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Patrick's LiveJournal:
| Monday, October 12th, 2009 | |
| 6:11 pm | |
| Monday, September 28th, 2009 | |
| 12:24 pm | |
| Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | |
| 2:15 pm | I've realised I'm not coping very well with not having anything to do (there are a few minor things to do in terms of housing, but they're all beyond my control and involve waiting for other people to send me things, which they're not! They could turn into major things to do if the forms don't arrive pretty soon), I think I may also be a little lonely. This has led to me burning the candle out both ends, which I'm now paying for. I need something to do that doesn't take much energy but keeps me occupied. I've been teaching myself the mandolin, but I needed new strings so by the time I've tuned the bottom strings, the top ones are out of tune again so it's driving me to distraction. I've been reading a lot but I think I need something more interactive so any suggestions would be gratefully received! |
| Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | |
| 9:31 pm | |
| Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 | |
| 9:56 am | Argh! Stupid new phone is stupid. So I set an alarm for silly o'clock this morning so as I could catch a train to southampton to go to the Isle of Wight with Matt and Vicky. Turns out that rather than having a separate alarm on the phone it just does whatever the ringtone is... which would be all well and good were it not for the fact that my phone is ~always~ set to vibrate! At least I have a day of doing nothing, but yeah :( Current Music: Bellowhead - Rambling Sailor |
| Monday, July 27th, 2009 | |
| 10:09 am | Great music, shame about the audience! I got to Hatfield house (which turns out to be right across the road from the station). Picnic blankets, right up to the front. Well, almost, there was about five meters at the very front. When the first band came on, I got up to dance (on my own!) and was actually asked repeatedly to sit down as I was spoiling the view. OK, so The Shee are a very pretty band, but they were playing dance tunes! I was as off to the side as I could have been but this wasn't good enough apparently. Must have been really disheartening for them to just have the audience sat there (mostly reading!) and completely unresponsive to requests to join in with just polite applause at the end of each song/set. If they'd not been very good, fair enough, but they were actually fantastic (and my second favourite of the entire day). I am aware I'm not the best dancer in the world (to say the least) due to my horrific lack of co ordination, but I like to bounce and giggle a bit almost in time with the music when it's dancey and most of the music I like is dancey in one form or another! (I hate that I'm only almost in time with the music, as I know I'm not actually in time with the music, but I'm not co ordinated enough to actually do much about it!). The next two artists were ballady so it wasn't such an issue to be seated for them (although again suffered a similar fate, despite again being very good). Jim Moray suffered the same fate as The Shee did, although with the side of a lot of people actually going off during the sound check because shock horror, there was an electric guitar! (I dread to think what they'd have actually made of the set itself that also had a drum machine and some samples!), he was really good too. Kathryn Tickell FINALLY GOT PEOPLE DANCING! I think if she hadn't I'd have had to get to get the St John's people to check they weren't actually all dead because she and her band were stunningly good. Thankfully people stayed standing for the rest of the event, but were still a little meh! (If people want to know what I thought about the music more I shall be doing my usual review on last.fm later, but I wanted to rant about the audience here!) (despite all this, I did have a really good day and met lots of nice random people (oddly, including one of the groups of people who'd asked me to sit down) and with the exception of Kate Rusby and her band, the artists were all actually there all day enjoying the music, The Shee themselves did a lot to help incite the dancing for Kathryn Tickell and I was stood/dancing next to Jim Moray for the Lau set, he's nearly as bad at it as I am. As if I wasn't already the most hated person in the place for spoiling the view, also managed to get the last pint of real ale in the festival...). Current Music: The Shee - Lady Margaret |
| Saturday, July 25th, 2009 | |
| 2:50 pm | |
| Friday, July 24th, 2009 | |
| 12:48 pm | Folk Off! So yesterday, while feeling particularly ill, I decided what I really need to do is go to a folk festival. So I am. This sunday. Anyone fancy joining me? Tis Folk by the Oak at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. The line up is awesome. Current Music: The Orb - Katskills |
| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | |
