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March 18, 2006

Forthcoming holidays and speed essay writing

Almost unbelievably it is almost the end of term and my tardiness has once again caught me up. Three essays over 30 pages totalling some 15000 words in, urm, 6 days... So I'm semi-working on the first one now. Semi....

February 28, 2006

Me and MySpace

This is a kind of nonsense entry, if you aren't just wasting time reading this then be warned, you are just wasting time reading this. So, I finally bothered to figure out what makes MySpace tick as a community (uber...

June 16, 2005

Been away again.

I've been up in Elgin and haven't posted for a while for two reasons. Firstly, the computer at my folks house runs on steam and secondly I've been way too busy having fun! Highlights include volleyball in the back garden,...

May 26, 2005

Strangely quiet around here...

It's strangely quiet around here. You see the ferocious reader has gone to Palm Springs to help her sister look after her brood of babies. She's back on the 20th of June. It's going to be boring around here until...

February 13, 2005

Meanwhile in Calumland...

Calum: "This one if for my BBC Obituary"...

February 02, 2005

Blank Plain White A4 Printer Paper

Maybe 9pm isn't the best time of day to go looking for paper to print on but wouldn't you think that out of the eight 'general purpose' stores which are open within a 1/2 mile radius of Perth Street that...

February 01, 2005

Platski

Ted (the Polish flatmate) cooked Platski for us tonight. Platski are thin, crispy, fried potato pancakes. Good they are too. It reminded me of the time I (drunkenly) decided to make hash browns....

January 31, 2005

Personals Ads

I was telling my friend Charlie about a funny ad I saw on Craigslist Edinburgh - Gorgeous Canadian girl seeks Scottish man (28-38) for relationship/mrg - 34 (in short she's into 'recreating movie costumes as a hobby' - oh yeah...

January 12, 2005

Jason Sinclair at The Winchester Bar

My good friend Jason came through today from Glasgow and we went and hung out at the Winchester. Which is actually The Northern Bar but it is very much like the Winchester from "Shawn of the Dead" so we call...

November 19, 2004

Flatmates and Friends

A million congratulations to my favourite female flatmate (and good friend) Anna-Lisa Sandstrum BA, MSc (with Distinction!), my old flatmate and friend Norette and the Napier Masters in Publishing bunch who all graduated on Thursday with MSc's or PGDips in...

November 02, 2004

Halloween Party 2004

For the first time I remember I attended a Halloween Party this weekend, in fact I co-hosted it at our flat in Edinburgh. There were around thirty folk here and they ranged from Santa to Papa Lazarou, Shaun (of the...