My mood is improving lol

Well after a nasty little E-mail from a lecturer and a very dry Seminar about Final Year Projects I was officially in a bad mood.

Thankfully things started to look up, Monica got in touch and told me she'd dealt with some students so I didn't need to go help, then I found out my library books wern't infact late as I thought they were! Even Chris managed to make me laugh when I got back to halls which I hadn't been in the mood to do since after 1pm!

Anyway things are looking up again, I'm currently loading all the pics from Saturdays York trip up, its taken a while because I had to use my laptop to do it! But there up finally.

Well suppose I better get on with some of this mountain of work, least when I've finished it I never have to deal with Managment Centre lecturers ever again!

Oh and the photo up top was me in York I found the skip quite funny really!

Monday, Monday ... I hate that day

Okay so I don't really hate it that much. However, I've got so much work to do I'm slightly worried!

Question is if I have so much work to do why oh why am I on here?

Good point better go get some work done!

Oh and in other news more photos from York will be loaded up soon.

Marty

Election Results (bradford Uni)

Well seen as I didn't post a blog yesterday I thought I'd do one this morning so everyone knows I am still alive!

Elections
The results are out

International Students' Officer
Chinelo Obidigbo 701 Elected
RON 160

Black Student/Black and Minority Ethnics Officer
Kanja Sesay 508 Elected
RON 137
Arif Mussa Withdrew

Women's Liberation
Nadia Chergui 728 Elected
RON 148

Student Activities
Katie Moore 516 Elected
Lizzie Sheppard 256
RON 115

Media Ents Officer
Alex Wilsdon 419 Elected
Philip Lickley 273
RON 141

Ethics Environment and Welfare
Sophia Coles-Riley 387 Elected
Jen Fox 380
RON NIL Re-distributed

Academic Affairs
Olga Savina 516 Elected
Iroda Ahmedova 313
RON 92

Union Secretary-Treasurer
Lloyd Russell-Moyle 571 Elected
RON 248

NUS Delegates
Naa-Anyima Quaye 128 Elected
Arwa Almari 164 Elected
Subaiha Shaikh 126 Elected
Lloyd Russell-Moyle 228 Elected
Sophia Coles-Riley 179 Elected

Not quite the way I thought it would go but good luck to everyone elected! Commiserations to those not so lucky.

This is it though, the last Election I will be seeing at the University, in away I will miss it but I will be very glad not to be asked have you voted constantly for two days ... and to not have to ask the same question lol!

I hope the Union does manage to find away to get more students interested, I have to admit until people I actually new were up for election I didn't really pay that much attention .... but when you look at the fact that the biggest vote count was only 921 (Academics) then you realise less than 10% of the students actually voted!

I have the feeling if I was here for a bit longer I might actually start getting active in the Union. However I had my four years so I had a chance its time to move on now!

Well have to go to a meeting in the library so will love ya and leave ya!

Marty

Well here's something for you all

Just found this from my freind and Ex-Workmate Gary he seems to have had a play with my facebook image!

Have your Say from the BBC

Okay so maybe I should stop reading the Have Your Say Articles on BBC News but some of them just get me so annoyed!

I've just been reading about the reasons behind the media blackout around Prince Harry's Deployment to the Helmand Province.

The majority of responses share my view that this was a good move, I've got family serving in Iraq at the moment and probably can't being to imagine how dangerous it is normally, never mind if the enemy are aware a prize like a UK Prince is around .... anyway not everyone agrees with my view so this is what I added!

"Wouldn't it be interesting to see if the people complaining about Prince Harry wanting to be a "normal" soldier were in fact the same ones calling for him to grow up and get a real job only a few years ago?

The Royal Family can't win either way, if they do ceremonial functions people whine that they don't have a real job, yet, if they get a real job people whine that there just pretending to do the job. Prince Harry was trained as an Officer, he is employed as an Officer, why then should he not be an officer in our Armed forces?

The British Media held out not because they wanted to keep the Royal Family happy but because they recognised the lives of our Armed Forces are worth more than a simple story.

As for the fact they had camera crews with him at least for some of his deployment ... of course they did! Imagine the uproar if the BBC had come clean about the cover up and then announced we have no idea what he's been doing for 10 weeks!

That would have been a cover up!

Well done the BBC and thanks for reminding us that 24 News does not mean putting our Armed Forces in Danger"

Martin, Bradford

Maybe I should stop reading articles this late at night when I can't sleep but sometimes people manage to piss me off with there unhelpful and arrogant responses.

Well that's my two peneth ... send me comments if you wish

Martin