Wednesday

Cartmel College graduated on wednesday so quite a few people from chaplaincy graduated. Abbs, Rachel Jackson, Daffy and Melissa all came up into Chaplaincy and had a cup of tea. Abi and Cath Jordan came up as well, who were in Grizedale and graduated on thursday.

Thursday
Grizedale and Lonsdale graduated, so as well as Abi and Catherine, Steph and Matt arrived. Steve Hoyland was preparing food for friday and saturday night so Melissa, Matt and later Rachel Jackson and I were helping to prepare it in the kitchen in the catholic flat. After a while the conversation got quite deep and theological. There was nobody in one bedroom in the Anglican flat that night, so I got to sleep in a bed.

Friday
All the graduation ceremonies today are for Edge hill college which is miles away in Ormskirk so nobody I know or who comes to Chaplaincy is graduating today. Matt and Steph have been getting stuff ready for the wedding; the barrel of beer is in central lounge and has been tapped, the fridge here in Gills office is full of wine, the vodka is in the freezer.

posted at 11:15:00 am

Graduation

Today I got up at 8am so that we (me and mum and dad) could set off for my graduation. Dad went and picked up my sister from her house down the road in Wakefield. My brother couldn't come because he started his new job yesterday, so we went to Woodlands near Doncaster to pick up grandma Jones. She got in the car and we drove on to Lancaster, and the only traffic jam we encountered was on the A6 coming up to the university, presumably all the other people coming to the graduation ceremony. We parked near County marquee but found that we were early the lunch but that we couldn't actually get in to the marquee that side. We walked round and then I went to the toilets in Chaplaincy to change into my suit. When I got back they were sat down ready to get some food, so we went to the buffet, and I just had some chicken curry and rice. We stayed there until twenty to two when I went and got my robes from Chaplaincy, and then we went to the great hall, but the doors weren't open, so we stood around for a while and Faith took a photo of me. The doors opened at 2pm exactly and Mum, Dad, Faith and Grandma went into the great hall to be seated with the guests, and I went up into the nuffield theatre to line up with the other Bowland Bsc students.

The ceremony took 35 minutes, and I've left it so long to complete this entry I can't remember what the speech was about, but my parents have bought the DVD, so I will hear it again. The Graduands were ushered up on to the stage one at a time, and had their names read out before shaking hands with the Chancellor, Princess Alexandra. Afterwards we went back outside and I saw Kevin Hugget and he introduced himself to my family. We then went and had the college photograph, which took a while because they called people up in height order, so 5 foot 2 or less, then 5 foot for or less, etc. up to 6 feet or more, so I went up with the last lot. The area around where they were taking the photos (outside) was only cordened off with tape, so peoples family (including my dad) stood around taking their own pictures of the college photograph. After that I ducked under the tape and joined my family drinking tea at a table outside the marquee, before showing them the way to the conference centre to have my photograph taken. After much debate about which pack to get, I went and got photographed in my robes holding a fake scroll. After that Mum, Grandma Faith and I went back to the chaplaincy centre to return my robes and Dad drove the car round to the centre so I could get my sleeping bag and bag out of it. I then waited for Kevin to get back so I could blag somewhere to sleep until Matt and Stephs wedding. I ended up in what was Gills office, and still has a computer in it which is connected to the network (a Pentium II 400 running windows NT4) which I have duly upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2(from Netscape communicator) and am typing this now.
posted at 8:13:00 pm

This morning I got up at 8:30 for the 9:30 service at St.Helens in Sandal Magna. It's on Barnsley road so it's just around the corner and only 10 or 15 minutes walk. I walked round the corner and saw on their board outside that the service actually started at 10am every sunday. So I went for a walk around the church.

It is an old church building which was 'restored' in the 19th century and most of the stained glass windows are 19th century. By about 9:30 some people had arrived to set up the fairtrade stall. As I walked in I was met by a fairly large (but probably friendly) dog called Guinness and had to wait for its owner to call it away. Plenty of people said hello and good morning and introduced themselves.

