I've been put under pressure by my friends to update my journal. So here is a collection of random thoughts!

I may as well begin by congratulating the team I support, Celtic, who won the Scottish League Cup today. A 3-0 victory over Dunfermline sealed the silverware. It was a fitting tribute to Jimmy Johnstone, the player voted our greatest ever player, who died earlier this week.

I have a strange feeling a journalist stole a post of mine from a football messageboard I post at. I made a comparison between an Irish club and a Slovenian one and my words seemed to appear with slightly different vocab in a national paper. This may sound egotistical or self-deluded but the papers tend to lift off this forum. It's becoming a trend in football circles for lazy jouralists to lift quotes, often out of context, or information, be it accurate or not, from forums on the net. I've a story on www.skysports.com which originated from what a friend of mine may or may not have heard one drunken night. I've also seen other fabricated stories appear in the media. It really throws into doubt the accuracy of the media (as if you didn't doubt it already) and makes you wonder what, if at all, you can take at face value from the media. Of course I'm sure my good friend Alyssa is an exception to this trend and is an upstanding journalist!

I've got to mark a bunch of my students' assignments later. Some of them are frightfully awful for 3rd level students. I've been informed not to fail anyone which gives me conflicting feelings. It's liberating not to have to condemn anyone but frankly some of the work is so bad it deserves to fail. It's bad bad bad. *bangs head repeatedly*

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