Thursday, April 26, 2018
A collection of the inappropriate and strange things that come out of my mouth
1) My director of studies 'Who should we invite to the post-exam English dinner? We could invite some of your supervisors -- oh, Miriam, what about _____ (my dissertation supervisor)?'
Me: 'Oh yes, he could teach us wrestling!'
Dos: Maybe not.
Me: No. (internally) Please let me die.
(Context: Apparently my supervisor used to wrestle before he started lecturing on medieval literature - that's Cambridge for you!)
2) Jay: Is Jacob your first boyfriend?
Me: Yes, and I'm the first woman he's been with.
Jay: First...woman?
Me: Not like that.
3) Me: Yeah for sure I'd travel with a baby, babies are portable!
Me:(internally) I am an idiot.
4) Whilst looking at the recipe for the chocolate and pear cake we were making, which called for one pear.
Holds up a pear.
Me: 'Is this a pear?'
(I meant would that equate to 'one pear' as written in a recipe. We ended up using one and a half.)
4) 'Lots of love, Miriam' - when signing off an email to the student accounts woman
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