Miriam Parkinson

People from school know me as being LOUD. I always used to be confident, talkative, flirtatious (ok well I’m still flirtatious) and out there. I would debate with people for the hell of it, I was totally open with my thoughts and opinions, I was comfortable talking with different people from all walks of life. So why the fuck am I so damned shy now!

I mean my yearbook comment (from Tors) was “leave it to Mim to be outrageous and proud of it - is that rope burn?” does that sound like the type of comment that would be written about a quiet reserved girl?

Even at the TPN dinner last year where I met most of my regular readers the general consensus was that I seemed to be much louder on my blog than I was in person. Actually as far as that’s concerned I want to put the record straight. The loud Miriam who was talking about pole-dancing nurses and Angelina Jolie. That was the normal Miriam, not a drunk Miriam. Half the reason why I was so quiet to start off with was that Cam intimidates the hell out of me, and there was a huge group of new people for me to meet.

Anyway I think the key to this change is Colin. I’ve always been a little shy. But I warmed to people so fast that they’d never believe that I was shy when I told them. Now I’ve become so accustomed to clinging onto Colin for dear life during the initial introduction that I’ve never come out of my shell properly.

So I guess what I really need to do is to try to fend for myself a bit next time we’re out. I don’t want to fold in on myself entirely!

I had a costume party to attend on Friday. I ordered off ebay a lovely french-maids outfit for the occasion about a month ago. Unfortunately the costume is arriving on Monday! So, having arrived at home at 5.30pm and discovered that I didn’t have a costume I had to find something suitable from my wardrobe.
I came up with a sort of punk look, with some ridiculously high (as in 10cm high) platform heeled boots which gave me stress-fractures and disaster was averted. Colin wore a set of racing leathers which looked cool even if they were really hot and uncomfortable to stand in.

Anyway here are some pictures to amuse yourself with. Unfortunately Colin got bored of taking pictures fairly early in the night so there aren’t many of them.

Brad making a fabulous pirate

Dre dressed as brad… with brad

Colin, looking dashing in his fluorescent yellow and black racing leathers

I am feeling rather justifiably smug (or at least I think so) today.

Machine Design (learn all about cogs, and gears, and levers etc) - 77% (Distinction)
Machine Dynamics 2 (force analysis of moving things) - 99%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (High Distinction)
Control and Automation (do some silly maths to figure out how to control stuff) - 65% (Credit)
Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (self-explanatory) - 85% (High Distinction)

Woot!!!

Apparently studying really does pay off