Posts by Lucy Stewart
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
I don't usually talk about it in polite company.
As well you shouldn't. Finance, indeed.
Though apparently a third of all degrees granted these days are in commerce. I comfort myself with the knowledge that the recession means they're all out of work now anyway. And the ones who share my part-time retail hell are good for mocking.
-
I still don't know what his actual real name was, because even my parents called him "Munter".
The fencing coach at my club has an unfortunate talent for memorable nicknames (Titch, Bodicea, Windows, Dr. Olive Oil...). In some cases it took me literally years to find out what people were actually called. And then we call them by their nicknames anyway because now they're trained to respond to them.
-
Dan Carter is Desi
Now that would be unexpected.
-
I was looking out of my window earlier, at my front lawn, and noticed a discarded Bourbon bottle, it was not one of my own.
How many bourbon bottles do you normally leave on your front lawn?
-
Fewer than 10% of local mobility parking permit holders use wheelchairs, though, so I'd have to be prepared to get it wrong and have my bluff called.
But presumably most of them do not skip.
-
<quote>I was told I needed Maths with Stats to do biology. When that turned out to not be true, I dropped it.<quote>
They're still perpetrating that one on innocent uni students, in the form of Introduction to Biological Data Analysis and Experimental Design and Data Analysis For Biologists, now a compulsory part of the degree. I skived off half the lectures for the first one to make my Russian labs, but the second was quite fascinating.
-
That said, first year engineering students are the scariest group of 18 year olds I've ever come across. It terrifies me that they'll be building bridges and running power plants some time :P.
Actually, many of them won't, because they are required to fail about half of them. Or they did: take-up of engineering has dropped to the point where they have started to lower the entrance standards to second year. Be Very Afraid.
I did that! Retained facts: Charlemagne was really, really tall.
I was fortunate enough to do it the year Kingdom of Heaven came out, so we got the Official Geoff Rice Sporking for about ten minutes in class during the Crusades section. Not that he would call it sporking, but it so was.
-
I think we should agree that 'real world' is what happens to oneself. Anything you personally are not involved with might not be 'real world'. So we all have our own real worlds.
Seems fair enough in an infinite number of universes.
There is also an apposite Pratchett quote here about everyone secretly believing a very specific version of the strong anthropogenic principle. (There is a Pratchett quote for *everything*.)
-
But over on Kiwiblog (where else?), some hapless troll certainly picked the wrong time -- about three weeks before the BH's by-pass -- to go on a rip about how the private system was a pack of parasites and rich pricks who didn't deserve to live. Believe it or not, my response to that one attracted a cease and desist note from DPF. :)
Oh, I can just imagine. People apparently forget that the idea of public healthcare is to ensure everyone has access to it, rather than to put the rich in their place.
-
HIST 110 for me - dropped my science papers after the first HIST 110 lecture (also at the university featuring the engineering students, as it happens).
For me it was HIST 133 (Medieval Europe) - although I still managed to complete my science degree, so my employability hasn't been totally sunk. But the history degree was totally the fun bit.