8 years later...

This blog is now under new management: 24-year-old me.

I probably won't update it, but I just want to let my reader know that I'm still here.  Aneesha.

Nearly 8 years since my last post.  I have since completed a Mathematics degree at Oxford and am currently doing a DPhil (also in Oxford) in computational cardiac electrophysiology.

More importantly, following up from an earlier post, I did compete in the competition the following year, and came 2nd.  Here's the article in The Times, but you have to pay to read it all, which is nice.

Cryptic crosswords have replace su doku(s?) as my main puzzular hobby.  I have yet to successfully complete a qualifying puzzle for The Times National Crossword Championship, but that's still a goal.

If I do ever update this blog, it'll probably be mostly crossword-related, or maybe maths/science.

02:40

Why am I up?

Actually, that question is a lie.

I know why I'm up. But you don't. And never will.

I'm talking to someone, that's why.

Constrewn

Is that how it's spelt?

Is that how spelt's spelled?

Ridiculous

The whole thing.

Loads of stuff has happened, but I'm not going to bother explaining any of it from now on, more or less.

Doing GCSEs and AS French exams this week and next.

Because I'm too lazy to update this thing, and because nothing worth writing/reading about happens in my life, I will now only be posting rarely, if at all, and purely about odd musings and ideas that form in my mind.

eg. Is there anywhere in the human body that is a vacuum? Doubt it.

RJ

Granada '07

I haven't posted in a while because I'm lazy; no better reason.

I came back from the "study visit" to Granada (Spain) yesterday, and it was classic!
Saw some interesting historical stuff but just hanging around town doing what we wanted was good fun.

An über-album is being made online with everyone's photos, so you'll soon be able to see what I'm talking about.

I stayed with Ben in an old Spanish lady's flat, but there was also this American guy called Leroy who was staying there. He was really cool, and the Spanish lady told us his name was "Lando" when we asked her.
She was quite nice and didn't get annoyed if we came home a little bit late.

The social aspects revolved around some big stairs about a 10 minute walk from the centre of town, and is where everyone generally gathered before going elsewhere, or just stayed there all night.

I'd say that Granada beats the exchange to Pamplona back in Year 9 because we had loads more freedom and our Spanish has improved exponentially. By which I mean that our Spanish is a lot better now than in Year 9. I do not mean that our Spanish improved whilst in Granada. Come on.

All in all: classic.

RJ

Happy Christmas

Christmas has come and gone for this year, and it's 2007 in two days.

I received two nice ties, a large Spanish dictionary and plenty of money, so it was good fun.

I need to do more revision for my GCSE mocks which start next week, but it's starting that takes the most effort.

For about a month, our internet had been unblievably rubbish until this morning, when we got a new modem, and now it's good again! It's such a relief for pages to load near instantly and for videos to begin playing straight away due to fast streaming.

Ntl seem to be such liars, as we were told our internet would be sorted about a week ago due to our signal thing being restarted. I won't go into too much technical detail, mainly because I haven't a clue what it means.

But now with high-speed internet back I can do what I want to much more quickly: stare at MSN blankly, occasionally saying something to someone.

RJ

Muse ~ 16th June, 2007

I'm seeing Muse on 16th June, 2007 at Wembley Stadium.

It will be great!

It will be my second actual gig, after Franz Ferdinand, whom I saw just over a year ago.

In all honesty, I'm expecting Muse to be better. Franz were still great though.

RJ

Guitarras

Following the success of my acoustic guitar, I decided to purchase an electric guitar, which should arrive within the week.

10W amplified included, and delivered for about £55, so not a bad deal.

RJ

(That's not a typo in the title; guitarra is Spanish for guitar.)