Quote of the weekend:

Alex: "I've drunk 3 and a half pints of water!"
Mary: "Why?"
Alex: "I thought I'd completely replace my body water content."
Mary: "Why?"
Alex: "..Felt like a change."

swift!

We wish to point out that Alex by no means thinks that her total body water content is 3.5pts, the statement was made for comic, rather than physiologically accurate effect. We wish to apologise for any englings, physicists or possibly even vets that have been misled.

We are not built to cope with all the sadness in the World

"They both regretted the death, but they were middle-aged men who had invested their emotions elsewhere, and outbursts of grief could not be expected from them over slight acquaintances. It's only one's own dead who matter. If for a moment the sense of communion in sorrow came to them, it passed. How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants and perhaps by the stones? The soul is tired in a moment, and in fear of losing the little she does understand she retreats to the permanent lines which habit or chance have dictated and suffers there."

EM Forster, A Passage to India, p219.

Somatic Recombination

"If only my brain could be somatically recombined - then I'd know all my stuff" Alex

Jenga

"A slipped disc is just God playing Jenga with your spine." Me

Knowedge (sic)

"Knowing that you know what you know is almost as important as knowing what you know." Me

"An Essay Bastard: The illegitimate offspring of my brain." Alex

Monkey

The house of the orange monkey pure genius. In a monkeyshaped pot. Mmm.

"With internal organs of beans and kapok, a monkey like me is almost totally invulnerable to injury".

"Cats... licking our spoons." Iona.

just thought this should never be forgotten to the depths of time.

Tied by Hate, Bound by Love

Alex on The Cambridge Examination System:
"Exams are like saltmining. You stand there chipping away at an insurmountable pile of salt; then, sometimes, salt being what it is, it collapses on you a bit. Then you dig yourself out and start over again. Now, the end is in sight, because the communist regime has been dissolved, and we will soon be free of these gulags."

We ventured out to the centre of cinematic genesis that is the Cambridge Arts Theatre (next to Wetherspoons), and saw "Strings". It's about puppets. Lots of puppets, but, rather than being wooden humanoids pretending to be their larger and more agile superiors, they live in their own world, held up by strings to the heavens. It was well done, surprisingly un-corney (is that a word?). It had a little bird in it. It chirruped. It was funny.

Humm...

Also, today was the day of Anatomising, for the second time. Luckily, this exam was much happier than the last and I have now regained my faith in canine-kind.

Tom
xxx