Gizmo

So I spent 4 hours with the girl that I split up with after she moved down to Reading on Saturday night - we were both at the same uni thing and ended up sat in the corner talking, holding hands, for 4 hours. It was pretty intense and a really dumb thing for both us of to do but it brought back alot of the feelings that were never resolved. I sent her a 600 word message outlining my feelings on Monday night, she replied with a 900 word message tonight, and I've just finished composing a 1200 word reply to that. Basically we both really want to be together but its just so difficult. I'm not going to go completely into it but basically we've somehow managed to find some really intense connection in a very brief time together then unfairly had to end it prematurely, and we both want to explore it but can't. She's talking about wanting to move back up here "eventually", but that could be 6 months, could be 6 years. So I've given her the option that I am willing to try it long distance now that circumstances are at least a little easier (when we broke up we were looking at 0 weekends free to visit for 4 months, now I have a month of uni in April and then after exams I have the entire summer) but only on the assumption that she's going to be moving back within the next year or less. If we don't do that, I simply can't move on from her unless I completely cut all ties and don't speak to or see her any more. If we find ourselves on the same night out again, its a 2 minute "hi how are you" and thats it. It's one of those situations where as much as I'd like a yes, I can't accept maybe. If it's not a yes, then...it's a no. All not very fun, though such serious and intimate mature discussions about this stuff makes me feel very grown up and mature. Not used to having things out in the open and said so honestly.

Haha, only works if they've seen you up there :P The Elite level guys at student competitions are apparently some kind of "celebrities" amongst everyone else, in as much as everybody knows who we are, even if we don't know them. So if one of us chooses to come and talk to you, it's cool for them. Or something. This is all according to a friend of mine who's been on the scene alot longer than me. Edit: For some kind of context to all this, my last 2 serious girlfriends have been from student trampolining.

Srsly though, it's so much easier for me to hook up with a trampolining girl than anyone else. It actually works, so long as they understand it :p Good luck Ganepark, let us all know how it goes!

I am currently drinking whiskey and am about to get dressed up in a kilt. Feeling a bit patriotic...bring on Uni Sports Ball tonight!

Its Dundee, I expected it to be higher if anything Strathy AND Caley above us in a league table - theres a first time for everything :p At least all the Glaswegians are above Edinburgh! Though I can say with authority that 5.4 is an understatement...

Watching myself back on film is annoying because all I can see are the mistakes I make.

Heres a video of me being awesome.

So I finally broke my 3 week dry spell last night. @Serebii

I think in that kinda context "average" is a dangerous term, as if by average the intend "mean", its gonna include people who have married their high school girlfriends and only had 1 partner to drag down the number. It depends on what kinda average they are taking. The median number might be a more interesting figure

The worst words in the world to receive in a text: "it would be as friends"

Not the asking out in particular that I'm surprised about, its more the "I made a decision that I'm going to do this and then actually did". The fact that it was successful is baffling in an entirely different way.

Weirdly, I think this may have actually worked. No solid plans have been made, but a trip to the IMAX has been agreed in principal... Definitely punching above my weight too, heres hoping I don't cock this up

That C25k thing looks interesting. I might give it a try if I can find the motivation regularly enough..

Filling in that form made it clear to me that I have far too much stuff going on. The last week or June / first week of July won't work for me :/ if we are going late June might I suggest the 23rd rather than the 30th?

White people problems :p

Speaking as someone sat in his West End flat, and who was in the city centre this afternoon, theres not a breath of wind here. I have no idea why all the trains and planes are cancelled. Though apparently there've been chimneys getting blown off and such, but clearly its over now...

Did a factory reset on my phone. Annoyingly it seems to have lost about 50% of my numbers. From what I can tell, all newer numbers that I've gotten since the phone have been saved due to Google Contacts, but all the ones I had previously have been wiped. Which means I have to pick through it trying to think who's numbers are missing. On the plus side, it's receiving texts again. Still going to take it into the shop and try and get a new phone though - having just wiped I figure I might aswell.

My damn phone has gone haywire. Haven't received any texts for several days. Which is annoying, because theres at least two people that I know have sent messages. And also two others that I was waiting on replies from and havent had. So now I don't know if they are ignoring me, or if I just haven't had the message. Gonna go into the 3 store on Tuesday and try and wangle a new phone out of them. Camera is also broken, but I've still got 9 bleeding months on this shit contract.

I'm with Jay on this one. If you want to talk to a girl, then do it. Go up to her and ask her a question. Theres no golden ticket that will guarantee getting into a flowing conversation. If you have started talking to a girl, and shes not interested, she'll let you know that by how she reacts to the question. Actually, this reminds me of a drinking game me and a couple of friends have. It's pretty awful, but also kinda funny, and not nasty in anyway. It's called "biscuit of the week". Basically, when you see what you consider to be the best looking girl you've seen all week, you have to announce this to your mates. And then you are obligated to tell her that she is your biscuit of the week. The thing about it is that you can go up to her very apologetic and non-threatening. Just say "excuse me, I'm sorry, I just have to tell you that you're my biscuit of the week. Sorry to bother you, have a good night" etc etc. The only other rule is that if she asks what "biscuit of the week" is, you have to explain it to her. If she doesnt ask, you just wander away, doesn't matter, nothing ventured nothing gained. If she asks, you again very apologetically explain "yeah, its this stupid drinking game me and my friends have, I'm not being funny, its just when you see someone who you think is the fittest person youve seen all week, you have to go up and say that too them in that stupid way, I just saw you from over there and thought it so had to come up and tell you. Again sorry to bother you blabalbal". The genius of this is that if she's not interested she'll just nod and say "riiiight, cheers?" and thats that, all youve done is given a girl a compliment. If she looks at you and is interested, and youve just come over and said that, then she'll make an effort to keep the conversation going. It's her thats really initiating it, and you'll immediately notice it. But please don't let this replace doing it properly, like I say it's a weird game that gets enforced in my friends. That said, I know someone who's gotten laid by using that as the ice breaker. Edit: The other greatest chat up line ever is "How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the ice! Hi, I'm Gizmo." Me and my friend experimented with that one night and some of the looks of disgust we got were priceless.

JUST LIKE YOUR MUM soz.

One of my new years resolutions is that I need to ask out one of the girls off my course. I'm friends with her and the group that she is always with in lectures, but I never see her alone. I've decided that come the new term I'm going to ask her to go for a drink. Which might be difficult / awkward, but I'll find a way. Time for me to move on with life.

My phones acting up - today at 15:30 I received a text that was sent at 20:00 on Christmas Eve. Theres been alot of other cases of texts arriving late recently but never as much as 2 bloody days. So now I'm paranoid that I've had others sent that haven't arrived. Trying to log into my account on the 3 website but their solution to forgetting my password is apparently to send me a text with a new password in it. Which I didn't realise was going to happen until they did it, so now I need to hope that text comes through so that I can log in and report a problem. I suspect I'm just going to have to wait until I go back to Glasgow and then head into the 3 shop and bash some heads together...

Discovered that there are several crates of beer in the garage. Commence operation drink alone. The one upside to being back home: lots of booze. The downside: nobody to drink it with

Well I found an old copy of the Hobbit in my parents bookcase, so read it I shall!

Is excite. I really need to read the books actually, I've only ever seen the LoTR films but love them. Should I read the Hobbit first or the trilogy?