January 28, 2021

A nothing day.

Four hours of lectures.

Nothing nothing nothing.

Boring.

(Going to work may well end up killing me but at least it's interesting.)

I liked these things though:

How do London's buses get their numbers?

(Spoiler: "numbers 1 to 599 are for your everyday day routes; school day services are numbered 600 to 699; 700 to 899 are for regional and national coach services.")

The world's biggest drawing club

The Paper Airplane Collector

and a nice map of Roman roads in Britain:

The paper aeroplane guy reminded me of the year I lived with a friend and during that year I picked up every interesting thing I found discarded on the pavement and stuck it to my bedroom door:

The friend called it a testament to my insanity but I called it art.

The Roman road map made me want to get out exploring long distance again. How I miss my road trip adventures. 

In 2017 I drove on a whim to Shrewsbury after reading John Higgs' book about Watling Street and in 2019 I poked my snoot into Milton Keynes while en route to somewhere else, for the same reason. 

I grew up on Watling Street (the Medway Towns part) so feel a connection to this ancient byway and was curious to see other bits of it. I hadn't realised before I read the book it went all the way to Wales.

This is what Watling Street looks like at Wroxeter, in case you're interested:

John Higgs also wrote the most amazing book about the KLF which you should probably read immediately. The burning the million pounds thing sort of ties in with the Break Down thing I mentioned yesterday - I'm totally impressed by these deliberate acts of destruction and secretly wish I had the balls to do that with all my shit.

While we're on the subject of the KLF I might as well link to this Twitter thread that brought me exceptional joy today. And they say you should never meet your heroes.

I think the reason I might be struggling with university is that my ADHD brain is entirely cut out for browsing on an endless conveyor belt of interesting tidbits (i.e. Twitter), and not at all cut out for massively long lectures on subjects I'm not that interested in.

Today's photo: Stayin' Alive.