snow

So far we’ve had 2 days of school off due to the snow, but it won’t last which is why I’m writing this now. I took the opportunity to finish one machinima. Actually that’s wrong, I didn’t finish it properly, but I improvised with the footage I had and finished it the best I could.

There was a photo of me at a march last year in this week’s edition of a local newspaper. I found it just after complaining that local newspapers were riddled with bad journalism.
Yes, the arrow is pointing to me.

And yesterday I went out in the snow and messed around a bit. I saw Sherlock Holmes at the cinema with friends, they had Orange Wednesdays and student discounts. I paid the £7.50 for a standard seat which, by the way, is an extortionately high fee. I want to go more to smaller cinemas like the Phoenix: it has comfier seats, better screen quality and it’s cheaper. The Odeon has expensive popcorn, sticky seats and 25 minutes of adverts at the start of every film.

In other news, I got linked on the Pirate Party UK blog (that was that was over a week ago) which has led to peaks in views on December 30th and January 4th.
In keeping with piracy I tried applying to stand as a Member of the Youth Parliament. I already had reservations about the youth parliament – chiefly that it was a puppet government with no power. But, I thought if this guy was going to stand as MP for the Pirate Party I might as well try and do the same.
The ‘UK Youth Parliament co-ordinator’ was away on holiday and their out-of-office-reply pointed to someone else who was also on holiday. The trail stopped there as their out-of-office reply only had emergency phone numbers and the email for a Youth Opportunity or Capital Fund manager-person. Then today I got another email (yep, 9 days after my original email) saying that I’d missed the deadline for applicants. I couldn’t find the deadline anywhere so maybe it was sometime in January, perhaps, I don’t know.