At Last

It has finally happened. After almost 4 years and countless diss-tractions, the dissertation has been handed in. Now all I have to do is wait until the end of July before I find out if it cuts the mustard and I can graduate at the end of the year.

Just think of all the things I can do without having a guilty conscience because I should be doing my diss. WoW

Keeping it Real

As England are being pummeled by South Africa, the best discovery of the tournament has got to be Tom Fordyce, the commentator who types out the Live Text on the BBC website. He has made me laugh throughout the the last month of cricket.

Stand up and be counted

I like the idea of the 10 downing street petition website and decided to support one and make my voice heard.

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recognise Jedi Knights as a religion on par with Christianity, Islam and other beliefs.

Amazingly the government sent me an email to explain it's stand on the cause that i felt I had to support:

"The Government has no overarching role in regulating or recognising personal belief or faith. The UK has a long held commitment to freedom of worship and belief, and people are free to form religions and free to follow their own practices and beliefs provided they remain within the law.

May the Force be with you."

White Out

One day I'll remember to check my trouser pockets before putting them through the wash.

Almost There

The 18,000th word of the dissertation is “the”. I was quite disappointed as this isn’t a very exciting word to finish the diss on and the last sentence doesn’t make much sense, a few hundred more words and I might have managed to give it a proper ending. Unfortunately I don’t make the rules so have to stick to the word limit and finish it there.

The wind is picking up

Mad made artichoke soup on Saturday, eating them at the weekend due to their rather windy reputation. It was the first time I’d had artichokes and was very impressed. The tast is very distictive and slightly earthy, and not a bit like parsnip or turnip, which is how I’d always imagined them to be. It proved to be good plan to not eat them on a work night as I might have been banished from the office the next day. They did live upto their reputation.

Diss-tractions

Today I had a day off to work on the diss. It has to be handed in around June so I'd better get my skakes on. Sometimes I feel like there's loads to do, other times I think that it could be done by christmas. The truth is that it probably could be done by the 25th, but that would only be the words. I'm sure that there will be a lot of faffing to do with presentation and binding. I guess the sooner that the words are written, the easier it will be.

It is amazing the things that I suddenly have to do now that I have taken time out to study.