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Probably time i should update. In a nutshell, rough times characterised with decent high points and some crappy ones. Sounds like a damn graph of X-rays, that we got asked 2 full pages on in Mod. 3 physics. Exams went largely alright, physics will be my crappest mark, but at least they're done for this year. My last week was a tough one, but it was good to culminate it on Saturday with a good decent gig at the Front Page. It was full of legeheads, and even Goggles went!

I spent today dossing about and playing network games of Command & Conquer against Scotty. May as well start planning for a decent summer. I would like to have an all nighter again, as i've noticed lately it's never properly dark til around half past midnight, and it starts getting light at 3am. Summer Madness will take care of that one. That's where i'll be for 5 days or so. Followed by a jazz course, then off to Limerick to trash myself by swimming too much. Then im back for ages, so if anybody wants a random hangout feel free to suggest something. But anyways. Stay safe everybody, wherever you go!

Engeland

Just to be different, i'm going to blog about the World Cup. If you hate it, what do you watch on TV?! Every 5 minutes it's mentioned. Lucky for me, i'm a pretty big fan of competitions like this, even when my interest in regular league soccer has dwindled a bit in previous years. International football is good stuff though as far as i'm concerned. My chosen teams to win the World Cup are Mexico, followed by Holland.

And talking about who's going to win the thing brings me nicely on to...England. Fair play to them, in my opinion they have a damn good team this time round, but why every single time do they get so cocky about winning?!? The players seem to be alright, they're just like "We have a good team, we'll give it a good shot". But the fans, and especially the TV, are kinda annoying. ITV news just ended with a 2 minute video of celebrities wishing England luck, all over some very emtional music. This is the kind of stuff that makes them look so stupid when they lose!! There are other nationalities watching!

But anyways, they've had plenty of luck given to them. If they win they win. On the other hand, one game i'd love to see in the World Cup is USA vs Iran. How awesome would that be in light of the current situation! However, i've checked up, and becuase of the "random drawing of groups", the only possible way Iran can play America is in the 3rd place playoff, or the final itself.

Oh yea, to give some credit to England, they do write good football songs. I haven't heard it, but apparently the Iranian world cup song is shocking. 'Three Lions', however, is quality (do note that they thought they could win Euro '96 and France '98, but didn't!), but i still really like that song. The lyrics can easily be replaced with other lyrics which relate to whatever trophy you want to win. Excellent.


In other events, though of course there isn't really anything else happening other than the World Cup, i had another gig with the Jazz quartet tonight at Instonians, and it was good fun. Moe was giving it stacks, Cookie was being good as usual, and Dos was always doing cheeky things on the keyboard. I just about made it on time after a horlax at the pool, as i was told id be swimming 400m at 6pm, which actually turned out to be 7pm. The computerised timing system then decided to pack up, resulting in it starting at 7.35, and me having to wait for 8 heats to happen in 25mins. However, i just laid the smackdown, and told them i had to go to work (haha), which resulted in me getting moved to the first heat.

So, i swam pretty crap, and had a massive turnover in the car. However the gig was fine, and i enjoyed it cause i played pretty well. It was nice sitting with the sun shining stong on me through the window as it set, while playing some grooves. Yea.

Back to reality. Mexico to win!