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I'm a third year Computer Science student at The University Of Hull. I don't really post here anymore. Check my blog at www.dtgreenwood.com if your interested.

Money, Christmas, House Hunting and Exams

Well, my futile efforts in keeping an up-to-date blog are failing miserably! Being at university there are far to many distractions, i blame the student accommodation and alcohol (hey! at least I’m honest!).

So at the end of week 8 at university things are starting to tense up in both educational and fiscal aspects, money is tight and the work load is piling up. That said I’m still having an amazing time with both. Current coursework includes making a space invaders game for the  Computer Graphics  & UID module and a website on emerging technologies for my E-Commerce and E-Business module. Great stuff! Talking of websites, I’ve updated mine with a few small alterations, just in case anyone is interested. Need some inspiration on how to spruce it up, any suggests are very welcome. Address on the site!

We've recently been given our exam timetable via port.hell and mine are on the 10th and the 16th. Nicely spaced i think. Enough time to recover from the first and revise for the second. also means i have the chance to go home anytime from the 16th. Might stick around though as me and some people in the block are going to have ourselves a Christmas dinner in the block and guess who's cooking! I'm actually rather looking forward to cooking some, haven’t done a lot since been at uni again. The only problem with my love of cooking is that i only get to do it seriously when I’m not at uni as time doesn't allow me to work anything but Mickey Mouse hours on weekends (12-18 hours). Have got my job at The 3 Hares ready and waiting for Christmas though, so am looking forward to doing lots of hours and staying in practise. Oh and the cash would be nice too!

So Christmas!! That social event that gets everybody in a tizzy over what to buy and how much to spend on certain relatives! Come on you all know you do it!! lol. Well I on the other hand have got it sorted. A prior agreement with brother #1 and #2 in the none exchange of gifts should cut out about £30-£40. And seeing as how they would buy token gifts and nothing of actual use, I can let them go! So, that just leaves my Dad and his partner, my Mum, my little Sister (no agreements there!!) and my Girlfriend. So now that I’ve reduced it down to 5 people. I still have to decide what to get them. I'm sure Amazon can help ;).

House hunting!?! Well, the mentioned people from my halls and I are looking into a house in hull for next year. There's ten of us so there's quite a lot of organisation involved in this one! We've seen a few houses and asked about viewings but because of last years huge rush for houses, the university scheme registered housing providers aren’t letting anyone view until January. I've never had to house hunt before but i have a good idea of what i don't want to live in and i think the other 9 share the same sorts of standards.

So that’s me for the moment, will probably drop by when I can be bothered! Laters!

posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 4:19 PM by Greeny

# @ Friday, November 05, 2004 5:52 PM

My wife does most of our Christmas shopping. What I do for her is have her collect all the catalogues and have her mark everything she likes in them with color and size. I go through and pick from that. This way she gets what she wants and it is a surprise.

AlfredTwo


 
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