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Archives for 2010

4th August

Progress?

There is a problem with WordPress. As far as my knowledge of webspeak goes, it seems to be that Jordan has run out of memory in wherever he was storing…
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15th July

Just no.

I am in English with Katie and Mehdi. We are meant to be doing presentation preparation crap. Just no.

I am running out of black clothes. Well, normal black clothes….
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5th June

Local Conditions

As those who have read Ibsen’s The League of Youth will know (just me then?), the hypocritical politicians of that highly confusing play blame everything on “our local conditions”. On…
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25th May

Crises

I’m currently listening to the album of this title by Mike Oldfield. But various crises have been folding and unfolding in the last four days, so — though it’s less…
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23rd May

JE DÉTESTE LE FRANÇAIS

This is so not what I should be doing less than 24 hours before the exam I’m incapable of doing.

But fuck it. Because I want to express (even if…
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10th May

Phew

Well, thank God for that.

Gordon Brown has just announced his imminent resignation as party leader. I’ve always quite liked Gordon — okay, so maybe he sucks in the lower…
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7th May

Hanging out…

Oh, forgive the political pun. It’s been a very surreal day, with much actual hanging around and waiting. Genuinely feeling like crap this morning, I did my usual routine of…
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1st May

Mad World

Okay, so so far I have avoided writing one single election post, because I don’t want to be Malcolm Tucker or Nick Robinson. But we’ve got five days to go…
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27th April

War Wounds

For the past five or so days, I have thought of little but French oral (for the perversely-minded, let’s refer to it from now on as the speaking exam). Therefore…
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17th April

Where’s the cloud?

The volcano, which has of course left Iceland virtually undisrupted, is not working out so well for us lot. Aside from the greater issues of the Polish President’s funeral facing…
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11th April

Fresh Air

Today I got some. Fresh air, that is. Sigh… *ANYWAY*, so today there was a barbecuic function at my sister’s which involved me going outside for the first time since…
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11th April

Dooey’s Dooo

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