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I keep a diary. I've kept one for 5 years, now. My Mum offered me £5 to keep it up for a year. I was so miserly with money back then I took up the offer. Now I'm hooked. My once simplistic diary is now an A5 page per day monster which takes exactly 15 minutes a day to write up. In the thinner bit at the top where the line shares the days of the month and what day of the week they're on, I have a brief overvie of the day's events. Down the side of the page I have little blocks of information. 3 years ago this started with about 3 blocks- my rating for the day, when I got up/went to bed and the weather. I'm now at 13, rating everything from the number of subscribers on youtube I have to the number of catches I achieved with 6, 7, 8 and 9 balls. My rating system has evolved as well. It started off as a simple 'out of 5' system, then it evolved to 'out of 10', then 'out of 100', then I started adding in decimal places, since all of my days averaged between 80 and 95%, then last year I realised just how stupid it was and I reverted back to the 'out of 5' system. Game magazines could learn a thing or two from this. I mean, with any system you're going to end up giving everything an average rating of 70% or what ever (unless you're a seriously depressed noob), but at least with 'out of 5' you can go '2 is normal, 3 is good, 4 is very good and 6 is VERY good'. I've carried the same system across to rating how FUN the day is, and how HARD it is (Overal, fun and hard are different things. I've had days where I do hard work all day but I look back on it fondly because, say, I was listening to a song I liked, which bumps up the overal score). Recently even this magnificent system has been broken- I gave today a 6 for difficulty. GASP! WHY?! 120%?! Even computer game magazines don't stoop to such lows. (Or highs).

You don't want to hear about my life normally. It's boring. I have to mention today, however. because I don't think I've ever worked so hard. Law exam at 11, so I woke up early (10 AM) to revise for that. Then at 1 we met up in a library to prepare for a presentation tomorrow. At 3 we returned to my room to finish the financial forecasts and my unfortunate 'business partner' got to see the state of my room. You'd think that if you had a small room you'd be more organised. Hohoho. I warn everybody about how messy it is and they do the old 'Oh it isn't as bad as mine-' (opens door) 'Oh okay, it is'. I started off with good intentions, but why bother with neat bags of things? I have 2 weeks worth of socks thrown about my room, TESCOs shopping still in their carrier bags next to my computer and my clothes thrown in a heap in the corner. Oh yes, it's messy alright. It's about time I hoovered as well. I don't trust my table, as I haven't cleaned it in months, so I use a hankerchief or my tshirt to spread bread out on, before using my finger to apply marmite. I no longer use plates and bowls, I eat tinned pineapple out of the tin. Don't worry, I think I'm on the (bad) extreme end of messiness and I'm still okay, having lasted nearly 6 months at University. And yes, I am writing this up in a dressing gown at 3 in the morning. It isn't glamorous. Oh dear I went off topic again. yeah, after I had done the financial statements and finished my 4th marmite jar this week (600% daily allowance of salt hasn't killed me yet), we went to the learning grid until 9 in the evening to practice our presentation. I have to give it to the University- these libraries wouldn't look out of place in a computer game. You have to use your special card to swipe through multiple checkpoints and the layout itself is complicated enough. No, you CAN'T access the library from the first floor. That's for disabled students only. If you're not disabled you have to access it through the ground floor. I don't see the logic in that either. Oh and after those 8 hours of work I returned home and finished off the website design. 10 hours work for 4 seconds in the presentation. Now that's efficiency.