry of Biological systems - 1hr 30mins

Wednesday 25th January - 2.00pm
GEL101 Geology - 1hr 30mins

Friday 27th January - 9.30pm
GEG103 Human Impacts - 1hr 30mins

TA DAAAA... There was also Core Skills for Biological Scientists but that is all done, finished with and passed HURRAY! (83%)

In other news... I will probably be joining my church in Swansea on February 5th (finally), my play is scarily soon and I've heard nothing from anybody on the cast, I may have found housemates for next year...um...and...the end of lost was rubbish!

No really..the end of lost...what was with that! Chris hurry up and bring me the first 12 episodes on DVD...I have withdrawal symptoms...eek and desperate housewives is coming back and will draw me in and distract me from revision....oh pants pants pants! He he...it's very difficult being a student you know!

Ok...I must go and eat lunch and return to revision and stop jabbering...back to DNA...which (by the way) was not discoverd by Watson and Crick in 1954 but was first isolated in 1869...which was a really long time ago! And the third base in every codon is called a "wobble base"...he he ...that amused me!

There we are...a totally crazy post for all of you to enjoy.
Byeeeeeeeeee
Jess x

Quick update:

2005-12-07T01:56:00.000-12:00

This isn't the picture that will be in the calender (obviously) you can see a lot of the underwear and very little of me but it was taken on Pierre's camera this morning during the shoot.

Enjoy!

Just in time for Christmas...

2005-12-06T11:41:00.000-12:00

Tomorrow, I will be taking part in a photo shoot in..wait for it...nothing but my underwear! Hurray! It is for a charity calender supporting a group of students who will be crossing Australia on longboards (5000miles) in Summer 2006 to break a world record and raise some money for charity along the way!

Check out the website complete with hilarious video clips (I recommend the one of skating around swansea bay) at:

www.boardfree.co.uk

and let me know how many copies you want of the calender. NB. I will be posing with the rest of my cast for Streetcar...well you can't miss out on a chance for publicity can you!

;)

Leaves leaves leaves

2005-12-05T00:17:00.000-12:00

As well as lectures and work giving in etc. I have spent a lot of this morning watching a man singlehandedly clearing the entire Singleton Park of leaves... he has one of those leaf blowing machines and is blowing them all from the grass onto the path!!! Now, another little man (in a red jumper) has just turned up with a tractor and what appears to be a giant hoover!!!

Oh no...blowing man just scared a little doggy!

Oh..they've gone away now...oh well!

Please refrain from feeding the Tiger

2005-12-02T13:15:00.000-12:00

feel free to stroke her though :)

I don't know why this amuses me so much but...

2005-12-02T04:23:00.000-12:00

Check out:

www.studenthampers.com

and then actually look at what is in such wonderful hampers as "The Clean Living Student" - he he he...does anybody else find this amusing??

In answer to your question...

2005-11-25T23:53:00.000-12:00

Yes I have heard back, he wasn't offended and even included a small smiley face!!!... I think that scares me more!

The view from my window!

2005-11-25T13:25:00.000-12:00

It looks so arty because I took it on my webcam through my window...then edited it a bit by making it darker so you can see how pretty it is...but it's real I assure you. SNOW!!!!!

Have sent apologetic e-mail to scary Professor...

2005-11-24T09:02:00.000-12:00

...I value my life!

That's as many as Van Gogh sold in a lifetime!!

2005-11-24T08:59:00.000-12:00

Oops...having spent 4 hours studying bacteria and another 2 in a rehearsal I think I have just done a silly thing...sent a rather cheeky e-mail to one of my professors....but he is so mean to us... and you know...he might actually have a sense of humour...!!

Oh Poo...I am going to be in a lot of trouble I can tell....lets hope he doesn't fail me on my assignment.

Possibly I will apologise.
Yes...that's a good idea!

Eek!

by the way...here is the e-mail

Dear member of SOTEAS

At a School Teaching & Learning Com meeting the requirement for all student dissertations (projects), UG and Masters, to have included with them relevant safety documentation was agreed.

This means that NO project will be accepted for marking by the School unless it has bound within it (as an appendix) appropriate safety documentation.

At the VERY least this must include a Protocol Risk Assessment for the computer work involved in the generation of the dissertation itself.

Students who submit work without appropriate safety documentation will receive ZERO for their project.

Please also note that retrospective inclusion of these forms will NOT be allowed. These risk assessments must be undertaken BEFORE work commences; clearly then the forms cannot be prepared after the event.

