Graduation!

Well phew! it's been months and months and months. it's not that i haven't travelled, it's that i haven't had a proper internet connection. When i say proper i mean i moved from elephant and castle after the crazy brazilian housemate kicked me, then moved to clapham sleeping on couches and various beds at a friend's, then had a minor housing crisis then moved to Tooting.

yes, i now live in Tooting Bec, London, SW17.
laugh and laugh now. my mother still does.

we celebrated two months in our Tooting house last Thursday and for various reasons there's been a dearth of internet. but it's done and done and sorted. I've been around London roughly 37 times--having eaten 6 Borough Market brownies, travelled to Wales (where my friend and potential future brother in-law made goo goo eyes over each other), headed back to Edinburgh, moved out, went to america for Katie and Kasey's weddings, came back, Leamingtoned it up, quit my job, unquit my job and went to Brighton. Not all in that particular order.

i've missed the internet greatly, i've missed writing more, and i'm considering life as a professional bum so that i can sit on the beach and conjure up poems or sonnets or really sarcastic prose. i'd go on a downloading spree and stick all of my photos right now and then write about them, but unfortunately we're at the "height of british summer" and i've got to be at work at 7 tomorrow.

so for the meantime, i give you the photos from the reason i started this strange journey in the first place...a year as a grad student at the University of Warwick. (i should mention that i graduated somewhere around 25 January 2008, not today, the date i've actually posted these!)


The Vice Chancellor and esteemed professors of the university



I think we're being presented?


beanies processing!



and i'm graduated!


dave and me



my parents and the quasi-surprise trip


not the end but blogger is, again, very slow.
more to come. hopefully sooner than months from now.