Thoughts concerning music and other such things

I got thinking the other day. Actually, more precisely, I got thinking earlier on today when my mind was wandering yet again instead of concentrating on the work I was trying to do. Anyway, I realised that it is now almost exactly three years since I started playing the guitar. I then realised just how much I have learned about the guitar in that time. Then, my brain working as it does, this led to another thought/challenge. If I can learn to play the guitar well in that amount of time, could the same go for the piano?
Now obviously, there are some slight differences between the piano and the guitar. Mainly, the piano has keys that you press, and you don't strum it. Also, the fact that I own four guitars and not a single piano. All the same, I have decided that over the next three years I would like to learn how to play the piano. Maybe not learn to play it really, really well, but play it all the same. I feel it would come in useful at some time or another.
Well, apart from those thoughts, its been a pretty uneventful day. Five hours of classes, and doing work either on my laptop or in A3 pads the rest of the time. I even tried to do work as I was sitting having lunch in the chaplaincy earlier. I also still have some design work to do tonight, but that shall come after ER I think.
Anyways, not much else went on over the weekend apart from Scotland winning the rugby!! That definitely deserves a big HOORAH!!! Ireland also won, which I view as quite a good thing, but not as good as Scotland winning. It shall no doubt continue to make me happy for a few days yet.
Well, that's all my thoughts for today. If you want to buy me a piano, let me know.

I'm home!

Once again I have decided to take a trip home for the weekend. A trip home on the train, which was so fun, you can't begin to imagine how much I enjoyed it. It brings in the end of a busy week. Between all the work I've been doing this week and the organisational stuff for CU, I have been very busy, and would liked to have slept more.

Last night was the great CU pub quiz 2006. 70 questions. One night. Seven teams. One prize. So yeah, the quiz concocted by Louise and myself seemed to go down well. Jillian may correct me about this later, but you never know, it seemed to go pretty well. I had fun too, especially looking at the ever-increasing name of one of the teams. I can remember that it involved beef, and offices somewhere, but thats about as much of it as I can remember.

So after that last night, I had a nice lecture at nine o'clock this morning. This was after I had packed for coming home too. Three hours of class, all of them involving numbers and the such, with mechanics and maths. Oh the joys. So then I went back to my flat, ate, and headed to the train. A fun trip home, and then some slight unpacking. Just the general getting-home stuff.

So now, ahead of me I have a fun weekend planned. Apart from going for some coffee/tea/irn-bru tomorrow, I have a lot of work to do. And I mean a lot. Hopefully I'll still find time for some general television watching, guitar playing and messing about. I plan to take many more guitars back to Glasgow this time too. And hopefully this week I'll get more sleeping time, as I like sleeping time. It makes me happy.

Anyway, off for a nice relaxing evening now. Hope you have a good evening too.

Whyfort singeth the birds?

Have you ever noticed that if you get home really late at night/early in the morning, the birds are still singing? I had never noticed this until a couple of weeks ago, but since then I just keep hearing them whenever I get back late. It's quite extraordinary.
Other things that have been happening since I last posted have been equally exciting. I had a lecture yesterday. One whole lecture. Yet I still spent the entire day either at CU things or working. It felt good to get so much work done actually. Today was also almost completely work based. I have done maths, integrating studies, introduction to design and other assorted pieces of work. I made a pretty graph too =)
And this evening is to be more of the same. After the success of my curry earlier, (it was great, I bought poppadoms too and it was really nice. Mmm.) I have managed to successfully complete my maths assignment for tomorrow, sort out all my lecture notes from this semester so far, start some more design work, and I still even found time to play the guitar for a few minutes.
Tomorrow will also prove to be as busy I feel. Start the today as you plan to continue - with a committee meeting at 8am. Bright and early start before a good day of getting lots of work done. It should be good.
Anyway, back to more work. Also, thanks to anyone who replied to the survey thing I emailed them. Much appreciation to you all.
Bye.

