Today's Top Ten

It's almost 1 am, and there's a stack of exam scripts I just finished marking on my bed.

There are about 70 more to go through tomorrow.

At the post mortem meeting for the recent 10th anniversary fiasco, I learnt some new things (and got reminded of some old ones):

10) Academics throw the biggest, silliest hissy fits over an RM 75 seminar fee, especially the ones who drive the yellow Celica, or the Kia. Yes, you.

9) Some people just never learn to work together.

8) The people who actually do all the dirty work are much nicer.

7) Those who don't generally come only for the meals, and then take some food back to feed their hellspa- I mean children.

6) It's nearly impossible to find a respectable chocolate wafer (anyone remember Snap and SuperSnap?)

5) A person can make several new research contacts in the space of one night, but this is considered to be a superhuman effort for the people in (7).

4) The Complete Monty Python Movie DVD boxset retails for GBP 14 on Amazon. I have made the necessary arrangements, thanks to a certain UK-dwelling, Milo-swagging friend.

3) "Innate biological factors influence GLB speech patterns indirectly by causing selective adoption of certain speech patterns characteristic of the opposite sex.." - taken from the abstract of a paper titled The Influence of Sexual Orientation on Vowel Production, full text available here.

2) There's a new book on game theory out, which looks to be much fun to read. Amazon again?

And finally...

1) After unravelling a hamper, ALWAYS get the Pringles away from the women. That is, if you like Pringles. OR, failing that, learn how to write a bestseller fantasy novel here.

Aheheh. See you later, folks. I've got one more day to pig out before I enter "good" mode. Now where did I put all that porn...?