Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Today I received an item via email that I’d ordered a while back – and it’s awesome.  It’s not your typical run-of-the-mill, got-for-£1-on-Amazon-with-Super-Saver-Delivery kind of awesome.  This item, ladies and gentlemen, was my own personalised theme song.

The song was written and performed by Matthew Gehrett, an independent musician from the US.  It is licensed under a Creative Commons license, so if you feel that you just have to share this song with your friends (which I recommend you do, and get them to set it as their ringtone), you have the right to do so, as long as you don’t sell it and shiz.  And give credit to the author.

I suppose the only thing to do now is share it here.  Lyrics are below.

What Are the Chances, David (MP3)

Late last night over beers at the Bird ‘n’ Baby
Sat a young man pondering the probability
That all the heads outside the Sheldonian
Would burst forth singing together in harmony

The answer is staggering, it’s hardly worth mentioning
But only David would find himself wondering

David
Oxford’s favorite maths geek
David
It’s 1-in-a-kajillion or so
Aren’t you glad that you know?
Thanks to David

Awesome, or what?  (Don’t say what.)  He’s not currently taking any orders for new songs, but keep checking back.

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This week probably comprises the most times this term that I’ve been to Keble hall for dinner!  The first such occurance was Sunday, for the great Keble Christmas dinner.  Being serenaded by the choir, pulling crackers, trying to work out if there was anything we had missed in the truly bad jokes… oh, and yummy, yummy food of course!  Especially the main course.  Yum.

The second (I know!) dinner was Guest Night on Thursday, which David Burke attended with me.  I think we might have scared off some of the other students / guests with our “funny” faces and accents… ah well, the food was good, and if they really listened to what we were talking about they would have considered us COMPLETE GENIUSES, instead of madmen.  Ahem.

Charlotte’s OULES play (Snow White and the Seven Vertically Challenged Treasure Hunters) was on this week, and I went to see it with Jess on Tuesday, after a scrumptious dinner at the Eagle & Child.  (I really just think I was preparing my body for the shock of food that was to come next week… stay tuned…)  Charlotte had the part of Sneezy the dwarf, and she played it very well, managing to save the day at the end!

I managed to somehow almost move out of my room on Thursday, leaving only some boxes to be put into storage on Friday, as on Friday afternoon Charlotte and I set off for Cambridge to go to the Selwyn College snow ball!  It was terrific, not only being able to finally visit Cambridge, but the ball was such fun too – so much food and drink, doughnuts and chips (not together) galore!  (Seriously, this has become such a food orientated post.  Mmm… I like food…)  After getting back very late and having to sleep on Harry’s floor for the night, we all had a well-deserved lie-in and ended up going to see the CULES play, the Cambridge version of Charlotte’s OULES.  They did two mini-plays: The USS FingersCrossed and Jack and the Beanstalk.  They were both really enjoyable, although the bus ride back to Oxford wasn’t so much.  3 hours of being alone with Charlotte?  Argh!

However, that’s nothing when you hear of the events of WEEK 9 (YES I SAID WEEK 9).  It involves cooking.  And me.

Oh dear.