3 Things about Today.

[oloriel]

Not Things that made me happy, not things that made me sad, just... things.

1. University mail system sent me about 9 new e-mails at the start of the semester.
The mail they didn't send me was the mail about how Prof K. is ill today, and that his lecture would thus be cancelled. Guess who drove all the way to Cologne in order to find out?
Yep.
This being the highly lauded mail system that supposedly informs us about anything and everything relevant about our courses, for which we now have to register online (on another system which doesn't work properly either), so there are lists of who's registered for which seminar, and automatised mails to the students who don't have to get up quite so early after all could be sent.
And since Prof K. was ill yesterday already, nobody can tell me that the system simply had no way of knowing it.

2. Magistrantenkolloquium (I'm sorry, it's just too awesome a word in order to translate it; it means "colloquium (in the seminar sense, not in the exam sense) for those who aspire to become M.A.s (in the old sense, i.e. the magister/tra artium degree, not the "Master of Arts", which is the same except not)". See? Told you Magistrantenkolloquium sounds better.), for which I killed three and a half hours after finding out that abovementioned lecture was cancelled for today, took all of 15 minutes because Prof B. only asked who already had a topic to present and who was thinking about a topic and who was just sitting there for the random pearls of wisdom and after putting together a tentative schedule ("December 2nd... oh wait, I'll be in Cameroun then") we were released.
Prof B. is disturbingly handsome. He makes me suspect that he's some Hollywood star playing an anthropology professor at Cologne university, because he's way too smart, charming and handsome to actually be a normal professor. Seriously. He's kind of like George Clooney, if George Clooney had aged better. Kind of distracting. Not typical random anthropology professor material.

3. Funny YouTube video filk of We didn't start the fire. "We didn't start the flame war". Sad but true about many, many interactions-in-comments. I lol'd. NSFW because of dirty words and images, and such. Perhaps not for the easily offended, although the video only quotes and parodies and the real offenders are elsewhere.


Oh wait, there's a fourth. I ran into Cele after the brief Magistrantenkolloquium (let's see when this gets old) and we chatted for about two hours, which was fun. We probably geeked out everybody around us, but that's ok.

Comments

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

As for 2 I can say: Pic or it didn't happen.

I'm mildly curious how a better aged George Clooney would look like ^^

[jassanja.livejournal.com]

3. Funny YouTube video filk of We didn't start the fire. "We didn't start the flame war". Sad but true about many, many interactions-in-comments. I lol'd. NSFW because of dirty words and images, and such. Perhaps not for the easily offended, although the video only quotes and parodies and the real offenders are elsewhere.

Wasn't there a Harry Potter version some years ago?!?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Possibly? I didn't see it back then, so I wouldn't know.