Bang bang, you're dead

Well that was shitty news to wake up to, if not entirely unexpected. Just to make it even more fun, I've got a fuck-off cold too.

There's a timeline on the BBC News site, which is updated when significant things occur.

Right, what was all that about strikes then?   *goes to read the Stop The War website*

Apparently we're supposed to be on strike as of now. I'm not sure I can do that and keep my job, given that I worked from home yesterday and have tomorrow booked off. I hate to say it but I don't think I can afford to stand up for my principles with my finances in the state they're currently in  :(

I don't yet know if I'll be able to attend the demo in London on Saturday - it depends on what happens tomorrow to some extent. If I can, I will be there - will post when I know. Is anyone from here definitely going?

Update: on a lighter note regarding current affairs, read today's User Friendly

That personality test that regularly does the rounds...

( results )

At least I didn't get any 'Very High' results this time... seem to remember I had two of those last time. I think I had more than one 'Low' as well though... odd.

Disagree. Disobey. Demonstrate.

I'm tempted...

Update: have decided not to do the London thing today, as I have to do the Cambridge thing tonight, in time to be up and sane at 9am tomorrow. I'll attend the MK demo today and hope that I can make it into London on Saturday instead...

Milton Keynes anti-war demo

Just got home from the MK anti-war demo. About a hundred people maybe. I was quite surprised that I only knew two other people there, one of whom I took with me and the other of whom is the local Green Party parliamentary candidate... I was expecting to see quite a few familiar faces but apparently not.

There was a girl lying on the floor in a camo jacket, covered in blood (actually it was ketchup (I was downwind)). As I had darklightimages with me I gave her my digicam, her being a professional photographer and wotnot. Then a wave of commuters came out of the train station and the girl on the floor started screaming. I jumped, and I knew she was there. The guys in suits coming home from work almost fainted. The screams were, to quote darklightimages, chilling. So chilling in fact that the professional photographer forget to use the camera until after the girl had done a few more rounds of 'scare the shit out of the commuters' and then got up off the floor before she froze to death. So no pics of her. Did get a (rather dark) crowd shot though: ( here )

The guy from the Green Party, Alan Francis, had just come back from London - he left the parliament area around 5pm, having been there since 2pm for a meeting. Apparently there have been around 5,000 kids blocking all the roads in that area since midday. The police keep moving them out of the road, and they just do it again 50 yards further along. Can't arrest kids, you see. He says they seemed to be protesting sensibly though, so that's promising. When he left at 5pm he estimates there were around 20,000 people in that area, with the number about to sharply rise as people finished work. The amount of roads the police had cordoned off led him to believe they're expecting a fairly serious crowd.

London demo Saturday

I'll definitely be attending the demo in London on Saturday. I'll probably be travelling from Cambridge, I'm not sure yet whether to drive or take the train. Anyone else going?