11.13.2004
musings
It's been a couple of days since my last post.
I sent the following call out today by email:
"I know that I'm abusing the open list, and I apologize. Or apologise. However the hell you spell it over here.
Does anyone have a bike tire pump I can borrow? My bike's got flat tires and the nozzle doesn't fit the pump they have in the lodge. Please call me as soon as you can (22593) as I need to be able to cycle by 11:15 am."
I just received the following response:
"In the UK it can be either 'apologise' or 'apologize' - the Oxford University Press uses the latter version. But always 'analyse' and 'paralyse'."
Boy was I asking for it. Not to mention the fact that people wrote to me informing me that they spell it "tyre" over here. What a strange and backward place this is.
Had a wonderful black-tie dinner two nights ago. Photos will be up shortly. Also, a hearty happy birthday to my friend Liz who turned a whopping 22 yesterday. Liz keeps me honest by making sure I don't eat too many döner kebabs. At least, not in front of her...
I'm writing a paper on Thucydides' treatment of the causes of the Peloponnesian War and whether his narrative can be taken seriously. I mean, the guy's work has stood for over two thousand years. Now some master's degree student is going to say that it's unreliable? riiiight.
I can't believe it snowed in Boston last night: I'm so jealous. I so want it to snow here. Oxford would look brilliant in the snow. But no, it's just cold. And wet. And gross.
Took a gander through the Keble College alumni record for 2004. The "news of old members" section was particularly amusing. Included:
--- is currently acting as a constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government
--- works part time as a Gestalt Psychotherapist from home.
--- received the French Légion d'Honneur at a ceremony at Les Invalides.
--- was a member of the gold medal winning Coxless Four at the Olympic Games in Athens.
--- has just won the British Chess Championship
--- is currently involved in moth recording
--- conducts research and writing in the European intellectual origins of Anglo-American Freemasonry.
My favorite, however, would be this one:
--- "extended his distinguished academic career by completing dissertations in Advanced use of the en-dash in calendar elision, and Remembering the names of your best friend's children."
OK. Back to work.
I sent the following call out today by email:
"I know that I'm abusing the open list, and I apologize. Or apologise. However the hell you spell it over here.
Does anyone have a bike tire pump I can borrow? My bike's got flat tires and the nozzle doesn't fit the pump they have in the lodge. Please call me as soon as you can (22593) as I need to be able to cycle by 11:15 am."
I just received the following response:
"In the UK it can be either 'apologise' or 'apologize' - the Oxford University Press uses the latter version. But always 'analyse' and 'paralyse'."
Boy was I asking for it. Not to mention the fact that people wrote to me informing me that they spell it "tyre" over here. What a strange and backward place this is.
Had a wonderful black-tie dinner two nights ago. Photos will be up shortly. Also, a hearty happy birthday to my friend Liz who turned a whopping 22 yesterday. Liz keeps me honest by making sure I don't eat too many döner kebabs. At least, not in front of her...
I'm writing a paper on Thucydides' treatment of the causes of the Peloponnesian War and whether his narrative can be taken seriously. I mean, the guy's work has stood for over two thousand years. Now some master's degree student is going to say that it's unreliable? riiiight.
I can't believe it snowed in Boston last night: I'm so jealous. I so want it to snow here. Oxford would look brilliant in the snow. But no, it's just cold. And wet. And gross.
Took a gander through the Keble College alumni record for 2004. The "news of old members" section was particularly amusing. Included:
--- is currently acting as a constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government
--- works part time as a Gestalt Psychotherapist from home.
--- received the French Légion d'Honneur at a ceremony at Les Invalides.
--- was a member of the gold medal winning Coxless Four at the Olympic Games in Athens.
--- has just won the British Chess Championship
--- is currently involved in moth recording
--- conducts research and writing in the European intellectual origins of Anglo-American Freemasonry.
My favorite, however, would be this one:
--- "extended his distinguished academic career by completing dissertations in Advanced use of the en-dash in calendar elision, and Remembering the names of your best friend's children."
OK. Back to work.
