Friday! Fridayfridayfriday!

[freckles_and_doubt]

I am reduced to Friday Random Linkery, because I've run out of brain. This week's theme appears to be Romance, i.e. that which any of I am not getting.

• Edward Gorey's The Deflowered Girl. Lateral, dodgy, louche. I unearthed this link within the last twenty minutes, but owing to lack of brain cannot remember from whence, and my browser history wots it not either. Maybe I hallucinated the whole thing. (Edited to add: no, wait! librsa sent it to me, clever man).
  
• Pride and Prejudice as Facebook updates. This has been around for a while, but I keep forgetting to post it. It is, in my far from humble opinion, much better than the Hamlet one.

Things I need to do in future posts: rave about Lee Child. Review the Doctor Who Christmas special (I liked it, perhaps Russell Davies may live after all). Unwrap for posterity the symbolic ramifications of the fact that I have lost my University Avenue parking, by my own, unaided choice, 24 hours after being granted it. Talk about turning into a lizard-creature (scaly, prone to shed skin and snap). Rant about Roswell. Apologise for neither knitting nor blogging about it. Fortunately, I have no brain for any of the above just at the moment, so shall go back to compiling lists of courses open to first years instead. Have a nice weekend.

Comments

Twilight plotline as understood via tshirt.

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Hee, amusing post on Cafepress's blog:

http://blog.cafepress.com/2009/01/08/twilight-plotline-as-understood-via-a-t-shirt/

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

The Gorey is Doing The Rounds. I saw it yesterday.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I think it would have been much more interesting if I'd hallucinated it.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

aargh! I've just checked my email. Of course librsa sent it to me, which explains why my browser history didn't help. Sorry, phleep. Thank you, cool link.

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

How have you lost the parking?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I gave it to my boss. I figured that since she's three months pregnant she probably needs to be right on the doorstep more than I do. She swopped it for her parking allocation, which is only one flight of stairs from my office, so I still score.

This tells you everything you need to know about the essential randomness of university parking allocations.

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

Well, in six months time you will get it back and the good karma for it then. go you.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Nah, she can keep it. She outranks me so it's more appropriate for her to have it, and besides, the stairs are good for me.

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

They offered you University Avenue parking?! OMFG.

And they didn't invoke some bureaucratic rule* to say you can give it up but you can't nominate who else gets it and you can't swop? More amazement.

* Such as:
Section 234(b) cii IV (2) - Any part, sub-part, particle or iota of the aforegoing may be deemed to mean whatever the Adjudicating Officer deems it to mean, in accordance with principles of fairness and good governance as determined by the Deem of the Faculty.
Section 234(b) cii IV (3) - For the purposes of cii IV (2) above, the Deem of each Faculty shall be the Adjudicating Officer, who shall be designated as such by the Assistant Head of Parking, such designation not to preclude self designation, or multiple self designation in the event that more than one Adjudicating Officer is appointed.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

It's not that they even offered me UA parking, it's that when I went to pick up the disk, there it was. No discussion, no requests. I think I cheerfully gave it up precisely because I subliminally expect exactly that kind of rule to manifest, together with a stiff note from the Dean about my presumption. It has been a revelation to realise precisely how arbitrary and happenstance the allocation system is. I don't think the Deputy Dean who's my immediate superior actually has a UA disk, either. Pre-emptive humbleness seemed to be a good move ...

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

For SURE she probably needs to be on the doorstep more than you do. That's good karma for you right there, that is. (Speaking as someone who currently can tell you the location of every bench in the supermarket :) ).

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Love the emphasis :D

Wols

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Owls/

Re: Wols

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Good... lord. That's very, very odd. And possibly unduly paranoid. Owls are nice people, really. (Unless you're a shrew).

Re: Wols

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

... or Simon Cowell :P.