Who would know it was August? I feel for tourists who come to this land and have their prejudices about our weather confirmed - in England, it rains. But this is not true! It is a fallacy - a summer's day in England has inspired poets such as Keats and Wordsworth, there is a particular gentleness and calmness imbued in a summer's day in the English countryside...
Oh well. I like the rain. I love the rain in fact. I am going running (only 2 miles today) in it later and am hoping the rain doesn't stop. It would be fun to get all wet and muddy!
Last night I watched Dawkins and his programme on Darwin and I have to confess I wasn't his biggest fan, nor am I a fan of such documentaries on a Monday night. (They should be teatime on Sunday...) I was intending to miss it but watched a bit and was hooked. I didn't really like him because I am not really a fan of anyone who is so determined in their arguments as he is in the God Delusion; I am not religious at all and along with Dawkins, I am afraid, I don't believe in a God. But I don't believe in anything and am not that great a fan of science as the be-all-and-end-all of everything either, mostly because it seeks to squash other forms of thought that there may be in my discipline and I find this tiresome. But the programme was very interesting and I love his idea that there may as well be an altruistic gene as a selfish, hobbesian one. This pleases me greatly and so I have been inspired this morning to buy a couple of his books. The idea that humankind is innately selfish, competitive and scheming influences contemporary international politics to its core and it drives me bonkers. I believe that people are good but because of social Darwinist ideas that they are not so nice, greed and exploitation in politics goes unchecked. But Dawkins argues that there is also a gene that makes us nice. I like this and look forward to reading about it.
I am going to see the Dark Knight at the IMAX later.
Before that though I have to do some work. Worky worky.
I am hungry - I shall go and get some toast and come and do some work. Why do I not want to work at all? What is so bad about the work? There is nothing bad about it. I only have to work till 3 today and then I am off. Ok, I am going to get me some structure so I don't feel daunted by a whole day of work in front of me. I will take it easy and if I get an hour done then that is an hour that I know I have no intention of doing at the moment:
Skive and eat brek (1 toast) until 11
Work 11 - 12.30
run and lunch 12.30 - 2
Work 2 - 3.30
Get ready for cinema.
I will do some work for DB tonight too -very much need to earn some extra cash.
One of my colleagues at uni has started this new scrabulous game with me execpt it has a 'theme'. It's very hard and I don't really know if it is one theme, or word association. And I don't really have time to sit there pondering all this! Hehe.
Oh yes, yesterday I found some amamaaaaamamamamaazing flights for us to go to TN. AMAZING and I found them as a fluke too. I really really want them - they have great stopover times, on a good airline and leave and arrive at normal daylight hours - and are £30 cheaper each than the next cheapest tickets. I spoke to my friend at flight centre and she has held them for us but needs to rebook them every three days! I don't expect them to hang around long so think we have missed the boat with them but, fingers crossed, it will be ok!
Oh dear, I am expecting our passports by special delivery today and my hair is still all bed-head! They could be here any minute!
No news from the ESRC about my overseas travel allowance. I really, really, really want that money.
Better sort out my hair!!
Bye bye bye bye!
x J
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