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yeah

spin, that's all it is.

it's all tony blair's fault.

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boris the spider, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:03, archived)

Hullo, the other other Boris

ning!

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 7 May 2008, 23:10, archived)

hallo

i'm currently drinking whisky and marking statistical physics and getting increasingly annoyed with moronic students who are only going to argue with me on friday when i point out to them that they can't integrate for shit

ning! :)

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boris the spider, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:12, archived)

Ah.

I gave my first two undergraduate lectures on Monday. Half the students were older than me.
Practical Magnetochemistry, no less.
Alas, I have no drink apart from a very old half-bottle of Jaegermeister.

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 7 May 2008, 23:15, archived)

I believe I've only drunk jaegermeister once

and I don't remember it because I'd drunk a lot before that. This is Chivas Regal, the only blend I'll normally consider drinking, and dirt cheap over here it is, too.

My students think they're smarter than me, which they're not but they are certainly better educated. And some of them are smarter, and they're not all that much younger, either. On the other hand I earn loads more than them and already have my PhD and they don't even have their Diplomas. Heh.

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boris the spider, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:21, archived)

It amuses me a bit that I've got a year of post-doc time already

and they've not even done their batchelor's...
Apparently, I'm the youngest post-doc in the uni. Not because I'm bright, but because their uni system means they get a Ph.D at 30.

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 7 May 2008, 23:44, archived)

I'm about a year older than the final year PhD students

with 2 years postdoc experience. It's quite entertaining, I agree.

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boris the spider, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:54, archived)