Chris ([info]randomchris) wrote,
@ 2004-02-08 22:49:00
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The last couple of days...
have been fab generally, mainly due to the lovely presence of [info]ashfae. We have been doing many couply things. We almost ended up walking down the aisle together on Sunday... but were separated by one place as the choir processed in. We also got very snowed-on, went to a party and sang Scottish songs (other numbers included Gilbert and Sullivan, dodgy numbers about vicars and choirboys, and Monty Python's "Sit on my Face"... you can tell that the alcohol flowed as the evening went on), watched much Firefly with [info]deralte and generally had a ridiculously cute couply weekend.

(readers: "cuteness overload! agh!")if you think that's cute, check out these dolls by [info]ixwin. Aaaaawwwww!!!!!

In various bits of good news, Stringers say they're able to fix my bow, and hopefully I should be able to pick that up tomorrow at 5pm.

At 2pm, I have an interview with a woman from the Prince's Trust - slightly scary, we basically have to talk about loans etc. and whether they should give me another ten thousand to fund my proposed expansion. Well, this is more of a pre-selection meeting, we're trying to get a strong case together so that I've got the best chance when the panel make their decision.

Have booked my place at the Pembroke MA ceremony on 19th & 20th March, and also booked my academic gown, hood and bands for that (I think I have a white bow tie somewhere!) Ede and Ravenscroft's hire line is 01223 861854 if that helps anyone :) (psychic impulse tells me that will be useful.) We'll all look excessively silly, I'm sure.

Oh yeah, and for the record, PEOPLE WHO PIMP COMMUNITIES BY ADDING COMMENTS NEED A GOOD HARD SLAP, especially comments that have no relation to the entry they're commenting on. Clear?

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[info]ashfae
2004-02-09 12:48 am UTC (link)
...it wasn't that ridiculously cute couple-y a weekend...I mean, we weren't being horrendously PDA-style cute in front of people we knew, or using schnooky language (of which my brother and his girlfriend are masters), and you didn't buy me dinner and I didn't buy you flowers. And there was no pink involved anywhere! (thank god) In fact, I'm much to prone to insult you and twist everything you (or anyone else) say(s) and you're to prone to make bad puns at me for us to fit general cute couple standards. That or I'm just in denial. One of those. *wry gryn*

As for the walking down the aisle comment...*lobs a hymnbook at you*

As for the party, don't forget all the "Sound of Music" and Simon & Garfunkel. *Gryn* (thank goodness, something I knew!)

You'll certainly look silly in that get-up, and more so with a white bow-tie, for bow-ties are inherently goofy.

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[info]randomchris
2004-02-09 11:53 am UTC (link)
I know. But we have to wear it:

"The correct dress for all Congregations is as follows:

Male Graduands: Black dinner jacket, plain white shirt (dress or ordinary, wing collar or standard collar), white bow tie, bands, plain black covered shoes (no boots), black socks with appropriate academic gown and hood.

...

NB. Clerical, military and national dress are always acceptable in which case bands are not worn if inappropriate. Facial jewellery, other than one pair of stud earrings, is not permitted. Exaggerated hairstyles or colours are not acceptable.

The Proctors have given notice that anybody of inappropriate appearance will not be allowed to proceed to their degree. The College strictly enforces this rule."

I did consider a kilt, but I don't have the legs for it.

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[info]pseudomonas
2004-02-09 01:23 am UTC (link)
Simon & Garfunkel are great! Pity we didn't remember their 'Benedictus', given it's an arrangement of a Lassus piece.

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[info]ophelia_complex
2004-02-09 09:33 am UTC (link)
Congrats! what are you graduating in?

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[info]randomchris
2004-02-09 11:57 am UTC (link)
Um... the rigorous discipline of "starting a Cambridge BA and living six years after the end of your first term in residence".

Basically, it's an excuse to meet old friends and have a free dinner at the college's expense, and they give us some letters to put on the ends of our names if we feel pretentious. Getting an MA in mathematics is just silly, especially when I already have an MMus, so I don't think I'll use it.

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[info]ophelia_complex
2004-02-09 12:10 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand - did you have to do a masters? or did they just decide to hand out an upgrade from BA to MA?

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[info]randomchris
2004-02-09 12:22 pm UTC (link)
It's an automatic upgrade that only Oxford and Cambridge do. It's very silly, and only survives because nobody from the Government's stopped them yet (mainly because they're all Oxbridge types...)

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[info]ophelia_complex
2004-02-09 12:25 pm UTC (link)
Ah right! Glasgow has the same ability - a 4 year undergrad degree is an MA, where it would be a BA anywhere else in scotland - but they hand the MA out there and then, rather than waiting for a few years. its really only the ancient uni's that seem to get away with it!

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[info]benparker
2004-02-09 12:45 pm UTC (link)
It's not silly ata ll. Oxbridge have done it for ages, it's just the modern universities that decided that a M.something was something you had to _work_ for.

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