February 2012
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Me: Have you done the readings for the tutorials?
Beth: No I briefly skipped over the summaries.
Beth: Oh god that's even worse than not doing the readings.
I've met someone famous.
One of my 101 goals was to meet someone famous. Until today I thought I’d failed and then I remembered way back last year I met Daniel Dennett because he was doing a lecture here and we went along and met him afterwards. The gravity of this only sunk in today because we had a lecture on him in Divinity and apparently he’s a Big Thing. Last year I didn’t appreciate this.
Last...
I am now imagining this exchange in a future...
Abed: Oh, everyone needs to be extra careful this week.
Jeff: Why's that?
Abed: It's Sweeps Week. High-rating shows always have some big mind-blowing event in Sweeps Week to get ratings. Someone dies, or there's a natural disaster.
Jeff: Abed, for the last time, this is not one of those shows!
Abed: No, you're probably right. Some shows just have some big Oscar-winning actor make an appearance.
Jeff: This is Greendale. I doubt there's an Oscar-winning actor in the entire state, let alone one about to walk through the study room door.
Dean Pelton: *walks through the study room door* Hel-looooooo!
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Mad Men special: my all-time favourite moment →
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because...”
– Ingrid (White Oleander)
So tempted to change my degree to Social Anthropology and Sociology, or just Sociology. I’ve already done all the required Sociology modules (coz I’m a sociology nerd) along with my required anthropology modules, but 3rd year sociology looks so dull and I don’t know if I’d have to write two dissertations in 4th year or what. The deadline for applications to transfer is May...
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It’s warm today. And by warm I mean I could go outside and not feel that my hands were going to drop off because I wasn’t wearing gloves. It’s a horrible combination of windy and rainy which makes for attractive hair but IT’S WARM.
