David Coulthard yesterday. He was the Scottish one who was never quite as good as Schumacher. Still, nice guy in person. Tall, broad shoulders, hint of a Scottish accent: the perfect racing driver. Then he spoiled it all by admitting he drives a Smart car, – the tiny little city cars that grunt and moan if you try to take them above about 40mph. When he said that, I almost instantly lost all respect for him.
Interestingly, David Thomas was sitting next to James Kingston behind Coulthard while he was speaking. DT was working in the Librarian’s office over the Vac, and despite losing the election to Kinky (partly, it must be said, for a reason that wasn’t entirely his fault, namely the ‘is he/isn’t he the Treasurer’ debacle,) he looks like he’s basically doing all the work associated with being Librarian, short of actually holding the title. So effectively we have two co-Librarians. It’s not so much ‘if you don’t succeed, try, try and try again as ‘if you don’t succeed, just act as if you did and everything will be fine.’ You have to admire the balls.
