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Douglas Thomson (duke_mcsnuffles) wrote,
@ 2003-09-06 21:37:00
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    Emma's convinced me that I've got to start a blurty. Well, actually, she said "you should start a blurty." and I said "ok then." I don't take much convincing. About somethings I'm a bit like Millard Fillmore--- "A man who sways with the slightest breeze." Harry Truman said that, when he was taking the rip out of 19th-century presidents one day. I'm not sure why he felt he had to, but he did. He also said about President Franklin Pierce:
    "He was another one that was a complete fizzle... Pierce didn't know what was going on, and even if he had, he wouldn't have known what to do about it."

    Emma's a lovely girl. Since she's gonna be reading this, I thought I should put that in.

    I spent most of this morning completely depressed for some reason. I'd had an argument with Patrick the night before, at Eric's party, and I'm still a bit pissed about it to be honest, although i should really let it rest. I don't know what it is that's irking me, but I know there's something there, but it's hard to figure out exactly what. I think James likes me a bit less after last night. I was a bit not-myself when I was arguing with pj, I don't think he really appreciated that. Probably best not to discuss this with myself over a Blurty. That's the problem, though, with people. You can't definitively tell exactly what a person thinks of you, you're always second guessing, and trying to keep your options open, or building up defensive walls around yourself, to guard against being let down or hurt, and that means sometimes you can't just let yourself go and really trust someone, even if at that moment int time, it's the best thing you could do.

    On that point, I think I annoyed Phil Felton. I asked him for a lift, then was procrastinating over whether to go or not, he sounded kind of pessed off when we got in the car. Whoops.

    I'm really getting behind on my reading. i haven't so much as touched Daniel Deronda for days. I think George Eliot has a curse on her. I'm definitely not gonna get the 27 books left on my reading list read by the time I get down to oxford in october, I know. I'm just wondering how many I will have to read before I can blag it professionally. I'm terrified that I'll be surrounded by people who can quote whole chunks of "Middlemarch" at me, and that I really will be truly in over my head. People have been congratulating me ever since December on getting into a good uni, and I never know whether I'll live up to it. I guess I'll know in about 2 months time.

    I keep getting distracted by this book on my knee. it's called "The George Magazine Book of Political Lists". It's where I got those Harry Truman quotations that I bored you earlier with from. It's got all sorts of obscure facts, like how many children President John Tyler had, whose face is on the $500,000 bill (President Woodrow Wilson), and Thomas Jefferson's campaign slogan in the 1800 election. Anyway, enough blurty-writing for now.


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