So I sitting here, waiting for midnight, so that I can yet again fail to get a booking for the TEM in two weeks time. Or perhaps I shall be lucky, this time. It always seems that all the slots are taken up by mechanical engineers ( Read more... )

There are many things I could say about the wedding I attended yesterday, but the only important thing is that Rowan trolled me. He said that his letter to Chas contained "food for thought" (ie. arguments relating to a certain person), but apparently that was just him trolling and his letter was actually nice.

Anyway, today I was discussing with auntpol ( Read more... )

I thought people might want to know that Tim Minchin is hosting rage on the 6th of June.

I thought that some people without twitter might like to see this:

RT @overingtonc How odd: in the South, in 2009, they still have ``the black prom'' and the ``white prom'' http://tinyurl.com/q6m6tb

More tomorrow, enough for today.

I have often been struck by the whim to post all the essays that I have written over my years at uni, and, now that I have finished my degree, I can. So here goes it. Perhaps you shall see an interesting progression of me getting better at writing as I do more of it? Or perhaps some of my expression degrades over the years? I don't know. I do know ( Read more... )

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/valenti/the-purity-myth-how-americas-obsession-with-virginity-is-hurting-young-women/Read more... )

> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:27:50 +0800 ( Read more... )

http://www.rgl.wa.gov.au/ResourceFiles/Decisions/A188197.pdf

So, certain ideas popped up in my head recently. Despite me being a difficult person to get to come to parties, or whatever, there is the paradox about my person that I do have strong social desires. Except perhaps these desires are inherently idealistic, and not practical at all. Who is to say of gods and men ( Read more... )