Bed Room

In all the excitement of breaking the rules yesterday, I forgot to talk about the excitement of the previous night. It was probably the most odd thing to happen to me for a while, but at, I think, quarter past four in the morning, yesterday morning, I woke to find Emma in my room, standing in the doorway, with the light on. I struggled for a minute to work out what she was saying, and to pull the bedclothes over my less than clothed body, but quickly I found out that wasps had invaded her room.

Not just a few, but loads. Not thousands, but enough to scare her and me and everyone we woke up. Which was everyone. Emma had heard the sound of buzzing, she'd stood up, turned the light on, and just seen a swarm, so she ran to my room. She did knock, for a while apparently, but I think I was in deep enough sleep to not notice her until she was practically standing over me with a bright light in my eyes. So we all went around the house, closing the windows. We'd noticed the wasps' nest a few days previously, but they'd never bothered us before, so it was a surprise. After an hour of deliberating over plans and occasionally sneaking into the infected area to snatch a necessary item, like her phone, or some trousers.

At eight in the morning, the wasps had all left the room, despite the closed window. Emma didn't get back to sleep before work, but she managed to call the landlord, who was surprisingly in Spain. I woke after she'd left, to find notes and stuff, but it's all too much to go into. For the rest of the day, I hacked with Dan and helped him revise for his exam. We also listened to the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which was very ahead of its time. That brings us on to today.

Dan says he passed his exam fully, so that's our work out of the way for another month. Shortly after we got back, and had watched another few Futurama episodes, the pest control dude arrived, and it took him about ten minutes to spray the nest from out of the window and be out of there, leaving us impressed and with loads of time to hang around not waiting for him anymore. We had our telephone line connected in the meantime, and now with a phone, the house becomes more functional. It's also a wonderful lead in to the world of the internet, which soon enough, I won't need to go to University for.

Last night I was lucky enough to meet some of the people who had been practically living in "Emma House" while I was away. I had met Hosei before, but I hadn't seen him since my return (and he's far more open to me now), and I met Kumiko, who's the only girl I have ever been able to talk about really nerdy things with, and actually have her respond. We discussed the introduction of x86 chips into the new Macintosh computers, and then the technical requirements for the Tiger OS (she's a bit of a Mac fan too).

We all went out to Kingston to party with Emma's work friends, but the Japanese section of the group pretty much clung together, and while Emma thought this typical of them and a perfect way not to make English friends, I really didn't blame them. The library team that Emma works with didn't seem like the kind of people I'd get along with brilliantly, so I hung around chatting to Hosei and Kumiko.
Since last night Emma wasn't prepared to sleep in the wasp room, after we all returned, she prepared beds for Hosei and Kumiko (the two downstairs sofabeds), and not wanting to be left out of the fun of a sleepover, and not wanting to sleep in a possible wasp nest, I stayed downstairs as well. We converted a normal, living room into an actual Bed Room, with practically the whole floor covered with two sofa beds. The four of us slept well, and after meeting Dan for his exam, I saw our guests off and continued on with my day, which included Tescos and moving my free speakers into the house (I got free speakers from Dan's place [they have a "swap table" in the apartment block]).

I don't know how many of you read Slashdot on a regular basis, but London is finally getting the chance to have 24Mbps internet, and I'm signing up as soon as they enable my exchange. Just imagine that beauty, twenty four megabits of internet, flowing into the free ADSL2 router they provide...

I'm salivating. I thought 2Mbps was good. Although, Yukina is awaiting 100Mbit fibre optic internet, and that kinda made my awesome speed feel quadri-downsized. Anyway, laters my friends.

(Woah, no spelling errors.)