I Suppose The Point - There Was No Point To That.
Today I gave Sanjeev Bhaskar a hug and officially received my degree! (These were related events; Bhaskar is the chancellor of the University of Sussex and was congratulating graduands. Most people just shook his hand, but a few hugged him or asked him to wave to their families. I asked him, 'May I hug you?'; he said, 'Please.' Hug achieved!) And then I came home to find that Mr Bhaskar is to be on Would I Lie To You? tonight! I look forward to it.
Not on Would I Lie To You? tonight but still wonderful and from whom I also received a hug: Barbara Allen, the best teacher I have ever had. She's leaving the university, sadly. I feel very lucky to have been tutored by her. (She told me an anecdote about a previous graduation ceremony, at which a graduand turned to the audience and pulled his robes aside to reveal that he was, as she put it, 'stark bollock naked'. I did not do this.)
Favourite verbal typo ever: when speaking about the new government in his introduction, the vice-chancellor managed to insert an unfortunate 'n' into 'the financial cuts'.
So, yes! I have now graduated. That's quite exciting, isn't it?
Also on tonight is the second-series finale of The Mentalist, although the Five reception here is so poor that I won't be able to watch it until it's on Demand Five. It is probably not the episode in which Patrick Jane confesses his asexual love for the entire team, as I imagine the Americans who have already seen it might have mentioned such an episode when reviewing my Jane/everyone fic, but I can hope.
(A couple of episodes ago, 'You are the queen of my heart, Grace' made me clap my hands over my mouth and squeak. HE IS IN LOVE. HE IS IN LOVE WITH HER, AND WITH LISBON, AND WITH CHO, AND WITH RIGSBY. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE.
I get weirdly distressed when Jane/anyone not on the team (apart from Jane's wife, obviously) is suggested in canon. If I so firmly believe there is room in his heart for four, you'd think it might be possible to squeeze someone else in.)
Not on Would I Lie To You? tonight but still wonderful and from whom I also received a hug: Barbara Allen, the best teacher I have ever had. She's leaving the university, sadly. I feel very lucky to have been tutored by her. (She told me an anecdote about a previous graduation ceremony, at which a graduand turned to the audience and pulled his robes aside to reveal that he was, as she put it, 'stark bollock naked'. I did not do this.)
Favourite verbal typo ever: when speaking about the new government in his introduction, the vice-chancellor managed to insert an unfortunate 'n' into 'the financial cuts'.
So, yes! I have now graduated. That's quite exciting, isn't it?
Also on tonight is the second-series finale of The Mentalist, although the Five reception here is so poor that I won't be able to watch it until it's on Demand Five. It is probably not the episode in which Patrick Jane confesses his asexual love for the entire team, as I imagine the Americans who have already seen it might have mentioned such an episode when reviewing my Jane/everyone fic, but I can hope.
(A couple of episodes ago, 'You are the queen of my heart, Grace' made me clap my hands over my mouth and squeak. HE IS IN LOVE. HE IS IN LOVE WITH HER, AND WITH LISBON, AND WITH CHO, AND WITH RIGSBY. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE.
I get weirdly distressed when Jane/anyone not on the team (apart from Jane's wife, obviously) is suggested in canon. If I so firmly believe there is room in his heart for four, you'd think it might be possible to squeeze someone else in.)