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redfiona99) wrote2012-02-03 05:21 pm
redfiona99) wrote2012-02-03 05:21 pm
Entry tags:
Writer's Block: School Ties, Fic Stuff, Book Meme Stuff and A Couple of Interesting Bits and Pieces
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Biology. And just a bit. I'm really regretting not having studied harder at maths right now.
It's not directly within the scope of the question, but I do think the US (and possibly other places but the UK, US and Austrian systems are the ones I know most about) thing of making students do things outside of their immediate area in the first couple of years and then specialising later on strikes me as being a very good thing. Ex-colleague P (who is Danish) was always amazed that I'd stop doing anything first language related at 16 because he thought you lost out on a lot that way.
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Dear Self,
You know that Mystique-centric mostly gen fic, where Frostie gets the first chapter to herself? Yes, that one. Can you make sure Magneto doesn't it take over, because he appears to be doing that to my (somewhat) jaundiced eyes.
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The next question on the book meme is tricky, because it's ' A book everyone hated but you liked' and my friends, both online and offline, have a wide taste in books, and two obvious answers for books everyone hated, 1) Dan Brown and 2) Twilight, won't do because
1) you can't stand the one Dan Brown book you tried to read either
and
2) you haven't read the Twilight books because vampire romance isn't your thing so it's unfair to use them.
So I could do with some suggestions for hated books.
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Interesting snippets:
From Eurosport's article on the top 10 parent and child sporting combos (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/top-10-parent-child-sporting-combos-172959290.html):
>>Cesare and Paulo Maldini
Cesare Maldini was a mainstay in the Milan defence for 12 seasons and captained Milan to the European Cup title in 1963. He also represented Italy at the 1962 and 1966 World Cups and went on to manage the national team from 1996 to 1998 too.
His son Paolo went on to become an even better player and matched his father's achievement of captaining Milan to a European Cup in 2003 — one of five European titles he won in his career. He played over 900 games for Milan and won 126 Italy caps. His number three shirt has been retired but it will be bequeathed to one of his sons if one makes the club's senior side.<<
Italics mine. It's not just that Paolo played more than 900 games for Milan, it's not just that that included a ridiculous number of trophies, or the silly number of games he played for Italy or the number of finals that included, it's not even that they retired his shirt, which is not something they tend to do in Italy (the only other player I can think of who had his shirt number retired is Maradonna's Napoli no. 10), it's that they've made it a heritable relic, up their with crowns and the like.
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The Argentine response to 'The Iron Lady' appears to be oddly similar to the one found amongst lefties in the UK - http://movies.uk.msn.com/news/argentine-film-buffs-pan-iron-lady
Biology. And just a bit. I'm really regretting not having studied harder at maths right now.
It's not directly within the scope of the question, but I do think the US (and possibly other places but the UK, US and Austrian systems are the ones I know most about) thing of making students do things outside of their immediate area in the first couple of years and then specialising later on strikes me as being a very good thing. Ex-colleague P (who is Danish) was always amazed that I'd stop doing anything first language related at 16 because he thought you lost out on a lot that way.
~~~~
Dear Self,
You know that Mystique-centric mostly gen fic, where Frostie gets the first chapter to herself? Yes, that one. Can you make sure Magneto doesn't it take over, because he appears to be doing that to my (somewhat) jaundiced eyes.
~~~~
The next question on the book meme is tricky, because it's ' A book everyone hated but you liked' and my friends, both online and offline, have a wide taste in books, and two obvious answers for books everyone hated, 1) Dan Brown and 2) Twilight, won't do because
1) you can't stand the one Dan Brown book you tried to read either
and
2) you haven't read the Twilight books because vampire romance isn't your thing so it's unfair to use them.
So I could do with some suggestions for hated books.
~~~~
Interesting snippets:
From Eurosport's article on the top 10 parent and child sporting combos (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/top-10-parent-child-sporting-combos-172959290.html):
>>Cesare and Paulo Maldini
Cesare Maldini was a mainstay in the Milan defence for 12 seasons and captained Milan to the European Cup title in 1963. He also represented Italy at the 1962 and 1966 World Cups and went on to manage the national team from 1996 to 1998 too.
His son Paolo went on to become an even better player and matched his father's achievement of captaining Milan to a European Cup in 2003 — one of five European titles he won in his career. He played over 900 games for Milan and won 126 Italy caps. His number three shirt has been retired but it will be bequeathed to one of his sons if one makes the club's senior side.<<
Italics mine. It's not just that Paolo played more than 900 games for Milan, it's not just that that included a ridiculous number of trophies, or the silly number of games he played for Italy or the number of finals that included, it's not even that they retired his shirt, which is not something they tend to do in Italy (the only other player I can think of who had his shirt number retired is Maradonna's Napoli no. 10), it's that they've made it a heritable relic, up their with crowns and the like.
~~~~
The Argentine response to 'The Iron Lady' appears to be oddly similar to the one found amongst lefties in the UK - http://movies.uk.msn.com/news/argentine-film-buffs-pan-iron-lady
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