accomplishedIn short, huge kudos to JB. Whatever happens now is out of my hands. Hopefully I shall be invited to interview then offered a place on the course and thus with any luck sometime in September I shall be talking to you from Canterbury.
In other news I will not be voting in next weeks general election. I know this is a surprise but there are valid reasons why I will not be voting. Actually, I cannot vote. As I'm not in Britain next week on election day I applied for a postal vote. I had it sent home, thinking that it might be there when I was back last week, so I could vote then and get someone at home to post it off for me, but alas no. I flew back here on Tuesday and my postal vote arrived at home yesterday. I'm led to believe they posted them out 2 days before that. Either way, it makes no difference whether it was sent here or home, because I still wouldn't be able to use it. Usually things should take a week to get between here and Britain, but for some reason its been taking 3 weeks to get to Vienna from Britain, but only a week to do the return journey. It doesn't matter whether it took a week or 3 weeks though, because if they only posted them out on Tuesday there's not a chance in hell I'd get it here and then be able to get it back in time to vote. So, now I not only have a voting card but I also have my voting papers at home, 1000 miles away from where I am. I suppose now I don't need to work out who I'd vote for, and that if the country goes tits up I can quite safely blame everyone else :D
Talking of Britain, when I was sat at the gate in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol waiting for my connecting flight back out to Vienna I ended up talking to the man sat next to me. He was a British older man. We hadn't really been talking a lot but he turned to me and said that I shouldn't go back to Britain and that I should, and I quote 'get yourself a boyfriend, or girlfriend, whichever you prefer.' I have to admit that this did take me somewhat by surprise as all he knew about me was that I was British and worked in Vienna! Essentially what he was meaning was that Britain is screwed and if you can get out, get out and stay out. He also said that climate change was happening now, regardless of what other people were saying about how it is but isn't yada yada yada. He said he was a geologist and climatologist and then he said that the world was getting warmer and every summer was going to be longer and hotter than the year before. He also said that in 10 years time the world wouldn't look and work the same as it is now and that the price of air fares will rocket. I don't know how much of this to believe but it definitely got me thinking about things! Problem is, most of what it got me thinking about was other weird conversations I've had on 'public transport'. Remind me to find out the wild boar story when I'm at home.
Can't remember if I was going to mention anything else now or not. I can't even remember what I was going to mention when I started this earlier but oh well. Serves me right for trying to do two lots of work at once I suppose. I will try and keep you posted on things and I hope to bring back the randomness entries I used to do, but you'll have to bear with me for now.
