Day Thirty-Five—
31 March 2013
The Boat Race. A renowned and delightfully prestigious sporting event (maybe the oldest in Britain? Somebody fact-check that) featuring Oxford and Cambridge boys flexing their muscles and ripping through the River Thames to outpace each other on rowboats. That’s the only draw, really.
Oxford won this year, after a devastating loss to Cambridge last year (though they blame their loss on a protester who jumped in the water mid-race and messed them up).
Day Thirty-Three, continued—
29 March 2013
A literary walk around the charming neighbourhood of Bloomsbury (and, if you recall my last London post, to where I fled in escaping the tourists at the British Museum).
1. Looking into Bedford Square on a beautiful Friday morning
2. Two ladies sit on benches by that same square
3. Strolling past the imposing Senate House, which served as the Ministry of Information during WWII but more importantly was the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984.
4. Welcome to Gordon Square Garden, a favourite among such authors as Virginia Woolf
5. As an economics enthusiast, I was superbly delighted to find out that John Keynes lived here
6. The plaque honouring the Bloomsbury Group. It reads, “Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group including Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell and the Stracheys.”
7. T.S. Eliot was here when it was Faber & Faber, the independent publishing house. Now, it’s a School of Oriental and African Studies (“SOAS”), within the greater University of London.
8. Nothing to see here, folks
Not bragging. Just legitimately astounded. I haven’t even clicked on it yet because the red has me so bewildered.
Day Thirty-Three—
29 March 2013 - Good Friday
I thought today, as in my day off from work, would prove to be a sensible one to visit the British Museum. Apparently, so did all tourists in London. There was barely any breathing, let alone walking, room at the magnificent bastion of worldly goods, and my claustrophobic self could only bare to stay long enough to squeeze amongst the throngs of click-clack clamouring tourists to snap a few photos of the historic Rosetta Stone before giving up and leaving.
Until this week, Nigel Wright was barely on the public’s radar. But paying a senator’s debt out of his own pocket has landed him at the centre of a national scandal
A thorough profile of an incredibly powerful and elusive man in Canadian politics, published on his birthday, as well as the day before he was forced to resign.
I pull up one of my tweets from last year…
I just want Rob Ford to create positive publicity for once.
— Trinh Theresa Do (@TTDDOO) May 14, 2012
Is that so hard, though? I’ve been asking for this for over a year!
I remember in my second- or third-year global politics class, defending Keynesian economics against these austerity measures imposed by/forced upon EU governments. I was like, the answer to boosting the global economy is so simple—just look to Keynes, just look to how America got out of the Great Depression (well, shy of that whole WWII thing). And everyone was like, No, the Keynesian model won’t work in today’s world. Neoliberalism changed all that. Fiscal policy emphasizes deficit-cutting rather than government-spending. Blah, blah, blah.
And then the Excel error.
I’m just saying. And I don’t even know anything about economics.
Spotted on Bloor Street a few days ago.
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