One graduation ceremony, in the bag. Let's tell the day in figures!
Alarm: 7am
Awake: 7:45am
Train: 8:45am
Train station at: 8:20am
Time from B'pool North to reach Preston: 20 min
Time from B'pool South to reach Preston: 35 min
# of stations between B'pool South and Preston I've never heard of before: 3
# of necessary paperwork items forgotten: 2
Internet facilities at Preston station: 1 public access kiosk
Sortedness level: A+
Price of breakfast and a drink at my favourite Preston quick stop: £2.00
Sortedness level: A+++
Inches of rainfall: 259085010578876598734587
Total walking time: 20 mins
Total milling around time: 1 hour
Total sitting time: 2 hours
# of songs: 8
# of songs I might go back to: ~2
# of choirs: 1!
# of times I imagined nMC filking in place: 39
# of hats: 1
# of hats after ceremony: 3
# of times hat slipped: 6,381
# of times hood slipped: 1,502,683.5
# of photographs: 4
# of photos of the back of my head: 8 billion
# of Mikes I expected to be graduating but didn't: 1 (?)
# of Dean's Prizes to accept: 0 (silly thesis! Still glad I did that one though)
Amount of food consumed, in tablefulls: 3.14
# of orange juice shots: 3
# of networking teachers at the refreshments afterwards: 0
# I caught up with later in the dept building while I went to find what happened to Mike: 1 (and counting?)
# of times I missed Oxford: 41
# of times I missed Oxford Anime Vision over the year: 6938682
# of times I missed Oxford University: 0
Train time from Reading to Oxford: 25 mins
and yet
# of anime societies at Reading: 1
Pool ball to consult for this one: 8
# of years in the education system so far: 1
# of undergraduate years: 5
# of UG years left: ZERO
Relief level: Very High
In our opinion these figures give a true and fair view of the state of draconic affairs on 15 July 2009, and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Silly LJ Posts Act 2001.
# of times saying no to accepting postgraduate places felt bad: 4
# of days until
airyuu leaves home: <14
# of days until first Confuzzled staff meeting: 10-11
# of days until Harmuni: 16
# of days until Reading: 26-35
# of days until next Chica visit: ~80
Number of virtual toasts proposed: 1
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December 2009
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