Rolls and chocolate spread

The answer - rolls and chocolate spread. The question - what did I own in the way of food before I went to buy some more earlier. Now I own more, which is good, and I like food. Anyway, much has been happening since I last posted. Not all of it has been happening to me, but some has so I shall fill you in on that stuff.
The morning after the ceilidh I did not feel good. At all. So the lectures had to be neglected in favour of not being sick and trying to feel better. It worked, and I was feeling better by the afternoon. I was feeling even better still by the evening, so went round to watch films at Katie's flat. Aladdin, Clueless and Bring It On. Two of those are films that I would not generally watch, but they weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be, which was good. Also, did you know cheap violins do not enjoy staying in tune? I know now, after Louise tried to tune hers at about half one in the morning. Bet the folk upstairs loved that.
Saturday consisted of slight doing work, going into the city centre to top up my phone, and then yet another ceilidh. It was good, there was food, and ceilidhing, and a raffle that I didn't win anything in, but it was still good. I ended up getting home at about half two, which would be fine and well if it wasn't a saturday night. I then proceeded to get stuck in our toilet once again and it took five minutes to get out. This made me annoyed. What made me even more annoyed was the person that started pressing our door buzzer constantly at about six in the morning. Eventually I got up to let them in, pressed the button, and no-one came in. This made me even more annoyed. Sometimes I think about removing our phone thing from the wall so noone can buzz us. But I won't. So then, after another three hours sleep, I headed over to the West End Vineyard church and met Louise there, and her friend Jamie. It was a good church, with a good speaker, and especially amazing music. This was followed by a curry, which was also good. I ended up in a shoe shop too so Jamie could buy shoes without holes in them. I also ended up buying new shoes. They are cool, but I think I am now going to have to buy new trousers to go with them. Oh well. I played guitar at Dennistoun Baptist in the evening too, but that was rather uneventful, as was the rest of my evening.
Today was also rather uneventful, with a few classes, most of which were really boring, and I got an assignment that is due in on Thursday. It should be interesting, especially since it concerns hard maths. I shall manage though. The other exciting thing from today is.............our toilet door got fixed!!! No more getting stuck in it, and having to get people to help me get out, or having to help other people get out. That deserves a hoorah I think. Hoorah!!
Anyway, I have to do some work tonight, so I better get on with it. Update y'all soon.

Things I have learned today

Wow, a second post on technically the same day as the last one, since I havent been to bed yet. This post is generally focused on things I have learned today. The first was that I failed to work out how to spell a word that I made up. Anyone who has been to the CU forum will see this word, and no doubt comment hence forth.
The second thing is that my design group can really get a lot of work done when we try, and still have a massive laugh. We got a lot done today, AND even managed to organise a meeting for next tuesday to get more work done.
Another thing, if you go to the village office and tell them your toilet door is broken, then wait a couple of hours, a brand new green Henry the hoover will appear in your flat. The door however still does now work, and the hoover is yet to be tried, because we only ever hoover when people are coming to visit or we have inspections. Even then it sometimes doesn't happen.
A fourth thing is that there are a number of words to describe me at a ceilidh. Here are a selection; enthusiastic, hyper, crazy, mad, maniacal, energy-ful, tired, knackered, out-of-breath, and being in the state of something resembling a zombie. Hoorah.
Wow, looks like I've learned a lot in the past day. Four things. If I learned that many things every day, I would lose the useful facts I know about such things as guitars. Or the bible. And we wouldn't want that to happen now, would we?
The correct answer is 'no'.
Anyway, bed is a-calling, as is my nine oclock lecture tomorrow morning. The joys.

Well and truely knackered

The title does not refer to me. Although I had short amounts of sleep on sunday and monday nights, I have since then managed to catch up somewhat. No, the title refers to the wonders of our sliding toilet door in the flat. The main problem being that you can close it when you are inside, but when you try to open it again, it doesn't slide. So basically you are stuck in the toilet and shout for someone else to come and help you get the door open from the outside by lifting it up off the ground. How fun.
Anyway, it's been a busy old week so far, with classes (occasionaly), meetings, small group, sleeping and eating. Small group even led to the creation of a new phrase on tuesday: "Love is a present, like a dog or an ice-cream cone, only better." I drew a picture of a christmas tree too =)
And today, even though I actually have three classes, I'm well excited cos we have a ceilidh tonight! I may even go so far as to say "hoorah!"
I now realise I have run out of stuff to talk about. Maybe I haven't actually been that busy since sunday. Maybe I will just go and eat more all-you-can-eat chinese food and then tell you about that all over again.
I won't do that, but I will say that Dennistoun Baptist church was very good on sunday when I went. Friendly people, good teaching, and tea or coffee and biscuits after the service too =)
Anyway, that really is me done now. Breakfast is calling me, and then maths unfortunately. Somehow I only got 60% in the last maths test when I thought I was going to get 70 or 80%, so I now like maths even less than I did previous to getting the results, but oh well, what you gonna do.
Ciao for now.

