Year 2, Term 1, Week 2: Frank Turner!
And so 2nd year continues… and thankfully, it seems to be much less stressful than this time last year – obviously there’s a smaller jump from 1st year to 2nd year than from school to university.
Main event of the week: I went with Charlotte to see Frank Turner at the O2 Academy in Oxford! It was a brilliant night – just as good as the main act was the starting supporting act, a truly random man calling himself Beans on Toast – it’s really fun when you find someone who can mix comedy with song so effectively. Everything was a bit squashed, but it was obvious that no-one minded.
I’ve started teaching myself PHP / MySQL: since I already know HTML and CSS fairly well, I thought JavaScript would be the best way to go next – but I decided I’d have me some server-side scripting first. Then I can try adding on some JavaScript once I have a few working PHP projects. And why am I doing this? Well, it couldn’t be anything to do with the computing department at Oxford teaching all theoretical modules, and none that actually have any application, could it? (In fairness, having done one year of computer science, I’m definitely in a better position to teach myself programming than before.)
This weekend my dad and brother came over to Oxford for a visit. They arrived on Saturday, we had some lunch in Burger King (oops), then showed them around Keble and the Natural History Museum. In the evening-time we went to Ask for dinner, then went to see UP in Disney Digital 3D, despite having seen it in 2D just a day earlier… On Sunday they came to Keble for Sunday dinner, and then they left on Monday morning, much too early for me to get up and see them off… (10am…)
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