: Miscellaneous update
* It's Southampton on University Challenge tonight. I know one member of the team, its captain. He's a psychology student, and was bought up in Belgium; we've seen streamed episodes of Een Tegen 100 and Miljoenenjacht together in the past. It's Southampton's first appearance in the televised stages in several years - is that typical of an average Russell Group, non-collegiate university? And if not, can we blame the fact that our university quiz is 20% quiz and 80% breaks for alcohol and music?
(Its former host, incidentally, did end up as a beaten finalist on Weakest Link last year...)
* I'm revising my budget and my food plans. This isn't the company in which to elaborate.
* I will say, however, that I'm cancelling all my music lessons. My music remains important to me, but not that important. I have, though, completed (though in a state of non-arrangement) a short, showy piece for EF.
* Just realised that the Manchester al-City takeover was greeted with the oil barons unveiling a light blue shirt with 'Abu Dhabi United' on it. That could be the name for them here...
* Not-unrelatedly, the Buccanneers' sponsor may be imploding. Goodness, two Division I teams seeing their sponsors implode, plus a third who couldn't (or wouldn't) get one in the first place, and a fourth who opted for a charity's name on their shirts instead... when was the last time 20% (if AIG collapse) of clubs in Division I were without paid-for shirt sponsors?
* It's Southampton on University Challenge tonight. I know one member of the team, its captain. He's a psychology student, and was bought up in Belgium; we've seen streamed episodes of Een Tegen 100 and Miljoenenjacht together in the past. It's Southampton's first appearance in the televised stages in several years - is that typical of an average Russell Group, non-collegiate university? And if not, can we blame the fact that our university quiz is 20% quiz and 80% breaks for alcohol and music?
(Its former host, incidentally, did end up as a beaten finalist on Weakest Link last year...)
* I'm revising my budget and my food plans. This isn't the company in which to elaborate.
* I will say, however, that I'm cancelling all my music lessons. My music remains important to me, but not that important. I have, though, completed (though in a state of non-arrangement) a short, showy piece for EF.
* Just realised that the Manchester al-City takeover was greeted with the oil barons unveiling a light blue shirt with 'Abu Dhabi United' on it. That could be the name for them here...
* Not-unrelatedly, the Buccanneers' sponsor may be imploding. Goodness, two Division I teams seeing their sponsors implode, plus a third who couldn't (or wouldn't) get one in the first place, and a fourth who opted for a charity's name on their shirts instead... when was the last time 20% (if AIG collapse) of clubs in Division I were without paid-for shirt sponsors?