This requirement will be enforced rigidly.

Thank you for making SOTEAS a safer place to work.

Well...what do you think?? Should we be handwriting our risk assessments of computer work?? ... he he he

Oops...sorry

2005-11-23T17:39:00.000-12:00

I have just realised why my father has been so frustrated by my lack of blogging...it has been nearly a month!!!

The problem is I journeyed away for 3 weeks in a row and that confused me...so a brief run down:

Weekend 1 - 27th-29th October

CU weekend away
Well well well...this was great fun...we all journeyed to Pembroke and stayed next to the castle (very exciting - I bought a bright pink quill!) for a weekend of fun, games, meetings, teaching and ..yeah more games!!!!!

So a very jolly weekend...and now everybody thinks I am a loud person...which I am beginning to think is true! I taught everybody (who didn't escape in time) the funky monkey song - huzzah!

Weekend 2 - November 4th-6th

There's no place like home

Well I couldn't talk about this one because at the time it was a secret....a cunning plan to make Victorious scream by turning up at the fireworks party. I apologise to all those who didn't get a chance to see me but i couldn't risk the secret getting out! Anyway...I came home and saw my lovelies (Chris and Sherbet...that's you ;) )and lots of fireworks and my mummy and daddy (thank you for cake)! And went to church and ...well lots of stuff...it was great!

AND I made it back in time for the JC's Quiz - we have been every week so far!

Weekend 3 - November 11th-13th

NCC (my church) Weekend Away

I travelled down early with Lydia and we did shopping for food at Tesco's with really organised lists of exact products...it was amazing...and Lydia bought us Burger King Kids Meals!!! The weekend was brilliant...God was really moving in the meetings...and the games (we do a lot of them at Uni) were truelly brilliant! The first evening we played "catch the flag" (bucket) in the dark!!!! And on the Saturday afternoon I went Gorge-walking!!! That is...walking up a river and through caves and mines and getting very very very wet and not caring when you turn blue!!! HUZZAH!

A post gorge walking knee:

"Ouch!"

And then I came back in time for the quiz and we won the picture round and the lovely prize of 2 minutes on a pump of our choice. We decided to wait and collect our prize the next weekend...

Weekend 4 - November 18th-20th

On Saturday I went for lunch with Una and Emily and Claire at 'pub on the pond' and had an amazing lunch including a "SuperMegaCurlyWurlythingy sundae" which had to be seen (and sampled) to be believed...it was as big as my head!!!!!

*skipping ahead as I need to do some work*

Quiz time: Rhian managed to pull 9 pints of Strongbow in 2 minutes...then we won the picture round again!!!! Hurray!...So look out for next weekend...when we hope to get up to 10 pints!!!!

Woo...ok that will do...oh and if you were wondering....during the weeks...I did work!!!! No really I did... ;)

Webcams are fun!

2005-10-25T21:11:00.000-12:00

I forgot to mention in previous posts that I now have a webcam hurray..so that all the world can see the wonderful me:

lit by the funky leds on the front of webcam :D

Um...so yes..here are a few random pictures of my room:

Here is the evil flashing red light which spins during the fire alarm drills/tests!

Anyway..today I went shopping and bought food and stuff the food being exciting things like Winnie the Pooh 'Rumbly Tumblies' - mini choc chip cookies!

and the stuff being a flower that makes me smile...only 67p!

For those who were worried...I don't really intend to kill my lab partner...although she has now started visiting me in my room!!!! to ask evil lab partner type questions!!! AND she sat next to me in lectures! BUT as my mummy pointed out...I only have 4 pracs with her TOTAL this year! Because after Christmas I am not doing BioChem...aww...she will be all alone :(

Jess x

ps. Don't forget that the clocks go back on Sunday! Especially Uni People!

MURDER IN MIND

2005-10-18T14:57:00.000-12:00

I am going to commit a murder, I don't know how soon till I crack but at the rate I am going it could be pretty soon. I should probably go into more detail, who I am going to murder, my motive, my method etc. Then you will understand and symapthise and perhaps help me plan this deed which must be carried out for the good of mankind...well my sanity really!

The person I am going to murder is my biochemistry lab partner who is the most hateful person I think i have ever met! Not only does this evil girl have the same first name as me, she has the same initials too so why they decided to pair us up I do not know...it was stupid and confusing!

