Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #32:
Go on a tour of the lesser-spotted pubs. End up in a club. Finish drinking at 1am. Still have a hangover twelve hours later. Still have a headache twenty hours later. Realise to your horror that there are a lot … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:
Pass your first exam... with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #30:
Gather together a werewolf and an irishwoman, and, together, climb an unlit hill with a treachorous unmarked cliff, in an unfamiliar nearby town, in the darkness of the night, during a storm, and watch fireworks while clinging to a hundred-year-old … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:
Stay in and do some work.
Scary but true - this theoretically means that I haven't done this until now. Eek.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #28:
Escape from your hall's "Punch Party", and go to a bonfire instead, because you *know* that if you start drinking vast amounts of free sub-cocktail you'll just *keep* drinking and you've got to be up before 9:00am the following morning … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:
(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a "Cool Things". Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three "Cool Things" to help make up for it.
(2) Be … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:
Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read "drinkabout") four times their weight in lager. As a result I'm probably going to have to (originally read "tpo") … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #25:
Start a collection of 20p pieces, for use in the laundry. My wallet's side pocket now contains 16 20p peices. Combined with a few pound coins, that'll keep me laundered (ooh-err) for at least two weeks. =o)
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:
Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #23:
Leave a club, and, in a drunken stupor, decide that it's a sound and logical idea to take £120 out ot a cash machine, because it'll save you from having to do it later. Realise this tommorow morning, and replace … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #22:
Realise, to your horror, that it's not physically possible to exist on a diet of Pot Noodles alone.
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #21:
Desperatley try to find a reason not to get a 'professional' domain name (e.g. www.avapoet.com), and fail. Panic, and write to your current service provider, asking questions which you're sure they'll answer unfavourabley, to save yourself from the urge to … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #19:
Get very drunk, and fall asleep up a tree. Wake up at sometime after 3:00am, in the rain, and wonder where the fuck you are, before climbing down and going to bed... Realise that a search party had been organised … -
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Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as …
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #17:
Attend a lecture in a shirt and tie, and carrying a bag full of clothes, and leave 20 minutes before the end, to catch a coach to Aberdyfi, and sit on it and sing! (actually, this hasn't happened yet - …