| 3:39 pm | YAY! This the time of year where my hippyism and caring about food miles and buying stuff grown as locally as possibly goes out the window... YAY! FIGS! [Edit: Thinking about it, it's early in the year for figs, even from hot places... these are from the West Bank apparently...] Current Music: The Shee - Ahma |
| Sunday, July 19th, 2009 | |
| 5:18 pm | |
| Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | |
| 2:30 pm | Somewhat Damaged... This would be my usual "I'm still alive" post, only I'm not entirely sure that I am right now! Past week has had rather a lot of excesses to say the least. I got attacked by a shooters menu and a smoke machine in Nottingham last friday that indirectly lead to gin, absinth and shouting poetry at one another until it was almost time to wake up before giving up and going to sleep. Saturday involved moving as little as possible, while being in a room with an overly energetic small person (although he avoided bouncing me as there were far easier targets). Tuesday involved Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction who were rather fab all being told (NIN particularly so, so much power, so much energy, so many memories). This was followed by more staying up my bed time catching up with people I'd not seen for ages. This was all duct taped together with driving to Wales and then more time that I've spent on trains for a very long time. So all being told I am rather broken. Wouldn't have missed any of it for the world, even the trains. The only slight downside, and I'm not sure if this is due to the NIN gig, being back at my parents or a combination of both, but I'm feeling very much like an angsty teenager at the moment and also over thinking everything. Current Music: The Shee - Summer's Promise |
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | |
| 10:06 am | On Tour! I'm off back to visit my parents for a while. I'll also be heading to Nottingham this weekend and Manchester in the middle of next week for various musical and catching up with people reasons. I'll probably be online about as much as usual. In other news; I've found somewhere to live for next semester :) Current Music: VAST - Somewhere Else To Be |
| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | |
| 7:42 pm | Questions, Questions everywhere! This time they're from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} burningmarl.1. Who are you writing to for Amnesty? When I write a letter (or take an action as they've taken to calling it these days), I research what I'm doing and saying first, so it takes quite a while. My most recent ones have been about Shell in the Niger delta and protecting protesters in Iran. 2. What do you want to do after university? Not a clue. I'm currently headed towards a PhD. I'm not 100% sure if this is because I want to do one or if it's because I want to hide from the real world for a few more years. Even if it's the latter I'll be highly qualified when I finally do find my way there. 3. I know you're in the OU but in my campus tehre's loads of debate on how science students should pay less because their course is 'better'. What do you think? Hmmm... You've missed the bit where I'm now at a conventional uni then... (Currently at the University of Surrey doing an MPhys in Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics). I think higher education should be free for everyone, but I shall ignore that for now. I don't think science students should pay less. Most science graduates don't go on to work in science and when you get onto post graduate courses (ie people who are going to go on to work in science) there's a lot more funding available for exactly this reason anyway. Also, science courses cost a lot more to run given the need for labs and specialist equipment, so although they cost the same as an arts course they are subsidised to a much greater degree that arts courses are. That being said I do think a lot more people should be encouraged into science and engineering subjects. Particularly instead of the new subjects. 4. What hobby would you pick up if you could? I'd like to be able to play a musical instrument with strings. Possibly either the mandolin or the cello. Other than that I'd love to be able to make watches 5. Are you currently single? Yes. Current Music: The Shee - Tom Paine's Bones |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | |
| 11:00 pm | |
| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | |
| 1:27 pm | Fashion Dilemma (of sorts, I nearly wrote "of shorts" then which would have been rather apt!) As some of you may have noticed; it's a tad warm at the moment. Mostly I'm actually really enjoying it as I have nothing to do but lounge about all day reading (bloody students!). However, this afternoon I need to go and talk to estate agents and things and I am musing what to wear. Obviously the weather calls for shorts and t shirts but dressed as such I look a little scruffy. Because of the long hair and piercing I sometimes have difficulty being taken seriously and thus tend to wear shirt and trousers for these sorts of things (and all the rest of the time when it's not so hot as I love shirts). I'm currently torn as to whether to go for smart and taken seriously but also melt or go as I am (long shorts, beige t shirt and trainers) and potentially have issues with not being taken seriously. Current Music: Icon of Coil - Shelter |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 4:40 pm | A Public Information Posting Pimms is on special offer in sainsbury's at £10 a bottle. My favourite way of serving is with ginger ale, lemon, orange, cucumber, mint and lots and lots of ice. Enjoy! Current Music: Iris - Loose in Wanting |
| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | |
| 10:06 pm | More grilling! This time from thelxiope1)How many sets of cufflinks do you own? Despite the obsession, I only have seven pairs. I say only seven pairs... does anyone else have as many as seven pairs? 2)What's your favourite word? My favourite word is currently "Ombudsman". This is entirely Sel's fault. 3)If you could be any character from a film, who would you be? Hmmmm... given who's asked me the question I'm tempted to say Inigo Montoya (you killed my father, prepare to die!) as that'd be very cool. For some reason the other person I'm tempted to be is Kamaji from Spirited Away. 4)What's the scariest thing that's happened to you? I'm petrified of flying, but I doubt that really counts in this sense and that's a (mostly) irrational fear. I'd say my most scary moments have been involved in have been driving. The time that springs to mind is when I was actually driven off into a curb by an idiot in a BMW X5. He'd tried to overtake me just before a speed limit change and misjudged the distance and swerved in to well, me had I not swerved into a curb rather hard and mangled my front wheel. I thought I'd either flip the car or be crushed by some stupid oversize Surrey Tractor. I got away with a mangled front wheel. The BMW didn't even stop. 5)Friday? ;-) (I know - cheating. Next week is kind of busy) That is cheating! I suppose I'll allow it. Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin |
| 4:57 pm | Grilling It's one of those people asking me questions memes. These ones are from ladybirdintheuk. Comment if you'd like some questions...How did you come to learn the tuba? When I was 9, we moved in across the road from where the village brass band rehearse. I saw the people going in with the instruments and decided I wanted to do that. So I went along they gave me a cornet, told me what buttons to press and told me to come along to the beginners band. I did (and taught myself to read music in the process). The cornet just wasn't big enough, the tuba is silly and much more me so as soon as I was good enough to play anything at all really, I moved to that :D If money/travel were no object what would you have for tea? I'd have the full 20 course menu at El Bulli. Then I'd pop. Food Nerdary at it's peak :D What are you actually going to have? I've made a big vat of chili, so probably some of that. I've just had lunch (followed by an ice cream from Thorntons) with my friends Matt and Vicky, so I'm a bit stuffed at the moment. What was your nicname at school? Depends on when in school, usually variations on my name. Patch and Pat. Very occasionally Paddy although I hate that. Once Paz which gives me even more rage than Paddy. What was the first gig you ever went to? In a small local gigs type way a band called "Ffa Coffi Pawb" (which translates as "Coffee Beans Everyone", but if you say it fast sounds like "f**k off to everyone") they went on to become Super Fury Animals. Big gigs wise was much later due to living in the middle of nowhere and being too ill to travel. I can't actually remember what order the gigs were, It was possibly Radiohead. I know the first big gig I ever had tickets to was Smashing Pumpkins, but I was to ill to go. Current Music: ASP - Ich Will Brennen |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | |
| 11:39 am | So, Life then... Having spent the past couple of years not having a break, I've somewhat worked myself into the ground. I'm not surprised as health permitting I'm a bit of a workaholic/swot. The thing is, now I've actually got (am forcing myself to have, despite several job offers) time off, I'm having trouble adjusting. I still feel like I should be doing working. Rather unsurprisingly Patricks don't deal so well with the outside world. I've been reading a lot to make up for the fact that I've been unable to over the past term as physics completely takes over everything. Currently getting through ~3 books a week (plus occasional philosophy books in between, as I'm like that) so any suggestions gratefully received. Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps |
| Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | |
| 5:00 pm | |
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