Here are just a few of the reasons why this girl should not be allowed to live:

1. Everything I do, I do wrong apparently and she tells me so..all the time!

2. Everything we are asked to do, she has done before and thus is perfect (obviously!)

3. Everything I say e.g. "I think we should do it like this." she repeats back to me in an idiotic seven year old voice...you know that episode of friends where Rachel teaches Ben to mimic parrot fashion everything that people say to wind them up...she thinks it is funny! - I wanted to cry!

4. When I mentioned that I had never used a certain type of pipette before she said "Oh, did you go to a poor school then?" - JAGS girls...don't you just want to slap her - it has been suggested that I should have shoved the pipette up her nose!

5. When our results came out really well she told everyone that it was because she had done thin layer chromatography before...except I know that I had done all the work!!!

6. She made me do all the washing up!

AND THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!!!!

Do you blame me for wanting to end her life?? I talked to my lecturers and they said that if I do murder her I won't lose extra marks for it in my exams so I am seriously considering drastic action! If they won't let me change lab partners then one of us is going to die...and I pick her!

Any suggestions on how best to murder someone in a lab (get those creative juices flowing)???

Ooh and she lives on the floor below me so we have all taken to stamping around whenever possible...huzzah!

Eeeeurgh... :'( .....SHE IS DRIVING ME MAAAD!!!!

A long post with lots of pictures...

2005-10-17T11:30:00.000-12:00

I am beginning to think that nobody reads my blog anymore...I think everybody stopped during bug brother (I don't blame them) and is now too scared to visit again...so I am going to try and make my blog a bit more exciting and interactive to encourage visitors!

The first thing I have added is a chatterbox in my sidebar...this is not for idle chatter however but for answering deep philosophical questions. This weeks question is "What is the best way to pop bubblewrap?" The website http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/ is a very useful start especially the methods page which has a number of suggestions of how to burst bubbles. If you have any burning questions please let me know as I will be semi-regularly updating the chatterbox name etc.

So...the long post...the pictures...here we go:

This weekend Chris came to visit with his digital camera and took lots and lots of pictures of me...here are some of the highlights:

Spike and I

"Oh Fork!" - The results of a small kitchen accident last week!

MOOOOSE!

Chris!

So yes..well on Friday evening we went to PLAYZONE! This is the most amazing place, with lots of fun slides and things to climb through, over, under, down, round etc. The student group from my church had hired the place for us. Here are some photos of students let loose in a childs play area!

Why students shouldn't go on vertical drop slides all at the same time!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Mature students?

Oooh look a hand!

Meeeeeee again!

Zzzzzzzz

Anyway....on Saturday we went shopping and then in the evening we went to JCs which is the campus pub. Then on Sunday Chris came to my church in the morning and broke down on the M4 on his way home whilst I went to a quiz night and failed miserably!!!!

Ho humm...eek...should get ready for a lecture now...8 hours solid next...NOoooo!

Jess x

I'M IN A PLAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

2005-10-13T19:25:00.000-12:00

WOOP de DOO...I am in a play...it is so exciting!!! I will be playing Eunice in A Streetcar Named Desire "Who?" I hear you cry...so hear are the sparknotes for my character...he he:

Eunice - Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself. Like Stella, Eunice accepts her husband’s affections despite his physical abuse of her. At the end of the play, when Stella hesitates to stay with Stanley at Blanche’s expense, Eunice forbids Stella to question her decision and tells her she has no choice but to disbelieve Blanche.

Ah...soooo exciting! I get beaten up and everything (offstage but hey!) and get to say exciting lines like: "Quit that howling out there an' go back to bed!" Which considering it comes just after the famous "Stell-lahhhhhhhhh!" line...is quite cool!

Huzzah huzzah huzzah!

Jess x

Must...stay...awake!

2005-10-13T10:07:00.000-12:00

FIRE DRILL at 6am - EVIL!!!!!

Lecture at 9am after fire drill - REALLY EVIL!!!!!!

So yes, this morning at 6am there was a firedrill. This was totally confusing as on Wednesdays the fire alarms are always tested at 9am so I have always thought that if I wake up because of the fire alarm a) It is a wednesday and
b) I am late for my lecture!

but no...this was not the case. Apparently all the halls over these few weeks will be having these evil fire drills because apparently it is a time when everyone is actually in the halls...I wonder why!!!! I should explain that this isn't just a ridiculously loud bell ringing...this is a siren! AND in every room and corridor there is a large red spinning light to accompany said siren! Grrr!!!

