The last of the four books that I bought at the end of term was defeated today; it’s impossible to compare this to Captain Bluebear, but it was definitely better than the other two that I bought. I was literally moved to tears, which is not something that often happens to me while reading.
The subsequent rainstorm was as violent as these clouds suggested it was going to be.
Much to the annoyance of everyone in earshot, I spent today trying to perfect wolf-whistling. I’m still not really able to change the pitch, but I can make a shrill whistle around 90% of the time.
I finally finished the third book on my list of four today, and loved it. The Five People You Meet in Heaven didn’t really live up to my expectations (though I had been warned that it wasn’t great) but Life of Pi definitely did. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I’m a little sad that I won’t be able to read it for the first time again.
With my iPod, I got ten free songs. I’d also got three free songs out of the minute draws with Coke – unfortunately, the new Sister Hazel album (BAM) is fifteen tracks – I was two short. On the way to post a letter in a box just around the corner, I found two bottles of Coke with labels still on. This says a couple of things: i) Litter is apparently a bigger problem than I remember at home ii) I now have the new Sister Hazel album.
Moseyed on down to Leisure World today to play badminton with Jon, Bish and Sam. It took me a while to find my racquet but after a couple of games the grip started disintegrating. It’s a bit of a shame – this particular racquet has done me well over the last few years; I might try and find a replacement grip, but a replacement racquet is going to be considerably more easy to find.
So I managed to win an iPod off of the Coke/Itunes promotion, and it was waiting for me when I got home. The letter accompanying it said that it was a limited edition iPod, but I couldn’t spot why initially; this lovely Coke logo on the back is the reason.
When I arrived at college at the start of term, I was greeted byducklings. On my last morning, waiting for my parents to arrive, theyappeared around my staircase so I went down to kill time by watchingthem. It gave a nice symmetry to the term as a whole.
A bored Jon is a dangerous thing, especially when left alone with acomputer. He ended up rotating the outputted video of (both of)Chris’ monitors, and also set an event that opened the Windows version dialog box every five minutes from 11:50 for 24 hours, everyday. After watching Blues Brothers, however, Chris held Jon hostage – admittedly fairly – until he sorted it out. I said goodbye to a lotof people this evening though, which is never fun, as I’m leaving early tomorrow.
I’ve learned how to do the Erdnase Change – sliding my hand backwards and forwards on top of a deck to change the visible card, with the sliding hand shown empty before and after. It still needs a lot of practise, but it’s already looking reasonably good. I’ve always liked this effect, and it’s nice to finally be able to do it, to some extent.
