So I went on that slide thing at the Tate Modern a couple of weeks ago. It's an installation by Carsten Höller and is supposed to make you experience "simultaneous delight and anxiety." For the highest slide, you had shinpads to protect you, but we were hardcore and didn't wear any. It was quite a bumpy ride though, I don't think I'd do it again.


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"Sunset Beach" is back! Getting up before 10.30 in the morning has a meaning again.

Whilst everyone is still drooling over Legolas in Lord of the Rings, or various Harry Potter characters, I decided to create my own alternative selection of sexy film figures of the month.

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Another programme about Cambridge University students, how difficult it is to cope with the pressures of trying to fit in, the terrible work loads etc. etc. For god's sake, why don't they ever make any TV shows about universities other than Oxbridge? Aren't students everywhere else working just as hard, to fit in socially as well as academically? ( Read more... )

Have you ever thought that a garden could be symbolic of a woman's vagina? That men in the Middle Ages used viagra to enhance their 'experiences'? Have you ever thought that you may start caring about this? Well, I haven't, not until now and it's not as exciting as it may sound. I am on my winter break, with a 2500 Chaucer essay awaiting me, when I ( Read more... )

Starting my teaching course in London tomorrow - am rather excited! Will be learning how to teach foreigners the finesse of the English language.

Look out, Chinese students, here I come! Poor sods

My bag still stinks of the After Dark.

Happy memories.