rest of the day post

1. ironic moment of the day.

we both approached the waterstones counter, me looking nerdy with my foundations of international macro and a guy who looked cooler because he was carrying around books about gramsci. he subtly cut into me while the attendant left to help someone else, and i couldn't resist: "why bother reading about gramsci if you believe in cutting queues."

so please, don't be so quick to put down my international macro ok? and don't cut my queue.

2. the people who annoyed me by asking for my grades while barely knowing me have earned a reprieve. after being advised that yes, such a thing is socially acceptable and happens often, i thought it was nothing too bad. while they do tend to stick to one another because of their nationality (perfectly understandable), i am now indebted to them because they asked me nicely about how prepared i was for the upcoming mock (not at all, i said), and managed to tell me that class was cancelled this week because i had skipped lecture last term so i didn't know. so they saved me an hour. or maybe class was on and they insidiously told me it wasn't. no no, they are nice people. i will now consider forming an alliance with them because we 3 of us are an island of msc people floating in an mres world. we need to look out for ourselves.

3. more annoying talk about lousy teaching. i have new good teachers this term, mainly in the subjects i'm interested in, international macro and macro. but somehow maybe i have been deadened by the lse so i think that if you need to know something, you go find it out for yourself. then again good teachers do guide well. i was just feeling crabby. and also i've been in a kind of strike from lecturers and core modules which teach me absolute crap.