I have done... Questionable things

But also great things!

Well, potentially great. Well, okay, if you're going to be a fucking pedant about it, I've done some good things and some bad things. But that's not important right now.


What is important, at least to me, is that I've decided to make a new blog after the demise of ironictoaster, because I need an outlet for my creative side. And goodness knows my course doesn't give me that oppotunity. So down to business...

I've done somethings today in preparation for my course starting anew on Monday. This is a course that seems to be more and more like some kind of beaureaucratic rite of passage; if you can handle the outrageously poor planning, the lack of logical timetabling and the herculian task of finding out where I'm meant to be on a daily basis, then, then you will be sufficiently hardened, nay forged in the fires of poor management, that the NHS will have little to intimidate you.

Things I have done today to prepare for the next semester:

1. Bought a decent sized, non-fun, calendar for noting important dates (courses, placements, exams, coursework due dates, gigs, rectal exams etc etc)
2. Bought a pad of post-it notes so I don't have to keep on using the back of envelopes for taking notes at my desk and then using bodily exudates to adhere them to surfaces.
3. Bought a diary. Mobile calendar. I think the logic behind this is self-explanatory.
4. Done a crap load of washing. I had officially run out of socks this morning and that is not a situation I ever want to face again.
5. Decided to write an email to the IT department at uni. Seriously, I can understand them blocking the BitTorrent ports of the halls' network (what percentage of all 'net traffic is BT now?) but blocking ports used for IM clients, FTP, hell even NTP services! It's just too retarded for words and thus something must be said. It wouldn't be quite so bad, but this is only the case in halls - Not a problem on campus >.<
6. Watched the first half of "Hogfather". It really is rather good. Which is nice. There are few authors I think should be kept in book form and Terry Pratchett was one of them. But now, I may have to rethink this.
7. Started an audio-diary (note I did not say blog) of my time learning to be a nurse, 'cause I need an outlet of all the shit I see on the wards and I don't want to make my friends start hating me because I all I talk about is my course. And I'm too lazy to write it down.
   

Which brings us nicely to my questionable things. Or rather, thing.

I was torn between two games before Christmas. I thought "New computer, why not buy a new game?" Y'know, something to test out the new components (lol dual core) and entertain me when I'm trying desperately to not think about course-work (1500 words of the role of the nurse in a multi-professional health care team? How does this improve my nursing? Srsly.) I was torn between Neverwinter Nights 2 and Dawn of war. Both had reasons to be bought, however I went with NWN2 because I knew the territory and enjoyed the first one so much. However, after downloading the demo for DoW, I can see that I chose, poorly. I've never been a fan of RTSs but this is like nothing I've ever played before, it's pretty, it doesn't involve all that "you require more Vespene gas" stuff. You capture points on a map, build tanks and kill the other guy. The graphics may not be mind-blowing, but it really is a fantastic game and compared to the horrible, horrible UI in NWN2 (it's like they saw what was good in Bioware's design and just chucked it away) it's more... Fun.

So I think we've learnt something from this experience. Namely that I am a retard when it comes to purchasing computer games and I should really leave it to the experts. I should stick to nursing.