What I know
Regarding Earl Grey Tea, Dilmah tastes better than Twinings.
I am stuck in 7 degree weather trying to finish up my work after a whole day's procrastination. If there's one thing I hate more than reading Greek philosophers waxing lyrical about trying to understand the world, it's reading English scientists trying to determine the nature of air. Those English scientists, how pedantic they can get! And those oh-so-long sentences! By the time you get to the end of the sentence, you forget what it was about. But such is the life of an undergraduate. You read stuff you don't enjoy sometimes, but mostly, you read stuff you enjoy. And because you don't bitch enough about the stuff you enjoy, you forget what you were supposed to remember. But, because you bitch about the stuff you don't enjoy, and because all the bitching is about the worst part of it, you don't remember anything because you don't like the parts you bitch about, and thus you don't remember it.
Like, if you were to ask me about what Hobbes said about the nature of the air, I'd know fuckall.
But I do know that Dilmah tastes better than Twinings. And that excessive consumption of Earl Grey makes you photosensitive and prevents potassium intake because of its bergamot oil.
Also, I know about most Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola films as well as Wikipedia can enlighten a person. I have also discovered more about Central Park than I can visit. I have also been able to buy a Sufjan Stevens album online. I have watched Serendipity. I have enjoyed Serendipity. This is the John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale love story type movie which I don't usually enjoy, but which makes for good TV on a grey Vancouver day, which is everyday now.
This is what I have learnt throughout the Remembrance Day weekend.
I am stuck in 7 degree weather trying to finish up my work after a whole day's procrastination. If there's one thing I hate more than reading Greek philosophers waxing lyrical about trying to understand the world, it's reading English scientists trying to determine the nature of air. Those English scientists, how pedantic they can get! And those oh-so-long sentences! By the time you get to the end of the sentence, you forget what it was about. But such is the life of an undergraduate. You read stuff you don't enjoy sometimes, but mostly, you read stuff you enjoy. And because you don't bitch enough about the stuff you enjoy, you forget what you were supposed to remember. But, because you bitch about the stuff you don't enjoy, and because all the bitching is about the worst part of it, you don't remember anything because you don't like the parts you bitch about, and thus you don't remember it.
Like, if you were to ask me about what Hobbes said about the nature of the air, I'd know fuckall.
But I do know that Dilmah tastes better than Twinings. And that excessive consumption of Earl Grey makes you photosensitive and prevents potassium intake because of its bergamot oil.
Also, I know about most Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola films as well as Wikipedia can enlighten a person. I have also discovered more about Central Park than I can visit. I have also been able to buy a Sufjan Stevens album online. I have watched Serendipity. I have enjoyed Serendipity. This is the John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale love story type movie which I don't usually enjoy, but which makes for good TV on a grey Vancouver day, which is everyday now.
This is what I have learnt throughout the Remembrance Day weekend.
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