A comment at dinner:
Other person: The research forum? I was going to go, but there was some kind of super boring presentation about fisheries in Senegal or something.
Me: I gave that presentation.
Other person: Oh, um, yes.
Sexy titles definitely seem to be a requirement, if you want people to listen to what you are going to say. I should definitely have called the talk: “A Second Spanish Armada: Neo-Colonialism Resurgent in West Africa.”
PS. Want to experience something much better than this post? See this video that Meaghan Beattie sent me.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford.
Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.
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For those confused by the title:
*Various Springfieldians are trapped in a hole after failing to find treasure burried under the Big T”
Homer: We’ll dig our way out!
*digging ensues*
Chief Wiggum: “No, no, dig up, stupid!”
Indeed. For me, it has a personal context:
At a banquet, during the second day of a debate tournament where I was a judge:
Other person: So, how were your rounds today?
Me: Sooo much better than yesterday
*awkwardness*
*I realize that the guy who asked me was in a round I judged yesterday*
Me: Um, you know. You remember the really bad ones… not the perfectly good ones that you forgot about for a moment.
Other person: Yeah, dig up stupid.
bevehr ze milky pirate, milan.