A great part of London in better times -- and as it will be again very, very soon!

[morsefan]

Just wanted to post a few pics here of sites very familiar to me from the area of attack in London in better times. Wish I had a few for you from the Russell Square area, but I didn’t have a digital camera available.

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[springinautumn]

Thank you.

[morsefan]

Glad you enjoyed -- I preferred the trip down memory lane from a great holiday as opposed to the realities of what was going on.

[enragedoftw]

Thanks for these. They bring back memories as I'm a UC man myself.

Still waiting to get confirmation from all of my friends and acquaintances in London that everything is fine with them and their nearest and dearest. It will take some time, I expect as my office in London has 700 staff members and we know that management were contacting everyone to check on their wellbeing.

All of my family are accounted for and well, which is a relief.

My priority is still getting news that no one I know was injured before turning my sights on the beastly little cowards that did this...

[morsefan]

Oh, man! You must have a lot of folks to check in on. Most of my British friends don't actually live in London, so likely it was a non-issue from a pure safety perspective.

What did you read at UC? I was seriously considering their LLM in international bankruptcy, and in retrospect, I sometimes wonder if not doing it was a mistake, though I think if I stick with things, I'm going to come out well at the end -- I'm just sort of feeling like Andy Dufresne crawling through the pipe at the moment (reference to "The Shawshank Redemption"). Yet, even he eventually got out. Anyway, the program would have been very expensive, though, as you know, for an American. Actually, fees aren't that bad -- less than here -- but living expenses are tough when the ability to work would be limited.

We've really got to get these guys, although I'm sensitive to the argument that just taking out the leadership is not a complete solution by any means.

[enragedoftw]

I read laws at UCL. Wonderful Faculty. Considered one of the top three law faculties in the country actually (take that Oxbridge).

A friend of mine is the course convener on the Bankruptcy LLM. He's a rising star in the field. Still, there's still time in which to do it and I don't think Riz (the convener) is planning on moving anywhere.

[morsefan]

I met with Ian Fletcher and was very impressed -- I have some work of his for some history of bankruptcy research I'm doing and I'm excited to get do it. I am definitely in a transitional period careerwise -- even more so than when I met him in 2004. I have some hard thinking to do that probably won't happen in the 2005-06 time frame, but I could get VERY creative after that. I'll probably be over there the summer of 2007 for a while, and it might be a time to bite the bullet one way or another. I'm not even sure that program is the right way to go. Prof. Fletcher thought I could get a job in Britain, no problem, now, without the LLM, and his feeling that maybe it really wasn't necessary for me (I respected his candor, because in other ways, he seemed interested in recruiting me and was optimistic about admission chances -- well, of course, I guess; I'd pay -- wink!), but I was less optimistic jobwise from the few tentative feelers I sent out. Would I really then want to live in New York or a big American city, which is what I'd

[its_kafka]

Very beautiful. They hate beauty. They hate life. They hate everything. Shame on those who advocate appeasment. There's no appeasing them. How can men defend agains such reckless hate? Eradicate it.

[morsefan]

I'm hearing that from a lot of folks I trust, and who surprise me a little bit by saying it. I think the question is what steps we are willing to take to do that. It's going to be interesting to see if have the guts -- and if some of what may be seen to be needed is simply not possible. What worries me is that if we do some of the things necessary, we win, because we undermine our values.

[its_kafka]

Our values are already undermined. Everytime Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, George Galloway, Dick Durbin and the like open their mouths they aid and abet the enemy. That's isn't a value of Western civilization. Steps we could take is to start calling a seditionist a seditionist regardless of their station in life. Another step would be to not give these people serious intellectual credence any longer and that includes our much vaunted ivory tower media. The civilized world needs to recommit itself to defeating these monsters and the left need to quit rooting for our enemies, or they themselves should be considered our enemies. With us or against us means something and it's time we got back to that insteas whining about phony civil right abuses, conspiracy theories and the strong desire to hold hands with the devil and sing Kumbaya. This nation has done more to develop methods to fight wars with minimal collateral damage. And yet we're the monsters. We're the evil ones. But yesterday we get another smack in the face that should make it

[claudelle]

Great pictures, I so love London. It reminds me that I haven't been there in such a long time, and it's only one hour by plane away.

[morsefan]

My sister is insistent that a Wimbledon trip will happen two years from now (let's not explore why that timing). I've actually already been to Wimbledon, although once isn't enough. I'm thinking of going to Italy while the rest of the family is there. The one thing about this is that I really, really, really want to stay in the same dorm now as a result of these attacks -- a weird solidarity thing. We'll see how I feel then. My family wants to try to rent a house in Richmond or Twickenham (we used to live there), partly because prices in Wimbledon itself would have to be out of control.