I attended one of my interns’ presentations today, as moral support. She introduced me to her class as her ‘boss’, but I had to correct her and say, ‘Guv.’ The Guv’nor. I have been to London, but not Manchester. So Guv it is. Like Jack Regan.
‘I think they’re wonderful. They have so much courage! Here they are, hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour, and the only thing that keeps them in their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.’—John Lithgow as Prof Dick Solomon, in Third Rock from the Sun