Tonight me and Matt were making dinner together, satay stirfry for anyone whose interested. In order to save some money I had bought some frozen chicken from Morrisons, however 5 pieces of the chicken was frozen stuck together.
After trying to pull, cut and bash them apart, I thought we should just defrost all the pieces and leave it at that, but Matt unable to let the frozen chicken beat him, tried some more, and increasingly wacky, ideas.
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Hey folks
Happy New Year! I had a fairly good holiday spending a week and a half in Dumfries, which was great, got to catch up with friends, go out to the infamous Jumpin’ Jaks and spend my New Years Eve the same way i have for the past 4 years (God is it really that long??) in my local pub. Fantastic.
Anyway the real reason for this post is to come up with some interesting new things for Compsoc todo. Recently we’ve been getting a little stick for not having different types of events, especially ones that don’t involve alcohol (?!). We’ve come up with the basic ideas Bowling, Laser Quest and well thats about it…
We need ideas to get everyone who does computing to get involved, nothing overly geeky, or overly expensive, but any ideas would be much appreciated.
Have fun,
Lauren xxx
Sometimes I lack a little bit of confidence, it’s always been that way. Over the past few years this has mainly all been directed to my chosen field of Computing.
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I once wrote a post called Point Of View.
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I realise I haven’t written a post in a while, there are many reasons for this, apart from me just being very lazy. In the past few months a lot of things have changed.
Today I thought I would do my parents a favour, it being my first day back home. I thought “hey it’ll sweeten them up a bit if I do some general tidying up”, well as I have said before the best laid plans…
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Quite frankly I am getting sick of some peoples attitude to me. I’m a girl and yes I do Computing Science, why the hell does that seem to suggest to some that I am less intelligent than any of the guys around?
As many of you will already know, I have a brand spanking new WordPress Blog, which my Mattness bought me. Which is very nice, although a colour scheme change maybe in order….
Anyway from now on, updates on my life, love and geekery will be over on www.laurendempster.com, hope to see you all there and leave comments
Lauren xxx
After the past few weeks of assignments hell, I finally have a (relatively) quiet weekend, so I only got to the lab today at 2.45pm…. I realise that I have been fairly quiet on the blogging front for the past couple of months unless talking about Busted or McFly. I think (gently prodded by Matt) that I should get back to talking about how things are going with my life.
Plenty has been going on with me at the moment, most of course involving late nights in the Boyd Orr. However all that stuff is boring and since everyone is under stress why should I complain? The fact is that I am happier now than I ever have been (and no this isn’t because I have finally become the world’s biggest geek and actually enjoy spending 90% of my life hacking together code… well it’s not that entirely 
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I went through a brief spell this week when I was really down on myself and believing that I couldn’t do anything. I felt that I was letting everything slip away from me that I really cared about: Matt, my friends and my degree. What I realised with a little help from Matt was that things really aren’t as bad as I think, so here is my list of reasons to be happy.
I am happy because for once I know what I want from my life and I can see me getting it.
I am happy because I know I can do my degree, even if my classmates don’t argree with me.
I am happy because I am in love, with someone who loves me. (“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge)
I am happy because I have friends who understand me, who are there for me when I need them.
I am happy because I always have the comic relief of Matt, even when he doesn’t intend to be funny at all.
I have plenty more to be happy about, but in the interest of not boring everyone and getting on with my project work, I’ll sign off for now with one more thing. Try to remember that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, you just have to be positive enough to see the first glimmer… here’s to the Easter holidays…
Laurenxxx
Welcome to my new blog!
I have finally started blogging with the big boys. It is a very proud day for me, although I fear my mum may think I have finally become an undisputed geek.
Once I have finished looking at all the new settings I get with this new fangled blog I may even find time to write a post or two…. I’ll certainly try…
Over and out world,
Lauren
P.S. I fear the title of this post alone has upped my geek rating