Lund Skane

There was a guest lecture in my Parasitology class today- a Lithuanian! I fell madly for that European accent. I was more obsessed with taking down observations of his accent instead of the course material. His name? Gediminas Valkiunas! Now THAT'S a name. He's from Lund University. The only connection that comes to mind with Lund is that Mousse calls Drab Lund, why I still have no idea. I searched wiki for Lund and came up with a city in southern Sweden. AGAIN with the Swedish. Ugh. Anyway, his speech. "I like this... very much." Trite phrase expected of Europeans. Smacking of the lips, bald pate. His "oo" as in book sound more like oohs. Many of his sentences omitted the article "a." Europe is pronounced as Yoo-rup, nuclei as nuclay, different as dEEfarent. er's go to uh's, it's go to eet's, false is fellse, good is gut(+umlaut). Depending on the vowel that follows, th can be pronounced differently. The becomes zee, this becomes dis, and though becomes so.

Drab's middle name walked me out after neuro today. He listens to NPR, and his grade was better than mine in a science class. I can NOT deal with 2 Drabs anymore. One is exhausting enough for a lifetime.

Checking analytics today, I noticed that one of the more frequent queries was for Janey. Most likely guess, Janey searching for her own name to specifically find articles in which I talk about her.

This girl in Microbio annoyed the hell out of me. In particular, people who ramble on and on in class trying to show off their intelligence in the subject when they in reality don't know shit, really need to just shut up. What a waste of breath. That girl obviously didn't learn anything from her genetics class because the answer she told her friend was COMPLETELY wrong.

So when defending a dissertation, you just sit in a room in front of some old geezers? Is that how it goes? Also, Ph.D. comics. I'm just thrilled how I can relate so much to the comics even though I'm not in graduate school. Sad.