It's nice to be able to get away with truly abominable style and grammar in your writing. Blogging is the easiest way to avoid these two virtues of good word-smithery so naturally I take to it like a duck to water.
British TV needs to stop sucking. I mean seriously, things are really bad at the moment. If I hear one more 'political editor' waffle I'm going to scream, its all spun and full of crap. I cling to my copy of The Times each day like a castaway holiday-maker to his rubber ring. Not unlike the plump german tourist, I am bobbing in a veritable sea of sub-standard political punditry. It pains me to think regular brits are positively yummying up the crap that is hurled at them day-in day-out from their TV sets. What I want from my TV is the news, nothing more or less than the facts. At what point did English people decide that they needed to have everything spun like a top to make it digestible?
Yesterday Kev arrived and we went to the Saatchi Gallery. It was spiffy and we saw everything, even Damien Hirst's pickled animals. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Counseling was nice this morning and it was followed by a rigorous Company Law lecture (ooh the exertion). I then spent an hour preparing for my tutorial and once again was the only person who knew anything. 2 Questions in and it was all "Someone other than John". But realizing that she wasn't going to get anywhere without having me answer questions (For pities sakes people am I the only person in my whole year who likes Company Law?) my tutor resorted to "go on then John" which she must have said at least 15 times. It was an earth shattering display of ineptitude from my fellow students.
Finally she became determined to force an answer out of the rest of the people in my tutorial group and we wasted about 10 minutes on a question that only needed a 1 sentence answer. I'm not trying to be pompous, I just know my stuff, the reason I'm writing this is because I'm pissed at my fellow students for not knowing their stuff. I've realized that the phrase "You only get what you put in out of Tutorials" is total bunk. Everyone in my class is getting a 1st class set of notes from me and I'm getting ridiculously bored at having to wait through the long periods of silence before the tutor relents and allows me to answer a question. In the words of my Uncle Jason; "sounds like they made you a dope deal man.. And you're the dope".
Didn't manage to head out with Kev to see the Science Museum Lord Of The Rings Exhibit or do anything else this afternoon as I was snowed in with work and the museum closed too early. What's more he leaves tomorrow afternoon so I'll miss going again but at least he'll be able to come to the flat and copy 40 That 70's Show episodes to take back to Beth.
Oh and I've realized why I'm no longer the top search on Google for "John Swaine". It's because the words aren't even on this site anymore so the google bot is having to infer it from a ridiculously deep link. I'll plaster my name somewhere at some point to ensure that some stupid Genealogy initiative doesn't steal my crown again.
For the record and in accordance with my NATCP I'm still "not doing well" in case anyone wanted to know.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 17, 2003 11:37 PM