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It can only be beneficial in these tough financial times, to have as swish a CV as possible. So I think I’ve decided to do an MA degree. Spending a year getting more qualified, and, on top of that, using it as an opportunity to take some time to expand the CV further with work experience and other writing just seems like a good idea at the moment. In a year’s time, with luck, the job market will be looking a little bit more peachy, and my more peachy resume will be right at home in it. That’s the hope, at least.

The most interesting courses, for me at least, are in London. It’s an interesting place, too – obviously, being a thriving, bustling capital. But there is an interesting video on You Tube, too, where someone has seen and recorded a UFO flying around the city. It seems the general consensus is that it’s a bunch of balloons drifting on the air, but still … it’s nice to have an air of mystery about a place. My worry is that to study there, and pretty much do anything there, really – well – it’s very expensive, though … there’s no getting round it. To make it possible, I’d probably need a loan, even if I can manage with a small one, and try and work up the rest of the money. So I’ve been looking around at the various current accounts to see what sort of deals they have on offer, and some of them don’t look too bad. With so many banks available, I suppose it’s always nice to have some healthy competition.

There also appear to be foreign currency bank accounts, which seem quite interesting, allowing you to bank offshore. I’m not sure it’s for me at the moment, but having leafed through quite a lot of pages on these bank websites, I stumbled on it and thought it quite an interesting idea. There are so many different accounts out there, and so many benefits, and so many different loan packages that I think I’ll certainly have to look into it more before I make a decision which to go with.

Whether it be sad or frightening, for the most part, the stories that have come up over the last few days are stories that people know about. They have probably known about them for a while, and they are probably still reacting to some of the news in their own way. Me rambling on about things now is probably not the best thing to have on the cards.

Instead, I’ll present you with a story or two that is slightly more unusual. It took a bit of digging to discover what is certainly of the “frightening news” camp, all things considered. There is something humorous about it in a way – perhaps it’s the vague air of Team America that hovers over the statement made; but ultimately it is a very real threat that has been voiced – and a threat whose repercussions could be catastrophic. It is never nice to read of such tension when you’re dealing with nuclear weapons…

The article was also quite informative – at least for me, as someone who is not much of a history buff. I never realised that the initial war ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. It wouldn’t come as a big surprise if, among some people over there, there is a feeling that the war never really ended; a feeling that, perhaps, it was just postponed, or placed on hiatus for a little while. Thinking about it like that, then, I would say that “frightening news” is quite an apt category for it.

To finish, then, here is something that’s a little strange to round it off. Whilst there seems to be an abundance of UFO stories in the news recently, here military jets have been seen getting a bit of the action. So did aliens come down and survey our planet for some reason, before drifting eerily up to space? Are the military suspicious? Or, as is the more likely option, is it all just some sort of mundane military procedure? It could have been training, or testing a new piece of technology. Or then again, perhaps not. Who knows?