Shaken and Stirred?

Well, maybe just stirred.

Good lordy lord! Well well well! I'm posting on my website again for the first time in an entire semester? So much has happened, so much to tell you all about! First, I think I owe you all (love you Mum, get back to work Simon, see you tomorrow Elspeth) an excuse about not posting here for a while...

Dad ran the London Marathon in a highly respectable and very gentlemenly fashion (he shook hands with a groom and kissed a bride without breaking a sweat), and it was a great day out in London for Matt and I, made all the better for seeing him pass three times and getting to lean out and hug him twice. People would have thought us mad if they weren't doing the same to every single runner that went past. Then with barely enough time to get home and have a cup of tea, I was back to Newcastle, diving in at the deep end with revision and work in the lead up to the exam period... hang on, I hear you say! Exam period? Aren't Newcastle getting bollocked (excuse language) in the news for screwing things royally up? Well, yes and no. My POL117 European exam has been cancelled, but not after an EU Simulation game, of which I was in charge for the entire process (nobody told me... stupid Austrian Presidency). Seems we've done enough work for it to be gauged how terrible we all really are and to be shoved through to the second year, so no easy one-hour multiple choice exam for us then.

However, the rest of the Politics exams are going ahead as planned, so wish me luck for Thursday's POL122 and then the two POL132 exams I have in the following weeks. History is another matter: the staff are refusing to set exam papers (all internal here, you see... it's not as simple as knocking over an AQA van in Scotland to see the questions beforehand this year... I mean, that wasn't me last summer, no no no!) so we've got emergency papers being cobbled together from past papers for Wednesday's HIS124 exam. The joy is, it's a 'seen' examination, so in other words, there's no van to be knocked over: they've e-mailed us the damned questions! While I have a feeling William Shatner may not be able to "get behind this", I think it's a blessing, because I've just finished planning my three answers and I have a feeling I may do slightly better than if the exam had gone ahead as normal (or been cancelled, as my Documentary Commentary wasn't so good)!

So the fiasco over exams has kept us busy here in the North. Other news includes an exciting trip to see Mission: Impossible III with Elspeth and Lucy, followed by a swift few in Revolution (seems to be a regular occurance now... don't worry, there's no danger of killing brain cells: I haven't had brain cells for years now), the new trailer for Casino Royale being launched and my total 100% acceptance of Daniel Craig as the new 007 because of it, and another random letter on the Random Wall not going down as well as the previous entries because Simon is a fussy so-and-so who thinks making up new jokes is awfully easy! I had to consult Morcombe and Wise for new material, it's gotten that bad...

"What do you think of it so far?" "Rubbish!"

Peace out, madcap Bonkers fans. Stay cool, and I'll be in contact later.