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The one day I decide I'm going to do something after work other than get glued to the internets all night, I leave my book at work. I was enjoying that one. It had Four and Nyssa in 13th century Oxford and monks and knights and the scientific method. I will just have to resign myself to one of my other 200-something DW books. (I and my bank balance both wish I was joking)

I'm eking out my Bertha episodes. Bertha, for those unfortunate enough not to have watched lots of British children's television in the Eighties, is a gentle little stop-motion animation thing about a big green machine who can make anything. Like, ooh... money-boxes in the shape of windmills! Meanwhile the factory workers gently pootle around stacking a few boxes here, having a crisis over a stray mouse there, and drinking lots of tea. I can't imagine it was shown anywhere outside the UK, because kids would just have gone "what the shit? This show should be about a dinosaur! Who travels in time! And plays the electric guitar, whoo!"*

HIGNFY people: I've got Best of the Guest Presenters Vol 2. Any particularly good bits I should be looking out for?

I have Lois and Clark on DVD, too, because WH Smith foolishly marked it down to £18.99 (why is TOS still £45 a season, Mr Smith?). It is like my last year of primary school all over again. I was so in love with them. I had a pencil case with Lois and Clark on it. I wrote to Dean Cain and everything. And he replied with a signed card that was in no way a standard thing an underling sent out. In my 10-year-old head this meant we were practically engaged.

* I've just discovered that 'Denver the Last Dinosaur' is on DVD. Blockbuster owns me.

on 2006-03-23 08:52 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com
Yep, I'll be there - I haven't heard the time yet, though.

on 2006-03-23 10:41 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] owl
Dunno if I'll be there. Will it be all people getting drunk and me explaining my unemployed status? Actually, it'd be interesting to see how many of us are doing something related to physics...

on 2006-03-23 10:42 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com
I'm frightened I'll be the only person there going "err, I'm working a temp job as a secretary" when everybody else is doing PhDs and stuff related to our course...

on 2006-03-23 11:03 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] owl
Well, then there's me, with my absolutely no job, my job history in a toyshop and, well, ok, it was a physics technican...
D'you what Jane's doing these days? I saw Roberta in Subway once looking v. professional in a trouser-suit, but I hid behind a pillar in my student-like trainers and jeans.

on 2006-03-24 06:14 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com
Jane's working in the hospital, as far as I know (I have an interview there in April, but it's for a clerical job). Dunno about Roberta. One of the girls is doing a PGCE, because Francis got me confused with her: maybe Christina?

on 2006-03-25 04:45 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] owl
Which hospital doing what?

on 2006-03-25 04:46 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com
Something medical physicsy, at Belfast City, I think, but I'm not sure...

on 2006-03-25 04:58 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] owl
I wanted to do something medical physicsy at the Royal, but they wouldn't have me... :'(

on 2006-03-25 05:01 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com
Me too, in Belvoir Park, but they didn't want me...

on 2006-03-25 05:07 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] owl
We are unloooooooved! And we got better degrees, boo!

We should have a reunion of Unemployed Physics Graduates of 2004/5.

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