Today's Agenda
Hey everyone, sorry you haven't heard from me in a while but I've been busy and just generally haven't really got around to blogging. I apologise but to be perfectly honest, I don't have a great deal out of the ordinary to say. Hopefully, I'll be staying in York over the summer if I can get a full-time job, despite threats from my Mum to give my room at home to my little sister. I've filled in a form for a job agency, and hopefully they'll be able to find me something decent to do that pays well. I liked working at the fair, I got what I needed out of it and the people were great (except Rob of course) but I don't know if I could do it full-time over the summer. Ideally, I'd like to be in an office or testing computer games. or running a brothel

Stoopid
I'm doing a group project in Politics at the moment and yesterday we had to go into York and ask people this questionnaire we designed about why people hold anti-EU views. A lot of the people we spoke to were incredibly stupid and didn't really know a lot about Europe and one guy was just totally thick and didn't have a clue about anything. One interesting thing is that most people we spoke to were pretty much anti-EU and the single currency but everybody said they think Britain will eventually join it so I guess there's a sense of inevitability about it.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
I went to watch Star Wars Episode II on Thursday and it generallys gets a thumbs up. My expectations weren't that high, as before Episode I they were, and I was disappointed. I wouldn't say Attack of the Clones is the best Star Wars film but it was still pretty good and everyone should go and see it. The special effects were just incredible and I thought the chase sequence at the beginning and the final battle were particularly well done. I also thought Anakin Skywalker was well-played by Hayden
Christensen alsthough some of his emotional scenes felt a bit forced. I did find it hard to make the connection between Jake Lloyd in Phantom Mencace and Christensen in Attack of the Clones. I don't know, I found the continuity in that difficult to follow. Anyway, a good film, poor
screenplay and not great acting but visually and viscerally, it was amazing. And thankfully, not too much of Jar-Jar Binks to stomach...

End of an Era
The football season came to a close last weekend and for the first time since 1998 Man Utd ended up trophyless. I'm not going to moan like the rest of the United fans and say "we was robbed" because it's not true. Arsenal won the league because they were the best team (apart from Everton of course) and deserved to win it. They played the best football, had the best team and had the second best player. If Arsenal had Andy Cole, then they would never have lost a game all season (and how is Darius Vassell in the England squad ahead of Andy Cole? I don't know, sometimes I think maybe I'm the only person that sees the ability he possesses).

United had a good season, they finised third and got to the semi-finals of the Champions League. For the majority of clubs, that would be an outstanding season. It's only because such high standards have been set in the last few years that this season is deemed a "disappointment". If Southport had done what United did this season then I think Phil Wilson's job would be a little more secure. As it is, United think the whole world is against them and that events conspired against them. It isn't and they didn't. Be realistic, we're still one of the best teams in Europe and it's not like this was the last ever football season and there's never any possibility of them winning anything ever again. Of course, if they hadn't sold Andy Cole, it could have all been so different...

The W..W..E?
Yes, that's right, the WWF lost their court battle with the pressure group World Wildlife Fund and they have had to re-brand with the outcome being that the WWF is no longer associated with wrestling but with giant pandas. Instead, there now exists the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) which is similar but doesn't quite have the same ring to it. On the plus side, the immortal D'lo Brown has returned and is feuding with William Regal over the European Title (go D'lo!) and Edge is getting the push he fully deserves. Hogan is still champion (but for how much longer?) and Benoit should be returning soon. Despite all this, ratings have dropped in America and it seems the wrestling industry's high of the late 90s may well have passed (despite D'lo's reappearance). However, I'm still a loyal fan and will continue to be so until I mature.

Quote of the Day
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are" - Milton Berle