Debt-free!

I have just paid off my student loan. Mine was the first year that had loans, at a highly uncommercial interest rate; I let the loan mature for four years while I did a PhD, and started paying it off at £125 a month in about June 2003. Now I can switch that standing order into savings, so that I never see the extra money to feel that it's there to be spent.

I think tombee, to whom I sold in the second year of my PhD the computer which I bought with my second undergraduate year's student loan, threw it away about three years ago; hardware dies, but debt endures.

Dance, and dance, and dance

Would anyone be interested in going to a contra dance in Cambridge on Saturday evening? It's at the Emmanuel URC on Trumpington Street, 8-11pm; it's like a ceilidh (so there's a caller, you change partner after each dance, and the music is fiddle and bass), only faster, twirlier and more American.