Uncle Psychosis

Sounds cheap to me

i hate it when a plan comes together

Just as I was recovering from the man-flu I get struck down with a stomach bug. I suspect this evening will be one of playing the bathroom lottery, sprinting in every twenty minutes and wondering which end to point where

I sprained my ankle in July and ohmygod did it hurt like f**k. I'm walking again properly but I still need to do my exercises daily and I'm wearing an ankle support when I do any sport on it. My advice is go and see a good physio as soon as possible. Make sure you do all the strengthening exercises they give you. Its worth it not to do it again!

If you don't like it, don't use it

I'm not being pedantic. I'm using only the information contained in the passage and the rules of logic, like the f**king instructions said! How are you meant to work out the answer they're looking for if the rule tester doesn't follow the rules?

Another thing I'd like to add to the list of stupid inventions are these ridiculous verbal and numerical reasoning tests that I have to do at an interview tomorrow. They're written by morons and are a total waste of time. For those of you who aren't familiar with them, they work like this: you get given a paragraph of text to read and then they ask questions on it. Normally they make a statement and you have to decide whether---based on the text alone---the statement is true, false, or that there isn't enough information to decide either way. As an example of just how stupid they can be, and the complete and utter lack of logic the writers display, here's an example of one I did as practice last week. It was a paragraph about some medical research and something to do with some protein. The relevant bit of the text said "this protein is man-made". The question/statement says: "Based purely on the information in the question alone, decide whether the following statement is TRUE, FALSE, or CANNOT SAY". "This protein was made by a man" So, clearly, being a creature of logic, I said "cannot say", because "man-made" means "made by humans" and doesn't exclude women from having done it. Stupid writers "proper" answer? "True". I s**t you not. It actually makes me really angry that my prospects of getting a job depend on being able to answer these stupid things...

http://www.xkcd.com/458/

One of my friends (who has just finished FY2) got sent home from work on Friday for crying nonstop because everyone was leaving.

St Andrews has got to be pretty high...

I sprained my ankle on Saturday

Just booked up to go to the Mini festival being hosted by British Sea Power in late August. Its at the Tan Hill Inn in the Yorkshire Dales---3 days of British Sea Power gigs, camping, real ales, duck herding, husky sledging, a tug of war, and whatever other random bands they can find to play. Should be freaking awesome

In all seriousness my two flatmates are doctors and as such are always very unsympathetic if I'm ill...but they were actually concerned about how bad I looked!

Not helped my my girlfriend being in the states for the next 9 weeks either Anyway, an update on the "bad AIDS" or whatever it was I have. By the time I got home from Uni yesterday I was shaking uncontrollably because I was freezing cold. Within half an hour I couldn't stand up without feeling like I was going to projectile vomit everywhere. The only time I have ever felt that bad is when I got a rare strain of salmonella and had to stay in bed for three weeks. Luckily, after one of the worst nights of my life, I am now back to mere "feeling like shit" status and not "feeling like death".

For the last two hours I've felt like I'm coming down with either the flu or with food poisoning

To be fair, one of the funniest things I've ever seen involved some neds and a bin. I was on queen st in glasgow just outside the gallery of modern art, and there was this group of neds pushing one of the big black bins. There were two of them sat on top of it, and another 3 or 4 pushing/steering. They wheeled it into the middle of one of the posh clothes shops there and then scarpered. Suddenly the lid popped open and another wee ned started trying to climb out ---best part was he was absolutely covered in all sorts of shite! Maybe you had to be there but I had was in tears of laughter for hours afterwards...

Stiff Little Fingers at the Barrowlands

204/205, goes along the expressway from glasgow city centre to scotstoun

Got the Smashing Pumpkins in August, probably Richard Hawley too B)

Me too, absolutely no idea what to expect of the new stuff...Am quite excited actually! Sam

In the next few months I'm going to see Rancid, Arab Strap, and the Magic Numbers. B) Sam