What should my next blog post be about?

I’ve actually had too many ideas for a next blog post to actually settle on one (and writing several seems like too much work), so I would like to propose a poll. I shall list several ideas I had, and should I get a positive response regarding one of these topics, I may (or may not) write this blogpost. Here goes:

1) Annoyances with undergrads (general)

2 ) Annoyances with undergrads (slow-moving, traffic jamming)

3) Renting two bad movies on Saturday night

4) My new copy of Nylon Magazine

5) Mounting excitement for Cokefest

6) My deadline that has moved to today

Please vote now to avoid disappointment!

Learning about the Unscrambler

Ok, so here’s the thing. I’m a Masters student now. A just-started-dont-really-know-what-to-do-with-myself sort of masters student. I am just starting to learn how to make wine, half on-the side, half as part of my research. (I will also be joining the wine society today; also as part of my research.) Anyway, I’m actually just a little bit bored and unmotivated, as sitting around and reading scientific article is not a lot of fun. This is why I’ve been almost looking forward to the Statistics course on Multivariate Analysis that I’ve been doing yesterday and today. It’s something to do!

As this course is organised by the Food Science department, we’ve been garunteed of good food, and this has been the case. But learning to use the Unscrambler? A bit of a nightmare. I think part of the nightmare is a result of the fact that I don’t have a statistics degree like most of the other people doing the course, which means that even though I almost understand what the lecturer is saying, I never truly understand. And trying to understand makes your head tired, sore, and like a whole bunch of fluff by the end of the day.(I actually had trouble putting together coherent sentences by the end of the day.)

I have a whole day of this ahead of me today. And my flatmate is going shopping.

Things I love/hate about my student car

Things I love about my car:

1) It’s red

2) It used to belong to my cool grandmother

3) It can actually drive kinda fast

4) It gets me from place to place

5) Its quite light on petrol

6) It’s almost the same age as me

7) The lack of power steering trains my upper arms

It has a really big boot

9)  It can pull away in second (and even sometimes third) gear

10) It reminds me of so many awesome times at different stages in my life

11) It treats you well if you treat it well

Things I hate about my car: 

1) It doesn’t have air conditioning

2) It doesn’t have a radio

3) It doesn’t have central locking

4) It doesn’t have power steering

5) It still needs petrol to make it go from place to place

6) It loses license plates really easily

7) It’s almost the same age as me

The seats are supposed to flatten completely but it doesn’t really work anymore

9) It makes a REALLY funny noise when it’s hot and bothered (very embarrassing in traffic)

10) There something wrong with the paint on the bonnet

11) It struggles to start in winter, especially if you don’t know how to work the manual choke properly