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Sound recording, Aretha Franklin, 'Young, Gifted, and Black'.

I love me some Aretha, but it seems as though quoting her might not get me very far in my thesis...

So, list. Listy McList.

1. I was almost crushed yesterday at the library. The basement contains all the old volumes of just about everything. Because they're short on space, they have shelves on a system that allows for only two aisle-gaps at a time. When you needs to get to books between shelves that are together, you check the next row down to see if anyone is there and then shove the row down.
Except that yesterday, Dorky Looking Boy didn't look and almost squashed me between French History and Yugoslavian Sociology.

2. This week is all about the Masoretic Text of Exodus. This is the kind of thing I live for. The rest of my phd work can go hang.

3. I'm tremendously behind now on my books for 2008. The thing is, I've not stopped reading, but I felt the urge to read a few books I've read before. So, I debating whether to just let them count or what.

4. I participated in a MRI study about singing. Basically, I spent 40 minutes inside an MRI machine vocalizing. Pretty neat pictures in the end, but I wouldn't volunteer for this again. Randomly, the same afternoon, I was given a £5 voucher for doing a quick thing for the Computing Science people on positive reinforcement and automated responses.
I don't know either.

5. I was speaking to one of the phd students in medicine. We were talking about the proliferation of knowledge and how the idea of a 'renaissance man' is almost impossible in today's world. We started talking about how some take this so far that they refuse to look at research that is more than five years old. (Definitely more a problem in her line of research than mine.)
She said, 'I take comfort in bacon.'
I honestly didn't know what to say to that. I just burst out laughing.
She realized what I thought and started laughing as well.
And yes, it makes more sense if you realize she was talking about Bacon.

6. Sometimes I wonder why I can't get things done. I'm guessing that two-and-a-half hour board meetings don't help.

7. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to have to play for church at the weekend. For once, I wish we could stick to the rotations. This is giving me (more) white hair.