May, 2003

Excuse my prolonged absence. Life gets in the way.

Today was such a lovely day, especially towards the end of the afternoon. Given that it was Champion’s League finals today, I called it a day at 6pm. Instead of going on the jog I was promising myself, I took a nice long walk through the village of Galgate, which is just behind Graduate College. It is a nice and calming walk; made even more so beautiful with the blue skies and beaming sunshine. Didn’t pass up the opportunity to take pictures, which I hope to soon turn into wallpaper. I also took a couple in my room and my surroundings, retracing the paths that I frequent every day. I haven’t annotated them yet, so for those who haven’t quite been here, they are not that self explanatory. Perhaps I’ll get round to doing that tomorrow.

Champion’s League finals stretched post-extra time; both Buffon and Dida managed a couple of saves, but Juventus threw their chances away by taking pretty pathetic penalties. Juventus were more determined in the first half, but AC Milan were more consistent overall; perhaps the win did go to the more deserving team, even though it had to be settle by spotkicks.

So Wolves have been promoted, Celtic robbed of UEFA Cup glory and AC Milan take the European Cup back to Italy. It seems as if the football season draws to a close, which is where all the ‘drama’ begins – will he or won’t he? Move, that is. At least there is Big Brother to keep me occupied for the next couple of weeks.

For the few of you who ‘chat’ to me on a daily or at least, a frequent basis, you will have, no doubt, heard me refer to my so-called haven – my office. Thanks to the wonders of technology [and a very bored, overexcited, gadget freak of a doctoral student], you can now see what it looks like. Ta daaa…

[Click on the picture for a bigger one, complete with narration. ]

Yes, I haven’t had enough fun with it yet. Not enough with just me talking about my lack of a worthwhile existence here at Lancaster, I can now show you the pictures that go with it. How’s that as my nomination for the most mundane blog entry – ever? [Okay, so some of my rhetoric could also qualify, but hey... ]