Bored now...

Thank you to Political Pulpit for that.
Well, despite all my plans to go travelling for an extended and undefined period next year, I've been really tempted recently to go straight on and do an MA next year! I think all this is really Laura's fault, as she's applying for MAs at the moment. I was going through her prospectuses at her and Robyn's flat the other night, and found these really cool courses both of which I'd love to do: one was called Literatures of Conflict and the other one was about Blake and the age of revolution. But they are in York. Which sucks, as nothing short of a miracle would convince me to live in a place like that. So, I spent some time tonight looking at courses in London - and there are lots: I like the idea of something about postcolonialism. Hmmm.. Well, maybe I should really be sticking to my travel plans: partly I think this MA idea appeals because it is the nice safe option where I don't have to confront the scariness (although also excitement and adventure) of travelling for so long, mainly on my own. Hmmm. I think maybe I need to just go ahead and travel and do an MA maybe the year after if I still want to. We shall see. Also: how much travelling I do this summer, and how I feel about the whole thing afterwards might change this.
Other than that today has been really lazy, a bit depressing. Went to the gym for a measly 30 minutes exercise after which I felt wobbly (still a bit ill) so had an ackward sharing a jacuzzi experience, then chilled out in the sauna on my own for a bit. General lack of enthusiasm/ confidence in about 99% of what's happening in my life right now.  ¶ 12:42 AM

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Back to uni today, and I'm nearly over my cold! :) Feel much better, but have still been taking out my moodiness on my poor friends. We're all in a state of shock over only having three weeks of lectures and seminars left at university ever.


US public turns to Europe for news

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Monday, March 10, 2003

My weekend has been thoroughly miserable, so I haven't been bothered to write about it here. I went out on friday to Robyn's birthday thing, and had a very nice curry. Lots of good conversation, good food, and a haze of white wine and strong flu medication. Which is probably where it all went wrong. I stayed over at Robyn and Laura's place and sneezed at them a lot, then met Mike for lunch and bought a new jumper in an attempt to cheer myself up by consuming. I'm just starting to feel a bit more human today though. Just. I hate being ill. I don't have the patience and good will to deal with it in any way :)
I've read lots of interesting news though, like this story, where an Algerian terrorist explains why people are able to do what he does. And this one about the new McCarthyism in america.
I've also been working on my dissertation, so that tomorrow I can go and see my supervisor and pretend that I've been working right through since he last saw me. Rather than just doing it all this weekend. :)
Hopefully next week will be a lot more fun. If nothing else there is the Anthrax gig on Friday to look forward to.

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