I'm in the school library, and it's cold. For a while I even thought my pants were wet (they're not). I'm waiting on my Final Year Project team members, who are currently late and can only get later. Since there's nothing much else to do, we have a blog entry.
My computer Orpheus has been sick over the past few days, down with a little nasty it picked up from BZP which apparently allows other viruses in. (We don't recommend that you go there right now with Internet Explorer. The exploit is still there - I'd have gotten it again, only my new Spybot-S&D Resident caught the registry change and stopped it. Firefox is apparently immune, so no worries if you use it.) Of course, this just had to happen when I was in the middle of writing my FYP report.
Well, Orpheus is back now, and healthier. I think he needed the reformat anyway, but I could have done without having to painfully get back all the programs, drivers, security updates and whatnot. The IT Helpdesk never reinstalls things the same way twice, and I'm still missing the Chinese language pack. Graagh.
Enough whining from me. It is, after all, the day after Boxing Day, which in actual fact has nothing to do with the sport, but with boxes. And this has been a nice Christmas season for me. My mother made her trademark French-style roast chicken, there was much pudding with custard, and I got to catch up with old friends. Also, my father gave me a wrapped present.
It was a Cornetto. He is very lame sometimes.
I have two shout-outs, which coincide with the two restaurants I had the opportunity to visit this holiday season. One is for Marché, a nice little restaurant in Vivocity (there may be more outlets, but I'm only aware of this one). The restaurant is market-style, with stalls in the middle and the dining tables around the edges. At the entrance you are given a card; you then walk around the stalls picking out what you want to eat. The food is prepared right in front of you, the chef at the stall swipes your card, and you only pay at the end when you leave. The prices are reasonable, the food is very, very good and you have the assurance that nothing shady happened to it during preparation. The interior decoration has a homely, countryside-esque aesthetic, so the atmosphere is very cosy. It's a great place, and the only drawback is that it's in Vivocity which is navigational hell. If you don't mind overcrowded mazes, Marché is worth checking out.
The other is DÔME Café, where D3 went for lunch yesterday. The food is also superb in general, though we did agree that pizza is clearly not their speciality. Nevertheless the sandwiches seemed good, and they make a heavenly tiramisu. But what really impressed me was the service - the waitresses were genuinely nice to us, and really made us feel welcome. As a MasterCard advertisement would say - priceless.
But now the holiday season is behind us, and it's time for serious work again. So we go back to me, freezing in the overly-empty library, wishing my team members would freaking hurry up so we can get started on our project poster, typing up a blog entry on stolen time.
I could really do with a sandwich.
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