4.25.2006
hamster huey and the gooey kablooie
I miss summer days when all was needed for a good time was a big book of Calvin and Hobbes comics and a big glass of milk. Now, I've no more time for comics (though I indulge in a daily peek at the comics page, I'll admit), and I'm now lactose intolerant to the point where fresh milk makes my tummy unhappy. I'm sussing out the boundaries in cheese (brie OK, stilton, not so much); ice-cream is OK for now, but I know that dessert cream is a dangerous line to walk.
I've got a huge interview tomorrow. Interesting fact about the guy I'm interviewing with:
Nicholas Purcell is a lecturer at St. John's College, Oxford. He does not have a doctorate. He has an MA which, at Oxford, is a worthless degree because it just means that you passed your BA with high enough marks to merit the university granting you an MA 4 years after you leave. And yet, he is one of the most well-respected men here. It's because he is so brilliant that he went from Worcester College, Oxford to All Soul's College, Oxford and onward to a lectureship at St. John's without need for a Master's or Doctorate degree. And I'm supposed to impress this guy? blargh.
And an anecdote about him:
He took Greats (what Oxonians call Classics) back when mods (final exams) results were printed in the Times of London newspaper. After his exams, he went to Greece. On the day that the results were printed, he bought a copy of the Times, hiked to the top of Mt. Olympus, poured himself a cup of either tea or coffee, and opened the newspaper to find that he had received the highest marks in Classics that year.
I've got a huge interview tomorrow. Interesting fact about the guy I'm interviewing with:
Nicholas Purcell is a lecturer at St. John's College, Oxford. He does not have a doctorate. He has an MA which, at Oxford, is a worthless degree because it just means that you passed your BA with high enough marks to merit the university granting you an MA 4 years after you leave. And yet, he is one of the most well-respected men here. It's because he is so brilliant that he went from Worcester College, Oxford to All Soul's College, Oxford and onward to a lectureship at St. John's without need for a Master's or Doctorate degree. And I'm supposed to impress this guy? blargh.
And an anecdote about him:
He took Greats (what Oxonians call Classics) back when mods (final exams) results were printed in the Times of London newspaper. After his exams, he went to Greece. On the day that the results were printed, he bought a copy of the Times, hiked to the top of Mt. Olympus, poured himself a cup of either tea or coffee, and opened the newspaper to find that he had received the highest marks in Classics that year.
