Monthly Archives: August 2003

another weekend

Took the study books down to the polo today. The polo was quite average but we had a good picnic, read up on some maths and genomics and got some sun on my pallid skin. I also cycled around Richmond Park with Cath (though she was running – the Nike 10K is next weekend). Friday [...]

long weekend

A quiet long weekend, this one. Lots of study, a bit of work. Followed Cath running around Richmond Park (I was on the bike) and caught up with my Swedish friend David who is visiting his sister here. Cool.

another Tim dream

I had a short dream about Tim this morning. We were in a bar and he was sitting on a stool. I remember asking him if he was pissed off at missing “The Matrix Reloaded” – he laughed and told me he had got to see it before me :)

the wallabies

Really, what an embarrassment. Still, they’re inspiring some quality internet pisstakes: quality pisstake

dinner

We had cousin Lucy and her partner Aaron over for dinner tonight (chicken in spicy ginger broth from the Marie Claire ‘Flavours’ book with my own little tweaks) and had a fab time. Lucy’s sister Ella is over in a week or so, so we might all pop up to see Ben and Doreen for [...]

comedy – matrix ping pong

If you haven’t seen this, download it straight away. Please consider that this is very popular – don’t just pass this link on to everyone, download the file and re-send it otherwise my blog will be crumped by downloads and I’ll have to remove it. matrix ping pong (3498k)

48 hours

Our allocated genre is “suspense” and the title is “Tonic for the masses”. What the hell are we supposed to do with that? With work commitments, lack of crew etc we unfortunately had to pull out. Oh well, maybe next year. Still have the firebox.com short competition and the Nokia 15 sec film competition to [...]

48 hours

0820. “You’ve got 20 minutes to make the train.” Groan, rub sleep from eyes. The 48 hour film challenge begins.

work

There’s something about one of the people at work that makes me want to punch him every time he opens his mouth. Is this an uncharitable thought?

tubby mctubs

I’m presently 96kg. I will be 85kg by Christmas. You heard it here first.