Friday, January 9, 2004

Even more Randomness
I like the relationship I have with myotaku right now. I come here to report on what happens in the day, and maybe to think. I don't just linger and eventually go to bed.

I forgot to add one thing last night:

We were making a chilli- the meat was frozen. So it needed defrosting. I was washing some dishes so we could actually make the chilli.

The microwave was on behind me. I thought it was defrosting the meat. It finished with a ping, and I shouted "PING" towards the living area (technically not a room since there's no doorway between it and the kitchen) when I noticed two things:

1- the microwave was set on full power, not on defrost.

2- there was a frozen packet of meat, not in the microwave.

Now, we had two packets of meat last night, both frozen so I assumed Someone just decided to use both. I wasn't too appreciative of that, since I thought it was a waste to use so much meat, rather than use more vegetables. So I looked in the freezer...

The other packet was there...

"What the...?"..

I went back to the microwave and opened it to find that Jude had put his cup of tea in there to warm it up (it had gone cold). For a few minutes. On full power.

The cup was intact, but it was quite a mess. There was hot, burnt tea everywhere inside the microwave(Imagine how much bubbling there would have been after that amount of time....)

It was quickly cleaned up- and quite funny to see.

Later on I broke on of Jude's beer glasses while washing up.

Most of them are taken from pubs all around the place. Mostly without permission. This one, however was legitamately purchased.

He jokingly said "You're going to have to get me a replacement", to which I replied "I'll do that when you return all the ones you nicked"... in the kind of manner which, in an IM, would warrant a ":p" on the end.

In Semi-Related Randomness

We had about 6 people from TT around for dinner tonight. Then we spent a good few hours playing games (the type which don't require anything electronic).

It was a great evening.

However, both me and Greg had a niggling problem, to do with Jude. He was trying to be very authoritative. Even more so than usual, and this is one of the things that irritates me about him a lot, though I tend to let it go.

Rather than doing a great deal to help sort things out, he'd delegate people to do it instead. "would you like to do this" or "would you like to do that". And he wouldn't stop talking about his job, and where he thought he was going, and his ambitions, which wasn't so much of a problem except he took them all as definite facts for the future.

Neither of us said anything during the evening. I think that was for the best. But we had quite a long chat with him afterwards. Not being overly negative but adressing some issues that have been building up over time.

I won't go over them all, but I was quite surprised by one thing-

Jude is actually quite a shy, quiet guy. And he has immense difficulty interacting in groups of people.

He just didn't seem like the kind of person with that problem to me. And the reason is that he is incredibly assertive in a deliberate way. He knows a lot about stuff like body language, and he actively pushes ideas to people, as a means to compensate for his own difficulty.

All this masks the fact that he has such problems, to the point that they build up, there's no input from others. And you know what, he thought that this problem was only a minor one, but he was just generally feeling quite crap all evening.

It wasn't until we actually confronted him that he realised the extent to which this is taking over his life.

Accountability in action.

OK, so Greg and I aren't accountable to Jude regularly, but that's pretty much how it works. Jude isn't accountable to anyone at the moment anyway, so if we hadn't stepped in, things would have just carried on.

It's not a matter of nit-picking someone's faults as helping them through their issues. Nothing of our conversation last night will be said to anyone who actually knows Jude.

And this is a pretty common problem. I've been pretty vague, so I'm not letting you in on a lot either.

Day Trip!!!

Tomorrow we're off on a day trip to.. um... BRIDLINGTON! That was it. We're off to the nearest beach. In winter. So I doubt there will be massive amounts of sunbathing.

But yeah. About 10 of us at most are off out for the day tomorrow. Should be fun.

On one more random Side-note

Damn me and my early enthusiasm for all things challenging.

Tonight I randomly ended up agreeing to going without any form of caffiene for a week.

That means Coffe, Tea, Coke, and Chocolate. And anything else found to have a caffiene content which is significant.

...It's not even as though I have a caffiene problem either, so God only knows how I ended up doing that.

The thing is, though I could go without one of these things for a while with little difficulty, the whole lot will be a challenge. It certainly will.
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