In which Ro has toppled over the edge and is paddling in the abyss with some soothing music...

[rowana]

How many Oxford students does it take to change a lightbulb? Yesterday, eleven of us, several cups of tea and a very helpful scout. There have been some fun moments like that. And whilst there are swathes of people who really like drinking to wade through, (as littlered2 discovered when she wandered over to my room on the first night here), there are also

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[rowana]

I know! It's bonkers, isn't it? Gollum does mean it despairingly, (if we're some of the cleverest people in the country, the country is in serious trouble), but it often comes out sounding self-congratulatory and elitist, and I think that it does have an element of that in it. Almost everything everyone says here does - but it seems to be a coping mechanism as much as anything else. There's nothing else which could justify the massive workload and ridiculous amount of stress we subject ourselves to here, for what seems to be such little return.

I think my analysis button has just gotten stuck and is taking a while to turn itself off.

/me revises downward her opinion of the cleverest people in the country, and starts to worry a bit.

:D We've already accepted that if some of the future leaders of Britain are going to be taken from our ranks, the country really is in serious trouble.

Cheesy romantic comedies have included 'The mirror has two faces', 'Laws of Attraction', and a TV series called 'Remington Steele', (can you tell that Merry has a serious thing for Pierce Brosnan? :D).

You can call the washing up liquid Dorinda. It just wouldn't be the same without the alliteration. :)

[aged_crone]

REMINGTON STEELE!!!!!!! I *love* Remington Steele! It started when I was in college. I met my best college friend when we both showed up in the student lounge wanting to watch the premiere. I have the whole series on DVD.

Yes, he was definitely pretty!

[rowana]

:D He really was pretty. Merry adores Remington Steele, and we both bonded over our mutual love of 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures'.