The past two days have been quite both eventful and interesting. I've started to think about procuring materials for MDP2 (getting hold of neoprene is not only expensive, but difficult too) and yesterday I met with Olivia on the edge of a sodden rugby pitch watching Durham lose to Loughborough and we discussed how she could sew the thing together for me. For those less informed, "the thing" refers to the bag I am prototyping for part of my major project.

Another Major Project related event was me getting my marks back for the first interim submission. Before they were handed back I was incredibly nervous to see how I'd done, with low expectations of a decent grade, but was incredibly pleased to find I'd pulled it out of the bag with a tight 65. Has this spurred me to make some progress? I don't know. I'll find out tomorrow if I discover myself in the workshops by 11am; so far something which has eluded me this week.

DDS and I finally launched the IDT Stash. After all the setbacks I finally ran into Tony (my tutor and the head of the dept) who said that he had forgotten about sending out the email, but this was soon remedied and we're now sitting back and working out the orders. The online store was definitely the way forward. The email notification was part of the launch plan, but I decided it would be a good idea to get some posters up and so with the help of Gemma, managed to plaster the IDT noticeboards.

Over the past few days I've watched been subjected to a lot of football, which became the platform for getting drunk and going out last night. Swanny, Devito and Jono came to Hey Ewe too, and I had a good night. I even managed to save a frog from almost certain death, which is the most heroic thing I've done all week, but that's a story for another time...

One big issue I have been having of recent times is with my death-trap of a bike. Most of the time it's fine, that is until it has the merest sniff of rain when it becomes a fully fledged suicidal pedalling machine. In the past two days (both wet) I have had to start braking two to three days in advance of stops for fear of overshooting the pavement. I have also been flung into several stationary objects like curb stones and the pavements, not to mention pirouetting on the front wheel every time I turn more than point-six of a degree (the back wheel has a habit of kicking out sideways a foot or two on corners). To be honest if the rain keeps up and I keep on the bike this could be one of the last blog entries. I'm just waiting for the summer when the rain is a bit warmer.