The amusing thing was that lots of people there had only just come home from a night out..."Ibiza foam party!" and were sitting there chatting about how drunk they all were....ahh students! Our floor had a foam party too...with washing up liquid...it was hysterically funny..and Lynne taught us how to blow bubbles with washing up liquid using our fingers to form the O shape to blow through...huge bubbles...nothing compared to my beloved bubble sword (I showed them the photos) but still AMAZING! We were all slightly hysterical (although sober) after about half an hour lying in the corridor (FIRE HAZARDS!) poring over a map of Swansea...I have no idea why this was so funny... possibly because I was the floor rep...and I was lying on the floor. Ok...that is still really funny...he he he.

Ah well...I think I have typed quite enough...I had to do something between lectures to keep myself awake or I wouldn't have made it out of my room again!

Eeeurgh...feel rotten and sleepy :(

Jess x

Oooh what does this button do??

2005-10-08T07:42:00.000-12:00

He he..I just pressed the BLOG THIS button on my blog to find out what it does so sorry if this is a strange post...I don't really know what will happen!

Well well well...I have been at Uni for 2 whole weeks now...that is completely mad...it feels like I only arrived yesterday...so the latest news...

LECTURES...I have already said a bit about them...they've actually been great fun although having only 4 hours sleep before an 8 hour day is not recommended...more of that later!

PRACTICALS...I had my first truely practical practical on Thursday and drew lots of plans and drawings of plant stems, roots and stuff. Wrote lots of notes...and really need to write them up! The problem is...we aren't studying flowers in the lectures...we are studying bryophytes but if we wait to be studying flowers in the lectures there won't be any alive to do practicals on! I learnt some really cool stuff though...did you know that a banana is actually a berry, so are peppers, tomatos and grapes! A cherry is atually a drupe, a pumpkin a pepo and an orange a hespiridium! Fascinating!

WEDNESDAY - THE FRESHERS BALL

Oh yeah! This took place in a club (well 2 joined together really) called Time and Envy...twas a skool disco...and twas also brilliant fun. The evening started at Church where Lynne and I (in skimpy school uniform) attended Lifestyle, an event for students to welcome to NCC (New Covenant Church). We were then driven back to the Uni in time to collect the tickets we had forgotten and leap into our awaiting taxi. The evening was totally cool...lots of crazy dancing and some guest artists including Chesney Hawkes (who? I hear you cry...apparently he sings The One and Only..or something like that) and the Honeyz (sorry I really don't know who they are) during both of which we moved to the other club...which was playing brilliant music (e.g. teenage dirt bag, Song 2 and the like!). At about 1.00am I realised that I had 8 hours of lectures the next day (eek!) and as we wanted to grab a taxi before the crowds we attempted to leave...after a few more songs which we HAD to dance to..no really we did, we finally can-canned out (he he...great music) and headed to the taxi rank. Our taxi driver was great and encouraged us all to sing on the way back to the uni whilst he accompanied us on a small squeaker - for relatively sober people (2 out of 5 of us didn't drink alcohol at all that evening) our rendition of "The wheels on the bus" was truely stunning!

AND the next morning I actually made it to my 9 O'clock lecture on plants! Oh Yeah!

That is pretty much the most exciting bits of my week...although I do now FINALLY have a library card! Huzzah!

Jess

ps. Just cooked myself a curry (not a ready meal)...woo go me! :P

Lectures and Late Night fun!

2005-10-05T08:50:00.000-12:00

Well…..Freshers Week is nearly over (the Freshers Ball – Skool Disco is tonight) and I have begun going to lectures…some thrilling…some not! Here are a few of my favourite lines from lecturers so far this week:

“I don’t give a s**t whether you come to my lectures or not…nobody is really interested in plants anyway!”

“…falling down juice…”

“Most of you will never find your feet because you’re lying horizontal somewhere”

“For those times when you get back to your room at 3 O’clock in the morning and think…you know what I really want to do right now….read my geology text book!”

The man obsessed with fire alarms has been in touch too, with regular e-mails (at least two a day) which can’t be taken seriously. English is quite obviously not the first language here…I particularly like the non-deliberate mistake in this one:

You should not remove the restrictors on your windows as it is dangerous especially when we have drunk student trying to put their heads out of the windows. Falling to comply with this rule can result in fines to the whole flat or to the particular room depending on where about the window is.

