Gemx.co.uk http://www.gemx.co.uk Personal website Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:07:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Engage!…geek http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/engage-geek/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/engage-geek/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:07:24 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=168 I may have slightly got engaged at the weekend…

A very hot and crowded Bournemouth beach!

A nice room!

The lovely view from the hotel room.

The Corby trouser press placed by the mirror to look like there is two of them! :o (You really thought I could be serious for an entire minute?)

Standard wine glass picture no.765

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Image heavy so…

We messed around/got asked for many drugs/spooned/napped/went on an hour long trip to the toilet/walked a ridiculously large field several times and went over and fondled the stones. Then time for sunrise! This is just before the sun came up, it was already time, but those low clouds made everyone wait in suspense!

There it is!

Sunrise!

Now..seen the sun…awesome… it’s freezing, where’s the car!?

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/stone-henge/feed/ 0 Extraneous details http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/extraneous-details/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/extraneous-details/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:41:43 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=154

I had an awesome time in London. Saw David Devant & His Spirit Wife, which was an great gig, even the support (The Bikini Beach Band) were good!  Really had fun! If I could see them again tomorrow I would go again! The next day I did the usual shopping for things and sightseeing. Finally managed to go to the Tate which I’ve wanted to do for ages. My feet are about ready to fall off with the amount of walking I’ve done in the last few days. I didn’t want to leave though! :(

Summer Solstice this weekend and I’m off to Stone Henge for it. It will be the first time I’ve been so that’ll be interesting, hoping it won’t rain! Almost looks like I have a social life eh?

Tomorrow I will be catching up on on my work I’ve not been doing and should be, doh!

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/extraneous-details/feed/ 0 Another short post http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/another-short-post/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/another-short-post/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:56:08 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=149 Been very busy at the moment, well busier than normal. Thought I’d drop in with a “coming soon” blah

:::Coming soon:::

Posts on

  • Android apps
  • Reading experiment stimuli
  • Any other jazz that comes to mind…

In other news, off to London to see David Devant & His Spirit Wife! Very happy :) It is not very often that I see bands any more and definitely not very often I see one that I’ve been really looking forward too. Should be fun! I love visiting London anyway, so much to see and do.

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New Star Trek film and some wine tonight, I almost feel cultured…almost (dons sunglasses in preparation for lens flare)

Meh. Short post…

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/short-post/feed/ 0 New job starts tomorrow! http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/new-job-starts-tomorrow/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/new-job-starts-tomorrow/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:04:30 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=141 New job starts tomorrow working for Dr. Drieghe! Can’t wait to find out what I’ll be doing. Although I expect I will spend the morning harassing the uni computing people about installing the software I need. 48 hours of emails and all I’ve got is a question asking what system I’m running, after I’ve already given them the reference no. of the computer that belongs to them. Strange, crazy people…I shall be nagging tomorrow using my formal English voice that I get out for special complaining occasions.

Still tomorrow should be fun! :)

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/06/new-job-starts-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Exams are over, let the working begin! http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/exams-are-over-let-the-working-begin/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/exams-are-over-let-the-working-begin/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 18:03:57 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=139 Exams are over! How I’ve waited for this day! Now to remember what I did before revision took over my life…was it something to do with genes/children/pop psych? No…I would hope not.

So currently having a relaxing bank holiday, doing exactly nothing. I may paint my nails while watching some junk films, but that is as much as I intend to do today. Anyway, I have to be up early tomorrow for my induction! w00t! I get to get a new staff card with the same details as the one I just handed in, hopefully not with the same ‘just dug up’ picture, but I expect it will be. At least I can scare small children with it I suppose. I get to have an induction around the department tomorrow, which should be short seeing as I spend a lot of time in there already. I’m really looking forward to working in the psych department, I owe many thanks/favours/drinks for the opportunity! Unfortunately I have to share an office with a certain Dr.Godwin. Tsch, there’s always a down side!

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One happy happy joy joy thing to look forward to is that I’m pretty much all sorted to do research assistant work this summer. Extremely happy about this and really looking forward to it!

No more posts till after exam stress now…bai bai

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/revising/feed/ 0 Zombies > revision http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/zombies-revision/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/zombies-revision/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 21:44:56 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=124 I love my HTC Desire. It does anything I could want in a phone. Plus this whole app stuff is awesome. I am extra happy about apps because I’ve always had a crappy phone that can’t even MMS, never mind being able to install programs onto it! I may do a app post at a later date. In phone game app blah and to continue my point and click game obsession, Hayward found me a pretty cool game called Mystique. The first part is a “escape from a locked room” game and is free. It was actually really fun. Not only does it make my point-and-click-brain-centre happy, it is set in a very dark/gothic/mental hospital setting. Complete with eerie noises! I have paid for the next two games/parts, the second I have completed and was a lot of fun, with a scary child to follow and the only point was to get an elevator working. Sounds crap, but was great, but no spoilers here. The game was difficult enough to keep me happy, but not stupidly hard in a “you must click exactly on a pixel, for no real reason” to progress. Just nice logical problems. I’ve just started the third one, with is a lot longer than the other two apparently and they have improved the eerie noises greatly. It’s now really creepy to play in the dark with the random heavy breathing and doors slamming behind you sounds and the whispers of doom! It’s truly awesome! <3 Hayward for finding it.

Sadly I am stress-filled. It is the last two weeks before exams. I’m concerned, yet I can’t wait for them to be over. I’m more concerned about a rather weird qualitative report I have to write up this week. Showing our own opinions and values, but written in the third person. Should be interesting…To make it worse the topic is on school era sex and relationship education. I dunno…maybe I’ll get into it as I write it, I just prefer stats.

In good news I finally retrieved Zombieland from the royal mail delivery centre of d00m. I will be cramming random psychological facts into my brain and following this with watching zombie brains getting ker-splatted. Although somehow that sneaky postman managed to put a red card of d00m through he door when I was actually home. So another trip to the ghetto where the delivery centre is located is called for. The journey there is fun, passing signs on lampposts wanted witnesses for a murder nearby. The strange people who just stand outside their houses…for no discernible reason other than it’s fun to stand outside. The way people have small bonfires…on the pavement (my personal favourite) and lastly that we have to walk over the grotty bridge where the river is just mud and rotten sunken boats and all you can see is mud, traffic and rusted metal. I live in a classy place. I must take pictures next time, now I have an uber phone! Blah, anyway, back to work.

]]> http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/05/zombies-revision/feed/ 0 Zombie kitty desire http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/04/zombie-kitty-desire/ http://www.gemx.co.uk/2010/04/zombie-kitty-desire/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:04:17 +0000 Gem http://www.gemx.co.uk/?p=122 After a week of craptastic news and being thieved from, I have finally had a good day! New phones arrived this morning, HTC Desire. A massive improvement on my previous phone, which was only, well…a phone. This one is all shiny and covered in my sticky finger prints! Plus it has all the geeky gadgets I could ever want. Now I need to find reasons to use them.

I ordered Zombieland dvd, hoping it will arrive tomorrow. It’s one of the few films I’ve seen at the cinema I want to see again. Who can go wrong with zombies?

I must revise…but I can always find better things to do. I made a Ziggy card for my mum’s birthday! He is such a flirt cat.

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