At around two O'clock this afternoon Peter Laycock, an 18 year old boy from Devon die as the result of a major car crash. The crash occured at around 11 O'clock on Friday and Peter never recovered consciousness.

Although I have never met Peter his brother, Tom (or Farmer Tom to those who knew him), is one of my best friends at Uni. Tom is a second year Agriculture student and an earnest Christian. Peter was not.

Please pray for Tom and the family, he would value that so much.

The Beach

We are here,
Our little corner of paradise,
Just You and I.

We can see,
The sun slowly sinking. Casting shades
Of gentle warmth.

We can feel,
The wind pushing from all directions,
Against our embrace.

We both know,
This moment of strength and serenity,
Will too soon pass.

We are one,
Hands locked, rosé cheeks softly touching,
Our cold lips soften.

We are here.
Together. This moment is all ours.
Just You and I.

This week has been tough, hence the complete lack of posts. Friday was a very enjoyable day for me, I went to a small 'old-mans' pub called The Nelson with two of my friends (Rach & Rach) for a folk night. Now normally i'm not a fan of folk. Not that I dis-like it but i've never gottan into it. I went along purely to be sociable and ended up having an excellent time. The folk night basically consisted of a load of old men and women (mainly men) spontaniously playing folk songs on a variety of instruments. We whistled, clapped and clicked along for some three hours and were rewarded with sandwhiches at then end. This friday I shall be back. After Nelsons (which finished at approx 12 O'Clock) I headed over to the Welsh Evangelical Church to join a CU event called 'tea & toast' where members of the evanglism team (and any volunteers such as myself) distrubuted... well tea and toast... to people coming out of Time/Amser the Uni nightclub. When I say people I really mean drunks. It was a really fun time and I came away (at almost two) really encouraged by the responses of some of the people (drunks).

Saturday I spend partly doing an essay, partly seeing Becky and partly on a pub crawl for my friends birthday. Dressed as Gangsta's we haunted the streets of Bangor in search for more alcohol. It was more of a light jog for me, I had a bottle of Carlseberg and a pint of Guiness. And several pints of water so that by the end of the night I literally was 'bladdered'. It was a fun night and I enjoyed spending time with Stew (my friend) whom I have been seeing less and less of recently for various reasons.

The early part of this week was mainly spent doing work. I handed in my second Textual Analysis essay (an analysis of My Picture Left In Scotland by Ben Jonson) which was hard work but better than the first. I also read Hamlet and completed a two-man presentation on my own. When I say completed I also mean started. Now I ahve a day off tomorrow which I hope to spend the majority of reading at the pier.

This week I have spent many hours watching films. In a way it's sad, but you can learn a lot from a good film. A film i watched this week that I would thoroughly recommend is 'Legend of the Falls' starring Brad Pitt and Anthoney Hopkins. I won't give a critique of it (i'll leave that to the professionals) but I will say that it is the saddest film I have ever seen. I jsut wanted to hug Becky after watching it.

Tomorrow I have several CU events on which I am excited about, including nominations for next years executive!! Duh duh durrrrrrrrr :) I'd love to get involved in some way, shape or form but i guess it's up to everyone else :p

Have fun ladies and gentlemen.

"SO breaks the sun earth's rugged chains,
Wherein rude winter bound her veins;"

BJ

I've just gone and bought my first every bottle of whisky... Glenmorangie Single Malt Scotch Whiskey.... quite clearly it isn't for me. I'd never touch the stuff. I chipped in with a few friends to get it for another friends birthday. He likes it. I don't understand why. But now i have hardly any money left for teh rest of term. Well i had hardly any before but thats not the point. Thankfully after this weekend i'm doing absolutley nothing. In fact i'm going to attempt to not spend a single penny next week. It'll be tough but i can do it.

My computer is completely screwed. When I switch it on it gives me a one minute shut down notice and then re-starts (after a minute) then the process happens again. I'm going to have to find out what the problem is or i'll be very upset.

Love you all.

Imagine the scene:

Two trenches opposing one another. Weapons clutched in shaking hands. The atmosphere is changing, theres a gloom hanging over the place. You can hear retching from both sides. A CRACK is fired and a BOOM follows.

