h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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£50 in HMV; £45 with student discount. Madness, I know - the 'Canon' for £45 - and the idea of a complete Haydn is just toooo tempting...

I have just had a very welcome e-mail from the Uni. re. my LLM funding. The Law School were offering me £X. Well, the College of Arts and Social Sciences (which is the faculty that the Law School is in) have offered me an additional £X x 3.5. I can now safely accept the place that has been offered to me, and will now focus on putting down roots in my cubby-hole so that I don't get moved into something naff in September - the rule for research students is '3 to a room', but I can argue that I will be teaching, and possibly even marking, this coming year, making me a special case (!)

HP5 was rather good last night. More of the same, really, if perhaps a shade darker. Harry was all twitchy, jumpy, pale-faced, paranoid and prey to mood swings with big circles round his eyes (and, doubtless, hairs on the palms of his hands, all from excessive tossing in bed and wand-manipulation - either that or he is on crack). Imelda Staunton was EXCELLENT. The best bit of the film was the Weasley twins' broom flight to freedom. Helena Bonham-Carter was wasted. One of the new characters - http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0373889/Ss/0373889/HP5D5741r.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Lynch,%20Evanna - reminded me of composite of the Cusacks. The whole cinema laughed at the "how was your first kiss" dialogue.

I will have to read the books sometime. Susan has read them all to date. I'll be buying her Deathly Hallows next Saiturday.

Pizza for tea.

Here's a prediction - Peet will be howling in his journal tomorrow that TalkTalk haven't reconnected his broadband.


Douglas

Excellent news






It has crossed my mind, too, but them I tend towards pessimism

Well done re funding.

I did moot(combative challenge)this as a possibility yesterday.He did agree that it could be possilbe that the engineer would not press the button.

Sue