Commie café and exploitation

Dear Diary,

Okay, so I didn't have the guy banging a sheet of metal right next to me this time, only the sound of the sawmill and the stereo blaring out to compete against, on the piece of waste-ground where I play. I am thoroughly vexed that these commie pseudo-philanthropists are exploiting me so very much. Last week I played for two hours, and was paid £25. This week I dress up smart, play for three hours and earn only £21.20. What on earth is with that? I mean, for heaven's sake! No-one plays for £20 for three hours. No-one! This frustrates me in the utmost, and I am most put out. *Deep breath*.

In other news I have to get my stuff together on the whole revision Flex, as my examination looms in three weeks, and this is the last strike or I'm out. Boned. Gone. Outta there. Hooned. Wasted. Lost. Perdu. This is by far the toughest thing I have done in my life (including climbing snow-covered mountains with nothing but a kilt, a map and a compass, playing hostile audiences with sawdust on the floor, or coming out of train-wreck style heart-wrenching relationships - all these things pale in comparison to sitting an Advanced Classical Latin examination! 30 credits my ass!)

As for A340, it looks really cool man. I haven't even so much as glanced at the course material, only the assignments (it is a crying shame no group assignments are in this one). I especially like anything to do with Roman Britain (even if we were a cultural back-water, in truth, comparatively speaking). I don't care what any bias top Professors think, look at the evidence, specifically archaeological, compared to Rome or Byzantium or any of the cities, Britannia was a cultural back-water. This is not to say that we did not have any Roman culture, or that we were uncivilised but if you look at the primary sources, you will see that Britain was a place of exile, where people were sent in the Roman Empire as a kind of punishment. The weather was awful, the locals hostile, and it was no place to grow either olives, or grapes. The scale of Hadrian's wall shows just how hostile the tartan toga'd Scots were. It was a barbaric place in the north, with the concentration of Romanized settlements being in the south, archaeologically. Traces of this are found today. Just look at the accents. "Ey up Caesar, d'ya want tu goo fur a pint?" No. No thank you.

I must get back to revision. Bugger.