At the weekend....

So at the weekend I went to a camp with the Cubs and Scouts. I didn't want to go cause I thought the kids would annoy me and my wee sister never does anything I say. However, I had to go cause I was getting the first part of my adult training at this camp.

(The following is an extract from my blog on Bebo cause I am being lazy...)

It was actually pretty fun. Friday night we had hot dogs when we got there. Then all the kids went out and played "hidey" in the dark. Of course, the Scouts slept in tents, so they had to put them up first. You should have seen the stars! It was beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen so many stars.

On Saturday, the Scouts went for a hike up a hill while the Cubs stayed behind and made paper boats. At first they didn't work and a couple of them disappeared. Then, the only one to stay upright second time round was Ian's.

Then they got some "Hot Shots" planes before preparing for the puppet show they were planning to do.

The puppet show was about "Dodgy Sheep", a sheep which continously dies in various ways. They then went on to tell horror stories. My dad (Scout Leader) then told them about the Grey Men of the Mist which scared the hell out of them. Iain (another leader) opened the curtains to show them a hand... which was my dad's, but you should have heard the screams!

Afterwards, a couple of Scouts had to fill up the buckets from the burn (for flushing the toilets) and Iain decided to scare them. One of them saw a movement and freaked out, announcing "It's happening!" We had a bit of a laugh about that!

I've decided I would love to take my friends there for a weekend. I just have doubts they will want to come...

Got a show to do tomorrow morning for Fusion from half 9. I should have asked for a later time. Too late now.

On Wednesday, it's the Freshers Fair and I have to do a stall for the Guild of Fanatical Terry Pratchett Fans. I'm worrying about it and I hope it goes well.

I've got another show on Thursday morning but with Hazel. Should be fun. Will probably be cold as both times we will be outside.

Looking forward to all of it (although not so much, the Freshers' Fair). Especially looking forward to going back to uni. It'll give me something to do.

This is Confusing

So I've just been in SPIDER where the new timetables are now up. You can apparently print it off as well. Well, I say apparently but I have a copy sitting next to me right now.

I'm a bit worried about it with regards to the Monday which is when my new radio show should be. Unfortunately, we already knew we would be having to forfeit the radio show one Monday due to some sort of thing which would be only one week. However, on this timetable it says in black-and-white the following:

BM204 R443-9

Practical Bio & Skills Dev

(Wk 8 - Refectory)

So I'm now worried that it means that we will have our labs on Monday just to spite me or if they mean just that week. What's even worse is, the hour beforehand, it says:

BM204 Col 330

Wks 4 - 7 & 11 - 12

Seeing as the next three hours have the same class (with the actual title, though), I'm worried this is when my labs will be. Which means we need to change it. Which is a bit of a problem....

Hang about; just looking at this has made me realise that on a Tuesday, from 14.00 till 17.00 there is the same class. Oh, my God, relief!

I suppose I just hope that I either get assigned the Tuesday or that I can change it...

Would being on a radio show be a good excuse to change it do you think, or will I have to lie and say I'm busy and not specify what...

This timetable makes a lot more sense if you stare at it worried for a while... That 1 o'clock thing for BM204 must be the lectures we are apparently getting this time round...

Wait this timetable says we have a class test for BM201 on Week 5 instead of Week 6. God, I'd wish they'd make their minds up.

Can't wait to find out what Forensic Natural History and Microscopy will be like! I'm getting rather excited about going back. And about next week: Freshers' Week!

The only time I don't get excited is if I think about the Guild of Fanatical Terry Pratchett Fans. Particularly since Tom doesn't seem to have finished the poster (which isn't his fault I suppose) and I'm beginning to panic about that. And about what I will say to people on the day. And, if there is an afterwards, what the hell we will actually do. And what bloody night it will be, seeing as tom can't make up his mind when he wants to do it. OK, that's an injustice; he only said he didn't think he'd be able to make it on a Thursday.

Wanted to record an advert for it today but I didn't know what day it'll be. Hazel suggested calling him. I did but he didn't answer. So the mystery continues...

Moving On...

Well, now that I have a timetable written out on paper, with a pen (in a mess - I managed to miss out "12-13". How I managed that, I don't know...), I have been able to discuss with Hazel when exactly we should have our radio show.

Which reminds me... about the Bebo page...

So we discussed the best time to have our show, so we asked for Monday afternoon for two hours. And we got it: two till four. I now need to tell her how to get onto the Bebo page so that she can help me out with that...

Recording the adverts was fun. Although I may have laughed too much. I don't think acting would be a wise career move.

