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Ramblings of a pixel-pushing, barely-sane Sabbatical officer and Meeja Whore 
Diary entries by alexh on Mon 5th Mar 2007
By Alex Harries
on Mon, 5th Mar 2007 at 14:18
I've just come out of the Pure:FM Candidates' Question Time show. That has to be one of the scariest hours of my life, with the first question - along the lines of, "Introduce yourself and tell the audience a bit about why they should vote for you" - completely throwing me, and I found myself rambling like a loon in the first few minutes of the show. Never a good start, but I know all of the candidates were equally nervous. As the show went on, we all settled down into the Fraggy banter. I think I managed to get a couple of key points about my manifesto aims across and, hopefully, I didn't come across as a complete numpty. It didn't help that Hannah P was doing her best to put us off while we answered her questions; to be fair though, I probably was rambling on and on and on and... This afternoon I've got to put together a 3 minute speech for tonight's Hustings, and then I need to go and finish off my t shirts (Want one? Let me know! alex.harries [at] upsu.net) - wish me luck! ;o) Peace out //al Permanent link
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By Alex Harries
on Mon, 5th Mar 2007 at 11:25
As the campaign machine slowly gears up for the elections battle next week, I've been making t-shirts in a Blue Peter-stylee - this weekend's been a haze of masking tape, thumb tacks, lots of paper, and "ones I made earlier"... It started Friday night with a print-out of my campaign t-shirt design and a scalpel. After ten minutes, I'd cut out ONE WHOLE LETTER - WOO!
One hour in - 8 letters done, and I hadn't made a total mess of it:
Hmm, spare letters... I wonder what I can do with these...
Starting the logo: 1 1/2 hours in:
Essential Friday-night listening (after Pete Tong, of course) - Judge Jules on Radio 1's Listen Again (if only Pure:FM could afford a license for this!):
All cut out:
... I'm bored now. I wonder...
More fun with letters (yes, I was bored :o):
By Alex Harries
on Mon, 5th Mar 2007 at 06:31
I barely slept last night - six hours in bed and I reckon I counted more sheep than I've had hot dinners (but I *am* half-Welsh, so counting sheep is at least 50% more satisfying for me than it is for most people...). I don't often feel pressure, but I think it's fair to say that there's a certain - unavoidable - element of stress connected to this whole elections campaigning thing. That's not to say I can actually identify when I'm stressed; I don't have that kind of introspective ability, but I do tend to wake up very early. Shame I was never really that stressed at school then... ;o) Anyway, this nightmare: at one point in the night, I bounced myself awake after dreaming that I'd I slept right through Candidates' Question Time. After that, there was no hope for me getting a good night's sleep - despite it being dark outside, every time I woke up after that I checked the clock to make sure I wasn't going to be late. Of course, not actually *having* a clock in my bedroom meant I had to crawl over to the laptop, wiggle the mouse to wake it up, remember my password, check the time, then try and get back to sleep with the screen flooding the room with light... Maybe I should get a proper, real clock? Peace out :o) /al - off to boil the kettle... about me"Grumpy, geeky old grey-head"
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