Oh man, it's been a while since I last used this thing. Odds are good that I will find what little ability I have to blog have completely atrophitised (OH GOD I STILL CAN'T SPELL ( Read more... )

I have finally managed to restore internet, after a fortnight of the internet being down.

It was a horrible experience that will hopefully never be repeated.

Arthur Clarke just died. End of an era, really. Can't think of any living author more symbolic of SF.

Every author I love ends up dying. Damn it, Terry Pratchett, you're not allowed to have Alzeimer's.

So, I was thinking. And as often happened, my thought processes ended up on Star Wars. (Naturally ( Read more... )

I have finally returned from my european adventures. (I promise, I will only refer to them as 'my european adventures' this once). IO've been back a coupl of days, but then luckily, horrible illness struck, so I was unable to do anything but run to the toilet! Yay! TMI ( Read more... )

Well, it's all done. Flights are booked, visas have been stamped (good lord there are so many hoops to jump through...), hotels have been reserved. In exactly one week from today, I will be going to Mother Russia. Specifically, St Petersburg and Moscow (y'know, the two places that people actually care about ( Read more... )

Damn you Mike Huckabee stop making me like you!

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Well, that's it. I'm done with uni. And not the cool 'fuck-this-I'm-dropping-out-to-become-a-bohemian" done with uni. The lame "I've-somehow-managed-to-finish" done with uni. I am now going around to everyone I know and insisting that they put the letters BSc whenever they say my names. Because I'm a lettered man now, baby ( Read more... )

Well, it looks everyone is bored with the Democratic primaries. It looks like there is no way for Clinton not to get the nod - which hurts me right in my Obama-loving though still really wishing that Kucinich was possible heart, but which my heart can deal with, because she doesn't seem that bad. Now admittedly, I wasn't actually paying attention ( Read more... )

I... uh...

I seem to have just come home from my last day at uni.

I've got exams, but I seem to have finished the learning part of my degree.

It's a really unsettling sensation.... Fuck, I've finished.

What the hell do I do now?