Away 3

In 6 days I've clocked up 30 minutes of time in the pool. The holidays since leaving school have been quite landbound. I don't derive a lot of entertainment from getting wet anymore.

Similarly, when the students of the college walked out of classes over staff cuts for an hour last month, I would have been at the front leading the protest. Instead, hanging around the back of the crowd, staying away from the cameras, I was dropping a few jokes in light discussion. I was cold and would much rather have been in the library reading The Independent. Is this the same person who got himself deliberately suspended in Sixth Year? Twice as bright...

Where's Wally?

H5N1 From Above, 1610
20 minute ago I was listening to Ride of the Valkyries, drifting in and out of Apocalypse Now fantasies. The pool area has a bit of a pigeon problem - rather that than a roach problem, of course. They hobble about looking for food scraps. Every so often one will swoop low over the pool, sometimes landing like a UH-1 on the other side. Those birds fuel the fantasy more than the occasional helicopter over the bay.

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