»7th October 2005

Mim

I was dismayed to discover that Psycho Mim (see 13th May 2005 Blog update) is in my seminar group for the American history module. I don't need to explain how disastrous this is. Well actually I suppose I do.


An artist's impression of Psycho Mim

1. I don't really like her. She kept stomping on the floor whenever I played my guitar when I was at the flat in Dev. When I occasionally got a glance of her she looked like someone who I wouldn't like and thus confirmed my suspicion that I didn't really like her.
2. She probably doesn't like me. If I got annoyed at uni I tended not to kick whatever piece of masonry was inbetween me and said person, I'd usually write a (kind of) scathing Blog update about it, therefore I reckon Mim expressed her dislike of me by stomping on the floor whenever there was any evidence I was in my flat.

This leads me to my next pair of problems.
1. There isn't any masonry seperating me from Mim, therefore I am left vulnerable to her stomps of anger.
2. Mim is probably very annoyed.

The gaping hole in my defences is pretty clear. Though I am already forming a counter-strategy to combat this threat, the problem of random stomp attacks is most worrying. However, it wasn't all bad. I found out that Mim is somehow short for 'Miriam'. With that information I hope to uh- well I'm not sure how exactly it's useful yet, but I'm sure it is.

Other strategic news

Along with Mark History (that's not his actual surname) I have been formulating plans for defending the house should it become besieged by enemy forces. Better to be prepared than to be stuck in an unexpected siege with defeat assured. The basic plan will be explained using the diagram below.



1. Initial Defence: The enemy would be engaged in the trenches outside the house. The front door would be barricaded shut and archers in the kitchen window hold the steps up to the upper ground floor. The enemy would be held in the yard as long as possible to maximise casualties from the archers deployed at the windows and the siege weapons that could pelt the enemy from above with rocks, boiling pig fat etc.
2. The enemy is most likely to breach the defences through the windows on the lower ground floor. At this point the defenders would pull back to the stairs between the upper and lower ground floors. The strength of the front door barricades are most important here as if they are breached first, the lower ground floor would be cut off from the rest of the house which would greatly reduce the chances of holding the enemy on the lower ground floor and would also trap defenders on the lower ground floor.
3. The next stage of defence involves defenders retreating to the stairs on each floor. Archers on the first floor and the siege weapons in the roof should be used so long as there are enemies still in the yard. However, these units should otherwise be redeployed to the stairs.
4. If required, an escape could be attempted through the skylight across to the adjacent houses, though the enemy could not be effectively engaged once units flee the house.
It is worth noting that archers could be deployed at the larger window on the upper ground floor to further strengthen the defence of the front door and the lower ground floor though units deployed there would be exposed to greater risk from the enemy than on the first floor.

Aside from forming devious plans relating to home defence, various other things have been going on in the lightly marinaded world of Extar.
- I've been buying too much food which I suppose I'll have to eat now.
- The fridge keeps all this food nice and chilled and means I don't have to go downstairs if I don't want to.
- Parklane still don't appear to have taken my rent, neither has the door for the bathroom being fixed. I am looking into a possible link between these two.
- The comedians in the history department have actually been giving me work to do.
- The tech guy in Soundcontrol reckons my soundcard sucks, and I must say I agree. I'm not very happy with the prospect of upgrades.



Extar, over, out.

"Go forth where they will not expect it", Sun Tzu.