The vicar, Rupert, introduced himself, told me that there is a housegroup and apologised
for the website being wrong. His sermons were following a theme of the things people spend
most of their time doing, and they had already done eating and sleeping so this week it was television. He talked about the good points and the bad points, then he moved onto what the bible has to say about television. Unsurprisingly as he said, 'television' was not in his concordance but there was plenty about vision, seeing etc. The readings were Genesis 3:1 - 7 and Matthew 6:19-24. Afterwards I went and had tea and met a few more people.
posted at 12:43:00 pm

A couple of photos from time away:

Helvellyn:


View across the reservoir:

posted at 10:43:00 pm

Saturday

My dad came up to 2A Langley road in his car to collect my stuff (TV, computer, clothes,...). It took hours to pack it all into the car, and when we had finished we found there was no room for my (rather large quantity of) leftover food. In the end we had to unpack the front seat of the car, I had to get in so that I could show dad where they were collecting food for the homeless on campus and pack the bags of food in around me. We dropped it off, went back to the house, and repacked the front seat. I had to go home by train because the car was full and I needed to take my bicycle back. Unfortunately I found out when dad called rail enquiries at about 1900 that the last train was at about 1925, so I didn't have time to finish vacuuming my room.

When we got back to Wakefield, I showed mum & dad my photos of Time Away, the Christian Aid bar crawl, Waving goodbye etc. I hope to use their scanner to put some of them on the web.

Sunday

Was spent unpacking all the stuff we'd put in the car yesterday, and putting most of it in the attic. We went to the local pub to have lunch, as my parents normally take me out for a meal each time I get back for the holidays, but they had stopped doing food. We walked over to the local indian restaurant and found that they didn't open at lunchtime, so we had to go back to the house and get the car to get lunch at a pub somewhere else. We had asunday lunch at another pub and Faith came and joined us.

Monday

Today I phoned the jobcentre to arrange an appointment to sign on. I went in to town to find my way around, look at the vacancies in the jobcentre, look around the shops and ask Natwest about my graduate account.

In Wakefield town centre they are recladding some 60s brown brick tower blocks in rather tasteless yellow plastic, I'm not yet convinced it's really an improvement but it isn't finished yet. All the charity shops that I saw open were asking for volunteers, so I might do that until I can find a job. The jobcentre had vacancies for factory workers, van drivers, other jobs for people with cars, secrataries and various other jobs which I don't think I'm suitable for. The information desk at Natwest told me my Graduate account stuff was in the post, so I needn't have worried.
posted at 12:09:00 pm

Last night was Lonsdale college party. It rained for nearly all of it, and some of the bands were quite poor since they decided to make the event cheaper (£3.50 instead of about £10) this year. Lots of people from chaplaincy came, Laura Barber showed me her photos of time away (they were good - I will link to them if they get put on the web). I stayed until the end at 3am, spending a lot of the time with Sally and some people from Hiking club (Rich and Andy if I'm remembering their names right).

I got my degree result at 10am this morning. I got a pass degree as expected. They gave me a mug with 'Congratulations from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics'. I sent as many people as I could think of text messages telling them my result and stayed around on campus until 3pm for the department photo.

Also, I've been watching the England matches, and here's a good link for Euro 2004.
posted at 5:02:00 pm

The perils of (un?)inclusive language:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
posted at 1:50:00 pm

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
posted at 12:22:00 pm

Church of Fools. I don't think I'm going to get any more work done today.
posted at 5:42:00 pm

My exam this afternoon was Likelihood Inference (statistics) and it was probably the least bad so far. Section A was quite sketchy, but the bits I could do overall were enough to keep me occupied for most of the exam. I don't know that I necessarily did much better in this exam, I expected long before I started my exams it was one I might fail, especially since I got the lowest coursework mark in the group (34%). However, it at least felt like a proper exam and not at total washout.
posted at 4:12:00 pm

