foolfillment: the blog

BBC NEWS | UK | Real ale drinkers ‘on the rise’

Gordon had a run in with a ‘flowery’ pint at the weekend and didn’t like it. Deuchars isn’t the best pint in the world but it is a good ‘un. Real beer is something worth trying to find - it’s so much better than the usual lagers and there’s one for every occassion, The Real Beer Blog usually has bits and pieced to read but it’s been quiet recently. If you’re in Glasgow head to the Three Judges - it has loads of different beers to try. It’s worth it!

There’s a Scottish blogmeet this Saturday, in Glasgow. Should I go? I’m not sure if I still count as a blogger anymore after my three month absence. It’s a bit of a scary idea as well, the people who say they’re going aren’t from blogs I read, and you can bet most of them don’t read foolfillment.

I’ll think about it.

Today is the birthday of John Boyd Orr, he won a nobel peace prize don’t you know. He did so much commendable work that the University of Glasgow named this lovely building after him.

Actually, that’s quite a complementary photo of it, usually it looks quite grim.

Anyway, read more about him on wikipedia

I finished my block of school placement today, so it’s off to the pub for my first GUPA night of the new year.

This year I’ve been struck with thoughts about freshers, more so than the last two years. Maybe it’s because I live much closer to campus now, but, it has really astonished me that it was nearly three years ago that I was looking as lost as they do now. Three years!18 through to 21, some of the most formative years of my life, times that will have a bearing on me for ever and they’ve happened in a time that just went by without me realising.

Never again will I be in a similar situation (I hope), where there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain, a whole world just suddenly opening up infront of me, with next to no responsibility, the overwhelming feeling that everyone you meet could be a friend for life. Oh how things change! I’m much more cynical now that I am then, pretty much as a direct result of fresher’s week. That people can be so pleasant and friendly to everybody and then change so drastically over the course of a year and more. Not everybody’s like that though thankfully, I bumped into a girl I was in halls with last night and at least she’s as friendly as she always was.

It also stuck me tonight as well that I have been in the library more in the last three weeks that I did in my entire first two years.

Hello again,

Is there anyone there?

Pipe up if you are, it makes this whole thing called blog a lot more enjoyable when there’s an audience to moderate this drivel.

So, nearly a whole three months have passed since I last blogged, possibly my longest time since I started it all. I had intended to stay away until such time I could come back to it properly and I would have managed it too but I didn’t even need to try. Circumstances have been such that I simply haven’t had the time to write anything here.
But another new academic year and it’s a fresh start all round really, a new flat, with a new flatmate - my lovely girlfriend, and to top it all off a brand spanking new laptop. What a wonderful thing student a overdraft is. I’ve still to arrange a few things (like an internet connection in the flat) but from next week I should be all set to regail you tales of our South American adventure, or how much I enjoyed working at The Rocks, or perhaps I could bore you to death with what I’ve learned and experienced on my latest school experience block which finishes on Thursday.

What do you think of the new website for The Rocks by the way?