11 things i learnt today...

when navigating london, step back, find your bearings and use a map instead of trying random tube trains.

someone has a sense of humour out there. on one of the central line trains, there was the normal warning signs by the door and window, but there was an additional, completely official looking notice below, which fit in with the rest perfectly as if it had been there all the time. this notice read "no smiling. £200 fine." i found this quite amusing.

daddy-long-legs can conduct electricity and still live. that bast that is currently being propelled through the seweage system in several pieces managed to blow two of my lamps. they both take different bulbs. my room is dark.

bskyb think they can enforce a contract upon you, but to find out what the contract is, you have to agree to it. this was at tower, where we saw the silly david blane. while gazing at his stupidity we read the notice on the front of the fence we were standing next to, "by standing here you agree to let bskyb film you for showing on david blane: above and below to be shown on sky one." thanks for telling me.

a question that shall never be answered: why do i frequently get mathematics homeworks when i find the "hard" questions quite easy, but the first few "easy" questions elude me?

i shall never use the stairs instead of the lift in underground stations. my legs can't take four hundred or so tight twisty steps.

*#110 when tapped into one of the many snack machines in many london underground stations does something. try it and find out, it can be different for every machine, although it usually only says one thing.

my brain disengages when im tired. my brain asked for no dinner because i had a large lunch and was too hot to have a giant fry-up. my mouth said otherwise so there i was trying to swallow loads of bacon on a full stomach.

london is somewhere i would like to stay for university, reguardless of the expense, the experience will be too rich to miss.

my parents will never acknowledge that i am not oxbridge material.

#mtuk always dies on me when i arrive back from doing my homework and watching the television.

i probably learnt more (well infact i did, but then again nobody would be interested in the design aspects of some of the things i saw which are now stored in my brain.) so i shall just leave it as that and sleep or something sensible.

by keot, posted on Tuesday, 16. September 2003 @ 2251.09 bst