Football

This is probably the only time that I will ever mention this topic on here so make the most of it. The last week seems to have been particularly filled with football and it's starting to get to me. It is one of my pet hates - along with most other sport to be honest, I simply cannot understand the attraction of watching a group of grown men kick a ball around a field. Obviously there is something to it because it is the most popular sport in the country and millions of people tune in every week to watch the games - not only for their own teams but for other teams as well.

In this house it is practically compulsory to like football. Practically every minute of the day when someone is watching the TV, it will be some form of sport and most of the time it will be football. Whereas my morning ritual consists of checking emails, catching up on the main headlines and looking at what's new in the world of technology, the other four housemates start their day with Sky Sports News - just in case something has happened overnight in the eight or so hours that they've been in bed. Now from what I gather, not much does go on between 11pm and 8am in the world of sport. Most of the football playing countries are within a couple of hours of us and they tend not to play sports at night. The tech world is a different matter and because most of the new developments are based in America or Asia, things are more likely to happen overnight.

This week has been particularly bad and almost 50% of the Sky+ box is full of sport because of a running series on highlights from the past twenty years with each episode detailing one year and lasting two hours. I don't mind it when its on at the weekend - last year I learned to write off Saturdays because Soccer Saturday was always glued onto the TV but most of the time I could slip in the occasional hour or two. This week there has been football on the telly almost constantly and I'm getting a little bit fed up with it. Several times I've been down to watch programmes and they have been slumped in front of the TV watching this highlights show. All I want to do is watch a little half hour / hour programme is that so much to ask?

Until now I've just admitted defeat and have put up with watching everything in my room on the small screen but I'm going to have to start asserting myself more I think because the TV is mine after all. Even this afternoon when I did manage to find a period of time when the telly was off I switched on Virgin1 and started watching Star Trek. This particularly annoys everyone because I think they loathe that about as much as I loathe football but I usually just leave them to it. Instead of doing that, they decided to talk to each other really loudly over the top of it. Sometimes I think I don't actually exist and my opinions don't count for anything.

I finally twigged today why there were so many people on the streets this week, I've been tripping over small children on the way to and from uni all week and couldn't understand why until it clicked that it was half term. I still can't get over how warm it is, it seems really odd walking back from lectures at this time of year in just a T-Shirt especially on Thursday when I have a late finish and was walking back in the dark. The internet is back this morning as well so I caught up with last nights Defying Gravity and wasn't all that impressed really. If nothing much happens tomorrow I may well include that in the blog.

As for the attempt to retrieve my certificate for Spanish, I nearly succeeded and managed to speak to someone and see the thing, signed by the woman who has been off ill. At least now I know that I passed - with 57% which I consider pretty damn good for me. What I didn't realise was that it had to then be signed by someone else who was at home working on a thesis apparently. So I'm told she will email me when it is all sorted which probably won't be until next week if the office isn't open again until Wednesday. The other thing that annoyed me was that the two staff kept speaking to each other in German (at least I think it was German). I pretty much knew what they were talking about because the Germans have failed to invent some words and have simply stolen the English so I got part of a conversation about the temperature and then for some of it the guy would ask the woman a question in German and she would reply in English. Now whether that was for my benefit or not I don't know but if it was then I'm quite grateful because I think its really rude to speak another language in front of someone you know can't understand you.