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Hi all you nice visitors to my little asylum. For those interested I am studying history at the University of St Andrews (where they play golf). I am, *sob*, going into my final year, so it's dissertation time for me. And then I have to find a real job. If a history degree hasn't made me completely unemployable. We're not really talking about what I'm going to do next year. Not even if you were to hijack me on my messenger identity: Swiv42@hotmail.com
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Yeah, so anyway - that's H2G2's very own newspaper, for which I write currently: a few little bits and pieces. I'm still in admiration of my shiny "Post Reporter" badge which now appears in all skins! You can see what I've written for them here, at 'Swiv's Bits'. I'm also toddling of to Uganda for the summer to do some voluntary work, so I'm hoping to put some reports of that together come September (nothing like planning ahead). In the meantime, please give a big hand to Shazz, the very wonderful editor.
There's plenty of other fun places to go to in the Guide. For those of us who like to write or just critique there's the wonders of Peer Review - plus it's kind of essential if the Guide is going to keep going. For the talkative:Ask H2G2,
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And now there's the All H2G2 Patrick Rafter and Tennis Appreciation Society. Founded by Caper Plip the club has a host of facillites. I am the personal cocktail mixer for Xavier Malisse. So hop on over. I'm also the Wizard of Harry Potter and the University of St Andrews (two things I can claim to have a fair amount of knowledge of... just don't ask me on which page something happens) over at the Guild of Wizards. Finally, for the less chirpy amongst you - which at the last count included me everytime the weather is not sunny and fresh, there is PUDDING.
"Some people do not have to search, for they find their niche early in life, and rest there seemingly content and resigned. At times I envy them, but I do not understand them, and seldom do they understand me. I am one of the Searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we completely content. We continue to explore life hoping to uncover it's ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach; we are taken by its power and ceaseless motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests, mountains, deserts, hidden rivers and lovely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our life as our laughter. To share our sadness with those we love is perhaps as great a joy as we know, unless it is to share our laughter. We Searchers are ambitious only for life itself and anything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we want to love and be loved, to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering and prevent our search. This passage is for wanderers, dreamers and lovers who dare to ask of life all that is good and beautiful." - anonymous
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Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Today's "How to..."
(Sep 29, 2003)
"How to Scare the Fourth Years"
This was the notice up about registration for my special subject module (this year long fandango that I have to go through).
"Registration will be at 9:45 PROMPT in Room 1.17. Attendance is obligatory. Death Certificates Accepted."
Below it was the next, for another course: "All latecomers and non-attendees will be subject to terrible humiliation and punishment."
Yikes
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baptised...
(Sep 8, 2003)
well that's the nearest I've ever got to bolting from something I undertook to do, in my life, ever.
I was so scared of making a public commitment to my faith that I was nearly straight out of the bapistry and over the fields just before the ceremony got underway.
Didn't help at all that I hate talking in public, and 80 people rocked up to support me, and I hate crying in public, but talking about my faith always makes me howl.
But after the talking, I was fine, the dunking was wonderful, I felt kind of fresh afterwards.
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garrrghhhhhhh
(Sep 3, 2003)
decided NOT to fill in the little comments box at the end of the Foreign Office online application form
Somehow I thought that writing "I spent three hours in June and three hours now figuring and getting through all of this, the sessions time out to sodding fast, the code from the practice test (which you HAVE to do) expires so you have to redo the test (and try and remember as many answers as poss.  ), and there's no alternative way of doing it (and it's not Mac compatible but that doesn't affect me). I think being able to jump through all your hoops should get me in alone" was conducive to getting a job!
so darn annoying!!!!
and I have a stiff neck from staring at the screen all the time
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Back
(Sep 2, 2003)
Ok, back home now. Is a little strange. Is parents 25th anniversary so can't just collapse in a heap either...
Spent eight hours at Heathrow yesterday waiting for the bus home - time spent adjusting. Think I must have spent the first couple of them looking petrified. It was sooo unnerving (and expensive!!) But now I'm unpacked, pretty carved table in the corner, a window sill full of carvings and sandstone to pack to take up to uni with me, and 19 films ready to be sent off...
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little green men in rwanda
(Aug 20, 2003)
appologises if letters are wrong; I have an incredibly wonky keypad - q is where a should be, a is where w should be etc....
anyway - am in Kigali (Rwanda capital) which has traffic lights and little green men at some junctions! which people actually obey!!!
this is very unusual for africa, but kind of suits Rwanda which is a crazy mix of extreme Africa - the city sprawls shanty-like across its hills - and western stuff, probably something to do with the huge nos. of NGOs and UN stuff out here.
However, still havent seen many mzungu, so for the kids in the countryside we are veryt odd!
anyway - we came to rwanda in a matatu smuggling shoe polish; off all random things, but it meant they took good care to keep us sweet, help us over the border and not drive too crazily
Kigali is a huge mess; still recuperating from the fighting, but very appealing none the less, and it has all the typical african street hawkers and kids.
yesterday we trawled the woodcarving stands and picked up a few goodies... Fi wants to bring home a cow skin rug!
today we went to one of the genocide memorials; at Nyamata, wxe got there after a bumpy bus ride, and got off too early but we did manage to land ourselves with a guide Gilles; a secondary school student; who walked us to the church and showed us round - his parents and some of his friends died there, its weird to realise that everyone over 10 experienced the genocide, and nearly everyone zill have connections to some of the memorials;
the church is a small place - about 10000 died inside it, in an attack that began zith grenades, another 10000 werer rounded up fro, the nearby countryside and killed in the church compound; The locals have dug some crypts in which skulls and bones are displayed, and there is a coffin - in an Unknown soldier kind of way - of a pregnant woman zho died in the massacre;
Rwanda itself is gorgeous - rolling hills; and snaking flood plains in between, the hills are very dry, it is the ,iddle of dry season, but the plains are a sea of green: tea, coffee, sugar cane and papyrus...
tomorrow we are heading south to Nyungwe forest; and back to uganda on sunday
oh and for those interested in the transport -( today we got piki-pikis - motorbike boda-bodas; which we sat on pillion and zoomed up the m
ain road-hill to the city centre!!!
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Swiv's Idea of a University (Mar 10, 2004)
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Swiv's Idea of a University (Feb 25, 2004)
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Swiv's Idea of a University (Feb 11, 2004)
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Swivs Travels: Uganda 2003 - Part Fourteen (Jan 7, 2004)
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Swivs Travels: Uganda 2003 - Part Thirteen (Dec 15, 2003)
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Swivs Travels: Uganda 2003 - Part Twelve (Dec 10, 2003)
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Swivs Travels: Uganda 2003 - Part Eleven (Dec 2, 2003)
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