I'm not dead

Long time no update... basically I haven't been arsed to recover the password to this on the other computer. Back at home now, and it's pretty much the same shithole as it was when I left, except the nearest offy has now closed, which is an arse.

Saw System Of A Down on Tuesday. They kicked ass. Shame about the support (80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster) who were pretty poor. The main show was quality - almost two hours of straight up non stop rock. Excellent. Had a few drinks beforehand - strangely (U2 gig possibly?) most of the pubs in Manchester were heaving, in fact one Spoons wasn't even letting any new punters in. At half four. Ridiculous. Still, found a nice pub on Mosley Street that was fairly quiet and very cheap (£1.70/Guinness, £1.20/Carling or Beck's). It's just a pity that the transport here really is of a third world standard. Integrated transport does not mean diving onto a tram, then running and diving onto a train, then running and diving onto a bus, and paying £1.70 for a journey which I can (and have) walked before. It (bus pricing) truly is extortionate around the Manchester area.

So, one year at Sheffield is out of the way. Let's analyse, shall we?

Sheffield positives:

- has Fuzz Club
- has a cool lift in the Arts Tower
- hall bars are competitively priced, and bar one is usually cheap
- er...
- that's it

Sheffield negatives:

- hills
- no one centralised computing facility
- no one centralised library
- never had a lecture in a lecture theatre
- never had a seminar that wasn't massively overpopulated or only had about five people in
- only had one essay to do and the rest was all exams
- seen essay questions for answering in exams suck
- have seen my tutor once, and only contacted him on one other occasion
- has three club nights which all sound the same and are probably all equally shit
- no self catered halls, leaving flats as an option which are crap for socialising
- uni LAN is sketchy
- all sports are elitist, overpriced and inaccessible

In other words, the university and course sucks large amounts.