This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve every seen and read.
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(Source: fuckiminmy20s)
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Live through this, And you won’t look back
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There Has Always Been A Prefect Of Tub
I am an Old Wykehamist: I won a scholarship to Winchester College in 1986 and left there in 1991. I spent my adolescence in a strange and in many ways backward institution. While there I got an incredibly privileged and genuinely valuable education. Reconciling those things is awkward. Even if I didn’t dislike the idea politically, the experience of boarding school was subtly damaging enough that I would never send my kids there. But at the same time I owe my education an astonishing amount and I’ve known opportunities 99.9% of people have no hope of access to.
So generally I just ignore that part of my life. I’m not about to start a fuckyeahwiccamica tumblr. Sometimes something bubbles back up, though. To answer a quiz on Mark’s LiveJournal I ended up reading the Winchester College entry on Wikipedia for the first time. And I noticed that the office of Jun.Cap.Prae. has been abolished, replaced with that of Oll.Prae.
What struck me about this post is how information, or more specifically small scale culture and tradition, is passed on.
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This is a pretty fair argument.
And I might even have to agree with the author that Glee and Community are quite similar. Note though, that I follow both shows avidly, and yet enjoy them in completely different ways. Oh the magic of television.
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Took this quiz today in avoidance of a project that has to get done by tonight.
This was the explanation that followed:
“You are in a perpetual quest to find the new, the exciting. Emotionally volatile, you are known for sudden changes of opinion, of appreciation, and behavior. Following rules and established methods is difficult for you and the difficulties of higher education are usually quite daunting. Knowledge is best gained through an intimate association with the matter at hand. Usually driven by attitudes and desires of the group, you are talented in an established field of endeavor. Emotions come and go without a strong understanding of their causes. They are unexpected guests in an otherwise placid landscape. You live by your own codes of conduct, which can be noble or terrible depending on the individual. Authority is meaningless to you. You hate to be predictable, at all costs. Rarely verbally effusive, you can at times feel as if your feelings are too deep for words. You are very observant, but rarely express these observations to others.”
If I believed malarky like this, I would say its spot on.
