Schooling/Career:
I'm currently studying for a Masters in Strategic Studies. It's interesting, but there are two problems. First, Masters are supposed to be two year affairs - England generally does them in one and I wasn't rich enough to do a part-time course over two years. The problem is that it's really hard to actually keep up if you didn't do the same exact thing at undergrad (I did International Relations and Politics) so it's just daunting and annoying. The second problem is that I do not like UoR very much at all. I am sick and tired of seeing feedback like "Excellent essay, well written, original thought is clear, convincing arguments... not enough sources, you get a crappy grade". If it's that great I didn't need any more sources, guys.

Love life:
Oh man Rye ttly does this thing with her~

Hobbies:
Reading doesn't happen much because I have to read so much for classes that I'm just sick of it most of the time. I have been reading some Turtledove though, Jess got me In The Presence of Mine Enemies last weekend. Writing is basically not happening at all, the most I manage is a few pages of revision of what I did last summer.

Gaming:
Gaming is just about going okay though. It's suffering because I can't play stuff online (Connection is pure if you attempt that, I literally had a better connection with dial-up many years ago) but it's not bad.

Etc:
I should just about get out of college without being bankrupt. How not-bankrupt depends on how much the landlady takes out of my security deposit on the house :/ Ideally I'd get back my full Ł400 on account of my not destroying anything, but the house is that old that things are just falling apart and she's probably going to blame us for that