"I was going to hire the Jimmy Hendrix Tribute Band, but I decided to hire The Plonkers instead..."

'Help the Aged, we will.' said the van as it went past, and as much as I hate to admit it I frowned and thought: "Why?" - because one day I'll be old too...but then, you ask the old to help the young and why? Because they were young once too...one day I'll have been everything, not necessarily at the same time though.

And unusually, for me, I am writing this first part of my blog at 11:15am. My morning classes are finished, and the only thing left for me today is a guest speaker from 5-7 tonight: the BBC's terrorism expert or something to that effect, I'll elaborate later on. I'm still struggling with my cold, having seemed to have developed a dry cough, which while in a lecture is a dreadful curse. Despite my early start (many still scoff at my 9am start) I'm more or less done for the day; but there's something unfair about not being able to relax for my 5 hour break simply due to the fact that I know I'm not finished yet. Annoying to say the least.

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The talk was in fact very informative and amusing, and despite it being scheduled for 2 hours, it lasted only 45 minutes. However I still got caught in very heavy rain on the way there, and sitting in a lecture theatre literally dripping wet is not a pleasant experience.

The speaker's name (Peter Power) was also quite amusing, and aside from the fact that it was advertised by the University staff as "a talk on terrorism" very little was said on that particular subject, more was said about crises management, which means as much to you as it does to me.

-Ross