Lemon, Mint and Saffron

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It has been a very nice week. The kind of week where I play lots of music, visit with lots of people, exchange kind parting words with my professors, actively pursue employment and generally try to do my best to make my little corner of the world a better place.

Apart from exaggerating my own self importance to the point of caricature and driving a lot, I have been reading. I am ashamed to say that I used my borders card to buy more Indiana Jones fan fiction. I am not a huge fan of the movies, and only picked up one of the books from our basement out of boredom. However, the author of these books is simply incredible at creating or presenting ideas, stories and images, and because of this I was up until past three trying to figure out what a mobius strip is and how it worked. For some reason I am very embarrassed about buying fan fiction. It could be that the books come from the kids section, or that they have brightly colored covers, or just the fact that the cashier looked at me in a peculiar way.

Today I spent some time on Youtube watching budget debates in the European parliament. I was struck by one fellow in particular. His name is Nigel Farrage, and as you may have guessed he is an English politician who represents the UK Independence Party, which has recently replaced the Liberal Democrats as the third largest political party in Great Britain. The views of this party are basically those of the Goldwater era Republican party. Their main goal is to make Britain a sovereign state again, by withdrawing from the EU. Although I like almost everything Nigel says (haha, Nigel is a girl's name), especially as I thought that all British politicians supported spending British money to fix French and Polish roads and bridges. I was however struck by the fact that it is slightly paradoxical for a political party to hold seats in a parliament that they don't believe should exist, and it seems that the "Chest" would agree with me: "When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it."The Chest I refer to is of course the great G.K. Chest.

Well then, that is enough about me and what I think. What do you think? Why are you even reading this crap? Seriously dude, get a life..

Oh and, and buy more books by Jerome K. Jerome. Also mix a glass of vinegar with lemon juice and drink it every morning. I have never done this, so I want to see what it is like. Sometimes when I am bored, I like to change fonts. AWESOME!!!!11!