My exam this morning (Rings) didn't go very well. It was I module where I had a very high mark in the coursework (76%) so I was more confident in this than the others, but I found I couldn't do very much because I couldn't remember some basic definitions (field, automorphism, characteristic).
Basically if I'd been doing coursework I could have looked them up and understood the definition in 2 seconds flat, but I wasn't I was doing an exam and I didn't know them well enough...
posted at 11:47:00 am

My exam today (Stochastic Processes) went fairly disastrously if I'm honest. All I could answer were bits and bobs of questions and I certainly couldn't complete very much of the (harder) section B. Tomorrow afternoon I have Generalised Linear Models, which I did very badly in the coursework for which counted for 30%. After the last two exams I'm not very confident of passing it.
posted at 5:56:00 pm

My exam today was Probability and Measure (Math 313), and it went pretty badly. Not that I didn't expect it to, I only did this module because I had to do one module in Analysis, and I hadn't felt that my revision in it had gone that well. I did probably only about half of Section A (which counts for 40%) and even less of section B (which counts for 60%). Tomorrow I have my first morning exam, and it will be in Statistics so I hope it will go better.
posted at 4:44:00 pm

Lancaster has a new student newspaper:The Scam
Nestlé boycott still going

Charity rejects Nestlé sponsorship
posted at 5:05:00 pm

I got back to Lancaster on Wednesday 14th. Unfortunately my mobile was missing by the time I got here, and it hasn't turned up at the railway station or the bus station lost property. Also, BT tried unsuccessfully to migrate my two talk21 email addresses to yahoo, so I now can't get at any mail anyone sends to them. When I complained they sent me an email trying to sell me BT openworld. I'm not impressed. (My Lancaster.ac.uk and Orange.net addresses still work.)

I've had some trouble finding somewhere to revise now, as always in exam term the library is completely full all day long, and I don't find the desk in my room ideal. I posted my photos from student cross to Sainsburys' photo by post and they still haven't come back. However, the email address I gave them to contact me on was one of my talk21 addresses so they might have emailed me and I don't know...

All in all things aren't going amazingly well, and my exams are creeping up on me...

Daffy has blogged student cross very well on Walking Humbly. I didn't keep a log.
posted at 2:16:00 pm

White house to be painted black to deter terrorist attack
New Google email - actually not an April fools. Especially as I now have an account.
posted at 11:39:00 am

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posted at 2:53:00 pm

This afternoon, after my tutorial I went to the library and tried to finish my Number theory homework and gave up and handed it in. I then went to Green Actions' Yurt in Alexandra square to have a cup of tea and look around the inside, which I'd been meaning to do all week. It's very nice in there with rugs hung on the walls and a wood burning stove to boil water and keep the place warm. I stayed in there from about 3pm until the Bahai talk at 7:30pm.

The talk was more brief than I was expecting, and was basically a short introduction to the Bahai faith. He talked about people who all try to get their own way and their own possesions as being like amoeba fighting for survival, compared to people working together in faith being more like a human body. He then linked it to brief extracts from Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, before introducing a few teachings of the Bahullah. He then opened up to questions. Some people asked him more about the Bahai faith. Steve Hoyland contrasted the speakers interpretation that a state of perfect peace will inevitably happen on Earth with the Christian teaching that it can only happen with the coming of Gods Kingdom. We had cups of tea and coffee and biscuits and Steph and Kirsten started talking about religious freedom in French schools and Germany and stuff.
posted at 9:37:00 pm

