The Den o'Iniquity

The first duty here is, as has often been the case lately is to apologise for the very considerable absence since last posting. However in my defence I would point out the following things:

A) Until the beginning of term I was definitely one of the most consistent blog-posters
B) I have a very busy life outside of uni and unlike some do not have the luxury of being able to spend all their time on (insert computer game of choice here)
C) I was totally Virused out for about 2 weeks
D) Fuck Off
E) Nah, you don't have to go, I was only kidding [words echo back in the empty darkness]

Anyways I will start as I mean to go on: by laughing at the French. I've found an amusing quote by anon: "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage." I don't really need to expound this any further I feel but if requested, will try to do so.
Now, things have changed a fair bit since last I blogged, as most of you are aware to summarise the main events (which I may go into at length as I see fit)

1) I’m no longer the head of TV news.
2) I’ve been elected as Disabled Rights Representative to Union Council.
3) Things in the OTC are going well, (up to and including getting rained on in a field in Catterick at night).
4) My course is going well and I have done all 3 of the oral presentations I have to do this semester (with varying degrees of success).
5) I ran the scoring at the Centennial Leeds Inter Varsity Debate and helped to run the event. (This was yesterday).
6) My computer got a host of evil viruses.
7) I visited Newcastle and Durham for their respective Inter Varsity debates (and to see various peeps) and visited Tommy in Sheffield in some of my sparse new free time.
8) I got Cable

Realising that a substantial proportion of this post is now in the form of lists, I will start on elaborating on the above. Firstly on TV News, I know that I only announced my coronation to this post in my last post, but it should be pretty obvious even there that I'm hardly overflowing with enthusiasm and that period could well be considered the high tide mark. Afterwards the amount of work increased almost exponentially as the rewards decreased in inverse proportion. It quickly became obvious that I couldn't continue with all my commitments and with my course and since this took up the most time and as it has no relation to my course or what I want to do when I leave Uni it had to be the one to go. The period afterwards has actually been a lot more fun - I'm feeling less stressed and I've got a fair whack of my free time back. Now I can sleep in on Mondays, do more work for my course (I actually have), go to the gym (haven't yet) or just relax and watch cable or play games. This I feel is an immense improvement and should hopefully give me more time to blog, go on msn and actually phone people. This should result in an increase in the amount of me that I can provide to you.
Moving on, my election went quite smoothly, with slogans such as: "The Disabled Candidate for a Disabled Future"; "The Common sense candidate with the common solutions" and "I am not a communist" winning me the votes of the 122 people I like to refer to as "the cool kids". Up to the point of writing I have only actually done one thing since being elected - this being to go to my 1st Equality and Diversity Committee where I got the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Hilarious Camp representative added to the committee. My policy ideas so far are as follows- firstly to establish an annual equality and diversity week with stuff like morris dancing, wheelchair basketball, Chinese lessons etc, secondly to have a day of remembrance for the victims of communist and other authoritarian regimes on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre and thirdly to retitle the Women's Officer's job Title to become Equality and Diversity Officer. If anyone has any policy which are both amusing / a good idea and actually have any chance of possibly being implemented, add them to marmots.
I doubt any of you actually want to hear about the OTC or my course so will skip over that and pass on to the subject of the Leeds IV (except to say hat I'm now basically qualified to handle the SA80 rifle). I was charged with handling the scoring system (which ran through an excel spreadsheet) but thanks partly to some data entry errors on my part, partly to people fucking about and partly to programme bugs the whole thing managed to collapse and die, this in combination with two building evacuations due to fire alarms managed to fuck everything over completely . As little as possible should be said about what followed. This minimum is to say that the final went very well and was deservedly won by Cork university of Ireland who were not only fantastic debaters but also very nice people who helped hold things together and to also to say that the meal at la bonavita restaurant in Leeds was exquisite. As a result of these events too calamitous to detail I am now considerably less rich, very tired and the entirety of my serial killer outfit and my bag is now locked inside the university until Monday morning. Understandably I'm not overjoyed with turn if events and so will move on (I know people come here for rage so will try and fill this in at a later date).
The remaining points are pretty much self-explanatory so I will just say sorry to Aaron and Dev for the balls up when I visited and sorry to Salter for the above and for my amazing gormlessness. To conclude I'd just like to say that Genndy Tartakovsky's clone wars is quite simply as good a hot geek injection to the face and is orgasmically good - go now and watch it or break into someone else's house and watch it there.
The T, out.