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Now the summer is gone, you had to go back home
Do you ever just feel very lost and a long long distance from what you once knew you were ( Read more... ) -
What if I say that I'll never surrender?
Last night, after hearing Granny had been killed in a car crash (that still feels not real), I decided I didn't feel like going clubbing after all. I sent Kathryn a text explaining this and she insisted on coming over to see that I was OK. And we spoke and I said I was just staying in because I really wasn't in the mood for it ( Read more... ) -
So many people have come and gone, Their faces fade as the years go by
I've just (for given value of just) come from the Melville leavers' (or Valedictorian) dinner. I dressed up in my full kilt outfit for the first time since ... the James Bond night, when we hired the cinema and got Bond's car to put on a midnight showing of Casino Royale on opening night. Everyone else wore tuxedos. I argued that, as Bond was ( Read more... ) -
It all gets better when life is straight, it's bigger than you, the welfare state
Wow, it's been a while since I updated this: not since I got the funded PhD offer from Imperial, which was followed on consecutive days by ones from St Andrews and a very nice e-mail from Royal Holloway saying "When would it be most convenient for us to give you a fully funded PhD place. Oh, and we're holding a conference on the 7-8th of April, ( Read more... ) -
And I will never go down fighting...
This morning, I woke up at 9:15, realised I'd missed my 9 o'clock lecture, then that it was Wednesday, so I didn't have one untill 11. I then woke up at 11, and realised my sleep pattern was getting out of hand. I just had enough time to glance at my e-mail ( Read more... )