Monday, December 11, 2006

What happened at my Oxford interviews

I know that you would like to know how my interviews at the University of Oxford went. I was going to write a long blog post about it tonight.

However, I got distracted by the fact that, following the interviews, I have basically turned into a nervous wreck. The results come in Friday and that seems simultaneously MILES TOO FAR AWAY yet MILES TOO CLOSE.

My disintegrating mental state has manifested itself in several ways. Firstly my mouth has started randomly bleeding. Secondly I keep pulling bits of skin off of my hands. Thirdly I have become addicted to repetive puzzle games. Firstly Tetris, secondly Minesweeper.

Tetris is awesome... my personal best is a rather good 162 lines.
Unfortunately I would not class Minesweeper as being an 'awesome' game. I am now addicted to it. And not addicted in a good cocainey way. I am more addicted in a bad heroiney way. Like I keep playing, not because I want to, because I know that if I stop I will lie in bed hating myself. Basically, the version of Minesweeper I have is shit - bombs are placed randomly, and so to win it is neccesary to just randomly make repeated guesses as to where the fucking bombs are. This is annoying.

To conclude, I just spent THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF compulsively playing Minesweeper. I DIDN'T WIN ONCE. NOT ONCE. I start a new game, click on a few things, die, restart, repeat. THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF. My mouse broke halfway through.

After a near-mental breakdown and -not even kidding- a single tear brimming up in my eye - I only only JUST managed to win, which allowed me to quit. And I accidentally erased my list of best times on the Minesweeper start-up screen. This means that, after my hour and half's hard work at Minesweeper (and nothing else... literally it was just me staring at the screen in clicky silence) I had actually made myself seem LESS good at it in the mind of the computer.

Thank FUCK I finally managed to scrape through that ONE GAME. The list of best times on Minesweeper now reads "COMPUTER" for the bottom nine, and "HOLY SHIT I DID IT" at number one with a blistering time of 2.42. My head hurts and my screen is clogged up with minesweeper windows that will not disappear no matter how much I press 'FORCE QUIT'. Look check it out:



Hehehehe HUUGE. And that doesn't even begin to cover it. There are millions of other windows buried under the first pile. Like a huge atmosphere of Ozone and devilled eggs.

I fucking hate Minesweeper.

Oxbridge results on Friday. I won't get it.

I want to cry.

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