Well, I’ve been having a blast do far. This may be partially due to a struggle paying for *anything* whatsoever, at one point Arne (my German friend/roommate) and I tried to pay for a meal as a thank you; Manolis told the waitress something in Greek, she refused our money and took his credit card.
8 nights here, I’ve paid for the hotel for only 3 of them; “we insist!” Incredibly friendly people, and I’ve made some more good friends, as well as meet a few people I’ve only ever been in contact with via e-mail before. Yesterday in Thessaloniki, we met up for coffee and a snak, then Angelo and Vasilis insisted on cooking me a real Greek meal (without the meat, which they still don’t understand) for ‘lunch’ (Greek time, we ate lunch at about 4pm). Very (very) nice, then we went to a cafe where they have a selection of games (Very cool, even a greek translation of Carcassone), the rest of the group slowly arrived, we went on to a restaurant and had another meal (they’re all really skinny, but boy do they eat, no idea where they put it all).
Then I went to catch the overnight train. Except I couldn’t; it was full. I’m assured this is unusual in Greece, but both it and the next train were full with Turks travelling to Athens for some event, so Konstantinos insisted on paying for another night in the hotel, and buying the first available ticket to Athens the next morning.
I took out 200 euro at the airport when I arrived, I still have 50 of it left. So, off to find something to spend it on in my last night in Athens.
I am so glad I came; didn’t see any of the sites of Thesaloniki, but saw a lot of the bars.
Hope everyone out there in Cyberspace is OK; I arrive back into Luton airport tomorrow night, then it’s the long coach journey home…
[edit: put the font back into western encoding, don’t know what happened at the net cafe…]
February 26th, 2005
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Well, for those not aware, I’m flying to Athens tomorrow (well, technically later today), and I’ll be back Sunday week. I’ve been looking forward to it all week, but can I bring myself to pack? Nope.
Ah well. Athens, and a brief trip up to Thessaloniki. And my Greek friends have promised both a tour of the Acropolis and a tour of the strip clubs.
Can’t be bad. Nobody do anything stupid while I’m away.
Oh, wait. Nobody do something that’s more stupid than normal while I’m away.
Pink; good luck getting elected, hope you get in on a purely selfish note if for nothing else. ike, good luck job hunting. Mark, hope the DJing was OK tonight, stop panicking all the time, and well, have fun. London people? No S-C for me this month, but next month for sure. I’d rather be in Athens I think, especially with what it (isn’t) costing me.
Everyone I can’t think of something to say to? Go to bed, it’s after midnight, you don’t have a 4.45am taxi booked to stay up for.
Be seeing you…
February 17th, 2005
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I thought people had gotten over the fad, but oh no…
’s current signature line on X-net:
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is a direct quote from a comment made by me on ’s journal. It’s also about the elections, which he may or may not be allowed to talk about in a public online forum.
So Mr Pink, appropriate?
The quote can be found here if anyone cares.
I, of course, don’t. Still curious as to why putting quotes from me in siglines seems to be so popular; at least 4 separate forums it happens on. Very weird.
February 13th, 2005
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Well, I’ve had a fun few weeks. ManCon was great, even if I did come next to bottom. Great to see everyone again (even Odo), and the Germans that made the journey were happy so can’t complain.
I appear to have kicked my internet addiction though, I’m barely online these days, I come home, get some food, and read a good book. MEans I’m a little behind on the email, but still,I think overall I’m happier.
~matgb~
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A little weird, appears to be every pic used as the default by everyone in my friends list, with an alt telling you who it is. I had to hover to find out a few. Not sure if it’s cool or crap. Probably both.
Was going to go tot he Bunker tonight, but, well, I couldn’t be arsed to leave the flat. Same applies to last night and the choice between KoKo and Boxes. Both likely to be crap and full of kids, so choice=neither. awaiting a review.
Greece in less than a week 
I really should have started preparing. Confirming the hotel dates would have been a good start. Good job I know lots of people in Athens and Thessaloniki.
February 13th, 2005
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Went to Volts last night, was very cool, really glad I went. Thx to Pink for talking me into going, Mark for being fun and everyone else for generally being around.
Now, explain this in the same Exeposé article:
“Student journalism is often a heady mix of passion and ignorance. A criticism labelled at student ‘hacks’ is a failure to check and clarify a story”
As a follow on to this:
“Two years ago, Exeposé printed a mock interview that claimed that RocSoc members dressed in black because they were abused as children. Quite understandably, many people were very upset, which led to a stand-off in the M&D room during an editorial election. RocSoc hired a lawyer to proceed with a libel action,“
Hmm. You’d have thought that, given there are plenty of people still around on campus who do remember the full details, they could at least have, well, checked their own records?
RocSoc didn’t hire a lawyer; as a Guild Constiuent Organisation, it would be unable to sue another part of the Guild anyway. Court case of Exeter Guild of Students versus Exeter guild of students anyone?
I, as honorary President, “consulted legal advise”. Well, that was what we said publicly. I bought a friend (a lawyer) a drink and asked his opinion. Fucking stupid student media types. We decided not to sue for libel because, despite it being justified, the petty vindictiveness of one idiotic editor and her stooge is not enough to damage an organisation we broadly supported.
Ah well. So, should we let the myth perpetuate, or point out the facts to the relevent editors and/or guild types?
February 4th, 2005
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