Environmentalist wins $1m prize

Recycling not the best option?
edit: Just assuming this isn't Junk Science of one form or another.
Not what I expected to hear, however I think it's a bit like the governments targets in further education - it's not that people going to University is bad, it's just that setting an arbitrary target(50% of 6th form students) is causing them to do things which aren't for the greater good. Likewise they have set an arbitrary recycling target which doesn't achieve much saving in energy, can only reduce landfill to a limited extent. But at the end of the day 'recycling' sounds greener to most people than 'incineration'. Also, in both cases the objective seems to be to bring statistics about Britain closer to those of other countries (Percentage of young people in University, percentage of material recycled) and not actually improving things. Computer recycling is proabably more important. I think the law in this country tightened in 2003 to bring us in line with the EU.
Why computers?
Poisin PC and toxic TV report
BBC photos of computer 'recycling'
Proper computer recycling is available in this country:
UK computer recycling
REALISE(in London)
Jade re-marketing
Many local schemes (link to companies selling computers to charities)
Just to confuse matters however, computer re-use is sometimes called recycling:
Environ
Oxfam

End of rant. And apologies for it.
posted at 8:32:00 pm

For my course, I'm reading a book called 'The Queen of mathematics' by Jay R. Goldman - 'A Historically motivated Guide to Number Theory'. I only mention it because I think it's very good.

Cathsoc retreat is in 2 weeks. It will be at Hyning Hall near Carnforth. It's only 10 miles from Campus (6 miles from Morecambe) and so I want to walk. Unfortunately I don't have a map, I need OS Outdoor Leisure 7 which I was going to buy but didn't. I think there is a cycle path up that way, or it might be better to follow the A6. I'll have to ask. My bus pass is valid as far as Carnforth, so I can always give up and catch a bus if I don't want to walk anymore.

I went to meditation today, and found that the Chaplaincy centre was being put back together. Workmen were pressure cleaning(?) the Catholic chapel and all the chairs and the alter were in concourse, and upstairs all the chairs had been put back in the study area, including the broken comfy chair. I waited there reading a book until 10 past 5 and then knocked on Fr.Pauls' door, but he was talking with someone, so I couldn't go in. When Stephen Hoyland arrived his knee was bleeding from him losing at football to Fylde and he had to hold some bog roll on it to stop the bleeding. Sr. Zela and Katie arrived and we sat in Stephens office waiting for Paul to finish. Steve went through to wash his wound and then we went in and meditated.
posted at 6:14:00 pm

Pancake party

Due to the fire the Chaplaincy pancake party was held in the girls house in Greaves. Stephen Hoyland was cooking pancakes and supplied a continuous supply of them until no-one could eat any more. There was Chilli, cheese, chocolate spread, jam, lemon juice, salsa, sour cream and sugar to put on pancakes, however it was not advisable to put them all on the same pancake. For some reason Matt Napoli had five brightly coloured wigs with him, which decorated the heads of various people and many photos were taken of which some will doubtless end up on the Chaplaincy website gallery. Father Paul, Steve Pearson and Kevin Huggett were also there, and much lively conversation happened in the living room and kitchen. Abbs' computer was set up in the corner of the living room providing a continuous supply of cheesy music.

It was the first time I'd ever been in 3 Ashgrove, even though it's had Chaplaincy people living in it since the start of my first year. It had a much larger kitchen than the lads house, but a less plush living room, and as Daffy pointed out, at the party the way the rooms were laid out made it more difficult to mingle.

A group of first years left for a bus about 11pm, and people gradually departed until it was just me, the three girls and Matt. Walking back Matt pointed out someones terrible parking for us to have a laugh at, a car in front of his was about 3 feet from the edge of the road and putting its wing mirror in unnecessary peril. I think Matt was quite drunk to say the least. I walked up the hill and when I got to Langley road I saw Matt and Liz walking down, just getting to the house. When I got to the door they were just closing it behind them, so I pushed it with my hand to stop them, and they got a bit worried because they didn't realise it was me.
posted at 2:13:00 am

This morning I got my photos back from The Hiking club trip to Coniston and the Cathsoc AGM. The photos of Coniston are better than I expected them to be, you can still see the views quite well even though it wasn't as clear as it had been first thing in the morning. The photos from the AGM are quite random and pointless, and I can't remember why I took most of them. Perhaps the wine had something to do with it. I should probably try and get some of my photos onto my website, but I haven't really had time to scan them in.
posted at 4:39:00 pm

Last night was Cathsoc AGM. Read Phils' post because I don't think I can remember much better. I stayed until the very end at 3am and walked home. I didn't wake up until 10 past noon. Meditation started again today, the Catholic flat now being clean. Only Stephen Hoyland, Sr. Zela and I turned up.

