Advance course material for Linguistics 101:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7208505.stm

This story has everything: a bear, the war effort, and the Scottish borders.

I was trying to resist posting this because I felt a bit politically incorrect for being amused by it, but it is also educational:

Today's new word is Miswak.

I finally changed the batteries in my camera.
( amusement from yesterday evening )

I got the essay done and took it up to uni, where today's nicer faction of the departmental staff ordered me to go home to bed. So I went to the parental abode and borrowed GoF off my sister, did the crossword, and have managed to keep myself awake quite admirably, if I say so myself.

Now I am On Holiday. Yay. My plan is to catch up with the annals of HP...oh yeah, and do my assignment and go to rehearsals and do work. Yes.

*Collapses*

( ETA: Teh Survey )