...well, my demons struck again. This time in the middle of my exams for 2nd year. Fortunately, the department's letting me resit them 'as if for the first time', so I'm not going to have to repeat a year because of this. I won't go into any further details than that, as the situation's very complicated and dull. Long story short, I burnt myself ( Read more... )

 First off, it was only a MINORITY of people from the march that participated in storming 30 Millbank (The Torie's HQ, fyi). Also, most of the people who kicked off the riots weren't actually students...from what I've read and heard from friends who protested yesterday, socialist extremists and anarchists triggered off the violence. Yes, some ( Read more... )

 After a long journey which involved a lot of waiting around and being on a ferry from hell, I arrived in Rotterdam about an hour early. Luckily, I was near Centraal station, so I could get coffee and wait for my Saskia. I have learnt several things from this tedious journey ( Read more... )

In case any of you were wondering...I have not fallen off the face of the earth. Last week I had to move out of the hellhouse and clean it up in this ridiculous summer heat, with one of my housemates buggering off home instead of helping out with the cleaning (him being the one responsible for most of that mess in the first place). Ideas about how ( Read more... )