Things to do

Flesh out book, re-visit the British Museum, go to Cornwall and the Scottish islands (all of them!), visit the faroe islands.

I actually really dislike

Those who only talk to you when they want you to help them with something. Othertimes are they chatty beyond saying hello? No, no they're not. Euch, i'm sure they don't realise it, but goddamnit it's annoying.

Apart from that annoyance, nothing else has really been happening of late. I've returned from Europe, and will now proceed to spend the next couple of months bored out of my mind before University.

Travelling.

Well i have officially returned from my travels. In one week, i have visited five countries, my route being:

London - Eurostar to - Paris - Sleeper to - Rome - Train to - Bari - Ferry to - Patras - Ferry to - Venice - Sleeper to - Vienna - Train to - Munich - Sleeper to - Paris.

Photographs are up on facebook, a few videos (mostly taken on ferries, or water taxis) are posted on Youtube.

Highlights of the trip included nearly perishing in an epic thunderstorm travelling from Venice to Vienna, eating gelato outside the coliseum and eating pizza in piazza san marco, not forgetting watching the sun rise over the aegean sea and islands slowly coming into view.

Well

I've come to the conclusion that the human race is going to do precisely nothing about global warming, unless you count procrastinating and holding even more meetings to discuss holding meetings about possible legislation (maybe). By the time it begins to affect us we'll just move into domed mega-cities with controlled climates.

Basically

I don't see the current expenses scandle to be that much of a big deal, as Stephen Fry said when interviewed, practically everyone that has been in the position to has.. exaggerated their expenses. Why, then, are we up in arms about someone claiming for a bathplug, it's bordering on the ridiculous.

Perhaps it comes down to the fact that we, as a nation, have a distrust of those in power, whether they are from the same background or otherwise, as soon as they are elected into a position of power we instinctively regard them with suspicion. These current headlines, rightly or wrongly, are suddenly claimed as a jusitification of this suspicion, that all those in power are currupt.

This worries me, why? because it is in climates such as this that democracy is most frail.

Shame.

It is, isn't it? That people don't talk as much as they used to. Especially when you can almost chart the degradation of what they say, what used to be indepth discussions is now barely more than 'hi' and so forth, of course all this changes when they want your help with something.. work for instance.

Bah.

Virtual worlds.

I realised the other day that i play World of Warcraft for around 11 hours a day. I get up, drink coffee, log on. Interspersed with food and more coffee, that's my day 'til late at night. Fine, I go on msn and various sites but that's not really social interaction is it? Not in the way that a generation or so ago would recognise anyway. But it is, of course, normal for my generation, thousands, millions perhaps of youths with little 'irl' social interaction, spending their days playing wow or other games, locked away in their rooms in body, but virtually spreading their wings.

It's different from where we're supposed to be. Hell, at my age we're practically encouraged by society to go out get drunk, take drugs and have casual sex. We have a signification proportion of a generation not taking risks, just drinking up electronic substances instead of real ones. This isn't fun is it?

We're practically turning middle aged before our time.