Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Yesterday we got our 2nd year retainers back from Isis. The Robbers become the ROBEES! £112 was bequeathed unto us. Add that to the £41 I got this morning from Aqua for my work, and I can clearly afford the £20 I spent on an Optimus Prime reissue yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I know, shut up!

The other day we also went to Nando’s. Partially because we fancied a change of venue for dinner, and partly to show Ian the glory of Nando’s. Tom had the medium hot and seemed to finish off most of the food himself, even after we were done. Bottemless drinks as ever, proved excellent. At this Nandos we can get Halal chicken too. You can taste the suffering! I’m not trying to sound like some kind of advertiser here, but it is all really good. Almost as good as Dairy Milk with Biscuit. Sweet Jesus, I’m totally addicted - but why Blue? Mint = green, caramel = yellow, shortcake = …blue? I don’t get it. The biscuit itself is white, if anything. Ah well.

Tomorrow, I’m dropping Knowledge-Based systems. Nikki pointed out that I’ve got too many modules and I need to drop some to avoid paying, and really, I don’t like knowledge-based stuff, I don’t know anyone else taking the course, and it’s 100% coursework, which I can do without. Also there are the small matters of the £150 I’d have to pay for it and the fact that it’s a 9am 4 hour lecture… I’m looking forward to Maths by comparison though. The prospect of doing well in a maths module is an attractive one.

I spent the evening participating in an SA invasion. It reminded me of the glory days of #afe. CokeMusic.com will NEVAR FORGET. Besides that, I picked Nikki up from Uni today because she’s been stricken with the terrible “Fresher’s Flu” and well, that’s it.

However, something has come up in the news. “Women Lose Embryo Battle“. I am overjoyed at this result. I’m not trying to sound mean, but this was clearly an unfair wish on their part - to bring to term embryos without consent of the father. One of the woman’s arguments was as follows: “If the embryo was in my womb, he would have no say over its fate, so he should not be able to effectively exercise a veto simply because it is in a test tube.” Well DUH. It is simply because the Embryo is in you that he doesn’t have power over it. If it’s in a test tube, then you don’t have any more right to keeping it that he does. I am, of course, well aware that it’s unfortunate that one of the women no longer has the chance to conceive, lacking ovaries. Well - and I say this with a much sympathy as possible - Boo fucking hoo. Sometimes life doesn’t go how you want. I keep trying but I can’t think of any reason that this would’ve been a good thing. The rights of the man to not have his child conceived would’ve been totally ignored, and his consent made meaningless. They didn’t want children with these women and forcing them would clearly have been wrong, because, make no mistake, they would’ve been the fathers in all respects. Anyway. Go read the article, the BBC-filtered comments put it much more eloquently than I can bring myself to at this time.

Peripherally, I can’t help be amused by one Andrew Ley’s “The point is, surely, that the embryonic people already exist. They should have the right to progress to birth.” Nothing like a pro-life nut to shift the issue. I wonder where the logic lies here - at what point does a person exist? One cell? Two cells? If a sperm is fertilising an egg but gets disturbed before completion, does that count? It boggles the mind to think where the line can be drawn.

Still, I suspect that’s not a debate I care for entirely, just yet. I invite people to shout me down though, if you really care.