Entries from January 2007

Tuesday, 30 January 2007

Grey Gas

What have I got myself into again? Have been messing around the room, jumping, clapping and counting; I got Tracey Thorn’s album ‘Out of the Woods’, released in March (!) for reviewing. I just went along on one of the Subcity Radio Music Team meetings, and scrounged this CD. Excitement at first; but now I’ve [...]

Monday, 22 January 2007

Snow and Watercolour skies

Has been an amazing day; not a single drop of rain, and the sky California-blue. My first encounter today was Imran, my new acquaintance; though, as usual, he is a guy from my course, but I hardly ever notice people in class. He rushed up to me when I was approaching Adam Smith Building; in [...]

Monday, 22 January 2007

Bell at night

(My time in Glasgow has been measured by the bell of the main tower clock. Sometimes at night I can even hear it from my room in Kelvinhaugh Gate. But mainly, of course, on campus and the vicinity; whether I whiled away afternoon hours lying on the grass on the hill in Kelvingrove park in [...]

Sunday, 21 January 2007

:)

Glasgow University climbs World University Rankings by 20 places
ISSUED: 05 October 2006
Glasgow University has risen to 81 in this year’s Times World University Rankings – an encouraging increase of 20 places on last year’s position of 101.
University Principal, Sir Muir Russell, said: “This excellent news reflects the dedication of staff and students who make Glasgow [...]

Sunday, 14 January 2007

The Change

It’s been a while…
Spent a fabulous New Year’s in Sheffield. This has been the time when every moment has its value (I mean, it started around that time, and it’s ongoing). The bus was running through this painfully beautiful English landscape, immersed in green, which was once so dear to me; and I was immersed in [...]