This morning started slowly. Initially I wondered why I couldn't pull myself out of bed for the best part of two hours, that was until I went for a shower and came back into my room (which had been hijacked by Devito) when I realised how much the room resembled a hotbox. I was floating on an epoxy cloud. I therefore moved the roll of freshly glued and delivered neoprene out of the corner of the room and into the garage where it would have far less impact on my general health.

A lecture at 11am meant a drizzly cold bike ride on to campus, only to receive a mind-numbing repetition of the Design for Manufacture lectures in the first year. Maybe it's because I just have a fantastic memory recall for lectures, but everyone else gave the impression they'd never heard it before. The low attendance either means people were far too busy lying in or, more worryingly, working.

I came back to the house after a brief interlude that was a visit to the towers dining hall, and started ploughing through emails until the evening when I met with DDS to go to the Loughborough Enterprise Forum talk by a guy called Al Gosling. He's probably not a name you know, but in the scale of things he's done pretty well for himself. If you've ever heard of the Extreme Sports Channel, then you'll now know that that's his baby. With an annual turnover of 30 million, and now with over ten subsidiary companies, it was a little surprising to see him delivering a lecture, but at the same time, a really good experience and I'm really glad I went (not only for the free sandwiches). One of the hardest things I find with trying to absorb this type of information is that it never can exactly apply - there is no science to business - but at least there is some precedent and I think I picked up some useful info, plus it was just generally cool to hear the guy talk on the global sports network he founded.

Tonight I've been pushing on. More emails, more photos in the gallery (had to clear my desktop of bits). I also received my Team Pink Panda/Mongol Rally t-shirt today which is looking pretty sweet.