Our corridor (well..me really) decided to find out just how seriously this guy takes his job and sent off the following deadly serious (not) e-mail about a sign that had been put up in halls. Here is the e-mail and the gracious reply!

From: JENNER J.A. Sent: 02 October 2005 20:34To: a.h.kassem Subject: Query: Floor 3 *******

A sign was put on the door of our kitchen earlier in the week about the need to clear all surfaces in time for the cleaning on Thursday, as we have been keeping our kitchen relatively clear I presume that this was put up in all flats. Should this sign be left up because it has been placed there by our housekeeper as an official notice or should we remove it as it constitutes a fire hazard by being on a door in the corridor. We don't want to be fined for having something attached to a corridor door as we would be for attaching something to our own doors.

What is the correct procedure in this case?

Jessica and Flat mates

Hi Jessica,

The sign was put on all the floors in all building as a reminder to all students to keep the kitchens relatively clean at all times. So if your kitchens is tidy then well down and please keep it like this. As the note is kept in the corridor I would mention it to the house keeper so they move it inside the kitchen and you are right it causes a fire hazard in the corridor.

Best regards

Hussam

Last night we had a little gathering of all the people on our corridor to celebrate Sharmeela's birthday, we had loads of cake and crisps and biscuits!! This was NOT a party as we did not have the required party permit but merely a gathering of good friends with snacks in our kitchen! We had just finished and cleared the kitchen so that we didn't need to do it today..it was about 11.00 at night and I had just cleaned the hobs till they shined and was beginning to tackle the draining board when the hall tutor marches in. "Are you having a party?" she asks! "No," we reply rather too quickly as she looks around at our too perfectly clean kitchen and all of us standing around in the middle of the night. "Oh," she says, obviously dissapointed...and leaves! The wonders of being a student...tee he...lets hope they don't read my blog!
Loving it…right..I have to go to a lecture now…woo hoo!

Jess x

ps. Yay I also bought my dissection kit and lab specs yesterday, a hot water bottle shaped like a crocodile which matches all the stuff in my bathroom AND discovered that my lab coat is nicer than the ones everyone else was buying!!! We admired it using the full length mirror in the lift...of course nobody could use the lift for a while but whatever!

Freshers Weeeeeek!

2005-09-29T11:01:00.000-12:00

WOW…I’m at University. Yes, my blog is the place to be if you want to hear all the exciting news of what is happening in Swansea…and the most exciting thing is that…I FINALLY have internet access!!!!!

I had this brilliant plan that I would write a diary during my time at Uni which I could then sell for millions and never have to work again…the only thing that is stopping me is that I got bored half way through day 1…so this is the nearest I think I’ll ever get to my uni days being published (all donations gratefully received!).

Some pics of me moving in....

I have been in Swansea for 5 WHOLE DAYS…(wow is that all??) and I think I have a funny/silly story for each of them…so I won’t tell you the boring bits just the fun!!

DAY 1 - Saturday

I had arrived in Swansea, unpacked and settled happily in to my room successfully befriending the girls on my floor by giving them hazelnut cake (HURRAY!) and had just decided to have a quick strum of la guitar to while away the hours. I sat down on my bed, flipped the catches on my case, swung open the lid to discover….AN EMPTY CASE!!!! No my friends…I am not a brilliant Air Guitar player….I am a fool who didn’t check that the guitar was actually in the case before loading it into the car!

DAY 2 – Sunday

I set off early to try and find a church, well that was easy, I found loads of Churches but lots of the services had already started… and they weren’t really tempting me! I ended up in a Church in Brynmill…full of Africans….no really there were only 7 white people in the building…and 6 of them were visitors! I know they were visitors because we were all made to stand, introduce ourselves and receive a “river of joy” – the entire congregation hugging us on at a time! The worship was amazing, loud, powerful….but sometimes in African!!! There was also the scary lady behind me who kept letting out African War Cries/Yodelling!

Don’t worry I have since found a really great church which is slightly more the style I am used to…and I went to their student lunch that same day. Thanks Na for telling me about it!

Day 3 – Monday

Monday involved a truly thrilling welcome meeting…where a thoroughly bored looking man explained to us that everything we did at uni was at the risk of a fine. The only topic that he really seemed to get animated about was FIRE ALARMS!!!
It turns out that we have very sensitive fire alarms in our building…the heat detectors in our rooms mean that if we leave the bathroom too soon after taking a shower…we set them off…oh and don’t use deodorant too near one either!!!! If you burn something in the kitchen, rather than leaving the room to escape the fumes you must barricade yourself in to avoid the risk of setting the fire alarm off! The only other thing that he seemed to think was quite exciting was telling us what would happen if we got stuck in the lift! As I said…THRILLING!