There seems to be a lot more (intelligent) skeptisism about Graphology on the web than when I've looked in the past:
The Skeptics dictionary,
The North Texas Skeptics,
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association have a Position Paper,
The happy skeptic(article mostly recycled).

When I looked in the past it was all stuff like Anna Koren, Williams' Graphology page, The british institute of Graphologists, Bart Baggett and of course Andrea McNichol.
posted at 7:02:00 pm

As I feared?
posted at 10:27:00 am

Sunday - Hiking club trip to Coniston
I got up at 7am and drank some coffee. It was light and appeared to be clear. Walking onto campus there was not a cloud in the sky. I got to the underpass at 8:45am and was one of the first hikers there. There were lots of people going - two minibuses and two carloads of people. It took about an hour to get to Coniston, and we parked in a car park at the foot of a steep they had hoped to drive us up, but the engines in the (rented) minibuses were nowhere near powerful enough to go up it with everyone inside.

In the car park the options for walks were read out, and madly enough, I chose one that involved about 12km walking over 900 metres of elevation, over the Old Man of Coniston. This still gave us a decent amount of time in the pub. There was a crazier walk that was 16km and 1200m that I seem to recall involved going over the Old Man, along a ridge and over something else. It began to get gradually cloudier over the day.

We took a fairly gentle route, that wasn't too steep, and up to I would estimate about 500m high I didn't really think about how high it was. I was okay until someones dog went bounding past me, and I just stood still and hoped it went away, which thankfully it did. The views were quite spectacular, but unfortunatly it got cloudier and mistier. Of course, it go colder at that altitude, but I didn't really notice until I was near the top, and I drank from my water bottle and found it icy cold. There were patches of snow near the summit. The next scary bit was when we all had to climb over some rocks. They were quite large and a bit slippy, and you weren't that far from a very long drop. It was quite hard to watch from the other side, as you could see how close people were to falling a very long way. Most of the way from there on was fine, with only a few bits that were a little bit steep. By the time we got to the top it had misted over quite a lot, so the view wasn't as good as it might have been. You could see Heysham and Sellafield power stations still, so you could see quite far. Walking down was quite a bit too steep for my liking for quite a lot of it, but felt relatively safe. We stopped by a lake(?) most of the way down and sat down on some rocks for a bit. A couple of people skimmed stones. We then got bored of this and went off to find a pub.

We went to the Black Bull Inn in Coniston, and I had a pint of Bluebird Bitter, which was very nice. We sat around there until the crazy group got back and then I went with the first minibus load to go, so I don't know how long people stayed in the pub. On the way back we stopped at a chippie and got our tea. The staff in the chippie were surprised and confused that such large number of people came into their quiet little restaurant. I go a chip buttie, but quite regretted it because it didn't really fill me up.

Monday - back to 'reality'
This monday was beginning of week 6 of the term, so I had a new timetable. This means that now on monday I have a lecture at 10am and at 5pm. Unfortunately my housemate Liz has a 10am lecture on monday as well, so I had to get out of the shower quickly. On the upside, however, this meant that I got onto campus in time for morning prayer at 9:30am for the first time in quite a while. I got there before anyone else, but Katy, Steph and Melissa also came and we sat around chatting waiting for a chaplain to arrive until 9:40am. Not being in the Chaplaincy centre, and there no longer being a monday bible study, there were no bibles to hand, and so we just started doing prayers of intersession. I did my 10am lecture which was very simple being the first one in the course, and checked my email and then basically didn't have anything to do. I tried to read my notes from last half term but I couldn't really concentrate and so the day dragged on. I stayed on campus until my 5pm lecture, which was also easy. I then went to Sainsburys.
posted at 10:00:00 pm

You are Lamentations.


