Wii-fit

The Boy came back with a wii-fit yesterday.


It's even more fun than I had expected! Whilst on the BVC, I used to walk the journey to and from uni about 50% of the time and its about a 2. 5 mile walk. Now, I spend all day in front a computer convincing myself that reading blogs and playing Civ IV counts as career research and jobs applications and all the typing I'm doing *must* have compensated for the complete lack of leaving the house and walking.


Hmmm, the bathroom scales begged to differ so lets see if the wii-fit can do better!

Jibjab- 2--7

And on a similar theme, the same people bring you 'In 2007'...

The iphone bit is great :)

Love this video :)

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Marriage benefits men more than women

I agree with Megan McArdle's analysis of marriage in this article.

To add to what she has said, in the bigamy statistics for about 200 years there were 176 incidents of bigamy record by the old bailey. Only 6 of these cases were women and in one case where it was a woman, she had been sold by her first husband.(here).

Now, ok, these statistics may be somewhat out of date. The institution of marriage has thankfully gone through a number of significant changes since then.

Chavs

I recommend this post on the banning of offensive words in the hope that they will change attitudes.

"but the point is that the amount of hatred behind the word defines its offensiveness, rather than the word itself."

Grammar Schools and the Working Class

I'm a supporter of Grammar schools in general, but this is probably the best argument I've seen as to why they might not be so good for children of working class backgrounds.

Instead of just screaming 'class war' and bursting into tears, it gives a very good argument for how the demise of grammar schools may have accounted for the level of entrepreneurship in British society. Definitely worth remembering for the future.

BVC results

Well, just picked up my results today, less than an hour after getting off the plane!

Overall I'm a solid very competent, which is nice.

Very surprisingly, I did significantly better in Employment than I expected. Had I been given the two options marks without their labels, I would have thought I would have scored far better in PI.

Even more suprisingly, I have a certificate stating that I scored the highest mark in professional conduct out of the entire year having got 98%. I'm in one of those odd moods where I wonder where those missing 2% went as they would have been nice to have - but hey, who's complaining! It boosts the average wonderfully.

The only marks I am disappointed with are my advocacy marks. Whilst the scores for A2 and A3 were still VCs, I wish they were higher.

All in all, VC (Very Content).