The best thing about Facebook (almost the only good thing about Facebook, really) is when you stumble across people you haven’t seen or spoken to in ages. I haven’t seen Sebastian the Tuba Player (now turned 3D modeler/animator person, apparently, check it out) in, wow, what must be nearly three years? Time seriously flies!
I’m not sure why, exactly, I looked him up today. I know he didn’t use to have Facebook, so I hadn’t really tried looking him up, but I figured, what’s the harm? And there he was. First try, despite the fact that we had no Facebook friends in common that I could see.
Now, here comes the freaky part: Sebastian is currently living in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. What are the freaking odds? (Pretty high, I admit, since LOADS of people in Norway go to Britain to study or just work; I mean I know loads of other people who are here right now, too, but still.)
Anyway, this awesome revelation made me so happy I actually forgot to be nervous about my dissertation for a full half hour and managed to eat my risotto is peace. What a fantastic conclusion to an otherwise dismal day!
Because I’ve been stressing out about my dissertation and the need to rehearse (though not enough to actually contact anyone in the band about it, except Adam, who happened to be online when I last thought about it), I’ve kind of written a skills audit for tomorrow, though I have no idea if it’s good enough or even what they’re looking for and so I’m worried about that, and what sort of group I’m gonna end up in for Employability & Enterprise and all that, and then we discovered that there’s a leak from mine and Clayson’s boiler cupboard, which is just really bad news and I hope it’s not gonna start leaking into my room.
Seriously, this place is falling apart. On Friday the heating went out in most of the building, and several others (I went out and bought an electric heater, even though it’s against the rules, just because I didn’t want to be cold, though they did fix the heat the following morning so when I woke up I had heat again), the showers are still way over-pressurised, our extractor fan in the kitchen makes a loud, high pitched noise when you try turning it on and one of our cooker hobs is still constantly on, which is very, very bad.
I’m considering suing.
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What’s this? Cold? I thought the world was heating up a lot.
On the whole? Yes, it is. It’s a good degree Celcius warmer now on average, globally, than it was 50 years ago, and that is a lot more than it sounds like. Locally, however, the effect is generally weird weather. That said, there’s nothing weird about the weather here, and it’s not unusually cold. But it is quite common for the termperature to drop down to around 0′C in the West Midlands in January.
Celsius, how does it work??? So globally the temperature, but locally the weather is just weird? So overall it’s hot, but everywhere a person is it’s just peculiar?
Yes, I’m just messing with you.
Of course you are, but I find rationality to be a good weapon.
Celcius is a scale divided up so that water vaporises at 100 degrees and ice melts at 0 degrees. It’s used in most of the world. 1 degree Celcius as a unit of measurement is somewhat larger than 1 Farenheit degree, and as such the two scales to not correspond (though they do meet at about -40). Celcius does, however, correspond with Kelvin. Absolute zero, the hypothetical but unattainable temperature at which matter exhibits zero entropy, is defined as being precisely 0 K and −273.15 °C
Look, Americuh uses the F-scale thingy (as in, F all you Euro-weanie-socialist-fails) and that makes it the best automagically.
Yeah, cause it makes so much sense for ice to melt at 32 and water to boil at 212. *rolls eyes*
Yoar just mad cuz we have biggar numbers and we grammer so well. And we’re AMERICA!
*Also, to the casual passerby: if I say something ridiculous, I’m not being serious.
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Republicans!
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“Climate scientists” keep saying this, but I’ve still to see a global climate model that proves this is anything that different from the “Medievil warm” (when there were vineyards in Yorkshire and New England, and Viking farmers in Greenland [the ones who named it Greenland) and the “Little Ice Age” when the river Thames in London froze, and the Scots held a curling “Grand Match” (sometimes bonspiel) on the Lake of Menteith (largest named lake in Scotland) pretty much every year.
Also, check with the Student Representative Council about the leaky boiler.
Just had the plumbers here, actually. Think they’ve fixed all that stuff now. So now there’s the extractor fan and the cooker left.