Graduation is a strange and pompous affair, but if you add to the mix a venue like Canterbury Cathedral, well... you have a lot of graduands feeling like they're in Hogwarts. Especially as in an early ceremony (mine took place at 7.15pm) Michael Gambon aka Dumbledore received an honorary degree! The honorary graduate at my ceremony was Professor ( Read more... )

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+ Sorry about the mopey/emo entry I last wrote (so long ago now). I'm kind of tempted to go delete it because... yeah. Sorry. I promise not to be mopey again! Well, for a while ( Read more... )

Well, the Birthday List went according to plan, except I forgot to watch I, Claudius which is bad as I'm only just starting Caligula's reign and I really should be giving it back to the person I borrowed it from as it's his parents copy... Whoops ( Read more... )

Sometimes I'm kind of slow, so it's not too out of character for me to have only realised a few weeks ago that I was fast approaching the end of university. Today, I took back my books to the library, paid my late fines,and hopefully, that'll be the last time I have to deal with that godforsaken place... They tell you when you arrive at UKC that ( Read more... )

Thank you to those who recommended books for me in the last entry; they have been noted on A List but I decided in the end to get some completely different books in Waterstones 3 for 2: The Kite Runner and... I can't remember the title of the other one and I don't know where I put it. Damn. It was some pulp fiction (genre, not film) book. Becca got ( Read more... )

Wow, where has this year gone? It's crazee, I tell thee ( Read more... )

At last! BT came through and we now have lovely jubbly Internet... It's been so long, I can barely remember what you do online. Waffle, largely ( Read more... )

Just a note to say still alive, still without Internet at home. Yeah, so that's about seven weeks we've been waiting... Folks, don't go with Tiscali Broadband. I'd rather have opted out a while ago, but majority decision said stick with ( Read more... )

Seems like I've been gone for a long time again... I won't bore you all with the details, but I've now learnt that asking my housemate Iain to do things like set up the Internet connection may not be such a great idea. Lovely bloke but just a touch dappy ( Read more... )