| Day of Lent | |||||||
| 1 (9th Feb) | I heard a track on the radio about robots, and was very tempted, but resisted. | 8:30 | |||||
| 2 (10th Feb) | I realised today that I've been eating Wheetos for breakfast. Instead of disqualifying myself I've decided that they don't count. | 8:45 | |||||
| 3 (11th Feb) | I'm off for the weekend, and am being given food. Hopefully there isn't much chocolate. Update: The evening meal came with excessive amounts of cake. There were two cakes: chocolate cake or blackcurrant and chocolate cake. I had to turn down both. |
I don't really eat Haribo, so I thought this would be a fairly blank column. However on the bus I was offered Haribo three times. | 8:40, but I went to bed well late last night. Why did I give up lie-ins? | I almost had a cup of tea on two separate occasions this morning. In the afternoon I was offered a drink, and had to have the debate as to whether I was giving up tea as a drink, or caffine. I came to the conclusion that it was safer to have lemonade than coke. | |||
| 4 (12th Feb) | At lunch time we served ourselves, and when I sat down to eat I remembered I couldn't have chocolate bars. At dinner there was loads of dessert again. There was cake left over from last night, and also Mars and Snikers icecreams :-( | I was offered a jelly baby, accepted, and then had to refuse after finding they were Haribo branded instead of Basettes. | Today I was outside a lot, and got rained on, and hailed on, but luckily there was no snow. | 8:05 | |||
| 5 (13th Feb) | At lunch time there was still leftover cake, choc-ices and loads of chocolate bars. | 7:45 I also almost fell asleep during the church service, and on the bus home. However when I got home at 2:45pm I went straight to sleep and didn't wake up until 6:15pm. I think this was in fact part of tonight's sleep though, and so I've got up very early. | |||||
| 6 (14th Feb) | 7:50 | ||||||
| 7 (15th Feb) | 7:35 | There was free tea and coffee in the interval of this morning's lecture, so I went home. | |||||
| 8 (16th Feb) | Daft Punk's new single is called "Robot Rock", and it's coming out on their new album in March. I guess this means I won't be buying it until after Easter. | 8:40 | |||||
| 9 (17th Feb) | 8:40 I only just made it out of the house before 10 though. | ||||||
| 10 (18th Feb) | One of the other PhD students came back from Holland today with some posh chocolates. Luckily he also brought some biscuits! | 8:35 | |||||
| 11 (19th Feb) | Today was the Day of LotR, which meant there were loads of snacks, making me have to think extra hard about not eating chocolate. | 8:30 I spent all day in a darkened room with people constantly falling asleep around me, yet I survived (just). |
I realised just in time that vanilla coke has caffine in it, and so I probably shouldn't drink it. | ||||
| 12 (20th Feb) | Predicted snow today - I'll be careful (although it's glorious sunshine atm). UPDATE: It briefly sleeted, but stopped. Definitely no snow though. | 8:10 | |||||
| 13 (21st Feb) | More warnings of snow, nothing so far though. UPDATE: I got snowed on! Consequently I have no choice but to say that I have failed this part of the challenge. | 8:00 |
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| 14 (22nd Feb) | 7:45 | I had to turn down the free tea again in the Advanced Cryptography lecture break. | ||||
| 15 (23rd Feb) | 7:50 | |||||
| 16 (24th Feb) | 7:35 | |||||
| 17 (25th Feb) | Another discussion with someone doubting my ability to give up robots led to me looking up this definition: One of the mechanical men and women in Čapek's play; hence, a machine (sometimes resembling a human being in appearance) designed to function in place of a living agent, esp. one which carries out a variety of tasks automatically or with a minimum of external impulse. As you can see this doesn't included rotating heaters. | 8:15 | ||||
| 18 (26th Feb) | 8:25 | |||||
| 19 (27th Feb) | 8:30 | |||||
| 20 (28th Feb) | 7:45 | |||||
| 21 (1st Mar) | 7:55 | |||||
| 22 (2nd Mar) | 8:50 | |||||
| 23 (3rd Mar) | 8:40 | This evening I managed to buy and drink a bottle of Coke and only realised it had caffine in it at the very end. Darn that Cola website! | ||||
| 24 (4th Mar) | I went to a party, and there was chocolate bars and chocolate truffles :-( Apparently they were very nice. | 7:05 The earliest yet! I had badminton from 8-10am. | One of my mates has also tried to give up caffine for Lent, and she reckons it's ok as long as you're not drinking it to stay awake. | |||
| 25 (5th Mar) | 8:05 | |||||
| 26 (6th Mar) | 8:40 I woke up at 7:30, and had a lie-in until 8:40. | |||||
| 27 (7th Mar) | 7:15 | |||||
| 28 (8th Mar) | Emma made chocolate brownies to bring to student group, but luckily they were all eaten while she was still at work! | 8:00 | ||||
| 29 (9th Mar) | 8:30 | |||||
| 30 (10th Mar) | 8:35 | I accidentally had a couple of sips of vodka and coke, before realising and switching to beer. | ||||
| 31 (11th Mar) | 7:20 | |||||
| 32 (12th Mar) | 7:45 | |||||
| 33 (13th Mar) | I bought some Bassettes chewy sour sweets. They were very similar to Haribo's sour mix. | 8:45 I was staying with Rich, and since he didn't get up until about 11 I went off for a walk round Cambridge. | On the journey home I got really suddenly tired, so I stopped at a services but couldn't have caffine. | |||
| 34 (14th Mar) | 7:45 | |||||
| 35 (15th Mar) | At student group there was the choice of chocolate cakes or home baked chocolate brownies. I was gutted. | 7:40 | ||||
| 36 (16th Mar) | 8:40 | |||||
| 37 (17th Mar) | 8:45 I only just managed to get up, after a large night in the union. | |||||
| 38 (18th Mar) | At the union they were giving away free sweets! Sadly it was all Haribo. | 9:45 | ||||
| 39 (19th Mar) | This morning I went round to a mates for breakfast and was offered chocolate spread on croisants. | 7:15 We went out to the union last night and Ben was sleeping on my floor. He had to leave by 7:40, so I was woken up by him. However I then went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 10:40. |
This morning I was also offered (for breakfast) tea. |
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| 41 (21th Mar) | Turned down posh chocolates again. It doesn't do my image any good. | ||||||||||
| 42 (22th Mar) | Due to the lack of sugar and caffine in me I almost fell asleep twice in the lecture this morning. | ||||||||||
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