A Dirty Magazine and Some Rocket Fuel

Hi, I'm Chris Morris and I once ate an entire packet of mentos, washed it down with some diet coke, and lived to tell the tale.

I just had possibly the most embarrassing moment of my entire life less than an hour ago. I was in Tesco to get a couple of odds and ends (God bless 24hr!), and I decided to buy the official Playstation magazine. I don't often buy it because I don't really play games a lot, but I thought, hey, why not.

Biggest mistake of my life.

Y'see, the magazine comes with a Blu-Ray disc which has stuff like playable demos and trailers for games on it. And it just so happened that the content on this disc was rated 18. I went to the self service, and scanned my items, which included a jar of "Rocket Fuel" coffee (The reason for this, I'll get onto in just a second).

So obviously, when I'm done scanning and bagging all my things, the message saying something like "Please wait, restricted items" comes up. One of the ladies comes over and checks what it is I have and is simply comes up on the screen "Magazine".

Uh-oh.

So without hesitation, or asking me for any ID, she quickly okays it and says nothing to me. Another woman came along and she was like "What is it you have?" and the first woman said "It's a magazine, Helen," obviously warning her not to take the situation any further.

I went redder than a tomato with sunburn. I felt like shouting "It's not porn!! It's a PS3 Magazine!!"

Of course, this would also explain the "Rocket Fuel" coffee. I'm planning to stay up all night with this magazine! All I needed in my shopping basket was a packet of tissues and they would never question me about anything ever again.

So anyway, yeah, the reason for the Rocket Fuel coffee is because I am planning on staying up all night to finish the first draft of my dissertation. The last time we can hand it in for feedback is tomorrow, so I want to do absolutely as much as I can, and I still have a few thousand words to write.

And here I am writing a blog! Way!

Yeah I should really go and do it. I just thought it would be a funny story to share with you all. Nothing much else to report apart from the fact that out of my usual six pupils on a Thursday night, one showed up. Admittedly, one is taking a break from lessons, and two are possibly stuck in some foregin country because they were away on holiday, but I'm not sure what happened to the other two.

I had a great lesson with Steven though, he's really coming along. He's started to become a lot more creative, and generally just technically good.

Anyway, I might post another blog entry later on tonight (Or this morning) when I will have finished a draft of my dissertation.

Stay tuned!

...Or sleep, it's up to you.