It's been many a day.

So now I have started University. It's fine, trundling along well, even if I do seem to know the content of the lectures, am unable to stop myself rambling on and have firmly cemented my reputation as the class nerd within the first week. Hurrah for stereotypes, I guess.

Fate, now there's an interesting concept. Up until a month ago I really didn't think such a thing existed, but now, now I'm not so sure. I've run this over and over in my mind and the odds are incredible, yet here we are. Oh well, in this case, fate has been kind. Very kind. :D

I miss not being able to travel on a whim. Oh and fuck you Chaucer, Fuck. You.

Sing, heavenly muse.

Well, first things first i just remembered this is linked to facebook. Why on earth did I set it up to link to that? Oh well.

Nothing interesting to report, save a rather nice surprise a week or so ago. It does make me wonder what will happen. I hope for the best, and the future's all about potentiality isn't it, we'll see. Still, w00t.

Will hit 21 in a week's time, thing is, I don't feel particularly old. I sure as hell don't feel 21, more like 18/19. Still, will be a nice quiet day, with luck.

Reread the da vinci code recently, wondering why i bothered, though it's rather guiltily enjoyable it doesn't leave you feeling enriched like reading something of higher calibre does. It's the literary equivalent of junk food. Perhaps it will serve as stepping stone for people who don't usually read. At any rate, moved onto Cunliffe's short introduction to the Celts now, should be interesting.

Adieu, etc.

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.