So I've been meaning to do this for weeks, my incredibly terrible lazy bad >.<

ANYWAY, first things first,
I would like to know if anyone knows anything about this [link] i doubt there's much more i can find out other than other people's personal experiences, warning tho, this is a long read, but i highly recommend it, ok it maybe America and not the UK, it maybe during Bush's administration and not Obama's, it was (I sincerely hope anyway) a one off event, but I still found it very interesting,
Something related and much more interesting though, and is a 40 minute video not an hour + read is [link]
It's a documentary about the Critical mass of September 2004, fingers crossed this won't put you off going to one, as I am highly looking forward to going to a london one next year, for now money, time, preparation and weather are stopping me from going. Yes the documentary is on the biased side, i'm not saying the cyclists were in the right and police in the wrong, all sides were to blame, but the police were so far in the wrong, especially when the article above is read, that i think it is hard not to blame them. (or at least the people high up in the police force or whatever)

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about and aren't in the mood to click on links and do stuff, Critical mass is essentially where a whole bunch of cyclists (/self-propelled means of transport, the majority of cyclists but you can go there with anything which has wheels and you're the one powering it) go around a city, there are over 320 cities that take part in this, and it is leaderless, in london they meet on the south bank underneath london bridge, and then simply go wherever the people at the front feel like going, it is led by people who go most of the time i suspect, and numbers are always growing,
[link] has plenty of good info regarding the masses, and plenty of cheery videos to boot,

Something I am going to push out there again is a book and movie i think everyone should read and watch. Yes Man by Danny Wallace, where (you guessed it) Danny Wallace says yes to everything for around 6 months, it's all a true story, and (like all of his books) really puts your hope back into humanity. Yes there's a movie with jim carrey but it has very little to do with the book.
The other, is a Into The Wild, again, sort of puts your hope back in hummanity, also a true story, there is a book to it, which i have read, but due to it's visual emphasis, and the way it tells Christopher McCandless' story is far better.

5th December Devmeet,
[link] details be thar, I am defo going, so are all of you, so that's settled then

31st October Devmeet,
Was awesome, a few weeks later, and i've forgotten the important bits, and my looking at the pictures for the week that followed it going 'AUSOMM' has now stopped, but it was still amazing, thankyou so much =flaviolongato for organising it! and although i know the place was difficult (to say the least) for some to get to some, it was easier for others, and i thought the location was awesome,
Fella on a stick shall be returning on the 5th december to london, he has yet to leave the stick although i'm gonna have to fiddle around with the string at some point as he keeps on falling over while still attached...

Brighton Devmeet,
Anyone going to it? Check #britain for the details, it's early janurary and I'm probably going... probably... slightly iffy over money and distance and how many of us are going,

Woodwork,
Has dramatically plummeted since the october meet, I only did work on the 'ring' for the first time today and it's becoming more problematic, and when i went up to the forest last week, I couldn't find any suitable wood, due to the damp the wood's rotting quicker (i'm guessing) but hopefully i'll still be able to make a new flagpole for the 5th December,

Photography,
I got a bunch of good picture from the forest, I am yet to go through if there are any good enough to put up, i'm hoping there'll be one or two, but more importantly found a good project for me for the next year.
As ~Jarlly and I have attempted to cycle everywhere possible back home, we do come across hidden paths and the like, which means that we come across quite a lot of World War 2 ruins. By this I am of course refering to the remains of Home Guard fortifications. So my (not so cunning) plan is to find all of the remaining fortifications I can find around here and at home over the next year and try to take photos of them and the surrounding area, i thought of it as I found some in the forest when I was looking for wood, as they are literally everywhere. There are concrete pillboxes along a track, and in our village (which still uses the remains of the airfield there) we found some underground rooms which we checked out 5 years ago or so.
I know this won't interest everyone but I have a very keen interest in history, World War 2 in particular so I'm always asking my dad questions about the last 100 years.

Writing,
Nothing recent apart from in scraps, I've been in an annoying stage recently where I've wanted to just say a whole bunch of things to the world, but not really wanting to put it in a way that's easily readable. Now I'm sure you're asking why the heck am I putting it up then, and I'm not, well, 2 out of 3 could be worse anyway.

Uni,
I'd rather not saying something as negative as I'm being an idiot (and I would appreciate it if you didn't rub it in ) but I'm really not trying hard enough, I know it's a stupid thing to blame it on but as I'm retaking the first year I have less work to do, so far I've had to do a (approx) 500 word write up on Sika Deer (oh goody, academic practice, the most pointless thing ever) and thats it, which is.... yeah. basically I need to do more work, which i'm going to do... really i am... actually wanting to pass this year is a good start ¬¬

FOOOOOOD,
As some of you know, and some of you just don't care, I'm a complete idiot to when it comes student diet, as I just don't eat enough, especially considering the exercise I do, coupled with my tight budget. but good news! I had my first hot food for the first time in weeks last night!
It might be soup but it's something other than bread crumpets and cereal! (+ Sausage rolls and that would be my entire diet.... yaaayyyy....)

BOOKS.
Anyone want to recommend me any? (other than the sandman kai ) although that does remind em to add the first one to my amazon wishlist....
do yeah, i'm currently reading soul music by terry prachett, but that'll be gone soonish probably, and all i have left after that is Kamikaze (WW2 japanese pilots, not exactly cheery reading for the winter) Stalingrad (WW2 battle, again not exactly cheery) and Master and Commander (Napolonic wars.... awesome, just not an easy read)

TV (news)
Dollhouse has been cancelled
Castle is getting better and better, I highly recommend it to everyone, and to girls it has Nathan Fillion in it, who if you don't have a silly crush on... you have something wrong with you
Heroes - turns out season 4 is bloody awesome, if you have up on it, skip to the beginning doublebill and i promise you won't regret it.
Big Bang Theory - Still up and down in places, and hasn't gone back up the awesome first 2 episodes,
FMA: brotherhood - i REALLY need to catch up on, still on episode 8 or something ¬¬

Movies,
Avatar, at Imax, you're all invited, shall sort out date soonish, but it'll be late December/early janurary, probably on a week day so we avoid the rush but it'll be before anyones college/uni starts again,
Does anyone know of any romcoms coming out in december/janurary? please? cos the best i can find is what happened to the morgans, or something like that, which looks pretty good, but i doubt it'll be as good as it looks, but that sarah Palin joke wins a bergillion points from me,

May Expo,
Whose going?
And who should i go as: Mugen Malcolm Reynolds, or Guybrush Threepwood,
And where the hell can i get a great coat that's like guybrush's? ([link] best pic ever of him btw) (and yes if really wanted to try i would straighten my hair and dye it blonde, but i an't gonna go THAT far, not this time anyway )

Should I stop this journal already?
yes,
Alritey then if you've read this far you deserve some sort of cookie, or something, but instead i'll just think of something if you come to a future devmeet

I am still really happpyyyy
And the Luckiest guy in the world!
toodle pip!
JJ