"Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development, and peace."

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

I haven't updated in a loooong time, and since my last entry there have been quite a few developments, so here it is ( Read more... )

If anyone needed another reason to be a vegetarian..

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

Albert Einstein.

:-p

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I keep getting recurring nightmares about my last month at University.. In my dreams I find myself having to beat the clock to get my dissertation in again, or submit my final essays. And then there's the old chestnut where I know I have to get to an exam, but something keeps happening to prevent me getting there, or I find I haven't a clue what to ( Read more... )

Dylan Moran says that holiday photos are almost always just pictures of people of who didn't realise they were *that* fat ( Read more... )

I went to my graduation ceremony last Tuesday, I guess I'm officially a graduate :-s ( Read more... )

The last few days have been filled with joy and wonder ( Read more... )

Well, if I was in doubt before, I certainly know it's summer now, for not only am I permenantly either: having a sneezing fit, about to have a sneezing fit, or recovering from a sneezing fit (a bit like recovering from an orgasm, only less blissful, don't you think?), but I have begun to itch ( Read more... )

I've made a new friend ( Read more... )