That pretty sums up me at the moment. Today I gave a presentation on A Clockwork Orange which went really, really well. Honestly, I just got it right after spending hours preparing (and rehearsing!) it yesterday. All hail multi-coloured cue cards as well, though not forgetting what they taught us in primary school… make eye contact! 
There’s a glut of festivals at the moment – so hope everyone who celebrates them has\had a good Halloween, Diwali, Eid and Bonfire night!
Incidentally, I should mention the shit that George Bush is in at the moment. But I was thinking the other day – imagine there was some magical transformation tomorrow and America suddenly got a progressive government, determined to forge a better country with say – [gasp] – universial healthcare. And imagine the people fell behind this, and there was a great change in public attitude.
Even in this fantasy-land, we’d still be stuffed. The budget is in deep defecit, unlike the days of Clinton, and there would simply be no money to do these things. Not the mention the Supreme Court will soon be lurching rightwards (if such a thing is possible) so the social conservatives would be able to block things they didn’t like. You know, like gay people.
Honestly. We can’t even use the old cliché of budget-slashing penny-pinching right-wingers any more. It’s all the spending of the left without any of the benefit. The worst of both worlds.
History has a knack of repeating itself, and the government looks like it’s locked into a downward spiral back to opposition.
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Cute photo with Katie by the TARDIS
With only a week or so to go, I finally got to Brighton and the Doctor Who Exhibition. Well if anyone was going to go, it would be me, right? 
And without further ado, some photos…
Brighton Pier
Chicken Soup with Barley
Anyway, the play was great – particularly the actress playing Sarah – mother of the Khan family. A group of Socialist\Communist Jews in the East End, the collapse of their dream is paralleled in the collapse of their family as the father loses the will to live, the daughter escapes to the country and the son becomes utterly disillusioned with everything. OK it wasn’t cheery, but it was good.
Gromit
Tomorrow – Brighton and the Doctor Who Exhibition just in time before it closes. And then homework!
Oh and if anyone wants to see my spoof David Cameron movie, MSN me
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Well, me and 64 others who waited 10 months to be told we were right. Still, at least the system works. Albeit slowly.
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