Or rather, I managed to break the index and middle fingers on my left hand in a particularly ridiculous fashion while I spent this weekend in Leeds with a few friends. Quite annoying and surprisingly painful, really. Also makes typing a bit of a chore.

Still, live and learn, eh? From now on I'll know that hard pavements, piggyback jousting and a huge amount of gin really don't mix terribly well.

Greetings one and all. Just thought I'd write a quick note by ways of a personal update for anyone inclined to care.

I haven't really been on ADISC at all over the last couple of months baring the odd flying visit but I'm at my parents' house for a couple of weeks over Christmas and will try to get on from time to time as I'll have a lot more time on my hands (that's a lot of 'times' in quick succession isn't it? Timeity, timeity, time. Time.).

Anyway, I'm enjoying uni...

Hello lovely people of ADISC,

If anyone has noticed that I haven't been online for eight or ten days, this is just a quick note to say, as the title indicates, that I'm still alive. I've moved house and we're having internet problems so I haven't really had the chance to get on. There are uni computers, libraries and internet cafes and such but I'm not too keen on using those to get on here, as I'm sure you can understand.

Anyhoo, I'm not sure when I'll next be able to...

So then, blogity blogity blogity.

I hadn’t really intended to start a blog(ity) here but then, in a moment of drunken introspection and exaggeration, I did. And I can’t very well leave that as the only entry.

Let’s see then…I’m afraid the subject of this entry isn’t going to be as whimsical as it might sound. The other day a friend of mine got quite badly beaten up by some idiots with a drainpipe. Yes, a bloody drainpipe. I wasn’t there but it was about half...