It's FEBRUARY!!!!

Oh, the weather outside is frightful.

What Fire is so delightful.

E o morning, everyone.

E e was just staring out the window at the

snow. It's cold.

One today is gonna be cold all week.

As such, I'm bundled up.

Um but I'm inside, so I don't need all this

more on this later.

Um, yes.

00 my God, it's such And there's so much to

talk about today.

I'm so excited.

So first of all, it's February.

Whoa! We made it through January, the worst month in

the history of the world.

I do not like January.

It is terrible and it's over.

I apologize to anyone who has a January birthday.

If you have a January birthday, January is awesome.

But I for me, I don't.

My birthday is in September.

More about that later.

Eso It's February, and February is a short month.

The reason I love February is because, um, you know,

January seems really long, and then February's a short month,

and then it's March and it's pretty much spring.

So that's why I like it, Um, and and there's

so much going on this month, I don't know where

to begin so First of all, tomorrow is Groundhog Day.

That is the day that Phil tells us whether we're

going to have more winter or less winter.

Quite frankly, this year I'm tor kn because they're predicting

a lot of snow for the week.

And you know, we haven't had a lot of stone,

and this is the one year when snow, you know,

it's not an issue because we can't go anywhere so

we can just sit and look at it being beautiful.

I know it's a pain if you need to go

out and walk somewhere, but so I'm kind of tourney

about it this year.

But no, of course I want it to be spring.

And it did snow yesterday last night.

I don't know about where you are, but where I

am in Scotland.

It snowed and they're predicting snow for the entire week.

So I'm really excited about that because it just looks

so nice when you look out the window and it's

all snowy and everything is glistening and covered.

And speaking of snow, the snowdrops air here.

So you might have noticed that, um, some little flowers

or peeping up those are probably snowdrops.

There the first bulbs to appear.

Then you get the crocuses and the tulips, and it

means that spring is here.

And the great thing about snowdrops is they often bloom

in the snow.

Hence the name.

I think I don't know.

I'm making that up.

But anyway, I think it's nice combination to see the

spring, the flowers and the snow, and they're still, you

know, thriving.

The next thing is that this week is the grand

opening of the L.

M. V C student lounge, so this means that you

know all that social interaction you've been craving.

Now you can go to the student lounge and meet

your friends, meet your course mates, have a cup of

coffee, have a chat place, Um, card games.

Play some other games you're probably wondering, but wait a

second. Amy were in lock down.

We can't do that.

It's not possible.

It's illegal, in fact, and you are absolutely right.

If the student lounge was an actual physical place, well,

I guess it's physical.

I don't know.

It's a virtual space, right?

So that's why it looks like there's this little video

game on the screen on Dhe is a whole lot

of fun, so you should be hearing more about that.

I've already sent a message out to the post crowds

about the various meeting times this week and next.

So look out for messages from your class reps about

when you could meet in the student lounge.

Of course, it's open all the time.

So if you want to set up your own meetings,

you can, and also for staff.

If you're listening, you're not left out because of.

Of course, this week is the launch of the L.

L M V C, and we are going to be

meeting for coffee and drinks and different things throughout the

week. I will be at the Brasserie at 5 p.m.

On Wednesday.

I'm very much looking forward to I'll be tending bar.

So you know, moonlighting is a barmaid, and that's totally

cool. So I hope that you will meet me there.

Um, now, also, the university has launched a buddy scheme

for students, which I think is great because it's a

good way.

I know that if you if you're new to the

university, it was kind of hard to meet people last

semester because we didn't have a lot of contact with

people s.

So I think this is really a great way Thio

connect with people and, you know, meet new people.

The no pressure.

Obviously, if you feel like the person you don't have

toe, continue talking to them.

But I think it's good to know that there is

someone there that you can talk to, so check that

out. A lot of other interesting things happening around the

university there is.

The Jazz Society is having its first jam session on

Wednesday, so check that out.

Check out their Facebook page.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

And I would also recommend checking out the Aberdeen City

Club. They're always doing viewing parties or watch parties, tele

parties, whatever they're called these days.

Andi, I've always been really curious about watch parties and

how they work.

Eso check them out and you can, you know, watch

a film online with a bunch of people and talk

about it afterward.

Kind of different from what we're doing these days, Usually,

which is watching Netflix by ourselves and, you know, thinking

about it by ourselves.

So this way it becomes a group activity, and now

it is time.

That moment you have been waiting for.

Today is the day our very first special guest star.

Okay, Who is it today?

Who is it?

Oh, it's a history.

I'm sure you've been wondering.

The special guest today is Professor Chris Collins, our new

head. Well, he's not new, really.

I mean, he started in the spring in the midst

of the lock down.

He is our head of school, our fearless leader, the

head honchos leader in chief extraordinaire.

And he is with us.

Well, he's not with us now.

I recorded this earlier, but with no further ado here

is Chris Collins.

I know the crowds were just going wild.

I know that you're all that was just fantastic, wasn't

it? I know.

