*blinks a bit* The personal essay thing seems... very strange. Very, very strange.

I should just be glad that (although individual lecturers may not be so great) my department as a whole really does look after its students pretty well. Noticeably better than the university as an entire unit does. Heh.

Oh yes, and the other source of so much weirdness in reporting is on archaeolgy is - of course - Stonehenge. Just mentioning Stonehenge is enough to make a lot of archaeologists want to curl up into little balls and try to pretend the world doesn't exist. (Others will just start ranting, and have enough material to keep going for weeks if not successfully derailed.)

And during research for an essay a while back I came across something which had gone from a press release reading along the lines of "skeleton found at [site] still wearing hobnail boots" to some fantastic story of a female iron-age woman who was some kind of sex symbol, according to the Sun. The archaeologists took it in pretty good humour and had a t-shirt made with the article and a picture of a skeleton in high-heeled boots on it, but you get the general idea of how these things can go. ^^

I'm sorry, this really has nothing to do with anything, I just can't seem to stop typing. *laughs*