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I was gonna post something about my weekend, but Q just returned from Uni chatting to his brother on the phone. It's so cool livin with international, continental types, lol. I love hearing foreign languages and now we have french speaker and a Welsh speaker, and G-Shock is about all the time and speaks just about anything the Romans touched with latin . Its' probably because I speak with a highly recieved English accent (never decending to Queens English, thank god) and only speak Pigeon French otherwise.

Also started out on the wonderful annual house hunt. It's nice to be looking for non-student lets and to have a more diverse area of interest so I think I might enjoy it more this time round. I loved living in the student bubble around the uni campus while I was a proper student and it was all a bit inncocently exciting to be living away from home and with friends, but now I don't really consider myself a student. It might have something to do with being in my 4th year of study, but I couldn't really say, it seems illogical even to me.

Had a great time in Bristol with the brother, AKA 1st Born.

Spent allot of time watching wars on TV and fighting wars on XBoxLive, bit of a Vietnam theme with viewings of, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Apocalypse Now and MASH. This always happens when my brother and I get together we nearly watched Band of Brothers to, but were halted by his girlfriend... for, maybe, obvious reasons.

He's got a huge collection of tabletop games to, which is a hobby I still enjoy but not to the same level as my brother. I really love the modelling and artistic components of things like Games Workshop and Warmachine, but my brother is a big gamming system buff. We ended up settling on Bloodbowl, which is a fantasy version of American Football, so there's more violence and my brother fields an undead team (the cheerleader models are hilarious). The end score was 2 games to 1, to my bro, but there were some great little plays and a real feel for the characters on the pitch. Without getting too geeky about it I love the imagery you can create with a turn based game. Once one round of play is over we always end up discussing how it must have looked to an audience in real time... the weed smoking may help/fuel this .

The usual chats about love, life and laundry were positive and it was cool seeing my bro and his girl happy and progressive. They're looking to move to a decent house since my brother was promoted in the new year and his girlfriend was offered a permanent contract, well diserved rewards. Their 2 bed flat is a beautiful part of a converted church, but is just too small for all their stuff these days, lol. They took me out for a lovely meal Saturday to, which was really generous of them, they earn graduate wages so I'm always ordered to not be polite about bills, which I will never complain about . We all decided that after a day of violence and munchy fuelling cronic, steak was the best idea anyone had thought of, ever....

My bro's lady is a school teacher for year 4, at her old school no less and she had piles of amazing stationery and pictures of her (that's right the teachers DO take all the credit, she's really proud of her ability to bend the kids to her artistic will ) wall displays which were the sweetness. The other reason they need a bigger house, broody? Much. The upshot of all of this is that she supplies me with childish cool, lol... this year she has the budget for pin badge awards! Yay!


The left one says 'Superstar Award' and right one is a 'Special Award'..... lolz.... special.