It was the autumn of 2003. The student organization of the English Department at the University of Helsinki, named SUB, had convened for the first time in the autumn term. The meeting was called because SUB was on the verge of disaster: funding had been cut short, the student union of the University, HYY, had [...]
Monthly archives for December, 2007
The SUB Spy Game
It was the autumn of 2003. The student organization of the English Department at the University of Helsinki, named SUB, had convened for the first time in the autumn term. The meeting was called because SUB was on the verge of disaster: funding had been cut short, the student union of the University, HYY, had [...]
Horoscopes for December 24, 2007
The stars impart their weekly dose of wisdom for you lost souls.
A Christmas Haiku
It’s almost Christmas So I must write about it In a haiku form We tend to write shit But this time of year we try To write excrement Because we found joy In our hearts and in our minds So it’s party time No dead baby jokes No abusing Thoreau’s book (‘Walden still sucks!’ -Ed) [...]
The Perfect Christmas Gift
Buying Christmas gifts is a bitch, isn’t it? Coming up with something unique and personal for all your friends and family members is taxing and frustrating, even when you know that it doesn’t really matter what you give – it’s the giving that counts. Ploughing through stores looking for gift ideas is like wading through [...]
I’ll be home for Christmas
Notes for students coming back to Finland for the Holidays Traffic You’d think getting used to the direction of the traffic takes time. It doesn’t. However, it’s impossible not to feel awkwardly surprised when a driver slows down to let you cross the street – whatever people say, cars and pedestrians are still pretty equal [...]
Horoscopes for December 17, 2007
The stars impart their weekly dose of wisdom for you lost souls.
Academic writing and originality
Let me take you on a philosophical journey. And before you nod off, let me emphasise that there is a point to all this. You see, there’s one thing about my academic studies that has always bothered me a lot. But before I actually tell you what it is, I’ll bore you off with some [...]
Some Very Poor Opening Passages In Li...
Kids, don’t write these at home! The “embedded-clauses-are-all-the-rage” opening: “He, even though the sex change was far from final, so in fact he was still she, albeit anatomically it was difficult to spot the difference, woke, or would have, but his eyelids felt like they had been glued shut with the kind of glue that [...]
