Listen, you idiots at the end of the corridor - can you turn your music up a bit? I don't think they can quite hear it properly over in Canada. Anyway, what a great opening line to a song this is. I thought I'd better update before I go two whole days without doing so.

Quickly, then... my tutor actually managed to answer a question during the tutorial on Wednesday, but unfortunately he took a full hour to do so, so there wasn't much time for anything else. And some other classes might have happened as well.

It's amazing how just writing things out in a journal can help when you're unsure of yourself or something else... it helps to sort things out in your own head as well as expressing your feelings freely. And I'll admit here that I still feel an outsider a lot of the time, not really fitting in with the group - perhaps just because I'm the youngest in our little Melville group by about two years (correct me if I'm wrong there). It seems that there's always something bothering me, bringing me down, and I'm not going to be happy until I find out exactly what it is...

Still... Good news: Iron Savior are in the process of recording a new album. It's just as well I discovered my liking for German-style metal last year, as unfortunate fates have befallen the two main bands I listened to in sixth year... Metallica became trashy nu-metal, and Iron Maiden have gone senile. I never thought I'd actually care what happens in the storyline of a music album, though (for those who don't know, Iron Savior is a concept band whose songs are about a machine built in ancient Atlantis to defend the world). Unfortunately the working title of the new album is "Metalizer", which I find rather silly. Silly? A band whose point is singing about biomechanical invaders from space? Well, you might have a point there, but never mind. Anyway, Piet Sielck's a good writer as well as musician - there was a plot twist in the last album that genuinely surprised me, so I'm looking forward to this one.

Well, that was a long paragraph. Maybe I go on about these things too much. No, in fact forget about that - music is something that I enjoy, and more than anything over the last year of my life I've needed things that just make me happy. If you don't want to hear about it, don't read it, even though you just have. So there!