I'm 19!!! Although it feels like NO different to being 18, I suppose it's interesting that another year of my life has gone past with me hardly noticing it. In the last year I finally mangaed to get myself a girlfriend - even though things didn't quite turn out as planned at least i finally made the step which was a good thing for my maturity levels.

I got a scanner for my birthday, which (as some of you would have already noticed) has greatly enhanced my web-page already. The 8 or so photos which I have posted are just the tip of the ice-berg (uploading has been a bit of a nightmare so far), so I can assure you that there are more to come. I hope to be able to modify the sizes of the photos slightly better than I am currently able to do. But if worst comes to worst just click on the photos themselves and up will pop the JPEG image (which can be huge!)

Ahhh..... it's now clicked past midnight so I guess that it's not my birthday anymore. Anyway, I feel about as tired as I have ever felt; I have a head-ache, my head seems to weigh 100 tonnes and I'm about to collapse.. goodnight people :X

The holidays are finally finished, which I don't know is a good thing or a bad thing. However since I was very sick of doing 7am-4pm shifts most days I think it's a good thing as I don't have another one of those shifts until... well... Friday. But ANYWAY, the IQ of my peers has drastically improved during the move from the intellectually challenged McDonalds to the the intellectually gifted University and I am ready once again to use some brain cells (I said "use" not "lose") and hopefully manage my time slightly better than I have done so in the first half of the semester. It's less than 8 weeks to exams which is BLOODY SCARY so Uni will get much busier and my life will once again be taken over by the thoughts of people who I will never meet (ideologists and philosophers) and those who I would rather have not met (boring lecturers). Oh the thrill of it!

I suppose that my whole purpose of this page was to encourage discussion on interesting issues, where feedback is a very important element. There are a couple of ways that I could do this, either through posting your e-mail replies somewhere on the page (maybe even creating a feedback page if there is enough response), or adding a guestbook to the page - but the guestbook would act more as a feedback facility rather than just a plain old "who are you and what do you think of my page?"

Similarly, I hope that I will have the self-motivation to somehow update this page more often and return it to more of a diary format rather than the current situation where I only say something every week or so. I know I know that I should be updating it much more often but I really lack self-motivation when it comes to things other than those which I know I have to do. Interestingly enough, work has provided me with an insight to the person that I could be when I am self-motivated as for some reason I am always ready to get up at 6am for work (even on my birthday this week... the bastards!!!) which is an interesting addition to my personality perhaps.

My philosophy page just might be ready for an update, I added in a slightly more analytical viewpoint a few days ago but I really think that the whole thing might just have be started again - possibly because through my studies in Philosophy and Sociology I am questioning my values and what really is the meaning of life for me, therefore it is a work in progress, as I am, and as the whole world really is.

And the holidays roll onwards.... unfortuantely my addiction to the game "The Sims" has not abated and I find that I spend more and more of my time being a control freak and running all of these computer generated "sim"ulations all the time. Don't worry I am not quite sure whether it's a health risk, although my mother seems to think otherwise.

Happy Birthday James!!!!!!

Sad Sociology department making an essay due in the middle of the second week of the holidays. I mean aren't holidays a time to laze about and do nothing and not have to worry about anything whatsoever? I still do the lazing about but I have to worry about my essay until I finally can be bothered getting around to doing it. But this is the day!!! I am here and I am going to do my research!!! (I have a slight self-motivation problem!)

Amazingly it's holidays already! It wasn't really that long ago that I was still in Australia, these six weeks have really gone by hellishly fast. People say that time flies when you're having fun - well I would also say that time flies when there's nothing memorable or different in your life. When your life is as monotonous as mine has been the days seem to merge and time goes by pretty quickly. Whether or not this is a bad thing depends upon your situation and how you view it. For me time going by quickly is good in a way because it means that I will get to Australia quickly in June, but then it seems not so great when I realise that I have exams looming closer and closer.

What has really happened this term? Well I have made a couple of new friends which is really cool and possibly the highlight of the term; I have kept in good touch with Jannatun which has been great (fingers crossed that it continues); I have got hooked on the game 'The Sims' which is OK because it's a pretty neat game, but not OK because it takes over my study time and makes me feel really guilty that I am not doing enough work for University and that I am going to fail (lol!)Unfortunately I am no closer to getting a girlfriend than I was at the start of the term and McDonalds is still a REALLY boring place to work.

Geography test is out of the way and Geography assignments are almost out of the way (just one more REALLY boring one to do tomorrow when the labs are open once again. I haven't even looked at my Sociology essay again, but hopefully it won't be too difficult and might even be interesting (here's hoping......) I just hope that my longer work hours won't screw up my free time to do the essay next week and during this upcoming week.

I worry too much..... kick back, relax and enjoy the holidays....