The Glamorous Life of a PhD

[baseballchica03]

I just finished up Stephen Fry's Making History last night. (I've decided to do more reading for fun so that I don't burn out. Last semester was rough.) Anyway, it's an entertaining read, but the following paragraph that turned up in Chapter 13 had me laughing aloud for a good five minutes."Perhaps you know how a Ph.D. thesis works. You deliver

Comments

[lolacat]

I love Stephen Fry!

[unknownblogger]

Ditto!

[steveland]

yes!

[eve_prime]

Ha! Thanks. I've never read Making History, and your post got me thinking about rereading The Liar, so I went to look for it on the shelf and lo! Somehow someone here had acquired Making History also, so now it's up at the top of the stack. :)

[altariel]

My favourite bit in Making History is this bit:

"Say, stand the bollards yet in rows
Mute guardians of the contraflows?
Are there stabbings after dark?
And is it still a cunt to park?"

[helixaspersa]

hmm, nice icon. I quite miss Cambridge.

[sensaes]

"Withing"?

[baseballchica03]

Sorry, typeo. Spellcheck didn't catch it.

[sensaes]

Nor "typeo" apparently...

I have Man 'Flu. All shall suffer.

;o)