Quizzes Galore

I had the opportunity, or should I say embarrasment of watching myself on University Challenge again on Monday, this time with lots of other people in the Beer Cellar. Things didn't turn out as bad as it could have been, and it was even enjoyable in a carthartic sort of way. It was a nice way to spend the evening, completed with some darts games with Dan Whittingham.

Much much more pleasing was that Trinity finally managed to triumph in the Turf Tavern pub quiz, but only because they changed the format to set a round on each of the continents. Freed of having to answer troublesome questions of pop music lyrics, we duly won with some aid from Mark Wilson and Daniel Newman.

Another happy point was that I got back my collection for IR in the Cold War and far from being a disaster it was a very decent 65. Almost good enough to make you believe that there is hope for the future yet!

Other than that things have not been tremendously productive. Had another revision tute, and finished a couple of novels - Speaker for the Dead was incredibly good. Hope to start getting seriously productive next week.