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posted at 3:19:00 pm

Got up about 9am. Went onto campus to check emails. Didn't get much work done. Went back home for lunch. Went onto campus for my 4pm and 5pm lectures. Tried to do my homeworks. One was okay (327 Ring Theory) the other went disastrously (313 Probability and Measure). Finished working about half past seven. Handed it in. Checked emails. Caught the bus to Sainsburys. Bought a few things. Got home at 10pm.

Basically today was so uneventful I can't imagine why I bothered to blog it.
posted at 12:01:00 am

I have now switched my comments to Enetation. I will go back to Blogout if it starts working again.
posted at 11:47:00 am

I have found the perfect way to blog. I have bought a (very bottom of the range) graphics card with a TV output and a keyboard extension calbe, connected my computer to my TV and am sat on my sofa typing with my normal keyboard. It reminds me of using a ZX Spectrum, an early computer which used a TV as its' monitor. In fact I've got a Spectrum emulator, so I can play Spectrum games on my TV actually.

Yes, after just trying it, I can now play Bubble Booble on my Athlon XP. I was going to go to Open house today, but I completely forgot that because it's at Kevs' house it was early, so by the time I checked the service sheet it had already happened.

This morning I was feeling fairly under the weather, but I decided to just take a Lemsip (or cheap imitation thereof) and carry on. I got to the bus stop in plenty of time, but there were about a dozen people there, apparently a football team on their way to a match, however when the 2A came it drove past because they didn't react because they were waiting for a coach. So I had to walk down and catch the 42 and walk up the hill. Because of the fire, the Chaplaincy sunday service was United Worship in the Jack Hylton music room. Daffy and Chris got the job of standing outside in the freezing cold telling everyone where to go. Hilary was stewarding and was surprised I managed to make it in time in spite of missing the bus, and asked if I'd run onto campus. I don't know how athletic Hilary must think I am but a 2.5 mile run in the morning is somewhat out of the question.

In the service, Steve Hoyland did an excellent sketch with Abbs about trade justice (I'll give you £1 in aid, but you have to give me £3 in interest but I'll buy your bananas off you for 20p and lend you the other £2 if you agree to starve). At the end of the service there was a letter from the congregation to Hilton Dawson, our local MP, about trade justice which we were invited to sign. Ella was there, playing the flute I believe, and she said she'd just come back to Lancaster to visit all her friends, which is nice of her. She said she hadn't updated her blog because she was living at I think her Dads' house, and her Dad's computer wasn't up to blogging. Melissa was quite annoyed that the commenting system on my blog wasn't working, I will probably soon change it if BlogOut doesn't start working soon.

Afterwards, I went to the LUSU shop to buy something to keep me going until I could get home and prepare lunch, and found that they now have a full shelf of fairtrade goods! I had heard that a motion had been passed at union council that where possible they should stock fairtrade alternatives to items that they already stock. They have tea, coffee, decaf coffee, chocolate mini eggs, snack packs of biscuits, chocolate peanuts, and at least several other items. I bought a packet of chocolate mini eggs and a chocolate muffin, and walked home, in the sunny weather. When I walked down the A6 I was surprised to see that I could see the snow on the lake district(?) mountains because it was so clear. I got back to my house, grabbed my cameras' mini tripod and walked up to the Ashton memorial to see how it looked from up there. I took a few photos of the view, but I'm not too confident about how well they will come out, but I also took some photos inside the Ashton, which should be nice.

