A New Beginning

So I've decided to start a new blog, for various reasons. You can still view the old one here if you want to.

Anyway, racing on to the interesting bits...

I've devised a strategy so that I'll never lose my keys again. I've attached my keys to my mobile with a little string, and have a little keychain as well also attached to my mobile phone. After that unfortunate incident with my keys falling down into the lining of my coat and my having to feel myself up from Headingley all the way to Parkinson's, I decided that drastic action needed to be taken.

I went for my first Philosophy proctorial today, and ended up in a tutorial group of four people (think the rest were absent or something). It was horrible; the proctor went too fast, and didn't allow us time to discuss the questions for ourselves. He was pretty good, well spoken and nice, but I got the feeling that he was a little afraid that we wouldn't be able to discuss the questions enough to figure out the answers on our own. So he skipped from question to question like a demented frog, and I ended up going out more confused than when I had come in. I still think all the answers I wrote down for my proctorial are correct, which means that the proctor didn't do a very good job of raising questions and facilitating discussion!

There was a question in the tutorial concerning woolly jumpers and the Americans (there were two in my group) kept on laughing about "jumpers", which the proctor patiently explained were sweaters. I felt a little fierce, as I've always been intrigued by the differences, never made fun of them. I admit I had a pretty embarrassing conversation with Dan involving "pants" -

Me: I can't go to your dinner and dance! I don't have a dress to wear. I think I might just wear pants...
Dan:(laughing uncontrollably)

Anyway, I really dislike people thinking their own versions of English are better, and the same goes for people anywhere in the world and any version of English. So English is spoken differently around the world, that's what makes everything interesting! Ok, shall stop preaching for now, you know I'm always up in arms about some topic or other, especially if it involves race or accent.

Till next time.

Ruth