After the gruelling - not to mention largely gruesome - experience of three exams in three days, I celebrated my freedom last night with...

A headache.

One could debate as to whether this constitutes an anti-climax or not.

I do however have a nice pile of books to enlighten and enrich my mind (and take my fingers away from that harsh mistress, the keyboard).

Today I read Maureen Dowd's Are Men Necessary? Obviously the title is rhetorical, because there's a very short answer to be given - shorter than 330 pages - if the question was literal.

Next: finishing off Brideshead Revisited, marching on to Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (Blessed be lucid writing), Geoffrey Robertson's The Tyrannicide Brief, Buber's Between Man and Man and maybe, if I can rustle up a brain cell or two, some Adorno.

Thank god, says the atheist, there are other worlds readily accessible via a book.

Meanwhile, two good links for amusement.
Roll On Friday, for 'bored solicitors'. And bored law students, too!
Buglear Bate. A firm of solicitors with the by-line: Leases, transfers, conveyances, indentures, vesting assents: We love 'em.