Updates, Christmas and Clogs
There has been an extreme lack of anything going on in recent times, so I thought it was time for an update on that.
First things first- Untitled Spander Number One part 2 is now up on LiveJournal. For anyone who is interested, it’s on http://spike-1790.livejournal.com/ . There will be more of the boys later, but I’m suffering a mild case of writer’s block at the moment.
Secondly, I now have a Twitter account. I’m http://twitter.com/spike1790 . It would be nice to see the few people that do actually follow this blog, so check it out or follow me or whatever.
I’m looking forward to Halloween. Yes, it’s a little way a way, but I’m all for forward planning. I fully intend to go trick or treating and I am going to be dressing up as a punk fairy. Or a vampire. Haven’t quite decided on that yet. But I have seen the most perfect set of fairy wings in the world and want to wear them.
Forward planning is a great thing. It means that little things can’t sneak up and attack you unexpected, like your grandparents anniversary, Mum’s birthday, Christmas, etc. Although having said that, Christmas always seems to be able to launch sneak attacks on me. I swear it spends 50 weeks a year planning and the 2 weeks before lulling me into a false sense of security… “Still got 2 weeks”… “Still got one week”… “Oh holy shit, it’s Christmas eve and I haven’t finished shopping :S ”. Or I’ll have everything ready months in advance- all the presents bought, cards written and everything hidden away in a safe place away from everyone. And I will have hidden it so well that even I have no idea where I hid things. And I have come to the conclusion that there is a Christmas present eating monster under the bed. It’s very similar to the clog eating monster, which is, let’s face it, not much of a threat to those of us who don’t own clogs. So, I think the summary of this is that we should all plan ahead and never buy clogs unless we want them eaten.
Thank you, and have a nice night.
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Spike1790 and the Case of the Magically Expanding Cookies
Well, I’m back in Exeter, attempting once again to make food based products. Those of you out there who have been reading this from the start, or who have been bored enough to read over some of the other posts here, will remember how well that went last time.
This time was about cookies and not cupcakes though. overall, they worked out fine and looked fairly professional in a these come from tesco kind of way. Except for the part where they expanded to fit a whole baking sheet. :/
Come on, People! Lessons should have been learned here! Why did you think i was capable of cooking? I’m the kind of person who could burn salad… or water for that matter….
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progress report
Feeling accomplished- I’ve finished chapter one of Untitled Spander number one. Haven’t finished thinking of a name for it, yet though, as you can see from the truely imaginative title it has at the moment. Anyways, that should be posted to LJ tomorrow. Or later today, depending on how you’re looking at that.
but thats not the only progress, is it? Oh no. It is now the end of the accademic year, and i am reminiscing on the events of the past year- my successes and failures. Most can be classified as both. :/
On the plus side, I havent been kicked out. Impressive, considering the amount of time i’ve spent in the Student Union bar.
Which is another acheivement- the sheer volume of alcohol i have consumed. 
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Resulting in some seriously good times- lots of laughs and drunk phonecalls to parents etc. Punching people in the face, gaining the respect of my faltmates as a result.
On the flip side- drinking so much i punched one of my friends in the face. :/ Not good except for the repect it got me and the entertainment value (flatmates still think its funny, anyway).
Drinking so much I drunk-call my parents :/ Hilarity aside, that has some drawbacks.
Drinking so much i waste 30 quid to the porcelain god.
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I’m seeing a patern here :/
so maybe its not the year that needs reveiwing, its the mentality of a drunk student.
tough. this is the way i like it.
in the immortal words of Sid Vicious ” I DID IT MYYYYYY WAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Packing to go to Exeter now Night peeps x
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and another thing
Probably should have mentioned that my LJ name is Spike_1790, for those of you bored enough to want to read it.
Yeah, thought i’d confuse you all, my loyal fans, (the whole 3 of you) by putting an underscore in it. Mostly everything else is the normal spike1790, so i dont know why the change.
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plot bunnies with big pointy teeth
I’ve been bitten by a Spander plot bunny. It’s sunk it’s teeth in and won’t let go! Posting it to my Live Journal, so anyone willing to read and comment, please do. Warning you now, there will be m/m, so dont read if that squicks you. 
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An Update From Hell
Well, I’ve been at Soton Solent for 4 weeks now, and everything seems to be going good. Which is not a normal situation. My spider senses are tingling *looks around suspiciously*.
It’s quite a nice place here. Of course you get the odd thing or two that catches your eye and makes you do a double-take, but what place doesn’t? I mean, who hasn’t seen a guy in a pig costume wondering the streets at 4pm on a Friday waving at the students? (Whoever decided the university mascot should be a pig should get a medal *rolls eyes*.) And yesterday I got slightly weirded out by a guy in a gorilla costume that was handing out flyers. And of course, we can’t neglect to mention the guy dressed as a set of traffic lights outside Junk.
