4.30pm. TUESDAY 13th JUNE, I must have been the only person in Brazil not to have been sitting in front of a TV. I had left my class at 3.30 only to find the roads packed with everyone trying to rush home, green and yellow and honking horns everywhere. To avoid stress overload I parked up at Angie's until the traffic calmed down. She was busy with her final paper so in fact I wasn't the ONLY person not in front of a TV. At 4.15 I deemed it safe enough to venture out onto the roads, and indeed it was, a deserted city, the roads deserted of traffic that is, but life was there - passing a few bars, there was a seething green and yellow mass spilling out into the street. At home I settled in front of the computer to get some work done. A roar from around the city followed by swish bang bang bang over the next few minutes at around 4.45 indicated that Brazil scored. Can't wait for the next game.

ISN'T A DJ'S JOB just to stick a record on the deck and leave it there? Seems like they fool around with the record now, pressing buttons and twiddling knobs. And how come all Brazilian DJs are Scottish? MCJean Paul, MCFulano, etc.

WELL THAT'S YER LOT for today.