this song makes me want to skate

[fahye]

1) It turns out that you reach a certain point after a week comprised mostly of sitting at a desk staring despondently at dot points and more dot points and yet more dot points when your eyes decide that they've just about had enough of this malarkey and guess what, HEADACHE HEADACHE HEADACHE, and you then have to face the fact that every single aspect of your life involves either staring at words on a page or staring at a screen.

As someone who doesn't like audiobooks, it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out the solution to this dilemma: LANGUAGE LEARNING PODCASTS.

Merci, Coffee Break French. Vous avez sauvé ma vue*.

2) Look, I stopped watching Glee sometime in season ONE, and I saw maybe two S2 episodes because I'd heard good things about them, and I have basically zero interest in acquiring it now except...there are pictures of Dianna Agron with pink punk hair floating around the place and...and...my ladyparts are not made of stone.

I imagine this is what real people use tumblr for.

3) Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate was on sale. I haven't even eaten any yet, I just have it open on my desk and it is sending smells of orange and cinnamon and vanilla and dark chocolate all over the place like a glorious, edible air freshener.



*Sort of. What am I meant to do during the hours of 10 and 5, not study like mad for my final exams? HA HA. HA. Hilarity.

Comments

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

1) Keep at it. Your finals don't last forever, at least?

2) OH MY GOD I KNOW, RIGHT? That show gives me rage blackouts, and I know that the adorable babypunk Quinn I have in my head is going to be infinitely more interesting than whatever Glee is doing, but I see gifs of her looking like that and. . .they intrigue me.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

1) THANK. FUCK. Also, thank your country for me; the Toronto Notes are my faaaaavourite thing.

2) Why must it be such a terribly written show when it features so many gorgeous ladies? Oh well. This is why I follow littledust's tumblr through GReader, even as I refuse to get a tumblr of my own.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

1) THEY ARE MINE ALSO, people keep saying one should ~go to the literature~ to learn, but fuck it, that is a Big Book of Mostly Accurate Knowledge right there.

2) I have graduated to a tumblr of my own, although mostly I refuse to use it for anything but reblogging pictures of ladies, and I think that is enough Glee for me. I try, periodically, to watch an episode (see: that time they butchered Rocky Horror) but inevitably the writing overshadows the subplots I do enjoy, and it's not worth it.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

1) I will say, though, my stress levels are nowhere NEAR where they were at this time prior to my long case exam. That's something. I prefer hoovering up information to be applied in multiple choice questions to TERRIFYING CLINICAL EXAMS.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

1) NOTHING COMPARES TO THE FEAR THAT COMES BEFORE AN OSCE. OH GOD. I feel like I'll be the same way.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

What sort of format do yours take? We had multi-station OSCEs at the end of specialist blocks (paeds, O&G) but our final clinical exam was a single one-hour long case.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

It really depends on the course and on the level of training - mostly it's multi-station, but I think further on in training some programs bring in the single long-case format.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I listened to some of A Flavour of German, but all I learned was that German is flavoured very like English...

German: In German, you can say "It is dot eight."
Scot: In English, you can say "It is eight on the dot."
me: Hmmmmm

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I am so enamoured of the whole 'let Scottish people teach you things in their soothing voices' format that I am totally doing Coffee Break Spanish after I've powered through the CBF archive.

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

These pictures sound intriguing.

[wakeupnew]

It is absolutely not worth watching the show as a whole, but if you can find a clip of Quinn's scenes from the premiere, I recommend it; she is doing a low voice along with the babypunk styling that is ridiculously attractive.

[miladygrey.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, that is the best Green and Black's variety EVER. I eat it with the reverence and solemn delight customarily reserved for religious rituals.

Dianna Agron's punk hair and the adorableness of Darren Criss are Glee's only redeeming features right now.