It's bizarre going through extremely detailed notes and thought processes and correspondence around some of my earlier work, you can see the whole thing develop from outlines into drafts into final papers. So much detail.  I can barely remember it all now but I feel better for reminding myself that I did do all the work and thinking that formed everything my thesis is based on.

Paperwork in on monday provided the examiner signs it all off, graduation in July and then I never have to worry about it ever again.

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In Wales and eye are eloping, secretly except here, and will be celebrating throughout Europe in the coming summer.  (Or was that with Colman, can't quite remember, but i'm sure it was someone, Yes!, someone!, or actually anyone... since Anya's working tonight.)

Well, whoever it is, we'll be traveling together in mid-August, centering on Prague perhaps 16 August, but for certain, using trains and shit, hitting Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Colognia, Dresden, Leipzig, München, and wherever else there are societal restraints on the freedom to drive our matching SUV's wherever the fook we want.  We will also be tearing up the Bridal Suite at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, if anyone wants some dangerous fun.

Linca has agreed to provide a security squad for us, so we don't have to outsource it.  Sven has agreed to set foot on the Continent to provide us drinks, and Fran has graciously consented to provide relaxing massages in between our bouts of love.  Helen has consented to lead a pub crawl for y'all, so we can have time to be alone, away from all you nerds.

Dodo has granted us access to the Kaiser's private railcar, so we can change itinerary if we need to, though i am told Herr Beckenbauer himself will accompany us part of the way, no matter where we go, as long as we don't use our hands.

If this seems not serious enough for the type of readers we wish to entice to this site, then let the call go out:  Be Sirius!

In all seriousity, i must report that In Wales wanted just to go to Vegas and be done with it, but being the man and all, i set my foot down upon the pavement and said, "Prague."  You should have seen her melt.

xxxxx

It's beginning to thunder outside now, evincing some form of serious weather function, so me better go now and stop "the making of a fool" exercise in fantasy writing before the laptop a path for the lightning makes.

P.S.  Did anyone notice i posted my first image on ET tonight in a thread somewhere?  Is that progress or what?  Who says the elderly are intimidated by these new-fangled technologizings?

Skennah Kowa

It's a video clip. is it subtitled? No.
So much for raising awareness. I've emailed the BBC to complain.

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Liverpool Street station has been shut after it was mobbed by hundreds of revellers commemorating the last night of drinking on the London Underground.

Police said the station was closed "for the time being" due to overcrowding.

Gatherings on various different parts of the Tube network were organised via social networking website Facebook.

that the 17th century lighthouse in Hunstanton is up for sale.

Only thing is, I think the famous striped cliffs

are quite a bit closer than they were in 1665.

Only to find out that hordes of scientific people had come before us to take away all the tickets. Little alternatives left. I decided on the sneak preview of "Prince Caspian" - the second in that "Chronicles of Narnia" Disney seems to be cranking out. Anyway, the book always had been a favourite of mine anyway, so I chanced it.

Very decent movie, actually. I was happily entertained. In fact, if this would've been a movie for a more mature audience, I think it could've been brilliant. The plot from the book was abandoned fairly soon, and yet the movie did not become a horrendous mess. Two or three cringy moments with religious undertones, but that was it. Good story-telling.

Still, after Lord of the Rings, most of these movies look like rip-offs to me.

The core of evil is a lack of empathy