Yes. So thank you very much, Chris.

That was awesome.

So the last thing about February that I love is

that it is the Super Bowl.

And last week I told you I was I didn't

know who is going to be playing in the Super

Bowl and now Ideo.

And it is one of my favorite players, Tom Brady

t v 12, as he is known.

And that is why I was wearing my New England

Patriots hat at the start of this thing segment.

Eso. The thing about Tom Brady is that a lot

of people do not like him.

A lot of people, I guess, love to hate him.

So I'm just going to tell you why I like

him. I am from Connecticut.

I'm from New England and our team is the New

England Patriots.

We are.

Connecticut is a small state.

We don't have our own football team, so we share

a team with all of New England.

Now Connecticut is kind of split.

Some people in Connecticut room for New York teams, but

I was always of the Boston side leaning up towards

the rest of New England as opposed toe New York.

So that's where I was and I was not into

football when I was was younger.

Um, in fact, I played in the marching band in

high school, and that really gave me a uh uh

not ah lack of love for football because it's really

cold. When you're watching football and trying to play the

flute in a polyester uniforms with a plastic hat on,

I'll show you some pictures next time.

Um it was not pretty.

But I do remember that, you know, the Patriots would

always be on.

There would always be a football game on on the

weekends, and my cousin would be watching.

And he would just be cursing the Patriots because yet

again, they broke his heart yet again.

They lost.

And they were.

They were just not a great team in the eighties

and nineties.

And then comes a new era, right?

So this team that was always the underdog I wouldn't

could never win.

Um, suddenly started to become good, and it started with

a new coach, a new quarterback.

And the thing about Tom Brady is a quarterback is

that he waas the sixth round draft pick.

So he was the second to last quarterback to be

picked. So I don't know if it's like that in

the U K.

Or in Europe.

But in the US, we would have you know, you'd

be in gym class in P E.

And it's like, Okay, we're gonna play volleyball.

So two sides.

You're the captain.

Pick your team, right.

And you know so you pick the best players first.

Right? First of all, it is never the captain.

Um, and I was always picked last or almost last

in gym because I wasn't good at sports.

Right? So this is the professional equipped equivalent of being

picked last in gym like no one believed in him.

And all you need to do is tell me that

someone is an underdog and no one believes in them.

And that's the person I'm gonna believe in because, I

don't know.

Maybe, you know, they say that, you know, everyone loves

an underdog story.

Um, you know, I'm always rooting for the underdog.

If there's a if they're two teams playing, and once

the underdog, I root for the underdog.

Unless it's my team, and then I'm always rooting for

them. But anyway, so Tom Brady was with the New

England Patriots for 20 years.

Um, he's 43 which is really old, not really old,

but really old Thio play like professional football as a

quarterback, and this year he got he moved to the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which, you know, I don't blame him.

Tampa Bay.

It's nice and warm down there, and he is about

to. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were an underdog like no

one believed in them right?

And now they're going to the Super Bowl.

And it's if you ask Tom Brady, he'll be like,

Well, it's the team.

And that's another thing I like about him.

He's so it's always about the team.

It's not about him, Um and so So the Buccaneers

were playing in the Super Bowl against the Kansas City

Chiefs. Um, you have the 43 year old, 43 year

old seasoned, experienced quarterback.

He's 16 Super Bowls.

Possibly he's gonna win his seventh, which is like, I

think, the most a quarterback has ever wanted.

You know, that would be the most.

And he's going up against a younger quarterback who is

also really good, and he's gonna have an amazing career.

Eso it's It's gonna be an interesting game.

So next Monday, I don't know if I have watched

the Super Bowl yet because it's on so late at

night. Eso I might not be able to be ecstatic

or or or not, But the other thing I like

about the New England Patriots and again Brady doesn't play

for the Patriots anymore.

But there's still my team because I'm from New England.

And there's this side.

There's this famous sign on the door when the team

members leave the practice.

You know, the practice building where the New England Patriots

practice and it has this list of rules don't listen

to or fuel the hype.

Um, you know, speak for yourself and my absolute favorite

is ignore the noise, and that applies to just about

everything. And that's what I've been doing lately.

Um, to really get through lock down is ignoring the

noise. Uh, not watching too much of the news, not

hearing, because every day it's like, Oh, it's great.

Oh, it's terrible.

Oh, we're making progress.

Oh, we're not.

And it's, you know, it's to make you go crazy.

So just ignore the noise.

And that also applies to the noise that anyone is

spouting about you.

You know, you're gonna hear throughout life, you're going to

hear people say things about you.

Oh, you don't have promise.

You don't have what it takes to be such and

such. Ignore it just like Tom Brady did.

And he went on to be, You know, this great

quarterback with this great career don't believe these outer critics

just listen to yourself.

Believe in yourself.

Follow your heart.

Now I'm getting really mushy and sentimental, so I think

it is time to end the Monday message.

But remember, don't forget the cinnamon by.

It's FEBRUARY!!!!

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