Christmas

So Christmas is two weeks from tomorrow and its pretty clear from the way people are acting.

I was in the Fairgreen shopping centre in carlow and had to collect a christmas present for my sister that i had put aside a few days earlier.

So I walk in and the place is mobbed. Now I wasn't what you would call surprised by this given that its so close to christmas but that is not the point of this story.

Now the shop i was collecting the present in had a queue going out the door. I didn't really want to stand in a queue for a half an hour but it was now or never really. So I stood there and ten minutes went by, and the line was moving very very slowly.

Just then, this guy comes in and barges his way up to the front and starts yelling at the cashier for something he had bought that didn't work.

Now I have two problems with this.

1) It just isn't fair to the girl behind the counter that this guy was shouting at her. Its not like it was her fault that the thing was broken.

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2) All the people in the line, including me, had been waiting somewhat patiently to get service and this guy barges up ahead and while hes shouting away none of us will get served.

Now this isn't something that happens only at christmas but it is something that boils my blood. Christmas for me has always been a time for happiness and people being nice. Now I can handle people bumping into you in a crowd and not saying excuse me. Thats fine, their in a hurry but what this guy had done was unacceptable.

I left it for 5 minutes and he was still going at this girls throat. I was getting to the point where I was gonna go up to this guy and stop him but a guy that was up ahead of me beat me to it. He walked up to the guy and grabbed him by the shoulder and gave him a good talking to. The guy was giving it back to him but in the end he just walked out with the thing he had brought into the shop ( i think it was an iPod). After the applause for the guy that had stepped up was over, the line started moving again and within 25 minutes i had what i came in for.

I can never understand why people won't just calm down at christmas. But it did give me some perspective on christmas shopping.

Next year, all shopping will be done online and everything will be delivered to me. Merry christmas to all and to all a good night.

Announcement

Watch this space for the first two chapters of my in progress book, and maybe some of my songs, if I ever get one 100 percent completed. They seem to be all at around 75 at the moment.

College

So I've been quite frustrated with college lately. Mainly because I've been a bit lacking in motivation to actually do anything but also because our course is hideously unorganised.

To be fair, they are trying this year and a lot of the course material is interesting even for me who really isn't overly interested by any of it.

This week I actually surprised myself, I sat down and actually did some work and got quite a bit done at the same time. And the biggest shock came when we did a practical assessment in Mobile Games on Friday morning. It was nine in the morning and I was barely awake, I couldnt even get a cup of tea because the line at starbucks was too long.

So i went in and sat down as I always do. Now I had done no preperation the night before and have very little knowledge of Java so I was, for all intents and purposes, screwed! But, to my surprise I managed to complete the second question in full which was worth 60 percent and part of question 1 which was worth 40 percent. So i walk away with very little effort having 6 -7 percent out of 10 towards my final grade. Hurray for me!

Next week, which is our final week before our Christmas holidays, sees a written test in Online Gaming Tech on wednesday and a fairly complex assignment due in AI on friday so its gonna be a long week.

And on that note I will end the blog because, well I cant think of anything else to say at the moment.