Vino

As I sit here this evening reading some online rubbish and genuinely try to convince myself that I am being productive. I notice that somehow I had forgotten what a good glass of wine was like. I think this one was particulary good as it was only £3.99 a bottle that is a pleasant surprise. It also probably highlights the fact that we think expensive wine tastes better. I remember reading once about a trial in which they told people the wine cost different prices. Somehow price affected taste and if someone was told a bottle was more expensive it somehow tasted better. Well tonight I can safely say at £3.99 this tasted better than some bottles which would be over a tenner.

Alma Mater!

So as many of you have guessed I am back at school and back to, “the books”.  Yes I did buy myself a nice new schoolbag and yes I did get new stationary , (actually my sibling bought that for me and I am trying to work out what all of it is for).

Now lets get back to that phrase, “back to the books”. Many of you who know me well will know that when I needed to study in Queens that I tried to avoid all the places you would expect to find me. Places like the Science Library and the Biomedical Library. Instead I used to go to the Main Library. For those of you familiar with it, you know that it is a museum to seventies architecture. The fact that a beautiful old 18th century red brick building has an ugly seventies towerblock appendix adds to its charm.

The main reason I went there was probably because it has individual desks and back then it had two desks per floor which bascally had a cupboard appearance that Potter would have made homely. To me this was a productive place and it was key to avoiding people when i needed to get my head round something. The other great fact was that it had 11 floors so if you turned up on a floor and someone you knew was there, you just picked another one. I suppose the main reason I tended to hide there when I needed to do some work was the view over Belfast.

The other reason I tended to hide in the library was because to get to and from it you get to walk through the black and white hall at Queens. I must admit everytime I walk through I love just looking up and seeing those words, “COURAGE, WISDOM, ALMA MATER, TEMPERANCE, JUSTICE”.