More of the same tomorrow morning.

Speaking of Bebo pages, I was practically forced to start a Facebook page for The Guild of Fanatical Terry Pratchett Fans. There is now a profile for me and a group for is. I can hardly work the thing.

But now is not the time to complain: my gran is here to visit...

Hey, Lookie Here!

Dave helped me find my timetables last night although, apparently, they'll be on SPIDER on the next week. I should have just e-mailed my Advisor of Studies in the first place!

Anyways, I have absolutely no 9 o'clock starts in Semester 1! Apart from one Friday when I have a tutorial which lasts two hours. I am so pleased!

No getting up at half 6. No needing to sit hungry on the train. No buying my breakfast at the Union. No being extremely tired and falling asleep in lectures.

Semester 2 is another story, though. I haven't really looked, but my mum noticed that there are 9 o'clock starts - on a Monday... Nooooo! However, I only have four different classes, one of them being labs and a couple of lectures for Practical Bioscience and Development. Or whatever it's called.

I'm all excited to go back - I can't wait! My first Forensic lecture will be on the Wednesday we go back! Yay!

The only downside is that my first lecture of second year is Bio-Organic Chemistry. And I think we're getting the same guy we got for first year organic chemistry again...

Cue Hangman. I've got a few new things to do, but it's been that long that I can now do the same ones again.

I've had a thought: playing Hangman and writing notes to Hazel is the naughtiest I've ever been in education. I would never have done that in school! In fact, the only punishment I ever had to do was in Primary School. I got a Red Dot for forgetting my gym kit. And I only forgot it the once.

In fact, my Higher Chemistry teacher said it was scary teaching me and Lisa cause we never spoke. That's cause I understood most of it and I didn't need to ask a question. Oh, and he managed to spot me doodling on my school diary...

If the belt had still been in use when I was in school, I wouldn't have got it once.

My dad got it once, though. His teacher thought he was speaking when it was the boy next to him. My mum was like me; never got the belt in her life.

Speaking of my mum, I found out something a few weeks ago which mortified my wee sister and inspired me. Apparently my mum used to wear a cap with those fluffy things for sticking to windows attached to it. Do you know what I mean by "those fluffy things"? Cause I'm not sure I've explained myself right. I have no idea what they're actually called. I thought that was an awesome idea and I now want one. Just like I want Rimmer's hat from Season 3!

When in Rome...

Or Coatbridge, at least.

On Friday, the Beavers seemed to enjoy the experiments I had them do. The one with the celery changing colour if you put it in water plus dye. And I did one which was meant to demonstrate forces by making a balloon rocket.

When my wee cousins turned up to pick up my wee cousin who's a Scout, the youngest one (three) did an impersonation of Lister by doing the Rimmer salute before hitting himself (lightly) on the head and saying, "Ow."

The party last night was fun - even though only three people was there.

I had to teach Stewart and Dave how to play Trumps and Chase the Lady. I couldn't believe they didn't know how to play them! I mean, I've been playing them since I was tiny! With my mum, dad and wee sister when we went on our camping holidays. I miss them. The sound of rain on canvas as you sit inside, warm, playing cards or reading a book... The fun we had at Aberdeen and Inverness and other places... The butteries!

Ah, well, sometimes the Romans don't know things...

Outrage!

They have painted the TARDIS black and gold!

Well, the one in Buchannan Street, anyway. It's awful. It looked so much like the TARDIS and also sold food but now it does neither; I'm quite upset. Even though I never bought anything from it.

There are other ones in Glasgow, but I can't remember where exactly they are.

But there is a Master's TARDIS across from the Barony Hall. So that slightly makes up for it.

Went to see District 9 last night. I won't spoil it for you, but it's actually pretty good. And a good style of telling the story as well!

Had to stay over at Hazel's last night on account of not being able to get any trains home at half 11 at night. When we got back, however (Dave was with us), we ended up watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the film). It. Was. Awesome! Takes you way back to when you were a kid... Doesn't seem so long ago for me, though!

Oh, found out that I have not done anything interesting over the holidays since Skye. I already knew this, but apparently Joe, Stewart and Dave haven't had it any more interesting as we struggled to think of things to say about what we did.

Then we got onto the topic of Red Dwarf and Being Human and we were home and dry!

Actually, speaking of Red Dwarf, my wee cousin (aged 5) did this very cute thing on Friday when he came to pick up his brother from Scouts. He did the Rimmer salute. It was so cute! I saluted him back, of course, as is only proper.