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!

Citizenship

I never thought I'd hear myself utter the words I am about to! The American's have got it right! there's been some fuss on the BBC website about a suggestion that's correct a suggestion not a law) saying

Pupils should be encouraged to swear allegiance to the Queen, a review of British citizenship suggests. Thanks to http://news.bbc.co.uk

As usual there is a have your say article and as usual I was stupid enough to read it!

Whatever you views on America I have seen first hand just how strong there allegiance to there country is. Okay so they don't have a monarch but isn't the monarch simply a symbol of the country they represent? In effect aren't they simply like the American flag?

Some of the arguments centered around America's attitude that they are more important and there supposed arrogance towards other cultures. One post even went so far as to say that we should not do anything like them as they don't even known the other country's in the world! i.e. there knowledge of Geography leaves a lot to be desired.

However, that is a simplistic view of the problem. In the UK we have a country of approx. 50,346 sq mi which makes studying it quite straight forwards and can leave allot of time for other country's as we are, as country's go, in the middle of the road size wise. However, the USA is approx. 3,794,066 sq mi the USA is 75 times larger than the UK!

If you were to test a school leave in America and one in UK my bet would be that there knowledge (measured according to land mass) would be better in America than the UK.

I've drifted off topic I know but it something that always annoys me, I hear people talking about Americans like there somehow inferior to the British and how "there all the same" to those of you who do that think of it this way, would you say a Scot and an Englishman were the same? Thought not! In only 50,000 sq miles we have massive differences in our population so imagine what a land with over 3,000,000 sq miles is like!

Going back to my original point, the America I have seen truly are proud of there country and there pledge of allegiance helps them to stay together even with the massive distances of there country! If it works for them, why on earth can't it work for us, oh yeah I forgot the Middle Classes want everyone to think Americas bad .....


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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

Saturdays Late blog*

York was amazing!  The National Railway Museum was as cool as I remember and!  

Unfortunately on the way there we ended up having to stand/sit in the vestibule ends as the train was so full, but thankfully it was only 20 mins to not that bad.

I think me and Chris spent about 4 hours taking photos and wandering around the NRM in the end, Chris was definitely enjoying himself, I on the other hand was at home lol.  I suppose having grown up around Steam trains this was all very cool but not that surprising to me. 

Unfortunately the other two members of the trip from the Uni weren't quite as enthused about it all, sorry guys didn't realise you'd get bored but hope you enjoyed being out of Bradford for a bit!

All this time around trains reminded me however, that I really do love em.  It also reminded me how much I can remember about them and I felt quite embarrassed when I was recognising trains and there numbers within a split second of seeing them.

After the NRM me and Chris wandered around York, we got lots of photos of the Minster and all the other old buildings in York.  Unfortunately I found out that being on York City walls with no hand rail on the other side is not a good thing for me.  I don't have a fear of hights only falling from them!  The sections with railways were fine.

Oh and York is full of Chemo's … there not quite Chav's not quite Emo's …. Ahhh thanks to Lyanne arriving I now know that's there really Scene kids!

Hmm so a very good day really and Chris had a good day too and wasn't annoying once!

Fridays Delay Blog *(Part 2)

Okay so here I am sitting in lister park at the top of mannigham lane.  Ware should I be you ask? 

Management centre about 500 metres away.  I kind of forgot ware my tutorial room was and by the time I got to it, it was already in full swing!

I don't like to go into tutorials once they've started and as the rest of my group was also not there I decided to come into the part instead and do some work.

Its lovely out here, the flowers are in full bloom, the air is clear(ish) certainly better than Uni and although chilly it's a nice refreshing atmosphere.

As you probably tell my mood is changing for the better.  I think being out of halls and just getting out in the nice breeze helped; I'm goanna take a bit more of a walk and see ware I end up.

I ended up here at the boating lake, would you believe it until 2 weeks ago I didn't even know we had a boating lake!  I'm goanna have to find out when the boats come back cause I won't a go on it!  I have an audience as I write this Ducks, Geese, Pigeons and a few gulls, I think they remember me from last week when I fed them Lol!

Well that's it for the day I'm going back to halls to organise for tomorrow's trip to York!

Firday's Late Blog *(part 1)

Okay so I'm not having the best of days.  I don't know what's wrong it's just I'm feeling really down again.

Worst thing is I can tell if anything nice happens I will switch into being happy again, its like I'm switching from one mood to another with no control over it L.

Something bad happened earlier on when an old friend sent me a message on face book, a lot of bad memory's came flooding back and I deleted them, to stop them talking to me L.  I'm not sure if that was the best thing to do but at the time it felt good!

I kinda regret it now but I really don't feel in the mood to deal with that part of my past at the moment heck I'm having enough problems with the present!

Ah well I'm goanna try and get some work done so maybe I will feel a bit better soon.

War Part 3

Here's my final example from the HYS forum,

Barely a day goes by without these 'heroes' moaning about one thing or another.

Are they really saying that these men, at the peak of physical fitness, can't handle a few lads shouting some nasty words, and that they need a law to protect their feelings?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Yes, because quite simply the litigation society we have at present caused by people concerned with the "Human Rights" of the accused means that if they did react and deal with "the lads" they would be sued and put into prison.

Unfortunately the European Declaration of Human rights has meant that although these trained protectors of our freedom (and they are deployed in more places than just Afghanistan and Iraq please note!) are unable to help us normal citisens to regain the Britain that has respect!

That's it for now I am off to do work ....