In the afternoon myself and two of my corridor mates (Claire and Joann) decided to go and test out my kite in nearby singleton park…well all was going well...(the kite actually took off a few times) when suddenly an evil kite eating tree stole my kite! After lots of tugging on strings and a vague attempt by myself to climb the tree which ended in Claire being kneed in the eye! We sent Claire to ask a group of boys if they could climb the tree for us…they were actually quite stoned so we were quite impressed when one of them actually made it into the tree! It was the stoned guy who stayed on the ground however who actually rescued our kite by pulling on one of the strings with slightly more force than we had been doing!
We had just finished untangling the kite when a nice young man called Matt came over claiming to be a bit of an expert on kites and explained we would do a lot better down on the beach and asked if we would like him to come and aid us in our kite flying attempts! Joann went back to the halls and Claire and I set off with Matt down to the beach. It was brilliant…the kite was really flying and Matt really did know what he was talking about…that was the main problem! Matt explained that the kite would fly better if we retied one of the strings so that they were exactly the same length but for some reason the knot which I had tied had looped itself through something or other so we needed to untie the string from the kite to sort it…”It’ll only take a second,” said Matt! Well about and hour later it was getting dark and it was so cold that my fingers had gone numb trying to untangle the biggest knot in the history of kite knots…we gave up and… shivering all the way…went back to halls!

Day 4 – Tuesday

I decided to take a walk down into town to visit Tescos. Despite the clear skies I decided to take my umbrella (just in case) and sure enough only 10 minutes down the road it started to rain. Grinning to myself, I whipped out my umbrella and quickly opened it (by means of a cool handy button!). The umbrella opened smoothly, turned inside out, broke in a number of places and ended up in 2 sections in my hands! As if this wasn’t bad enough, the wind was very strong and the rain was only behind me, the whole of my back was soaked but my front remained dry leaving me with half khaki half black trousers and the appearance of someone who has wet themselves!

(I got the bus back!)

Day 5 – Wednesday

HURRAH…I got enrolled and got internet…and no stupid things happened to me!! Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!!!!

Ooooh..and here is a photo of sarah, sarah, sarah, georgina and me after our “last supper” together before uni began!

PIRATES!!!! and august generally

2005-08-29T20:16:00.000-12:00

After BUG BROTHER I haven't been too keen to go anywhere near my blog for a while..infact...I got slightly obsessed with neopets again for a bit...very worrying! However...August has been (and still is) brilliant so I will just share the highlights..well the whole thing really!

1-3 and Sunday
The wonders of Adventuretime our annual Children's outreach in Martins Hill Recreation...I myself played Kate a sad, lonely, poor, friendless girl with a map and not much else who ends up on a pirate adventure to find treasure. It was brilliant we had 90 kids the first day and over 130 for the other two and quite a few families came along on the sunday - hurray! God is really good (oh and great, great, brill, brill, wacky, wacky, skill, skill and totally wicked!!!)

10th-15th
SOUL SURVIVOR! I camped with the lovely people from St Johns and had a brilliant Birthday ( he he I'm 19 - and I own a bubble sword...and a really cool hat!) and loads of cool time to chill and generally be grateful to God. I spent lots of time working on the toybox charity cafe and stand
http://www.toyboxcharity.org.uk/
which was also great fun.
Oooh and my mum made a cake for every day!

15th- 20th
PASSION FOR YOUR NAME (and momentum)
I camped with the guys from Cornerstone who arrived bearing even more cake! (Thank you mummy!) and another week of brilliance ensued this time with less working, more dancing and cooking for ourselves...which was pretty cool (except the food which was hot...mostly!).

I would go into more detail....but...um...God is just too amazing to describe...so neah!

26th
JESS' PIRATE PARTY
Briefly mentioned on Richard's Blog...this was an opportunity to get back into my adventuretime corset, play pass the parcel and eat party rings, chipsticks, twiglets, pineapple and cheese on sticks, cocktail sausages, jelly and icecream and lots of cake all washed down with lashings of pirate punch! It was such fun!!!! He hee!

