Murray Head (muzza@omen.net.au)
Sat, 01 Nov 1997 12:06:30 +0800
At 18:34 27/10/97 +1100, Anna wrote:
>Instead of studying for my exam today I spent the day watching all my old
>favourite PG eps.
This was a favourite study method of mine for a great many years. I would
set myself up at a table within sight of the TV, put on the PG tapes and
start "studying". My theory was that I'd get to distracted without some
kind of background noise (not a totally nutty theory) and that I'd seen all
the episodes of PG so often that I could just treat it as background noise,
and not really get involved in the stories (an utterly mindless theory, of
purest optimism).
By the way, I don't know how old he subject is now (I handed in my
honours thesis yesterday, and hence have just read all of the list posts for
about three weeks at once) but there was some talk about some of the goings
on in The Week and Pizza. Personally, I just loved the whole idea of the
pizza meetings; not just in that they sound like fun, but having seen heaps
of PG episodes by the time I saw it, it was great to suddenly be presented
with something that had been going on (presumably) for most of the time that
we'd 'known them', and we hadn't yet heard about.
I thought it really reinvigorated interest to think that there was a
whole other set of newsroom customs that we hadn't been privy to; much like
knowing someone at work/uni/school for several years and then unexpectedly
finding out that they were one of the cities best-known jazz musicians on
weeekends or something else which seemed equally unlikely (don't ask where
the hell I got that analogy from - lay off me, I've missed a lot of sleep
lately :) ).
Just thought I'd share...
Murray
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