GOOD MORNING VIETNAAAM.
Ok, so it's been a while since Dodgson surfaced on the interwebs, we know. But hey, think about it, the output that was issued in my first opening week was pretty spectacular. Also, I have actually been working. And then there was the kitchen. I know I spoke about it last time but in truth, kitchens are a wonderful focal area for all sorts of joy. Similarly, coming back to Oxford meant that I could be distracted by the company of other people as opposed to my own mindless wanderings... which we shall now address.
1) People who sit outside the open library window talking about their random and, in my eyes, pointless existence at a noise level that would be inappropriately loud unless the good lord Jesus Christ was come again. WHY? In the words of JoJo, "Get out, leave, right now". The desk I work at is literally next to these windows. If someone was to come up to your ear, hunker down with a Pret Baguette and bellow "I'm not gonna lie, but, like, did you hear about xxx?" in the library, there would be an apocalypse of tutting and indignation BUT, if the same conversation takes place three inches to the right past the gossamer-like veil that is the Bodleian's windows, everyone puts on the pretence of benign indifference. "Calm down Dodgson, it's summer, people are out having fun, give them a break", I hear you say. Yes, fine, go nuts, do what you want and maybe I'm slightly bitter at being INSIDE the library and not outside it having one of these thrilling conversations, but still - shut up.
2) Having very little to talk about apart from 'How's work going?' It's like some sort of sadistic disease that just operates in an endless cycle. You've just done your day's work, feeling reasonably happy about the whole thing and then someone comes up to you and you're like "Hey, not seen you for about 24hours or in fact anyone that I wouldn't just dismiss with a casual nod of the head" and then all you can think to talk about is the same rubbish that you were reading all day and why you're still kind of nervous about those exams which, realistically are over a month away. AND THEN you put it all over facebook. I mean that has got to be one of the most irritating things on the planet. "Zomg. Wish I could go outside and enjoy the sunshine but SO MUCH WORK". or "Just realised all last year's work was rubbish". Hey genius, STOP whining about wanting to go outside on frickin' facebook and haul your cadaverous entity into the sun for fifteen minutes. Or, just sit down and do the darn work that you're so desperately distressed about having not done. And while I realise this is ostensibly a blog 'about' the run up to Finals, it is at the very least, not so much a "Woe is me" as a "Screw it all" effort. So there.
3) This guy is wonderful. And he's right. Bruno Mars is a pain in the grenades. Just ask Tyler the Creator..
4) Bass Cannon?
