Bloggius Updatius

Lo all,

Hope all is well with you. Update you I will, informed you will be, speak like Yoda anymore I will not.

Spanish on Monday was alright, the teacher was away with some surgery so we had what looked like her friend teaching us. The people are all nice, a few from the old gang are back which is cool. The class was packed, hopefully they will split us into two classes.

French on Tuesday was also good, however only 8 people are signed up and what I shall term "Bastard government cuts" mean 11 are now needed for a class to continue. Fortunately the teacher seems to be a stalwart character and I get the impression that if anyone can keep the class on, its her. Unfortunately the uncertainty of it all has meant I haven't revised that much, I'll get onto it soon, promise, after this weeks upcoming lessons.

Besides that it has mainly been much ado about the internship this week, getting contacts for the database from the US, Canada and Australia. Makes me happy to know I'm having a fairly important impact on possibly the largest human rights org dealing specifically with Sri Lanka.

Oooo also the Ed Miliband is in the driving seat of the Labour Party. Initially I was sceptical but the more I read about him, the more I like him. He's very left wing, promises a new start for us and seems to have a vision. He's all about keeping the rich-poor gap low and is environmentally conscious. And he can complete a Rubik cube puzzle in 90 seconds. What a stud.

Today's fact is that he taught Economics at Harvard for 18 months (!). I'm increasingly impressed.

Currently watching 'Stephen Hawking's Universe', another Stephen Hawking programme telling us where we came from, where we're going, and how we're probably all buggered if we don't colonise mars and other galaxies soonish. Turns out we have to worry about asteroids, radiation and weird collapsing stars that fire laser beams. Joy.

The cost of constructing an interstellar spaceship is huge and offers no payback so it must be funded by a massive charity fund or by rich ass travellers. Even then it will take 73 years to get to the nearest cool planet. So basically money will screw us all. More Joy.

Finally I've been feeling guilty about stuff in my recent past. This, combined with the fact I so often hear about charitable doings of friends, has made me think I need to give back to society. I've also given up thinking that its ridiculous to feel guilty about doing charitable work to make myself feel better; I've got to jump into this with making people better in mind. I've considered doing something along the lines of the Samaritans, my friend Caroline does something similar at Essex uni which sounds pretty rewarding, trouble is I'm not a phone lover by any means. I've been thinking about maybe a soup kitchen somewhere, sounds very bog standard but, again, rewarding. I'll do more research into it when I get a job and can afford to think on my own time.

Going to start working on this fast track civil service thingamajig which I will almost certainly not get. But you've gotta try hey.

Hope you're having a sweet weekend, til next post,

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