Speaking of Glastonbury I got Björk’s new album Volta the other day – wasn’t overly fond of it to start with, but it’s really grown on me now. I’m really looking forward to seeing her play at the festival! Here’s a scribble I did when I was bored of revising

I went to see Anthony Gormley’s Blind Light exhibition at the hayward the other day -go and see it if you get the chance, there’s some fantastic stuff in there! The water vapour room steals the show, but some of the sculptures are just as good.

I look at the girl, the girl looks at me… and I say “I gave you a £20 right?”

And she says, “no, I’m almost certain you gave me a £10″, and takes the £10 she thinks I gave her out of the till to show me.

And then I start to think, did I give her a £10 note? If I did where the hell did it come from? Maybe I only got £40 out at the airport?

Since I go to that shop quite a lot she said they’d check the takings for the day and if they were £10 over then they’d give it back to me next time I visit. So I go back in today (twice, they hadn’t done the count this morning) and they tell me they weren’t £10 over and so that’s that.

Only I did take £50 out at the airport, and I’m certain I gave her a £20. Certain beyond any doubt? Well yeah, pretty much – as certain as I am that I’m not a brain in a vat at any rate. Oh well, it’s only money. It’s just that I did like that shop.

The art gallery I went to was the Rokeby, which is a very nice little place on Store Street. It was the last day of an exhibition by Craig Fisher, who had made huge weapons out of fabric. Upstairs they were laid out on a table to start with, but as you progressed through the display they were put to more and more use, till in the basement you get the blood spattered chainsaw room shown above. It was only a small show, but I really liked it – it was a kind of toytown bloodbath.

Incidentally I found out about the show by browsing around ArtRabbit which looks like a very handy site for keeping track of what exhibitions are on and when they finish.

My guess is lots of epistemologists have partied down in Tijuana in their time.

So, it’s been an exciting couple of weeks! I’ve moved into a new flat in Holborn, which is very handy for going in to lectures. I’ve been going swimming a lot, I’ve been salsa dancing, I’ve finally got round to filling the enormous beanbag that my sister made for me two christmases ago, I visited Ireland and I’ve been to loads of art galleries around the east end! I’d like to tell you about Simply Botiful which is an installation just off brick lane, but it’s far more fun to go there with no idea what to expect – it is fantastic though! The slides at Tate Modern are good, but Simply Botiful is far, far more ambitious and interesting. Go there!

Also, regarding last month’s word of the month, it’s something I picked up from my favourite philosopher – The t-rex from dinosaur comics.

So that was a nice, if brief, return to travelling. Back in London the philosophy course is going well. I haven’t written any essays yet, but I have made copious notes on what I am going to write about. I’ve been finding the internet incredibly useful, particularly wikipedia – but I’ve also been enjoying browsing around on this site that squashes philosophy texts down.

Um, what else? Well I finally got round to doing something with ducks.inhats.net – a domain I bought ages back just because it amused me. If anyone reading this fancies joining in with some pictures then let me know by sticking something in the comments here, or there, or somewhere you think I might see.

And if anyone fancies going to see Alice McLaughlin in london then give drop me a line about that too.