Towels @ MindSay

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Summer Accomplishments:
- Completed band career 100% - (GH: Greatest Hits)

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Today's actually been better than I expected. :)
I couldn't get to Ashleigh's because of dad's dodgy shifts, so she came here instead.

Before she came though, mam was in my room on my computer writing AN ANGRY COMPLAINT LETTER.
She bought these red towels from Next - and they're a nice colour and quite soft, they just have a tendancy to cover everywhere in a layer of red fluff. You can't even dry yourself with them without getting covered in random moutled bits.

So she went onto the Next website and started writing out this e-mail to them.
I read it over so I could correct her spelling and grammar errors.
(She just doesn't know how to get a CAPITAL I....)

It was so bloody funny though - she even slagged off Primark by saying summat along the lines of: "OH MURR, IF I'D GOT THEM FROM PRIMARK I'D EXPECT SHODDY QUALITY."

Then she twisted the truth. I AM asthmatic - but when she said: "AND MY ASTHMATIC DAUGHTER CANNOT EVEN USE THE TOWELS" - that's bending it a bit too far. :)

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Ashleigh brought her slider-panel Metallica guitar with her today.
Nice one - we were both using guitars we were comfortable with.

I didn't feel at my strongest, so I played on Hard instead of Expert.
I still did lead though - Ash went on bass.

We managed to complete the entire career - from the end of level 2 (as Shelly and I had done the first few songs on Wednesday) right up to the TTFAF finale on level 8.

And we didn't get a single three star!
It's five stars all the way with the odd four star on the dodgy songs.

Christ, Beast & The Harlot - I almost got 100% on it.
And I only didn't because of a few silly errors.
AND IT'S ON LEVEL SEVEN.

I KNOW I can FC that - I'm gonna give it a go soon. :)

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It's weird - when I'm playing GH WITH someone - I can talk to them.
When someone's watching me - I can't. It puts me off something chronic.

So as we spent these few glorious hours sitting together on my bed, drinking Pepsi, eating Pom-Bears and playing GH: Greatest Hits - we held many-a random conversation. :)

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Ash is so cute. :)

When I was downstairs, making our food - she shouts: "Dixie....!"
I go: "...What Ash?"
She goes: "...Come heeeeeeere...!"
I go up, get to the bathroom and say: "What is it, Ash?"
She mumbles: "I need one of your paaaads..."

I actually didn't laugh at her - I could see she was embarrassed - so I went and got her one. Graciously. :)

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I made us both hot-dogs for our tea.
We sat outside in the back garden on the pub bench.
It was sunny, but we get a lot of shade in our garden because of Wendy's beasty tree in the garden next door.

It was quite soothing - especially since we were sat by the lavender bushes.
Lavender makes me super-relaxed and calm. :)

I had three hot-dogs - two with cheese, one without.
Ash had three hot-dogs, one with cheese, two without, all with ketchup.

Then I offered her one of the RANDOM CHOCOLATE BALLS.

Mam came in the other day and said: "Oh, there's some chocolate cake things in the fridge."
They're like little cups of chocolate sponge cake with chocolate icing, chocolate sauce in the middle and chocolate chips on the top. They're fucking nectar - and Ash agreed. :)

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When we'd eaten, we went back to Guitar Hero.
We went on to Quickplay - as I'd got the urge to go on vocals.

I wanted to prove to Ash how hard it was for me to get 5 stars on Them Bones playing Expert vocals.
Simply because my voice is too high and there's a few lines that I can't sing.

I only went and fucking got FIVE.
Seriously, you try and prove you CAN'T do something, and you CAN...

I also sang Cult Of Personality (on request by Ash, because she likes it) and Play With Me.
Shelly told me to see if Ash could pass it on Hard lead guitar. She did - she didn't fail that epically. She got about 89%.

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The most amusing moment of today was definatley TTFAF. :)

Ash was complaing about how easy it was on bass when we played it during the career.
So I suggested she play it on guitar while I sing it.

I was singing the chorus with varying voices and octaves - I went from Princess Peach to a random cave ogre, to a bloke with a snotty nose to a lopsided dwarf - then I'd SQUEAL.
Ash was in absolute fits. :)

Not only that - but Ash seemed to be scraping her way through it - so when I had no lyrics to sing, I was making up my own to the tune of the song, regarding Ash's current performances.

And it was SO exact! It was super-spontaneous, but it fitted to the lyrics so well.
Just imagine this to the tune of TTFAF:

I fail at hammer-ons,
I fail at slider notes,
I fail at open strums,
I fail at GENERAL strums,
I fail at orange,
I fail at blu-uuu-ue!
I fail at green-red-YELLOOOOOOOOW!!!

I fail at whammy bar,
I fail at star power,
I fail all the tiiiiiiii-iiime!!

