South Park So as the balmy days of summer end and the damp of a North Eastern autumn inhabits his chest, your hero finds himself, tired, overworked and lacking the mental energy to construct a logical sentence. Since my last entry I have started my latest Uni course (yes, I will venture into the real world one of these days) and so is spending a disproportionate amount of his time fretting about teaching French and Spanish!

In the month since my last post, a lot of blog-worthy events have happened, which if it wasn't for the pain of Masters assignments, lesson planning and the social life that accompanies being at University again, that each could warrant a separate entry.

However for now I will be brief. These are some of the things that I have reflected on over the last two weeks...

  • Gordon Brown will not win the next election. Not so depressing until you consider the Tory alternative...
  • An Englishman's football and rugby teams cannot be simultaneously successful.
  • Red Bull and a load of coffee do not 'give you wings' as much as they make your face twitch!
  • The general public are not as clever as some people give them credit for.
  • The people who voted Jeremy Clarkson Britain's '3rd greatest wit' suffer from a form of dyslexia.
  • If the Government are paying for you to go to University, they expect you to work for it.
  • Undergraduates are getting too young (this year's intake are born in 1989!!!).
  • People who wear t-shirts with semi-ironic slogans (i.e. the fat, spotty bloke I saw on Grainger St on Tuesday with 'I only sleep with pretty girls' emblazoned across his portly torso) should not be tolerated.
  • Wearing reading glasses and stroking stubble can make people think that you are (more) intelligent/attractive.
  • Mixing Mojitos and Czech Lager is not a good idea.
  • As soon as you start using L'Oreal skin products, you stop getting asked for ID.