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Well I have internet. Broadband no less. It was a bit crap that the day they installed it the entire UK backbone decided to go kaploohie and the internet itself wasn’t working but hey… I can read my backlog of email!

Still not wireless (Bubb is doing that at the weekend) but at least the boing-boing-boing-kerpng of dialup is no more.

So, I got through Monday and Tuesday. It was like water torture. A complete waste of fucking time too. Nobody, really, wanted to talk about other peoples stuff (embarrassment, boredom, nerves, fear) and everyone seemed on the verge of sleep or suicide. On the Tuesday a whole group didn’t turn up so we were stalked to the student canteen to ‘volunteer’ and stand in for them. I got quite militant and continued drinking coffee. I’d earned some respite after a whole day of being critiqued and critiquing others in turn.

After each session on Tuesday our numbers became less and less, by the last session (which ran 1.25hrs late) I’d say our numbers had halved. I did feel quite sorry for the lecturers in the end. But, I’d say that is proof that their new crit technique (it’s new this year I think) leaves a little to be desired.

Next Monday we start a new project on Documentary photography with a lecturer we haven’t had yet. This sounds much more interesting to me than landscape (unless the landscape were Tuscany of course.)

Right now, looking at me, is a critical theory essay to be done (my first this term.) I’m a bit nervous about that one. Oh well, better get my head down and stick to my essay timetable I’ve drawn up. By god there is a lot of reading for it.

Have a great weekend peeps. I’ll be staying in and reading exciting things like ‘Philosophy in Cultural Theory’.

PS. Buying a place moderately sucks and many things go wrong (like BT cutting us off on Tuesday instead of giving us ADSL at the exchange because they are incompetent fools.) There seems no end of things to be done which is a pity because I am so busy at college.

Everything also seems to incur a massive delay, but we are finally getting the structural engineers in on Tuesday morning to look at our walls. Bring on the sledgehammer.

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