Wow, I haven't updated in nearly 3 weeks and I'm still getting 20-30hits/day. You people have too much time on your hands!!

I kept meaning to get around to commenting on the week that Blair lost a vote in the Commons for the first time (and by 31 votes!!! Shame it couldn't happen sooner, and we could have killed the ID cards bill too). Ah well, it all seems a long time ago now. In the meantime, Charles Clarke has come to UEA and lost to the UEA debaters. He was really good but stuck to the party line waaaaay too much, and I thought it was a shame that the only person to go for a party political swipe all evening was him. Yes, I rose above it, I didn't even answer back! About the only half contraversial thing he said all evening was that he was in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. I think that was a lie, because he's voted against it in the past, but it'll be going through the Commons soon so if he doesn't go ahead and vote for it we'll be kicking up a real fuss.

Life in Norwich is still manic. Two presentations this afternoon, back to back, and worth 20% of the terms grade. But they seemed to go ok and brain not totally destroyed by it all. And I've been elected to LDYS East Exec as Media & Communications Officer. Gah, more responsibility. It's the Nestle boycott referendum this week, and I'm really, really worried the boycott will be dropped. It would be so embarassing to be the first of the 70 student unions who have the ban to have it overturned! It really winds me up when people say "but I have the right to buy a kitkat". NO, you don't have the right, and this is about a social & moral responsibility! (And if you're that bothered, get off your fat arse and walk 300m down the road to co-op). We KNOW that Nestle are bad (I trust the World Health Organisation frankly!), so we should take a stand as a union on that. Stocking their products in our shops endorses their brand. GRRR. Hmm, must come up with a more coherent argument for going knocking on doors in residences tomorrow...

Blah, so busy. I think nearly every hour of my life is timetabled for this week until Friday evening. And I'm still trying to recover from such a crazy week last week. I was speaking at a conference run by the M.E. Centre, talking to a room of health professionals (GPs, OTs etc) about M.E., and basically telling my story. I thought it would be ok but it was so much harder than I'd imagined. Actually just standing there and telling my story from start to finish, which I've never done before like that, having to go into detail, and then answer questions on it, was unbelievably emotionally draining. It was probably quite good therapy for me but hard nonetheless. But I was disciplined for the first time in known history- I cancelled my weekend going to Essex Uni and drinking this weekend. I hope all of you who nag me regularly to not overdo it are very impressed.

Anyways, hope you're all doing ok and sorry for being so crap at staying in touch! Oh, and check out www.uealibdems.co.uk. Takes up too much of my time but for someone who can barely work a computer I'm prety damn proud of it!

jen xxx