MrMaycock.com The blog of a nineteen year old university student

The past whatever, 28 days.

Fun 28 days or so. That mainly orientated around A Level results.

I got a D in Physics (346/600 UMS), a D in Maths (339/600 UMS), and a B in ICT (476/600 UMS). I was quite annoyed with the 4 UMS I was off an A in ICT, but it doesn't matter any more, as I'm going to my first choice university. Which I'm really happy about. Like, ecstatic. =)

Still, my student loans aren't in the best standings. Though I do have a loan confirmed, it's not means tested, so I'll not be getting the grant, so I won't be able to eat. SLC say they're working through stuff sent in at the end of June, so we should have our stuff re-evaluated for the third time soon enough. Hopefully in the next three weeks.

Also applied for a Natwest Student Bank account, I mean - who hasn't? That five year railcard is just so appealing. Thought I'd messed it up by trying to open a savings account which needed me to make an initial deposit from my Natwest account, which I didn't have yet, so I cancelled it, but the forms arrived no problems this morning, so that's all filled in and I've just sent it back.

Starting university in three weeks and two days should be fun, if hectic. I've got most of the things I need now. I'd be tempted to say I've got everything I need. Can't wait though.

One problem with moving in is the mass of stuff happening in the weeks I move in. Namely, Joe Brooks has a gig on the Sunday, The Mission District has a gig on the Monday, Halo: ODST comes out on the Tuesday, Scribblenauts comes out on the Friday. Then two weeks after that, KH: 358/2 Days comes out. Television-wise, The Big Bang Theory and Heroes starts the Monday after I move in, Desperate Housewives starts the Sunday after that, and Ugly Betty starts the same Monday that KH comes out. And Mythbusters starts again in October.

However, I'll be far too busy partying or doing work to care.

Mmm, this is a nice omelette. What a strange word.

Anyway, other stuff.

In the past few weeks, I've been to Chasewater three times and had some nice sandwiches and fed some ducks with friends. Plus we took over the fort and were awesome. I've got some photos that I need to upload actually.

I've also been to Newhall Farm, Mill Farm, Jimmy Spice's, and The Village Lodge. Still can't cope with paying for poppadoms (I care not for the 14 other variations Wikipedia suggests) at that last one. Plus the meal didn't taste very nice. They did do a good keema naan bread though, I will give them that.

Regarding my iMac, ohmigah it died. My HDD started clicking far too loudly, giving me loads of "fun" new error messages. Thank fuck for AppleCare, £5 for a university student was the best thing I bought with my iMac. Got my screen replaced, HDD replaced, and my disc drive too. All within a week.

However, that week was spent on Ubuntu. I hated every minute. I could never just get into it and enjoy it, or be able to use it. It took me about half an hour to install Flash. Anyone who says Linux is the future, is plain and simple wrong, unless you're in very specific circumstances. It's just too un-user friendly.

Anyway, back to Apple products, I'm quite excited over Snow Leopard coming out this Friday. Though it means I'm down £25, it does mean I get some new sexy features and some hard drive space back. I'm probably just gonna stick Snow Leopard on top of Leopard, as it's been installed for two weeks now. I've always got my Time Machine back ups anyway.

Also bought into a 1Password upgrade. Clearly the best application on a Mac, I use it everyday, so £12.62 to keep it running sounds like a good, sexy bargain (The version 3 interface being the sexy component, of course.)

Games wise, I bought two XBLA games and one XBLIG, those being Trials HD, Shadow Complex and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1.

Trials HD is a wonderful game, I just need more people on my friends list that play it. It's great fun, and infuriating. But it's very addictive game play, really enjoyable.

Shadow Complex was a game I wasn't expecting to buy, but then really enjoyed the demo, so I bought it. Another fabulously fun game, lots of 'splosions and stuff. But anyway, just buy it. =)

Finally, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is another fun game. But it only costs 80 MSP. Look at this gameplay. Come onnn, that's like 69p.

This week, I had some sexy free fruit and nuts from Graze.com. I got some grapes, dried pineapple, pecans, and some banana coins. Though it usually costs £3 per box, I used a promotional code (AF8PPXY) and then you get a free week, and one week 1/2 price. You do have to provide a debit/credit card details but they don't charge for a free box and you can cancel anytime. I did. And my box was yummy. =)

Today was the day I learned that Panic at the Disco had lost two of it's members. Which sucks. But Panic! at the Disco (huzzah for retuning exclamation marks) has a new single that is quite awesome. Plus, P!ATD still has the better two members. The members that left and formed a new band also have a new song, but MySpace doesn't want me to be able to hear that one. Ah well.

That's about it.

Apart from Lostprophets!

It was an awesome gig. The Dead Formats were a bit creepy. The Young Guns were okay. Lostprophets were great! Fun songs. Bloody loud though. And lots of jumping. Had to get out by 10.15 as it was really quite hot and my knee started killing me. Bit mad really, but still a great night. Plus Kids in Glass Houses and The Blackout just appeared to turn up. Quite crazy really.

And that's about it. Probably another month of blog silence ahead. =)