"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

Just when things are looking up for Bonkers headquarters, with 24: Season Five on DVD to enjoy, Mission: Impossible III kicking all kinds of rear ends, Casino Royale on the horizon and the mounting excitement of Star Trek: Encounters doing just that... University work comes along and ruins it all!


Indeed! In two weeks I have a European briefing paper to present dealing with the issue of Turkish membership, with sub-deadlines this coming week! Not only that, but my sleep patterns have been all messed up thanks to last weekend, when the newly-installed internet ensured I was kept up long past my bedtime watching spoof videos on YouTube and browsing YTMND (a hillarious animation site)! So it's no surprise that I didn't feel too well yesterday, and despite the much-appreciated noble efforts of Indy to cure me with double Belgian chocolate-flavourited ice cream, I'm not feeling that great today either!

Oh well... everything'll work out fine, it always does, but why does everything good media-wise have to be happening now, in the run-up to Christmas, when I've got little money and lots of work to be doing? It's a struggle to fit it all in... now I know how Jack Bauer feels, I really do (okay, fine, he has it much tougher than me and I haven't had to shoot anybody... yet)!

At least there's good news from the US of A, where the House of Representatives now belongs to the Democrats and Donald Rumsfeld now belongs in a retirement home. It's become a safer world now: before, Dubya could do whatever he wanted, especially with His Tonyness lodged firmly up his backside. Now, with only half of Congress at his beck and call (and even they're moving away from him), we've got two years of laughable comedy President left before it's all change and (hopefully) the Democrats put someone up there worth voting for. Not that, as a British citizen, I have any bearing on the process... but it makes for good television, seeing Republicans and far-right Christians getting roundly kicked to the ground. Don't you all agree?

This is Bonkers headquarters signing off for another few days. Ironic that I've got the internet almost 24/7 now, and yet it's been a week since my last update here, isn't it? Damned YouTube... peace out, ladies and mentalmen. I shall return.