Extra-extralicious

Today was fabulous in a boring sort of way. I am positively elated to be done with school (for now). I have no immediate complaints, and because of that I have nothing much of importance to say. In light of this, I will get a little bit list happy and tell you four things of not so important nature:

1) I always seem to have these "admirers" who are roughly ten years older than me, and into academia. This happened at the UW and again here at UCT. At the UW it was my policsi TA who came from the Soviet Union (as he called it), who kept me in his office answering questions about my life for a loooong time on repeated occasions. The meetings were mandatory for everyone in the class regarding our papers. It wasn't like I kept being somehow tamed into his Gowen lair. But I just couldn't get away when he finished talking about my paper and launched into the Russian inquisition. Here at UCT it was a librarian who I seemed to have caught the eye of. That was much less creepy and way more beneficial, though, because the librarian actually helped me find hidden dvd's and lots of books, and never tricked me into a small room.

Still, though. Why me? Do I somehow seem endearing to older university people who are ten years my senior (at least)? I only explained two instances of this phenomenon, but its part of a much longer pattern of uncomfortability. Not too annoying, but strange nonetheless.


2) Interestingly the name Phoebe has biblical roots. Isn't that funny? It sounds so much more modern and almost new-agey...thanks in part to Friends, I think. But its in Romans 16, so technically its on par with names like Moses and Ezekiel.


3) A confusing riddle: What do Superman, Moses, and the Cabbage Patch Kids have in common?


4) People say "now now" here a lot. It is the equivalent of saying something like "I will be there just now"...which they also say. Contrary to logic, now now can mean in ten minutes, in a couple of hours, or NEVER. I learned this the hard way last time I was in South Africa.





"Simplicity provides a fine line between elegance and plainness."
-Brown Sugar