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Misread an email from the horse-riding club as "Randall's Jumping Weekend". Cos, you know, he has two.

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Have essay to do. 's not even close to being done. Need sleep. may have to pass on my promise of lunch with Issy tomorrow.

Have to get this essay done.


Oh, and I sent the email off to Anthea tonight, so I think I'm not going to answer my mobile for a while. Or the house phone, while I'm there. I don't think I want to speak to her. I'd rather she spoke to me later, when she's not as angry.

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Oh yes... and our car which was stolen yesterday was found today, wrapped around a pole.

More for my memory than anything else...

- [p. 122/120] "'Yes, that's it,' said Treatle. 'Alma mater, gaudy armours eagle tour and so on.'"

Treatle refers here to the old student's (drinking) song 'Gaudeamus Igitur', written in 1781 by Christian Wilhelm Kindleben, a priest in Leipzig who got kicked out because of his student songs. The song is still in use at many universities and schools, where it gets sung during graduation ceremonies. The actual lyrics are:

"Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.
Post iucundam iuventutem,
Post molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus."

Which roughly translates to:

"Let us be merry, therefore, whilst we are young men.
After the joys of youth,
After the pain of old age,
The ground will have us, the ground will have us."


At least Mac.Rob's Vale song is original.