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A fairly uneventful day at home. I walked to the library and back - nothing interesting there, not that I could expect much from the tiny village library. It is a pain that we're closer to Reading then we are to Oxford, and yet I don't have a valid card for Berkshire libraries. However, I have found out that I'm still eligible to get one, even though I've lived out of the borough for over five years (its got to be close to ten now...). The Reading Central library is far better then Sonning Common. Seeing as the only reason I'd go is for fiction, its nice to see it has a decent-sized SF/fantasy section, and even a small selection of manga and anime DVDs. Once I find a more permanent base in Egham, I'll get back to haunting the one there at odd times of day.
As much as I disliked when I was living there...Egham is a bustling metropolis when compared to this backwater half-way between Emmer Green and Henley-on-Thames with useless bus-links in either direction. I'm sure there are worse places (a friend of mine lives outside of Oxford in somewhere that sounds even more inaccessible), but it is frustrating. For one thing, because anything of any interest is at least a bus-ride away, I use it as an excuse to...not go anywhere. Money is also a deterrent, a reasonable point when I have no income.
Spent the evening trying to help my brother 'research' for a speech he has to give as an English assignment. He decided to do it on Porsche sports-cars. In practice, my aid boiled down to checking that he wasn't copying completely off the web-page, whilst keeping one eye on this month's SFX.
It had little too report, including a review of X3 which was a bit too generous for my liking. It was *such* a let down after the quality of the first two. Its not as though 'Superman Returns' really paid off for Singer, and what could have been a brilliant conclusion to a trilogy (if not one of a continuing series) was left in the hands of the man who directed....'Rush Hour'.
I have to go back to college for the Third Year induction. The head of year is the same as before....and he conducted last year's meeting outside in the quad because MLT was - predictably - double-booked. Its also Fresher's Fair (oh, gods no, not again....) which I am attending because I gave the vague impression to the Re-enactment people I would be available to hand out flyers and wear bits and pieces of kit (one of the members had beautiful costumes made (by her mother, no less) and they look really good alongside a monk and a man in his chain-mail. It may be hot and make the wearer temporarily deaf, but along with the other costumes, it definitely looks the part.
I wonder which poor person will end up in the Ninjitsu club's massive tiger costume; "It's a tiger! With a big stick! Nah...I'll just go join NADS instead". That is, the Nightclub and Drinking Society - so much for the Union promoting a wider range of activities for the student body. All it did was make the most popular form of 'recreation' official. I'd bet no money that it managed to get more Union support then, for eg. Re-enactment or the game society simply on the number of members. Once again, the vast mainstream majority wins out against the marginal group of people who aren't *quite* the norm the SU would like to promote (cruel, but true). This is why its magazine routinely makes me want to tear my hair out with page after page of repetitive and vaguely patronising articles on 'surviving as a student: attend lectures!' and 'the best bars on campus: a massive 2 to choose from!". Gah...I'm too tired to be coherent, so I'll leave that rant there.
As much as I disliked when I was living there...Egham is a bustling metropolis when compared to this backwater half-way between Emmer Green and Henley-on-Thames with useless bus-links in either direction. I'm sure there are worse places (a friend of mine lives outside of Oxford in somewhere that sounds even more inaccessible), but it is frustrating. For one thing, because anything of any interest is at least a bus-ride away, I use it as an excuse to...not go anywhere. Money is also a deterrent, a reasonable point when I have no income.
Spent the evening trying to help my brother 'research' for a speech he has to give as an English assignment. He decided to do it on Porsche sports-cars. In practice, my aid boiled down to checking that he wasn't copying completely off the web-page, whilst keeping one eye on this month's SFX.
It had little too report, including a review of X3 which was a bit too generous for my liking. It was *such* a let down after the quality of the first two. Its not as though 'Superman Returns' really paid off for Singer, and what could have been a brilliant conclusion to a trilogy (if not one of a continuing series) was left in the hands of the man who directed....'Rush Hour'.
I have to go back to college for the Third Year induction. The head of year is the same as before....and he conducted last year's meeting outside in the quad because MLT was - predictably - double-booked. Its also Fresher's Fair (oh, gods no, not again....) which I am attending because I gave the vague impression to the Re-enactment people I would be available to hand out flyers and wear bits and pieces of kit (one of the members had beautiful costumes made (by her mother, no less) and they look really good alongside a monk and a man in his chain-mail. It may be hot and make the wearer temporarily deaf, but along with the other costumes, it definitely looks the part.
I wonder which poor person will end up in the Ninjitsu club's massive tiger costume; "It's a tiger! With a big stick! Nah...I'll just go join NADS instead". That is, the Nightclub and Drinking Society - so much for the Union promoting a wider range of activities for the student body. All it did was make the most popular form of 'recreation' official. I'd bet no money that it managed to get more Union support then, for eg. Re-enactment or the game society simply on the number of members. Once again, the vast mainstream majority wins out against the marginal group of people who aren't *quite* the norm the SU would like to promote (cruel, but true). This is why its magazine routinely makes me want to tear my hair out with page after page of repetitive and vaguely patronising articles on 'surviving as a student: attend lectures!' and 'the best bars on campus: a massive 2 to choose from!". Gah...I'm too tired to be coherent, so I'll leave that rant there.