Pete's attendance on the course has now stopped, the money he paid up front for two years of classes taken away without full compensation, and from the Home Office the people he hoped might help him he got a bleak and bureaucratic letter instructing him, and every other international student at the college, to find a new visa-sponsor within 60 days or get out the country.
Pete's attendance on the course has now stopped, the money he paid up front for two years of classes taken away without full compensation, and from the Home Office – the people he hoped might help him – he got a bleak and bureaucratic letter instructing him, and every other international student at the college, to find a new visa-sponsor within 60 days or get out the country.
Things get a little bleak.
Despite the counter-blast from public works spending, an annualised rate of 5% or so looks more plausible.The prospects next year look just as tough: the debate about the outside world is whether it will get a bit bleaker or a lot bleaker, so either way exports will again be under pressure.
Another decent crowd at Trafalgar Road but the weather's getting a tad bleak.
Reality gets a simultaneously bleak and oblique twist, meanwhile, in Anomalisa (Curzon Artificial Eye, 15), cockeyed genius Charlie Kaufman's lovely, long-faced first foray into animation.
The main complains seem to be about the VIP tickets that fans paid £60+ ($90+) to meet Greedo, eat a bleak pie, get a photo with an actor, and go to an Ewok village that only had two huts in it, and then when they went outside threatening-looking children had stolen their hubcaps, a heartwarming Manchester tradition but fundamentally they are mad that Star Wars isn't real.
Like: the main complains seem to be about the VIP tickets – that fans paid £60+ to meet Greedo, eat a bleak pie, get a photo with an actor and go to an Ewok village that only had two huts in it, and then when they went outside threatening-looking children had stolen their hubcaps, a heartwarming Manchester tradition – but fundamentally they are mad that Star Wars isn't real.
One of the denizens of the junkyard counsels Stoney that shooting up is like a vacation, the only way to get a respite from the bleak world of Troutman Street.
The already bleak future of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Illinois got a bit bleaker last week with Governor Pat Quinn's new budget announcement: there's a grand total of $0 set aside for the office in the governor's 2011 budget.
