Ficlogic

04:14 pm: Unintentionally funny HYS no. 2.
"I'm quite happy to watch my money roll in until I'm ready to emmigrate [sic] to a countr [sic] that places the interests of its own citizens above those of health tourists and economic migrants."

Though speaking of it, the way things are going at present I may end up emigrating myself. Can anybody recommend a suitable nation?

10:20 am: Non-sequiturs
"Men think more logically and with less emotion which is why we men enjoy football while women enjoy romance."

Found on BBC HYS. I'm sure I put myself through this stuff for a reason (which isn't just procrastination) and it probably involves how unintentionally funny people are sometimes...

02:43 pm: Why, oh why, is the only way to access my ncl.ac.uk account inbox via Outlook Web Access?

Bastards. Not sure if there's any way of getting round it but if I set it to autoforward and something important goes missing it's officially my problem not theirs. Yay.

11:57 pm: I have a house :-)

08:47 pm: The Machiavelli personality test has a range of 0-100.
Your Machiavelli score is: 76
You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli's opinions.

Most people fall somewhere in the middle, but there's a significant minority at either extreme.
(source)

/me promptly reacts to this by publishing the fact, thus demonstrating she is not Machiavellian...

08:54 am:

You Should Learn French

C'est super! You appreciate the finer things in life... wine, art, cheese, love affairs. You are definitely a Parisian at heart. You just need your tongue to catch up...

Handy, got a bit of a head start there :-p

10:45 am: So, why do the Met scare me again?
"Earlier this month, brothers Abul Koyair, 20, and Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, were the subject of a anti-terror raid by police in Forest Gate, east London, in which the latter was shot.

"The men spent several days in custody following the raid.

"They were later released without charge.

"Metropolitan Police's Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman later released a statement in which he apologised for the "hurt" officers may have caused the men." _(source)

01:50 am: I have a 2:2, and as such am going to Newcastle next year :)

12:45 pm: "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice... is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."
_{- Constable Odo, "Shakaar" (DS9 s3)}

04:42 pm: Hm, that didn't go very well; hopefully it'll pass though. I have plans in mind for all the likely outcomes at least. Now to wait for the AUT to sort themselves out so I can find out how I did...

02:14 am: Funny how life sometimes happens to you when you're busy doing other things.

Three exams down, one to go. They've been more or less okay so far but I'd like to do well on this one (Astrophysics) so I should be good and try to get lots of revision done. I seem to have been rather distracted of late..

09:06 pm: Exams
Two down, two to go. Ugh.

1) Dreadful. Only worth 30% though at least. May already have passed it even without the exam.
2) Ok. Probably a pass, hopefully better.

3) on Thursday...

08:54 pm: ( Sins test: well, that was kind of dull... )

07:17 pm: :-(

"You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca, or you give up astronomy. You can't do both."
-- Gerry Gilmore, University of Cambridge

/me administers last rites to visible/IR ground-based astronomy..

01:19 am: I hate presentations.
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03:26 am: Went to see a play tonight, The Julie Thesmo Show (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes' "Thesmophoriazusae") which was very good. We intended to go yesterday but they unexpectedly sold out utterly within minutes. I booked this time and a good job too because they'd sold out again by the time we arrived. I've yet to think of anything to criticize; it was extremely funny, true to the original and involved amongst other things Euripides in drag, a male stripper and some of the most obscure jokes ever (to get them all you'd have to be a Classics and Philosophy buff, familiar with the University and Durham student customs, be at least vaguely familiar with Star Wars, Superman and British TV, be familiar with British commercial radio adverts and know what a rampant rabbit is - and there were probably many more none of us three picked up on, or remembered). I really enjoyed it.

Whilst googling for a suitable url for the show I bumped into the blog of the guy playing Euripides. Small world.

02:55 am: Never knew The Independent was a tabloid...

In related news, how sad...

01:00 am: I think I am getting addicted to Morning Coffee biscuits. They're like the adult version of Farley's Rusks or something - very stress relieving. I think I shall buy (yet another) packet tomorrow.

04:39 am: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm going to fail this module. I'm nowhere near done on my lab report and I've no fucking idea how reduced Chi-squared works, a full year after I was supposed to learn it. They should have taught that fucker in a statistics course, not in five minutes at the start of skills session. How does the standard error for a dataset apply to each individual point in the distribution? I've no clue. Argh.

05:51 pm: Partly because I'm avoiding coursework, and partly because I need to get a move on with regards to what I'm doing with myself next year, I would be very grateful if those people present who've done or are doing a taught MSc could provide a little advice for me:

Am I likely to be able to handle 6-8 hours of paid work a week on a Saturday on top of the course workload?

Thanks :-)