It's that time of night

It's that time of night when I'm not sure if it's saturday or sunday. Technically, it is Sunday, and has been for fifteen minutes. But I haven't slept yet, so it is like it is still saturday. It's just one of those things I wonder about some times.
Anyway, it's been very busy since I last posted. As you can read about on Jillians blog (see left <-), after the CU agm on thursday we ended up in dennistoun after an invite from alison and louise, (louises blog on left also <-). It was fun. I got to sit on an inflatable sofa, and decided I want to get one next year for wherever I live, along with a beanbag and a drumkit.
Friday was also muchos busy. After my whole three hours of lectures, I met Alison, Louise and Catherine (anyone know how to actually spell her name? please let me know) for ALL YOU CAN EAT chinese food. Half price as well. It was great. So great that I didn't feel like moving afterwards. Alison, Louise and I also went to see Walk the Line at the Glasgow Film Theatre. It's a great cinema, but not much legroom, and I'm not even that tall. I then ended up in Dennistoun again, and spent the night on the worlds comfiest sofa. T'was great. As was the rugby today, although Ireland should have won I felt after that amazing comeback, but not much can be done about that now.
This week also promises to be busy, with meetings and everything. I'm not used to having meetings, but there you go. I'm starting some church-crawling tomorrow too, just to visit some other places. Starting with Dennistoun Baptist, since it is relatively close, and I know at least one person that goes there. I am told it is good, and I'm sure it shall be.
Well, I now notice the grammatical and capital letter errors in this post. But I'm not going to fix them, because it's late, and I want to watch Scrubs before I go to bed, because it makes me laugh. And laughing is good. Hahahahaha. You should try it sometime =)
Anyway, until next-os blog-os, muchos gracias senors and senoritas.

Bow, for you are in the presence of royalty!

Ok, so the title is a slight mis-truth. That is, unless the titles and positions of CU committee members have changed drastically and no-one has yet notified me of this. I somehow doubt that though, although it would be quite cool to have people bow in your presence. Would probably give you a bit of a complex of somekind, but I can't remember the term for it. All answers addressed to my comments section would be much appreciated.
Anyway, at one point yesterday during my very much CU-based day, I was thinking. It was CU based due to the morning meeting, the alpha prayer meeting, the committee meeting, and small group at night. And technically toastie bar too, but I really just went to eat toasties rather than help, and then I left again. Anyways, I was thinking about things that annoy me, and I came up with a surprisingly large amount, which I don't think is good. So here is a sample of those things. One of them is people who aren't flexible about things, like meetings, and such things. Luckily I don't know many people like this. Another thing is people who don't turn up for stuff like meetings when they are quite important meetings, and they have said they will turn up. People who say they are ill so can't meet you, and then go out to the union that night are under this category too I suppose, but that is slightly specific to part of yesterday which annoyed me a lot. People who use a lot of exclamation marks slightly annoy me. Obviously this one doesn't apply when speaking to people, but I still get irritated by it for some reason. Maybe I am just so good at english that I know they shouldn't be used so often. But then again, and this is much more likely, I'm not. A final thing I can recall is people that are incredibly disorganised. I don't encounter this particularly often, and I sometimes am slightly disorganised, but I just don't like it.
Well, that was quite a rant. Tonight's blog is being written between me cleaning the flat for it's inspection tomorrow, and starting some research for a class on introduction to design for tomorrow. Tomorrow should be quite a good day, with four hours of classes, then the CU agm, and then perhaps playing pool in the union, seeing as that often happens after CU these days. Then on friday, I am going for lunch/dinner at an all you can eat chinese restaurant in the city centre with Alison and Louise. It could be seen as a bonding outing for the new committee, but really it's just half price all you can eat chinese seeing as the three of us already know each other. So that should be good. And if you happen to see anyone rolling through the city centre afterwards, that will most likely be me, due to me always making the most of all-you-can eat buffets. I can usually still walk after them though, which is a slight victory suppose. And I only feel ill for a few hours afterwards generally, so it's all good.
Well, I better go actually get some work done now. And make sure the flat is clean too, you never know what can happen in an hour in this flat. Ciao.

Colour the mess

A great title for a great song. Colour the mess. Tonight was the SixStarHotel gig, supported by non-zero and mexico. It was very loud. It was a small room. And it was brilliant. I even bought a t-shirt, sporting the title of this post none the less. For anyone who sees me tomorrow, I shall be wearing it. So yeah, it was great, and you should all go and see SixStar if you ever get a chance. You may come back slightly deaf, as I am now, but it is more than worth it. Especially since most of the stuff they were playing isn't out on cd yet, so there is no other way to hear it.
In other news, my day was average. No classes, did my washing, met some people for coffee, where I had orange juice instead, then went and played pool in the union. Plus, I even got some work done for my maths tutorial tomorrow.
Well, thats all the ranting you are getting for tonight, as I am very tired. I shall update you soon though.