What do I have to say today?

Well, the British government changed the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (the visa I need to get if I am to stay in the country for longer) requirements, altering the details about how many points you need to qualify and for what the points are awarded. The new requirements are basically as follows:
Need a total of 75 points to qualify.
Education
* Bachelors degree gives 30 points
* Masters degree gives 35 points.
Previous year's earnings.
* Equivalent of £26k - £28k gives 25 points
* £29 - £32 gives 30 points.
Age
* Being 27 or under gives 20 points
* 28 - 29 gives 10 points.

So.... I still qualify easily enough, but it implies that I need to do it now rather than later.
I haven't entirely considered the implications of my current position, but I'm sorting it out.

In other news, in the room I was staying in previously (I have since moved) there was an incredibly hot 18-year old French girl. I have avoided saying anything about women here, but, it has to be said, this girl 'is something to write home about'. Of course, being 18, and being French, she kind of has the odds in her favour to start with. Anyway, that isn't actually the point of my story, just something I wanted to put out there.
She is 18, she has just finished High School and has now come to London to spend some time (a year perhaps) improving her English. She says that due to her father's job she went on a number of trips while she was growing up, including: USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. The fact that she is from France makes it pretty easy for her to go to money of those countries anyway, but I still think that she is definitely doing pretty well for herself.
So much so that it makes me feel bad for my lack of progress in that department.
When she goes back home (presumably to go to University), she will have already been to a reasonably percentage of the Western World, and should have pretty good English (although she spends so much time talking in French instead of English perhaps that won't develop as much as it should)
I am ... a number of years older than her, I'm come out of university and I feel like I'm trying to catch up on what she has already done. I appear to be failing in the 'world traveller' department.
Incidentially, when she told me she had just finished High School, it made me feel so old. High School seems a long, long time ago (in a land far, far away...).

And now that I'm planning on stay here for some time, when am I going to get around to doing these things I claim I want to do?
... When I'm old and married and travelling around with my wife on a cruise ship? Not the kind of travelling I am interested in.