M.A. or M.S.?

At the end of fall term, by virtue of completing 3 more credit hours and my first year project, I'll be entitled to an M.S. If I relearn enough French to pass a competency exam, I could get an M.A. instead. Which would be nicer to have?

(My undergraduate degree is a B.S., because that's all you can get from U.C. Berkeley's College of Natural Resources.)

At the library, I picked up the second season of To the Manor Born and the first two episodes of Mapp & Lucia. Fun! Wodehouse fans might like the Mapp & Lucia books. The hailstorm while I was driving home was bit intense.

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

Next Wednesday, PBS will start showing a four-part series on the Roman Catholic Inquisition.

Part 1 - the Cathars in medieval France
Part 2 - Ferdinand and Isabella
Part 3 - Renaissance Italy
Part 4 - Europe in the mid-1800s

Anyway, the PBS Previews e-mail includes this in the description of the first episode:

The first episode tells the story of how heresy took hold in what is now France. The Pope sends the Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity to exterminate the heresy.

Wouldn't that make a great name for a band?