9/25/2005 05:32:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

It's been a turbulent 48 hours. Yesterday, was my last day at WORK. Yes, that's what I've been censoring all along. Long story short, all of my co-workers found out about this blog, read it, and wern't too pleased. I've now restored all of the posts I removed, as I no longer work there!

No, I wasn't sacked! I left on my own terms because of University.

Incidentally, I'm writing this from my room in my halls of residence. I'm on the sixth floor- that's the top one, and the view is quite spectacular. You can see quite a long way.

The room is pretty much what you'd expect- a bed, a (surprisingly nice) desk, and some shelves. I've got my computer setup in one corner, my TV in the other, and all of my other consumer electronics surrounding me.

When I arrived, I met one of my flatmates- Harshil is from London, and actually arrived yesterday, so had spent the last 24 hours on his own. Ross arrived a bit later- he's from down south too. It's bizarre to think that they'd refer to Leicester as "oop north". Trivial information: they're both doing business-esque courses, which is in the building next door... I'll have to take a five minute walk to get to where all of my lectures take place. It might be like walking to Great Stretton, every day!

After my parents had abandoned me, we went to a so-called "party" at the Student's Union- it was just like a bigger and louder version of one of the pubs I'd been to many times before! There was a magician poncing around, showing people tricks, and in a letter sent out a few weeks ago, we were promised fire eating and chain saw juggling- unfortunately I didn't see either.

When we got back to our flat, we met our fourth and as it turned out, final flatmate. He dashed off almost immediately to go and visit relatives who live "down" here (he comes from Manchester), and I'm afraid to say I can't remember his name. Fingers crossed I'll find it out soon.

And now... why I've been sitting on my computer for the past couple of hours... it's a home from home! The exciting thing is, because of the network setup, I can see other people's shared files, if I know their IP address- the person who's IP is one digit below me has the entire series of Lost on their hard disk! Needless to say I'm working my way through as many IPs as possible, seeing if they'll respond to ping.

So far: University is quite good.

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