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I’ve been somewhat neglecting this venue of late. I can’t claim I haven’t had the time – I have – but recently my creative energies have been sapped somewhat by a relentless barrage of assignments and coursework for my maths degree, and for the last few months, I’ve barely been able to keep up with my writing duties on the comic. On Friday, though, I handed in the last piece of coursework for this year. Exams start in a couple of weeks, but the pressing feeling that I ought to be doing something else is, at last, in abeyance, and I can write again.

There are many, many drafts of things sitting in this blog’s slushpile: there’s a review of Skyrim which is mostly about plates; discussions of House, The West Wing and Community and all the other TV shows and films that I’ve watched, books I’ve read, games I’ve played, but as yet, I’ve been unable to write anything of length or substance about any of them. Which is why I’m instead going to talk about Ivor the Engine.

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this is what I have been doing

I notice it’s been a couple of months since I’ve posted on here. I’m not dead (as I so frequently have to reassure my mother), just busy. Since that last Who review, I’ve moved to Brighton, where I’m now sharing a house with blog-associate S Chladek, and started university, which is great, but time-consuming. In any event, almost all my free writing time has been spent chipping away at the vast edifice of Atomic Golem, but I’ve also taken over writing duties on Wych Wolf , the (awesome) webcomic drawn by my dad. For the blog, I’ve started about five or six different pieces, none of which have been finished yet. Oh, and I’ve been playing loads and loads of Skyrim (one of those unfinished pieces, by the way, is a review of Skyrim which has about three paragraphs on why the spirit of the game is exemplified in the ability to pick up wooden plates). For more timely (and frequent) updates from me, you could do worse than following me on Twitter. That’s it for the moment. See you again at Christmas/when the book’s done (so probably Christmas).

So, according to the Graun, 682,514 students applied for university places this year. If we assume that most of them applied to multiple universities (which I think is a fair assumption, but let me know if I’m way off the mark), that makes 600,000X£21=£14,332,794 pounds going to UCAS, or thereabouts. This seems like an awful lot of money – though they do process a lot of applications, and I would imagine overheads are quite high since they’ve got to print pamphlets and (ahem) keep websites going…
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