80% Contented, 10% Confused, 10% Knackered

Dare I say it, but life is good.

Vancouver was awesome.
Youstage is this weekend.
Made friends with my new flatmates.
(Hoping flatmates in other flat will be nice)
Freshers week soon.
Uni starts back (but i’ll leave it there because maths/friends that have dropped-out is ghey)

WATCHMEN

I bought/read it in Vancouver and it is one of the most amazing things my little blue eyes have ever seen.
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drawn from a still from the trailer

Oh Canada

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I awaken, startled; this room is not my own.
What’s the time? The sun is out, but for how long has the mechanised birdsong been playing?
The film of far too many beers coats my mouth and tongue. My belly, bloated, answers the call of the rumbling birds outside.
Dappled light illuminates my last tread path. Scattered clothes, stained by any number of junk foods, litter the room. An errant shoe perched on top; Its partner nowhere to be seen.
A slumbering neighbour, not yet woken by the cacophony outside, lays in a state not unlike my own.

For this is the morning after the week before.

A week of long nights in the ‘Beaver’. Where the beer is cheap and the bar-maid(s) oh so attractive.
The “regulars” an ever-changing group of nomads. All solitary. All united.
(self deprecating paragraph removed)

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But yeah, Vancouver was awesome.
I saw prostitutes.
And a bald eagle.
Went swimming in the sea,
Ate an awful lot of pizza. Numero Uno FTW.
Drank my own weight in cheap beer.
Got a free shot of mystery booze from the barmaid. :S
Met some very cool people.
Met some very strange people.
Climbed a mountain and just about died.
Played a new drinking game called “Fingers in”.
Got a homeless man to play oasis for us on his guitar.

More pics

brb going to Canada

Well, not for 2 days but yeah.

Vancouver baby!
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It should be fun.

I have nothing planned.

argh.

I got my hair cut.

It’s too short.

argh.

I was woken up by 14 bagpipers.

argh.

I have donuts and pizza’s and crisps and mars bars.

wheyy.

I’m going to Canada in two days.

wheeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Cooking With Cox 01 - Spicy Veggie Pasta

I’m going to start writing up the recipes I make here for funzies.
They’re going to be cheap, quick, usually spicy, tasty and very studenty.

So here’s the first helping.

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Ingredients:

  • Pasta (um, however much you want of whatever variety you want)
  • 1 tin Chopped Tomatoes
  • 1 Onion (chopped)
  • 2 Chilli Peppers (one de-seeded and chopped, the other just sliced)
  • 2 Cloves Garlic (chopped or crushed)
  • Sweetcorn (Frozen or fresh, however much you want)
  • 1 tbsp Chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp Crushed chilli flakes
  • A few drops of tabasco
  • salt, pepper to taste

Instructions:

Once you’ve prepared the ingredients and got the pasta boiling, Place another pan on a medium-high heat with enough oil to coat the bottom and a bit extra.

When hot enough to sizzle when you drop some onion in, put the chilli powder in and fry for 30 seconds. Then put the chillis, onion and garlic in and mix to coat in the oil and chilli powder. Fry until the onions are soft.

Add the tin of tomatoes, tabasco and frozen to the onions and stir. If it boils too much turn the heat down. You just need it on long enough to heat through/defrost the sweetcorn. Season to taste.

The pasta should be cooked by now so drain and either put on plate and cover in the sauce or return to the pan and combine with the sauce.

Garnish with some prententious bollocks. (I just used up some spring onion)

Eat.

(serves 1 hungry person or 2 less hungry people)

Word of warning, this was rather spicy. So de-seed both peppers if you don’t like hot food or even just use one chilli. And skip the chilli flakes.