Odds and Ends

-There's a sign for a lecture posted up at the entrance to the economics library. It just has the date, the time, the speaker's name and then the title of the lecture in huge, accusatory, letters: SEVERE DEPRESSION IS INDESCRIBABLE
That's pretty intense.
-I was biking to the economics library and there was this tiny little thing scampering along the edge of the sidewalk. I had never seen anything like it. From a distance it looked like a scampering brown hairy turd. It was long narrow and extrememly close to the ground. It must have had legs about 1 cm high. And they were moving really fast because I biked after the wierd thing to try and get a closer look and I actually had to bike pretty hard. And then, of course it dashed off into the undergrowth. Grace says it must have been a muskrat (the picture to the right is a muskrat I found on the internet - originally I had this picture, but I decided it was too disgusting).
-There's an article on the BBC website about how Americans think the British accent is a signal of high education and class. The Brits seem baffled by this, but I'm not surprised.

Additional Note: My British friends obviously have British accents and I've grown used to them, so that I no longer have any illusion that they are smarter than they are just because of their accent. But sometimes, as a joke, they try to imitate my accent and I'm always struck by immediately how much dumber they seem when they imitate my American accent. They sound like high school drop out thugs or something. I can't stand when they do it.