Today...what is the date??
This morning I woke up ridiculously early with no voice (sob) to go and caddy for my dad and Jingle! They were cashing in a voucher my dad was given for his birthday back in March giving them 2 caddies. Chris and I turned up in matching outfits (oh yeah!) for FOUR AND A HALF HOURS of golf...ok...so we stopped for bacon butties on the way round...but it was still really hard work!

Phew..anyway...I think that is up to date! AS you can see...August has been busy...ooh and I forgot that we have been to some proms, and to see Pericles at the globe which was brilliant...ooh and circus oz ...um and there is a brilliant restaurant in the new bit of the South Bank Centre called Giraffe..Chris and I have already been twice...and they gave me a balloon! HURRAY!

Ok that will do...byeee...Jess x

ooh..according to the blogger it is the 29th august..ok.

AND THE WINNER IS....

2005-08-05T22:32:00.000-12:00

CATTY

Congratulations to CATTY and well done TLSS for lasting this long!

Please collect your things and vacate the BUG BROTHER HOUSE!

THE FINAL DAY IN THE BUG BROTHER HOUSE!

2005-08-05T12:00:00.000-12:00

There is still time to vote for the housebug who you want to win BUG BROTHER!

Day 28 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-08-04T00:00:00.000-12:00

How will the housebugs adapt as Bluca leaves the BUG BROTHER HOUSE?

Vote here for your BUG BROTHER WINNER!

EVICTION

2005-08-03T21:49:00.000-12:00

The public has been voting...Bluca has been chosen for eviction!

Bluca, please say your goodbyes and leave the BUG BROTHER HOUSE by the end of Thursday.

Day 27 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-08-03T12:00:00.000-12:00

Day 26 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-08-02T12:00:00.000-12:00

Day 25 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-08-01T00:00:00.000-12:00

Only 2 days left before the public vote decides who will leave.

Bugs - this might be a good time to suggest why you deserve to stay in the Bug Brother house!

Day 24 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-31T12:00:00.000-12:00

CONGRATULATIONS, HOUSEBUGS, BLUCA HAS SUCCESSFULLY FOUND THE MAP UNDER THE GNOME. THE STORE ROOM IS NOW OPEN AND A PIRATE FEAST AWAITS YOU!

It is the final week of BUG BROTHER so there will be 2 evictions this week, the first will be on wednesday and the second on friday when the winner will also be announced.

START VOTING!

Day 23 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-30T00:01:00.000-12:00

WELL DONE Housebugs. You have now completed the fourth task and so now you can have the treasure map. But that would be too easy, wouldn't it. Bug Brother has hidden the map somewhere in the house while you were all playing I-Spy up in the crow's nest. All you need to do now is to search the Bug Brother house to find the secret location of the complete treasure map and then the treasure will be yours.

Good luck!

Day 22 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-29T12:00:00.000-12:00

Housebugs must continue with their lookout duties till the end of today in order to successfully complete their pirate task!

Day 21 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-28T00:00:00.000-12:00

CONGRATULATIONS Housebugs you have completed 3 tasks successfully. You must know take it in turns to keep look out in the crows nest. Look out for Sharks, Islands and other Pirates and remember to shout appropriately e.g. Land Ahoy. Somebody must take the lookout post by midday today and remain there till relieved by another pirate bug!

Day 20 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-27T12:01:00.000-12:00

The Housebugs have successfully (it will do!) completed their second pirate task and received the second part of the map.

Task 3: Housebugs must produce a recipe for ships bug-biscuits!

HOUSEBUGS DO NOT NEED TO MAKE NOMINATIONS THIS WEEK!

Day 19 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-26T12:00:00.000-12:00

The Housebugs have completed Task 1 of their Pirate Mission and have collected one piece of the treasure map!

Catty has yet to write an actual pirate limerick to complete Task 2 and collect the second piece of the map.

Day 18 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-25T00:00:00.000-12:00

THE PIRATE TASK

BUG BROTHER has provided all the housebugs with pirate costumes as part of their task
and has built a large pirate ship in the garden!

Housebugs must collect pieces of a treasure map by completing tasks for bug brother. If housebugs successfully collect all 4 pieces of the map by the end of the week then they will receive a prize. BUG BROTHER will not set the next pirate task until the first one is finished, the faster the tasks are completed by all housebugs, the faster they can move on to collect the next piece of the map.

TASK 1 : ALL HOUSEBUGS MUST TAKE A TURN SCRUBBING THE DECKS OF THE PIRATE SHIP!

