Let summer begin!

So summer has officially begun for everyone. All of my old friends are back from Uni or College, so let the various parties and reunions begin! I feel I have not blogged recently, so I'll begin. Here come a number of posts about summer!

James "Gigantor" Rooney

Yes, its true, my good friend Rooney from University had begun on the blogosphere. I look forward to reading his blog, Its gonna be good as it grows. I suggest you follow it, as it is only me at the moment. I guarantee you will be mildly entertained.

Awesome. Oh yeah, here is the link.

This and that (Rooney's blog)

It may be tacky, but it was home

Well there we are. I have survived my exams, its all over. Summer awaits, and I can't wait to get started! Unfortunately this means I have to part with my room 11 in Eastwood 4. This place has been my home since last september, and I have met many good friends along the way. Fortunately, I am moving in next year with them all again (minus a few, cough cough) because I love them all so much.

So, my room is pretty much packed now. No posters, just bare walls and a stripped bed, which is kind of weird really considering this is supposed to be where all my creative explosions take place (but not in that way). I am just literally waiting for my parents to arrive and whisk me back to sunny (hopefully...) Torbay, where I will proceed to 'hang out' amongst my peers. It is nice to relax once in a while.

So as my supposed wealth of chemistry knowledge seeps out of my brain like a fully functioning seive, my thoughts turn back to the memories of Eastwood 4. Here is some polite Eastwood 4 trivia concerning my experiences here.

• the first person I met in Eastwood 4 was Harry, which was... enlightening?
• In the beginning, gareth shared his room (albeit humongous) with Mike Brookes, this northern guy who only seemed to eat microwave pizzas for the whole of freshers week
• To my knowledge, a number of people have been sick in the shower
• We all wished Haaziq had not left...
• The kitchen has remained a state for the whole year, much to the despair of Oli.
• We have had many Halo nights, and even a Halo LAN party between the us and some of the chinese residents of the house
• To my knowledge, the kitchen has been filled with smoke about 10 times for various reasons, such as Oli burning a crepe in the microwave and the grill killing my naan bread.
• Our grill is so powerful, even chuck norris is afraid. It literally burns EVERYTHING
• I have essentially learned how to cook food this year
• squirrels have been known to enter the kitchen in the last few weeks
• We had a quote board on the go for a while. Hilarity ensued, and was subsequently written down
• We actually finished a game of monopoly once
• Me and phil have been woken up by all too literal banging noises coming from Andy's room. (Haaziq's replacement)
• Tom Woollacott still is thin somehow considering all those venison burgers
• We have watched many films in this house
• The freezer died at one point, and the maintenance guy came over to fix it with screws and nails....
• We built many Snowmen when snow day came around. One, an impressively tall 7ft.
• Mega Bite was the preferred choice of takeaway because it is cheap and does kebabs

I could go on forever, need i mention the Half Time Pies and the eastwood badger, but I digest digress. I'm totally glad I didnt live in the posh accommodation with all the rich people, because I prefer the kind of people that don't mind or can't afford to live somewhere that is not lavish. My housemates this year were on the whole, awesome.

Not of course forgetting Eastwood 3, where would we be without the lovable James Rooney, we have shared many a coffee break and he is essentially our adopted housemate.

So this is it. The last ever blog from my rubbish little house on campus known as Eastwood 4. I would not have had it any other way. This is Jamie Duffield signing off from room 11 for the last time.

Not too long now...

Well, I am half way through my exams and I get to finally go home for the summer this saturday. I apologise for such a short post, but I am just here to say I miss you all back home and shall be with you shortly.

In the meantime, I look forward to many a "pigeons assemble!" moment, and potentially many a beverage consumed. Lots of napping, hanging out with Sophie, and general not working on anything academic. Although my last exam was somewhat of a slow motion train wreck and I will no doubt be back here in August to clean up the mess (retake) I just can't wait for a rest.

Farewell until wednesday

JD

I'm still here

in case some of you were wondering, I am still here, just hard at work... looking forward to when all this is over

The Contract of Revision.

Ok, here is the deal. Yesterday, I deliberatey did no work whatsoever. This is because it was such a nice day. I designated that day as my 'arsing around' day, in which I would just juggle and laze around in the sunshine. It was fair to say, it was a really good day in the end.

I got up early, and went down to the lake to practice juggling clubs at 10 in the morning. I then met up with Tom to get Pizza for lunch. Followed straight after by an hour of Unicycle hockey with the GV crew and some of the bristol unicycle hockey team, which was tiring but hilariously fun. We then went back to the lake and juggled, listening to 12 stone toddler and I fight dragons on markymark's speakers. We drank Pimms and lemonade, and when the clock struck six we popped back to my house to pick up BRAWL and my gamecube controller. Me, Giles, Bethany and Rich headed to Rich's house just off campus, and played the following games, all on their respective consoles:

• Super smash bros. 64
• Mario Kart 64
• Super Smash bros. Brawl
• Mario Kart Wii
• Wario Ware: smooth moves

We also had some food, and some drinks, so all in all it was a laugh.

So here is my plan. With a collosal amount of just larking around done on sunday, hopefully I would have got it all out of my system, in order to properly prepare for my exams. After my exams, I'll have 4 months of dossing around to do, so 4 or 5 weeks of solid work now is a good bargain!

Here is the deal or so called 'contract':

• Any juggling done will be strictly in Gravity Vomit Practice sessions
• Revise a good few hours per night
• Revise maths EVERY DAY a little bit (my maths is so bad)
• I have loads of new music, but will only listen to it if I feel I have done enough work
• Revision will only stop for food, toilet, Dr Who, or Ricky and the Pigeons album release.
• Recreational activities will be kept to a bare minimum, and once again only if I have done enough work.
• NO ALCOHOL to be consumed
• Don't go to bed later than midnight
• Eat healthily
• Revising outside is acceptable, but only if I am ACTUALLY working and not being asleep
• Drink lots of water
• Non essential blogging is banned
• Non essential youtube browsing is banned
• Facebook is exempt and so is skype, but not for long

This contract is in effect... NOW!

See you all in 5 weeks or so

New Music? OK, sure.

Recently, I have acquired a fair amount of new music, from Alan and Rich. I have given some of my music too, like some kind of cool trade system. Some of the new bands/ artists I have are as follows:

• Weezer
• Dandy Warhols
• More Aquabats!
• Tom Waits
• Daft Punk
• Flight of the Conchords
• More Zelda music!
• The Hercules soundtrack (he can't control his strength!)
• The Avenue Q soundtrack

And some bands that I dont really listen to but have been told I will like

• The Pillows
• The Mars Volta
• Laugh and Beats 
• The beatles?
• Rage against the Machine
• The Crystal Method
• The Black Mages
• Million Dead

So, there we are.