I walked back down to my house, and found that both my housemates were out, so I cooked myself a sunday dinner of peas, (frozen) roast potatoes and fresh ravioli. The ravioli said I had to use olive oil when boiling it, but I didn't have any so I used groundnut oil. It didn't stick, but it didn't taste very nice. After that I mucked about on the computer, watched Time Team, and then realised I was too late for Open House.
posted at 8:00:00 pm

I won't be back for Sunday service, because the visiting hours at the hospital were from 3pm until 8pm and the last train back to Lancaster was at 6pm. I will get a train back to Lancaster to arrive at 1330 or 1420.
posted at 9:50:00 pm

My Dad has been taken to Hospital ill, so I will be going home today. I should be back for Chaplaincy on Sunday.
posted at 12:13:00 pm

Liz:"Have you been on Campus today?"

Me:"No."

Liz:"Well you haven't seen the Chaplaincy centre then"

Me:

Liz:"There was a fire in the Catholic Chapel last night. It's black all up the wall between

the chapel and the sacristy, where the holocaust memorial candles were last night. The Last

Supper sculpture was damaged."

TV:"Lord Hutton has criticised the BBC as he cleared the government of embellishing its Iraq

weapons dossier in his long-awaited report on the death of Dr David Kelly"

Me:(Not quite grasping how serious this is)"I guess meditation won't be on."

Liz:"They've closed the Chaplaincy centre totally."

Me:"Well, we normally have it in the Catholic flat. Do you know if anyone has told Sr.Zela?"

Liz:"No."

Helen:"Christian Fellowship have moved tomorrows meeting to Furness Lecture theatre."

TV: BBC coverage of Commons, Tony Blair demands apology from people who have made

accusations over David Kelly etc.

Oven:Begins to burn food round the edges

TV: Michael Howard claims that part of the problem is that the BBCs' governors can't both

run and regulate the BBC.

Me: Gets food out of oven, eat it.

Me: Leave the living room, go to my room to Watch video of Ix by Moppi.

Me: Put books in bag, leave for campus.

Helen: "see ya"

Me:"see ya"

Liz:"byee..."

Me:"byee..."

The pavement was slightly slippery with slush as the sun had come out and begun to melt the

snow. When I began walking down the hill to the bus stop, I walked down the middle of the

road because it was not slippery as it had been gritted. If I'd fallen on the pavement it

would have taken me several yards to stop on that hill. When I got to campus the sky was

blue, with barely a single cloud in the sky. You couldn't see damage to the Chapel as you

came up the road. I walked straight to the Chaplaincy centre, where Phil Younger and Laura

Barber were near the entrance. I assumed they were there for liturgy planning which clearly

wasn't happening. Phil was putting up a poster telling Prayer meeting would be in Lonsdale

foyer. I peered through the window behind them, but I couldn't make out very much. I decided

I didn't want to look any closer.

Laura:"Are you okay?"

Me: hesitates

Me:"Yes."

Laura leaves to go to the library.

Me(to Phil):"Does anyone have any idea how long it will be closed for?"

Phil:"Certainly for the rest of today. I think they will just try and keep things going, try

and find other venues for things."

Me:"Do you know if anyone has told Sr.Zela?"

Phil:"I don't know, that is the sort of thing that might get forgotten at a time like this."

Me:"See you later."

I go to the library to copy a CD.


It seems like a very dark day to me, when both the Chaplaincy centre and the BBC, two things

I care deeply about seem to be under threat.

posted at 3:59:00 pm

So far this term has been remarkably easy. Neither of the modules I'm doing have been as difficult as I expected them to be so far, and after the hectic time I had in the second half of last term, I'm taking it easy.

Today Chaplaincy was a little different from usual, because the Sunday Lunch which we have after the service was cooked by the Jewish society. For starters we had vegetable soup, then lentils and rice with spicy sauce, and then a vegetable lasagne - three courses rather than the usual one, which made it seem more filling even though you can normally eat as much as you want as there's normally too much.


posted at 2:29:00 pm

Amazing pavement pictures. (That's pictures on pavements, not pictures of pavements.)
posted at 4:21:00 pm