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I'm disappointed with regard to the PM received and the fb invitation - I was expecting it to be something really scandalous, like she was plotting to blow up the UL or something. Major disappointment.

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The West Wing

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Llamaaa

I'm disappointed with regard to the PM received and the fb invitation - I was expecting it to be something really scandalous, like she was plotting to blow up the UL or something. Major disappointment.

Yeah I know what you mean, I'd already guessed it would be this, and I'd told alex_hk90 that that's what I thought it would be, though I predicted a different role.

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Llamaaa

I'm disappointed with regard to the PM received and the fb invitation - I was expecting it to be something really scandalous, like she was plotting to blow up the UL or something. Major disappointment.

my speculasionining was right :proud:

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Llamaaa

minimo

my speculasionining was right :proud:

so you did :yep:

This parcel thingy is fun isn't it?

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alex_hk90

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The West Wing

Yeah I know what you mean, I'd already guessed it would be this, and I'd told alex_hk90 that that's what I thought it would be, though I predicted a different role.

I can confirm that The West Wing did indeed guess it correctly. :yep:

And I also thought that it would be a little more dramatic with all the secrecy, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. :smile:

Anyway, off to bed (and it's not yet tomorrow :eek:

).

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Llamaaa

so you did :yep:

This parcel thingy is fun isn't it?

it isssss, i love getting parcels :biggrin:

I has planz for my victim

Reply 988

Gesar

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Just watched the uni challenge final. It was quite good, though I was pretty outraged at the easy, easy maths questions :tongue:

And I'm glad Oxford won. That Yeo guy seemed incredibly smug.

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Llamaaa

minimo

it isssss, i love getting parcels :biggrin:

I has planz for my victim

I don't know what to give mine. Planning is needed. I don't know him, but he seems really nice, so I don't want to send nastiness!

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Llamaaa

I'm disappointed with regard to the PM received and the fb invitation - I was expecting it to be something really scandalous, like she was plotting to blow up the UL or something. Major disappointment.

After puppy I at least wanted national press coverage :haughty:

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Llamaaa

I don't know what to give mine. Planning is needed. I don't know him, but he seems really nice, so I don't want to send nastiness!

chocolate is always a win but a bit predictable :frown:

maybe something peruvianny-llammaaaay?

Reply 992

Scipio90

Llamaaa

I don't intend ever to have an all-nighter for the purposes of furthering my education :mad:

All my deadlines and supervisors are such that a) it'd be just as effective to go to bed and do it in the morning and b) none of them would be too bothered about work not being complete, as long as I'd done enough that it looked like I had some idea what was going on.

Of course, that's apart from the fact the latest I can actually work on something that's not interesting is about the time now...

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Scipio90

...none of them would be too bothered about work not being complete, as long as I'd done enough that it looked like I had some idea what was going on.

Lucky

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Gesar

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Craghyrax

Lucky

Pssh. That's what you get marks for in the exam. If you don't want needless pedantry you shouldn't do an arts subject :tongue:

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Gesar

Pssh. That's what you get marks for in the exam. If you don't want needless pedantry you shouldn't do an arts subject :tongue:

I am not capable of doing a science, so its not really a matter of choice. :dontknow:

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Scipio90

Gesar

Pssh. That's what you get marks for in the exam. If you don't want needless pedantry you shouldn't do an arts subject :tongue:

I think before the end of this year, I might see how sketchy my solutions become before my maths supervisor complains. Comments like "You didn't do this question - hmm, I don't blame you." and "The derivative of this [messy function] is... not important" suggest it should be a fruitful exercise :p:

Reply 997

ukebert

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FadeToBlackout

Bullocks. I'm not going to be doing my PGCE this year, the course is full. :frown:

I'm very annoyed over this. Oh well. Got to make the decision to do the Graduate Teacher Programme and train in a local school, or to do another job or something for a year and then reapply for the PGCE.

Sorry to hear that James :frown:

That must be a disappointment for you.

Craghyrax

ukebert: you need to go to the computer page on the Peterhouse website and fill out a form saying you lost it. I would suggest you hop to it because the stupid Computing Office took 8 days to give me my new card when mine got lost. You can eat at hall but you just need to ask them to let you write down your name on the clipboard instead of using a card. If they give you crap about not doing it more than once, then explain to them that the computer staff haven't issued you the new card yet despite you reporting it, and tell them that they can sort it out themselves if they feel like being unreasonable.
Also once you've reported the card, the card office on Mill lane will print you a new card the same day. They will then send this card to our computer person's pigeon hole. The computer person checks his post about once every 2 weeks, so you need to regularly go to the office (several times in a day if need be - he's never in during his hours) and then if he claims to know nothing of it offer to personally escort him to his pigeon hole. And if he tells you he's going to add your card to the system in 'the next 5mins' then insist on staying their while he does it. My new card still doesn't open the library and the garden gate despite their promises. Fortunately I found my old card at that point.

Fun fun fun. Thanks for that. 8 days? This could be highly annoying.

K.T.

Thanks for everyone who wished me luck btw - I got into the JCR :biggrin:

(the reason I've not been on TSR much/at all lately is due to my new scheme of being 'more efficient' with my time; it has worked in the sense that I'm probably doing more work & less faffing about - good times - but I, as of yet, have failed to derive any more properly 'free time' from the attempt. Bad times.)

Oh, soz if this is old news - what was the whole thing with FJ about? Was it to do with the group I've now joined on fb? *is hopefully subtle enough*

Congratulations :biggrin:

Craghyrax

The obscure links in my family that I like are the fact that I descend from Thomas Buxton (who worked with William Wilberforce to end slavery, Elizabeth Fry (on our £5 banknotes) and the intermologist who did most of the discovery/primary research on the Tsetse fly. The fact that scarily large numbers of my extended family went to Oxbridge is only mildly mollifying because its so strongly tied to a class stereotype, and as someone doing a degree surrounding inequalities and how they're reproduced, its rather alarming to think about it and identify with it.

That I can identify with :dry:

As a left winger the fact that I'm something like the 6th or 7th successive generation to go to Cambridge is rather worrying.

My only tenuous link of note is that William Gladstone is my great great great great uncle.

This evening I finished an examples paper that had eluded me for weeks :biggrin:

Well, I couldn't do the last part of the last question, but sod it. It's an achievement, and probably the first one this term, so I aim to relish it. Of course, this particular examples paper should have already been done and gone through in a supervision these last 2 weeks, but sod that as well. Smoker was pretty good too. Excellent evening.

Reply 998

ukebert

Fun fun fun. Thanks for that. 8 days? This could be highly annoying.

Verily. I advise you to take the heavy handed approach. I made the grave error of assuming that they might actually be at all interested in doing their jobs and acting as they promised :dry:

ukebert

This evening I finished an examples paper that had eluded me for weeks :biggrin:

Well, I couldn't do the last part of the last question, but sod it. It's an achievement, and probably the first one this term, so I aim to relish it. Of course, this particular examples paper should have already been done and gone through in a supervision these last 2 weeks, but sod that as well. Smoker was pretty good too. Excellent evening.

Well done.

I'm steadily reading, still panicked about the stupid essay.
My perfectionist streak is massively counterproductive, given that most of the stress and anxiety is related to not wanting to simply argue the easiest and most obvious thing available.

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