Day 17 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-24T12:00:00.000-12:00

BUG BROTHER tells the housebugs to watch out for a new task next week!

Day 16 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-23T12:03:00.000-12:00

EVICTION

2005-07-22T22:30:00.000-12:00

Richard has been evicted from the BUG BROTHER HOUSE....Um....Could one of the house mates pack up his stuff and leave it in the store room!

Looks like we will never find out what "blugablugailuvyooo" meant, or maybe we can guess!

BUG BROTHER

Day 15 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-22T12:00:00.000-12:00

Spoon has now left the BUG BROTHER HOUSE!

There is still time to vote for the bug who you would like to see evicted tonight!

Day 14 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-21T12:00:00.000-12:00

The Bugs up for eviction this Friday were Spoon and Richard HOWEVER, Spoon failed to make any nominations and therefore Spoon has been automatically evicted from the BUG BROTHER house! The bugs up for eviction this week are now as follows:

Spoon, please leave the BUG BROTHER HOUSE by the end of Thursday.

Day 13 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-20T12:00:00.000-12:00

Day 12 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-19T12:00:00.000-12:00

Catty emerges as a beautiful butterfly!!!

Spoon has come highest in the BIG BUG BROTHER QUIZ with 5 out of 5 answers correct!

Catty failed to complete the Quiz and must act as Spoon's slave until Friday.

BUG BROTHER reminds all housebugs that they must place their nominations for eviction by the end of tomorrow!

*BUG BROTHER sends in paramedics to look at Richard, Richard is temporarily removed from the house!*

Day 11 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-18T12:00:00.000-12:00

Will Richard ever really wake up??

And why is Catty in a cucoon??

Stay tuned to find out!!!

Day 10 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-17T10:01:00.000-12:00

Day 9 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-16T12:00:00.000-12:00

EVICTION

2005-07-15T23:00:00.000-12:00

The First Bug to be evicted from the bug brother house is..........................

DUDE McCOOL

Dude McCool, please say your goodbyes and leave the bugbrother house by midnight. (You'll be out just in time to go and buy harry potter...speaking of which...got to go :) )

Day 8 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-15T12:00:00.000-12:00

The first housebug to be evicted will be announced this evening. Keep using the poll posted yesterday to vote for the housebug you want to see evicted!

All housebugs are asked to complete this quiz by monday... the bug who scores highest will win a prize!!!!

Take'>http://www.quizyourfriends.com/takequiz.php?quizname=050715063833-904224

Day 7 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-14T12:00:00.000-12:00

Spotty has left the BUG BROTHER HOUSE, the ladybird lasted less than 1 week in the house. Spotty refused to comment as she left the house yesterday morning except to say that she looked forward to getting back to her family.

THIS WEEKS NOMINATIONS

The results of the public vote will be announced on Friday evening!

Bug Brother was so impressed with the way the housebugs responded to the song lyrics task that they will each receive a special gift from bug brother, a portion of their favourite food!

The previously unamed bug has finally spoken and reveiled himself as DudeMcCool...information about him can be found below!

Name of Bug: Dude MC Cool

Age: 25

Date of Birth: Good Question that

Favourite Food: BRown

Favourite Film: Huhuhuh huh A bugs Life huhuhuhuh

The Bug I most admire is: Me cos I'm Cool

I think I will win Bug Brother because: I'm A biaatch I will sleep with any fecking bug there be! And I Bring PIE!

Day 6 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE.

2005-07-13T00:00:00.000-12:00

Wow..the housebugs have been in the house for nearly a week and one of them hasn't even spoken yet...could things be more exciting?? (Chris and Richard...it's a potato...sorry i mean a rhetorical question!!)

Housebugs don't forget to visit the diary room with your nominations before the end of wednesday. Public voting will begin on Thursday and the first bug to be evicted will be announced on Friday.

BB

Day 5 in the BUG BROTHER HOUSE

2005-07-12T00:00:00.000-12:00

BUG BROTHER asks the housebugs not to forget about the task that was set yesterday, and will continue posting songs for the housebugs to complete.

BUG BROTHER would also like to remind housebugs to visit the diary room before wednesday, or they will be automatically evicted.

Which Housebug would you like to see WIN Bug Brother?
	Catty
	The Lovely Sarah Spider

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The final three housebugs are...
	Bluca
	Catty
	The Lovely Sarah Spider

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Which housebug would you like to see evicted this friday?
	Richard
	The Lovely Sarah Spider

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