craigkillie

I'll like it a lot better when I'm getting paid to do it next year!

The Hive is the name of a nightclub attached to the Glasgow University Union. I presume that will be where you are going.

I have just accepted a funded offer for a PhD in Statistics at Glasgow for the next 3.5 years. I need to get a First Class Honours degree to get it though.

The one at the back of that same photo looks like an ogre.

How long until someone sees themself or someone they know? I give it about 20 posts.

Somebody I know had one on cup final day last year. I think it was in the morning though.

Smurph, ignore the haters. I think you could be as big as Rebecca Black after that performance.

I'm the opposite of that. -0.75 right and -1.25 left.

You couldn't make it up.

It's for short-sightedness, so I'll only be wearing them when I'm driving or at the football or looking at things far away. Hopefully I won't need them around the house or anything, and so a "dependence" won't develop.

I am now a speccy four-eyes.

Nope. I think it's because I'm doing a numerical subject, and I haven't ever really needed to do any essays or anything else which has required me to reference any texts. There have been recommended reading books for a lot of the courses, but I've generally just studied from the lecture notes and it has been a success so far. I thought about studying abroad, but decided against it for the same financial reasons you are facing now. Is there any way you can source a sponsorship or something similar from somewhere? Otherwise, perhaps apply for a job as an extra on Neighbours?

I haven't taken a single book out of that library, so I wouldn't actually know.

Possibly. They seemed to enjoy the sweets, but you never know, some people might well have felt like that. I didn't make a big deal out of bringing them or anything though. Are they looking for £4k because you borrowed a library book in 1843 and haven't brought it back?

There's only 15-20 of us who go to the lectures (out of about 25). No disruption was caused.

I have my last ever lecture tomorrow. I'm going to buy a box of chocolates or something to pass round everybody.

Don't worry babes, I'll keep you on my friends list

It seems to work two ways. If I add you as a friend then I will pop up on your friends list, and you'll get a message saying you added me. I'll try it now.

England lose to Bangladesh! They'll probably need to beat the Windies to reach the quarters now.

Kenya got to the semis in 2003 when they hosted it with South Africa and Zimbabwe though. It may have been in part down to the farce that was England's refusal to travel to Zimbabwe and New Zealand not going to Kenya, then the Super Sixes debacle, but they still beat Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh

She got me to do six letters games, two numbers games and three conundrums. For the letters games I got an eight-letter word, three seven-letter words and two six-letter words. I got one of the numbers games and was two away on the other, and I only got one of the three conundrums. She didn't even ask any questions or anything though, which surprised me. I thought they would have needed to check whether you would be "TV friendly", and weren't going to be a complete bore. But then again, some of the contestants are a bit like that I suppose. They asked for a recent photo with the application form, so I suppose they could rule out people who look rapey. They also asked for your hobbies, and then asked if you did any "special interest" which you felt were exciting or entertaining. I couldn't think of anything, and so I put that I was a member of the Scotland supporters club and attend Scotland home matches as well as the away ones I can afford. Given that I got through, their definition of "exciting or unusual" is clearly quite broad. They normally do their auditions in person at a hotel, but they phoned me yesterday to say that they haven't been up to Glasgow and Edinburgh for a while, and they were happy to do it over the phone. I actually wonder how my fiancee will respond to the fact that I am getting to meet Rachel. I have told her before that I was a bit of a fan, and she wasn't happy.

These sorts of results make a mockery of the decision to freeze all of the associates out of the next World Cup. I wonder if there will be a change of tack now. Surely it makes sense to have some sort of qualifying system if they want to have a 10 team tournament. They could do it a bit like the Rugby World Cup. Give the quarter-finalists from the previous World Cup automatic slots, and then have a qualifying round to determine the other two qualifiers. Even if it is heavily weighted in favour of the full members, it would at least give the associate teams an opportunity to qualify.

I had a phone audition for Countdown this morning, and I passed it. So I'm going to be on it some time in the future. They wanted me to go down to Manchester to film it in late April/early May, but it clashed with my exams, so they're going to find a date for me in June/July. That will be magic if it happens. Hopefully it will somewhere between St Enoch subway station and Glasgow Central to save me having to take a detour.

It inspired me to try to get on one of those type of shows, so I fired away an application to Countdown earlier. There isn't any money involved, but at least I'd get to meet Jeff Stelling and the lovely Rachel.

I was a standby for my friend's team on Eggheads today. I actually quite enjoyed it even though I didn't get to be on the TV. They had agreed to split the money 6 ways and give me a share if they won, but unfortunately they lost the final round.