In I stroll. My five barrell weapon held firmly in my right hand ready to do battle. I level it, take aim and... open Calvinsim: Documented, Defended, Defined.

Yeah thats right baby, we're having a 'discussion' on Calvinism in cell soon :D I'm having my said weapon of choice imported from England (home) and there's going to be one mighty fight.

I would say that i'll win but obvioiusly I won't. God's word will and int hat sense i'll be on the winning side :) Oh boy, it's going to be so fun.

Today I made the final edit on my first Medieval Literature assignment. The 'question' was 'The fault of 'Beowulf' is there is nothing much to the story' discuss. I hate those kind of questions. They're just so open that I end up getting confused and writitng a load of crap. Oh well, good job it isn't an assessd piece. Give me a hard essay any day.

You wouldn't believe the amount of people you get to know at University. Bangor Uni has a population of just over 8,000 students which is nice and small. But 8,000 is still a lot of people, in fact it's a huge amount consiedering the city as a whole has a population of 18,000. I go hardly anywhere in Bangor, it's fantastic for me :) My halls are about 50 metres away from Main Arts so other than going to church and ultimate theres not actually reason for me to stray. Nevertheless I see poeple I know everywhere! Theres always someone from halls, CU, Ultimate or my course who I bump into. Mostly In Mike's Bites actually (the greatest cafe in the world which I will talk about in a later post). I just find it remarkable how many people I know now.

I find it even more remakable that I actually like most of them.

You know what? I have absolutley no clue about politics. It's true. So i'm not even going to bother pretending. I know what I believe (at least i'm pretty sure I do) and i'm going to stick to that. I make my vote at the end of the day and what will will.

Something that I do know about is hunger. Right now i'm feeling it like a black man feels the blues or someting like that anyway :p I feel that i'm wasting away at Uni, i'm used to eating a lot at home and its just not happening. At least i'm doing a fair amount of exercise so that tiny remnents of muscle are technically developing.

I can't believe that there's already a film version of Beowulf. That was going to be my lifes work. They changed the story aswell. Thats actually more upsetting and annoying. I don't understand how you could ever have a more appealing story than the one already there. Stupid people. Americans of course.

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Oh boy. It's a long, long time since I posted on this vestige of my humble existence. I could say about my life post September but that would take an awful lot of effort. Considering that i'm sure no-one ever checks this aswell its entirely pointless. Nevertheless I am now at The University of Bangor (thats in sunny Wales if you like many others don't know where it is) studying for a BA in English Literature. It's fun. I've taken up the amazing sport of Ultimate Frisbee. No Seriously. I went to a tournament in Loughborough a couple of weekends ago and we did very well. I managed to destroy my body. I go along to the CU and it's pretty good, it swings from being very good to not so but in general I feel that it helps me. For more spiritual gain I go to Ebenezer Evangelical Church, Pastored by David Finney an excellent teacher of God's word. The church is small and reformed so suits me to the ground.

I believe I mentioned some time ago my great *cough* poetic works. Ok, my shameful attempts to add to the fine art of poetry. I now have an impresive (for me) pile of 7 'acceptable' poems. i.e. ones that I don't think are utter crap. I hope to make this a proud amount of 20 before the end of January so that I can wittle it down again to 10 and complete an ambitious project of mine. It's incredibly hard writing poetry when you know you're awful at it...

On a lighter note I have come up with an intersting sleep theorem. If you're struggling to sleep then move your bed to another part of your room, preferably by a radiator. I did so yesterday and had the best nights sleep for a long time.

Oh and the mighty Falcons are now 6-2 for anyone intersted. Michael Vick is without a doubt a legend. I'd do quite a lot to get a Vick shirt. For not much money. Oh talking of that I managed to get a pair of brand new Emerica Templeton 3 skate shoes for £16!!! RRP of £75 :) that was a pretty good bit of ebaying :) probably nicked i guess.

I leave you my adoring chasm of emptiness with a quote:

"I realise now, standing here,
I seem to have pulled half the sky down on top of me."----terezin.