On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Ruvi Simmons wrote:
On an entirely different subject, and the real reason I am writing this, I was wondering if anybody went to Edinburgh University, because I was thinking of applying. Is it good? Is the city nice? Does it have a good English department?
I went to Edinburgh University. I graduated, but I'm still at it, mostly because i don't want to either move house or get a proper job. it's reasonable, as universities go, but i have nothing to compare it with. According to rumour and constant press releases, it's almost bankrupt. Every morning i push books around the university library, and every afternoon i try to think of something to say about the archaeology of North-West Scotland. We have lots of English books, which is probably a good thing. We have nowhere to put them all, actually; one of my jobs is to push them round and try to make them fit. There are lots of copies of Jurassic Park. Is that good or bad, then? You can spot the arts-faculty students at twenty paces, just by the way they dress. That could be the jumping-off point for another "why-i-don't-like-x-random-group-of-people" posts, but i can't be arsed. Someone else can fill that bit in. Ken's one was good, partly because it was both funny *and* true. We should start a charity, you know, for star-crossed lovers who live at opposite ends of their continents, across oceans, and suchlike. Rattle our buckets to raise them the air fare, penny by penny. They deserve it. People who ask for the money will be turned away; we shall hand the tickets out to people who look or speak in the suitable manner. By their words we shall know them. I've already spotted a few about the place, you know. Miss Crush just isn't *enough* for these people. Edinburgh is a nice city, i suppose. the only other place i've ever lived is Grimsby, which doesn't really compare even though i think i can see beauty in its fog and low buildings. edinburgh had hills, cliffs, gorges and tall bridges. it is beautiful all over, too. i can see a panorama of the city on a february afternoon, with all the buildings fading into themselves save for the spires of St. Mary's Cathedral. on the other side of the firth, there is snow on the hills. the city smells of beer, as usual. at least if you do english at edinburgh (or archaeology, for that matter), you can avoid the scientists, who have all their own theatres, labs and libraries. It's rumoured that the Physics Department many years ago enslaved a beautiful princess and keep her chained in the bowels of the J. Maxwell Building, feeding their computers and preventing them escaping. I would find a white horse, a suit of armour, ride there and rescue her; however, i am afraid of the physicists. They are all goths, you know. besides, i have never ridden a horse in my life. it would be all the way across the other side of the city. xx will (apologies to anyone i should be apologising to) -- Will Salt "one day, everything will be grate, as long as you are willing to make it to be..." -- J. Maxwell, not of Building fame. ICQ 66321009 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+