am i talking too fast, or are you just playing dumb?

the HAT test in finally over, and generally today wasn't bad, have been feeling really depressed at school recently and i'm not sure why. saying that, by the end of the school day i genuinely felt i had achieved nothing except doing a test and making a rather pointless Fairtrade leaflet...

david blunkett has resigned! again! why the hell was he back in the first place anyway? he doesn't want to be there, the public don't want him to be there and on top of this he's a really nasty piece of work - corrupt and notoriously right wing. not to mention identity cards... what a waste of time. i hate blunkett - i hate his attacks on asylum seekers, and i hate his disregard for civil liberties. apparently tony blair said blunkett left office "with no stain of impropriety against him whatsoever"....right tony. i mean, he only had an affair with a younger woman resulting in a son which he then spent ages proving was his, was involved in a scandal using his position to get a visa to his nanny a lot quicker than anyone else could have and took up a job illegitimately without following the rules of parliament.....

on a different note i'm glad smoking has been partly banned. i think the social aspect of smoking will suffer greatly, and this will put a lot of pressure on people to give up. pubs will be much nicer places without all the lingering smoke and passive smoking is deeply unfair on non-smokers. all of my family have smoked at some point: my mother until she was in her later 30s, my father until nearly a year ago, joey occasionally until a couple of years ago, and francie and jack still do. i think the most effective way of getting people to give up is to make smoking as difficult a habiit to endure as possible, and if this means banning it then fair enough. in france you can smoke anywhere, (non smoking areas were only introduced a couple of years ago), cigarettes are dirt cheap and as a result everyone's at it: most people start when they're about 14. i have to confess having smoked a cigar once when i was totally wasted in st. james' park, but it is not something i wish to repeat.

by the way i have investigated the reason why xander is on wikipedia's list of one-eyed fictional characters, i think it's some kind of confusion with the time when he was blinded in one eye in series seven although i'm not sure if this is the case as i have never watched series seven.
either way, XANDER HAS TWO EYES!
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