No wonder Ash was failing - she was doubled up laughing half the time. :)

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I got Ash laughing again after this - we went on YouTube and watched some videos in my favourites.

Just like Lewis did, she was pissing herself at Brookers' Harry Potter parody video.
Along with the "Hello DAVE!" video, random CassetteBoy videos and YouTube poops.

I even showed her Give Me Back My Spleen - the video that Ashley Robson and the knobhead boys made in year 11.
I have nothing against Ashley, Garrie, Lamby or Foxon - but the rest of them were absolute dickheads.

Ash was just amused at how bad it was. :)

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And before Ash left - we spent a while discussing DATWBSVOH. :)
She gave me some more ideas, and inspired me of a way to unstick myself.

I'm currently stuck at a section where the two main rivals are arguing and insulting each other - and I wasn't sure on how to end it.
I've decided that Andrew Eagle is going to twist Ashleigh Sparrow's wrist back over on itself, making her cry, almost.

I tested this move on the real Ashleigh - so I could document her reaction to it.
Her voice went proper high. :D

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I've spent a lot of time tonight on MSN, talking to Kyle and Adam.

I really need to talk to Kyle more often.
He's matured a lot - he's not once said something stupid in the past few days.
I've got him interested in the Backloggery, and he's made an account on it.

We spend a lot of time discussing games, mainly.

We were both shocked and amused when Kyle asked me who the most annoying character in video game history was.
We both typed our answer simultaneously - Ashley Graham from Resident Evil 4. :)

With Adam - he's just being Adam.
Getting drunk on Peach schnapps while we both sent each other YouTube links to Countdown bloopers. :D

Wow - that was EASILY the worst meeting I have ever sat through.  Apparently, NYU undergrads have become a bunch of sniveling, whiny, incapable idiots in the three months since I graduated from there and became a grad student.  Tonight, we had a forum where top people from all areas of NYU, ie emergency planning, security, transportation, building, sustainability, residential education, etc., came to talk to us/be an open area to voice your concerns in these general areas/ask questions.  Sounds pretty cool, right?  Many props to Ben for organizing it.

Here are some of the VERY IMPORTANT issues some people spoke on the mic about:

- "My dorm (located ABOUT 5 blocks above the library, IF that) should be put on one of the bus routes.  It's so far.  It's getting cold out, and when I leave the library, I'm afraid to walk home, and the campus night van takes so long to get there"
- "How come I as a CAS (arts and sciences) student can't swipe myself through and have access to a study lounge labeled STERN (business school) GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY?"
- "Doing laundry at my dorm is $1.75 a load, and a $1.75 to dry, so I take my laundry to this building because it's 25 cents cheaper.  And like, the dryer is an extra 15 minutes.  Can you guys fix that?  I mean, especially when I was my towels... if I dry them they don't dry all the way, and then they get moldy and I have to throw them out and get new towels.  And then if I put them on for a second cycle, they become like, overheated.  Plus like, it's getting cold out, so I won't want to carry my laundry bag all that way (these buildings are about half a block apart)..."
- "Can you show me a graph of your busiest call times to campus transportation?"

On the flip side, a few good points WERE raised.  Like, maybe getting a change machine put into the dorm that ONLY accepts quarters in the laundry machines, but it's 2 dollars per thing, so to do 2 loads of laundry and dry them = 32 quarters, which most of us don't just have lying around... that was fair.
And the girl requesting that there be a mandatory 'the bus MUST wait at the curb for 3 minutes before driving away thing' for people who are on the busy elevator but otherwise would have made it, that was fine.

But otherwise...holy shit.  Just...I'm still laughing at the towel girl.  I can't help it.



On a completely unrelated note, I was just thinking about how when we are growing up, they teach you about a/an. And how the rule is ' you use 'an' if you're putting it in front of a word that starts with a vowel'.  But then you can say 'a unique thing about NYU undergrads is that they've all lost their brains'...and its A and Unique... so there goes a sacred convention of English. 

My roommate woke me up from a sound sleep last night. I didn’t have my glasses on but I must have opened my eyes because she had a towel wrapped around her head and it looked like she was wearing a towel around her body too. She came into my room and started talking about the movie I had rented. She wanted to know where it was because she wanted to return it. I told her it was on my desk and she went and got it. The whole time my confused and foggy brain was thinking: “Why are you returning my movie in the middle of the night wrapped in towels?”

When I woke up this morning my brain was awake enough to figure out that she didn’t come into my room in the middle of the night. She came in before she went to work this morning. She works close to where we got the movies. Since she was going there after work to return her movie, she was being nice and returning my movie as well instead of me having to go out of my way to return it. I’m not sure about the towels – I might have imagined them. :)