234 hours, 1 year, and Right Now
Today, I was expecting to be sitting at my desk writing an essay. All week my fellow English students and I had been preparing for the 72-hour "take-home" examination, which is essentially an essay that gets set at 16:00 on Friday and is due in by 10:00 on the Monday. That was the plan, anyway...
At around 17:20 on Thursday, a fire broke out in the basement of an electrical sub-station on Victoria Street. This knocked out the supply to the vast majority of university buildings on Western Bank and – crucially – to the computer network. With no-one able to access webmail, the English department had no means of telling everyone that the assessment paper would be inaccessible... until they recognised it was too late. Hence, we've all been granted a 7-day extension.
As a result, everyone has been hastily re-arranging their plans for next week – which was reading week anyway – and (I'd wager) virtually no-one is panicking about their essay this weekend.
Dartford FC update
Today marks the first anniversary of Princes Park. On November 11 last year, Dartford played their first proper "home" game in over a decade at the new stadium. Today, we're at the Park again for another league fixture, and we'll be hoping to build upon an already impressive start to the season. There's no doubt that promotion is our aim for this year: Dartford deserve to be in a higher division, and this year we have the means to do it. With massive crowds (compared to the teams around us) and a superb ground... fingers crossed. Today's game is against Waltham Abbey, currently in 15th place.
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At around 17:20 on Thursday, a fire broke out in the basement of an electrical sub-station on Victoria Street. This knocked out the supply to the vast majority of university buildings on Western Bank and – crucially – to the computer network. With no-one able to access webmail, the English department had no means of telling everyone that the assessment paper would be inaccessible... until they recognised it was too late. Hence, we've all been granted a 7-day extension.
As a result, everyone has been hastily re-arranging their plans for next week – which was reading week anyway – and (I'd wager) virtually no-one is panicking about their essay this weekend.
Dartford FC update
Today marks the first anniversary of Princes Park. On November 11 last year, Dartford played their first proper "home" game in over a decade at the new stadium. Today, we're at the Park again for another league fixture, and we'll be hoping to build upon an already impressive start to the season. There's no doubt that promotion is our aim for this year: Dartford deserve to be in a higher division, and this year we have the means to do it. With massive crowds (compared to the teams around us) and a superb ground... fingers crossed. Today's game is against Waltham Abbey, currently in 15th place.
| Ryman Division 1 North | Pld | W | D | L | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Edgware Town | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | +16 | 27 |
| 2 | AFC Sudbury | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | +23 | 26 |
| 3 | Dartford | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | +14 | 26 |
| 4 | Bury Town | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | +11 | 24 |
| 5 | Redbridge | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | +6 | 20 |
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