In true student fashion, my phone has broken itself twice since I got here and now only works some of the time. Neither of these were anything to do with me- the first time it lost signal the second we got here and didn’t get it back for most of a week, and now its saying “message not sent” when I try to text people, when in fact, its sending 3 of every message I’m trying to send and not telling me, which is why I’ve managed to spend £3 on 4 texts. :S
Anyways, the photos from the first week are up on facebook. Luckily, there’s not very many of me in there, as I was the one behind the camera, however, there might be some when my flatmates get the photos off their various phones and cameras. Add me if you’re really that bored and/or desperate for friends. www.facebook.com/spike1790
Student life is fairly easy to adapt to. You’ll be amazed at just how ok-ish Tesco value spaghetti is when it’s on slightly stale bread. Ok, so in the first week we might have let a few loaves go a bit green, but we caught them before they ran off to colonise in Flat B’s bathroom. There’s currently a pint of milk in the fridge that is a little past it’s use by date (when you turn the bottle upside down the milk inside doesn’t move. :S ).
There should be another post in about 16 or 17 days, just because I feel like it and this is a good way of putting off work.
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Chapter 23, In Which Spike Gets Into University
AS PROMISED, HERE IS A POST ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. AS I FOUND OUT MY STATUS HAD BEEN CHANGED TO UNCONDITIONAL ON MONDAY (RIGHT AFTER I LAST POSTED) THIS SEEMS FAIRLY POINTLESS. ANYWAY, I WILL BE THERE WITH THE SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT FRESHERS 2009.
TODAY IS RESULTS DAY. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN CELEBRATING AND/OR COMMISERATING THEIR GRADES. I GOT MY CELEBRATING OUT THE WAY ON MONDAY NIGHT, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT START THE LONG PROCESS OF PACKING.
I HAVE RECENTLY REALISED I DON’T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE ABOUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH PSYCHOLOGY, AND THIS MIGHT BE A PROBLEM COME SEPTEMBER 19TH. THIS DOES NOT MATTER. I DO, HOWEVER, HAVE A FEW QUOTES THAT FIT NICELY WITH THE FLOW OF TODAY (NOT INCLUDING THE BRIEF TIME I SPENT SLEEPING IN THE LIVING ROOM WHILE PRETENDING TO WATCH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN). MOST OF THESE BARE LITTLE RELEVENCE TO A LEVELS AND MORE TO UNIVERSITY, BUT OH WELL…
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
Paul Freund
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garry Trudeau
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Joseph Addison
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert Goheen
Time Magazine, 23 June 1961
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
A. Lawrence Lowell
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A.A. Milne
(BECAUSE WINNIE THE POOH IS STILL AWESOME)
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
In movie The Empire Strikes Back
(BECAUSE IVE BEEN STARING AT THE SIGN SAYING IT IN THE RE ROOM FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS)
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
Gary Bolding
(BECAUSE ITS SO TRUE. LOL)
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Judgement Day (sort of) Is Rapidly Approaching!!!! Repent!!!!
As the day of judgement approaches (read- results day), its time to take a look at student life. I, for one, am looking forward to the endless nights of pasta for dinner and drinking more than is humanly possible. I have been given much advice on things to do when I finally/ hopefully get there, including, climb something you aren’t meant to climb, and assassinate somebody with a courgette. This sounds quite intriguing and im looking forward to giving it a go. I have an 8 page list of things I need to take with me too. The first thing I have got to kit out my student flat is… drum roll please… tea towels. Yeah. With pictures of donuts on. Bet you don’t have tea towels with pictures of donuts on. 
I appear to be well on my way to becoming a fully fledged student, as I have broken nearly everything I have come into contact with recently- tills at work, mobile phone (the 5 key is held on with blu-tack and the 7 key only works if u press it really hard), etc.
Its kinda strange how a matter of days can seem like such a yawning chasm of time, while at the same time, too close for comfort. Which brings us to the fact that there will be a post on Thursday at about midday IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (!!!!!) either expressing my anger/disappointment at not getting in or my excitement (followed rapidly by terror) at passing and getting in.
See ya all on Thursday! 
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poetry
Got fed up of every website charging to put poetry/art/ stuff like that online. So Rob started a new one.
Enjoy.
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[insert name here] must die
This post is very much based on Stewie Griffin’s list from season 7 of Family Guy. I had that song going through my head when I was drafting it. So here is my list:
The person who set off the fire bell in the middle of my 2 and a half hour English exam
No. its not funny. Its not clever. And it completely makes up for everyone in year 13 driving their cars into the playground and making as much noise as possible. During the remainder of that exam, I thought of various punishments for what you did. And the comments on my facebook status bear testament to the fact im not the only one.
Builders
Why are you outside my house when I still have 2 exams to revise for? And why are you making a noise with that pneumatic drill? And at this ungodly hour of the morning?! It’s half past 11 for God’s sake! There are students trying to sleep!
Miley Cyrus
Comment on a YouTube video: 95% of American teens said they would cry if they saw Miley Cyrus about to jump off a tall building. Repost if you are in the 5% shouting “jump, bitch!” Not my personal opinion, just so long as she stays out my way. She’s not God’s Gift- she is a spoilt over-rich American bitch. There. Its been said. Deal with it.
Mika
Are you a guy or a girl? If you are a guy, sing like one, don’t just squeak in an annoyingly high pitch at me. It makes me want to hurt you. That is all.
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