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This year has been, unequivocally, a total and utter kick in the nuts. That is not to say that it has not been interesting, sometimes sweet, oft-times sour - just that it has mostly been a sharp to dull pain in the groin region. I will bid 2012 adieu with a greater understanding of how life can swallow people whole and grind them down. 2012...
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I is the perpendicular pronoun. This night has been an unmitigated success. I have drank (around so many too much) whiskey and (only a little - honest) beer more than I should have and still have made a complete arsehole of myself in company that I felt completely comfortable making such a spectacle of myself in front of. I did, I shall admit, descend the...
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A Higgs boson walks into a church.

"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts the priest.

"But without me, how can you have mass?" it retorts

I had my first year PhD upgrade today and I seemed to have had a most enjoyable experience. I will know later after I stop smiling like an idiot and come down from the shock of it all. Happy happy days!

Hello SG

I hope that all is faring well out there and that the week is treating you well and not after your own desert, for who should 'scape whipping. Today, I have decreed, shall be one of rest and recuperation. This weekend was not fun or hectic, just university and day job work, but I feel absolutely knackered. I thought that I would vegetate...
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Happy Christmas. If you relish the season , celebrate it or hate it I wish you all some enjoyment over the weekend. To all my friends the heartiest of handshakes and smiles and best wishes for the future

Life is excellent. One essay down and one to go. University is such fun. Work is its own reward, the early bird catches the worm, if there was work in the bed hed sleep on the floor and all that glitters is not gold. This blog is such a clich. I am looking forward to the Christmas season as i will travel home and see...
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it is now 6.30 am and i have spent the last 15 hours drinking with two of my brothers. I don't know really why I can type but such is the way of life. Just to let all and sundry know we have solved the ills of the world, although my chemical castration came into it, and we have established a plan of action that...
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I am moving to Scotland. Fourth country to live in in the past four years. I need to put down a root or two. Anyway it should be fun, although I need to invest in some warmer clothes, although not much warmer. I will also have the pleasure of finding another local pub that serves nice warm ales on those cold winter nights, days, afternoons...
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Speed is like
a dozen transatlantic flights...

without ever
getting off the plane.

Time change.
You lose. You gain.

Makes no difference, so long
as you keep taking the pills.

But sooner or later,
you gotta get out...

because it's crashing,

and all at once
those frozen hours...

melt through
the nervous system...

and seep out the pores.

- from Withnail and I

I am...
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Well this is a first,

I understand that this is a forum where I can unleash my spectacularly and ever diminishing wit upon an unsuspecting and more pertinently uninterested population. Perhaps this malaise is the zeitgeist of the 21st century. We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that 'set in,' shat on by Tories, shoveled up by Labor in a kingdom of...
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