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Well, it would appear that there should be a newsletter. Well, there isn’t. Not yet anyway. And you may have to wait till after Solid. Which is a week today.

In other news, I’m trying to apply for a Foundation Degree in Computing course at Chippenham College. As I’m applying so stupidly late I now have to go through clearing. Yay.

Why is applying to uni so complicated? >:|

I’m aware of how sensitive my last blog post is, and have password protected it. It will also be deleted after a total of 5 people have viewed the post the password is available on request. Normal service will resume tomorrow.

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

It really is. It was 28.5 celcius at THE TOWER. For Britain, this is hot. The met office has given a warmer forecast for the end of the week.

Today I went to the Trafford Centre with some friends from work. Getting there was mad as I went too fast and missed the lane for the M60, so ended up using a route I remembered from many years back which requires you going past Old Trafford and then through Trafford Park, a massive industrial estate.

Most of my clothes buying experiences stem from internet shopping, or the odd shirt I find that nobody seems to use, so it was an experience. I went to River Island and Topshop Topman. The thing I noticed is that there appear to be craploads of hot women around suddenly.

I have some clothes for the Avox summer party now. Excellent.

One of the essays for Spurgeons College is on struggles. What have I struggled with? Well, a lot.

To start with, I’m not a loud, chatty person. I didn’t find it easy to talk to girls (and to some extent, still don’t. If I don’t seem to talk to you much, it’s because I’m shy T_T). Working with two actresses this made my life difficult to say the least. However, because i was put in such a situation i learned, or my brain learned, that talking to girls is easy. Really, it is. So now I can happily talk to Em or Laura or Ami or Jayne or Maddy or Rach (who isn’t at Viz any more ) without feeling clumsy or silly.

Now, not only do I find it difficult to talk to girls but I also find my self being really quite quiet when it comes to groups of people, generally larger than four or five. Having four, needless to say, loud tasty boys around has at the least started to give me courage and the comfort to talk more in a group. Also, having all the opti-vols to talk to, often in one big group, has helped enormously.

Faith. I would say that the faith i have now is unquantifiably stronger than when i started. I wasn’t (and still aren’t, really) all that up for discussing… a lot of things. When someone asks me something I generally just nod and agree. However, there some hot point where i will stand my ground, but you’ll most likely find me nodding and agreeing. To some extent (even if it’s not that big) i have learned (if that’s the right word) to actually say what i think and or feel. Sometimes this isn’t such a good thing, but more often than not it’s a good thing. (That’s a hot dog).

People. I’m awful with people. Introduce me to someone and leave to get a drink and you’d probably get back and find us in silence. Well, again, however small a change, I have improved. I can at least start the “small talk” ball rolling. That doesn’t mean to say that i can keep it rolling. At all. But I’m still better with new people than I was.

Well, they are just a fraction of things I can think of at the moment. Who knows, maybe I can print it off and hand it to Lindsay under the pretence that it’s an Essay. In the meantime consider this.

What is life without Love?

[EDIT: Spell Checked]

Well, I think I’ve meant to write this blog for about a month – things have been a bit busy since then! The main news, of course, is that I am now Mr Owen Rudge BSc (Hons) (St And). It was my graduation this Wednesday past, and a pretty good day it was, too. The weather, while foggy at first, brightened up and was really quite nice by the end of the day. I’ll stick some photos up when I have time. Then on Friday, it was the Graduation Ball – the final social event of the year. It was nice to see everybody one last time, although of course it’s not going to the case that I’ll never see anybody again (and you’re all quite welcome to visit me in Minnesota come October ). Since then it’s been a case of packing and tidying, which I am taking a bit of a break from just now.

Before this past week, I also had a trip up to Banchory to see Jen, where we also went to visit Balmoral – all quite fun. Photos will again follow at some point. I then spent a few days in Inverness with Ann and Graeme, before returning down to St Andrews again. And before that week, well, I can’t quite remember any more. Lots has gone on, anyway.

Lots will be going on in the near future, too. Tomorrow I’ll be heading down to North Wales with all my stuff, dropping Silvia off at Edinburgh Airport on the way. Hopefully I’ll be able to fit everything in the car so I only have to do one trip, but it’s possible I may then have to head back up to St Andrews, and drive down again on Tuesday to take the last of my stuff. We shall see. Then on Wednesday, I’m off to Vienna for a few days, visiting Silvia, before heading back to the UK for all of a day on Sunday, before departing for Brazil on Monday for a month! All a bit mad, really.

Then come August I shall be starting my new job with CodeWeavers, remotely until October when hopefully, pending the approval of my H1-B visa, I will be moving out to the US. So lots to be sorted out and organised.

The past four years have been fantastic, for sure, and quite the experience. But now new horizons beckon, and the future looks bright.

Pictures from the Vest Fjord Voyage

Vestfjordseilasen er en seilregatta som går fra Nordskot i Steigen til Kabelvåg i Lofoten. I år dro jeg over på den gamle store motorbåten Ole-Johhny. En fin tur, selv om jeg sov bort mesteparten.

Flere bilder her!