Wonderful Nonsense

First week of school wasn't bad, just exhausting because of having to get up early. AND WHY DID IT HAVE TO COINCIDE WITH EVERYONE AND THE KITCHEN SINK GETTING ON SKYPE? Late night hilarious Scrabble chat sessions are not conductive to a good sleeping schedule. But awesome, so there's that.

I would list my frankly fascinating classes, but I need to listen to narcissisma 's MANTOAST playlist now. (♥ bb)

Proof that my parents love me after all: They sent me a tea advent calendar (which also inexplicably included a CD with violin music, but hey, I'm not complaining). That is kind of awesome, y/y? I get to drink a different kind of tea all through December!

Less awesome: ear infection. Ow ow ow. Last time I had this it was mostly gone the next day, so there's hoping. But owww, not fun.

More awesome again: Cuppycakes! I'm going to bake them now and then I'm going to decorate them for Doctor Who. I even got dark blue napkins to fashion a cape for the Maylin Cupcake. :P It's gonna be fuuuun.

Sooo, I'm back home in my dorm room. No major disasters have occurded here while I was gone, except that I seem to have missed some sort of official letter, possibly from the student support people. :/ Have to figure that out tomorrow. Other than that, the only bad thing is that I'm freaking lonely once again. Buuut not for long, because OXFORD! IN THREE DAYS! WOO! I'm so excited.

We got the program for our stay a few days ago, and it's awesome. There's lots of lectures and tours around Oxford University and such, but also cultural things like a night at the Catweazle Club and Blenheim Palace (yeah, I've never heard of it before either, but it looks great on the website). And on Monday we're going to London. We'll be busy until 5.30pm, but after that we get free time. Which I've got no idea what to do with, since all the interesting places I want to go to close at 5 such as the setting of Jubilee, aka the Tower of London. I don't know if I've got anyone on my flist who lives around there and would be up for a meeting, but I'd love to have someone to check out the last real Police Box in Earl's Court with. ;) Suggestions for what else to do there are also welcome.

I'm also finally catching up with the Six & Charley audios, yay. I've finished all the Eight&Charley ones, by the end of which I had really gotten to like C'rizz and even Charley (I didn't really enjoy her before). Last night I listened to The Doomwood Curse, which was so much fun, omg. Only in Doctor Who land can you be possessed by novels. XD Once I'm back here I'm going to order a couple of audio CDs from Big Finish omg are the studios in London? I could go worship the ground they stand on. Right now I'm thinking Zagreus and Jubilee, possibly also The Next Life and The Holy Terror. Oh, and ...Ish! Need to listen to that again before I leave too, since it's so fitting and all. XD Any more suggestions? My requirements are basically awesome story + pretty cover art, lol.

Gotta go make lots of lists now, of things I need to do before the trip and what groceries to buy tomorrow so I don't have food sitting around for a week that really shouldn't. Which sucks because thinking of food is making my stomach turn right now, blah. But! After that I can listen to Brotherhood of the Daleks or watch another Hornblower. I'm quite smitten with that series, heh. So much manliness and prettiness and honor. XD And I believe the next episode has Paul McGann, woo!

Hello Laura's friends list! This is imwithrebel, Laura's bff from Georgia, here to update you on all of the latest news about Laura! Laura asked me via text message to hack into her account and update her lj buddies as to why she hasn't been online and won't be back again for several days.

You see, Laura got herself knocked up and her baby daddy kicked her out. Due to her fragile condition, she is unsure how she will ever find a way to support herself and the poor baby, though she assures me that getting an Internet connection is the number one priority on her to-do list. She hopes she won't have to resort to desperate measures aka prostitution, but also knows she must act quickly before she and the poor child she is carrying freeze to death since it is always cold in Germany.

Well, it's either that or her internet is broken and they are unsure when it will be fixed again. I'll let you be the judge. ;)

Oh, and any comments you leave to this post will totally make my day, especially if they aren't the typical mushy-gushy "OMGILLMISSYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!" crap.

Let the Laura bashing begin!!!!!!!

It really is totally cool though if you want to leave her the mushy love nonsense about how you can't bear to live a day without her though. It is her journal after all. Plus I'm sure she needs it given her "condition" right now. ;)

Yes, I know Laura will kill me for this when she comes back, but it is totally worth it.

While I wait for my super slow CD drive to copy a file to my computer, I thought I'd write a little update.

- On Tuesday I had my written exam for English. The translation was a newspaper article about the British Royal House, so I was lacking some vocabulary and I blanked on some turns of phrases that I know I know, so that was frustrating. But all in all it went well enough. I didn't end up reading my 50 pages per day as usual, and with barely a week left I should really get on it now. XD I'm sure I'll pass the oral exam, it's mostly just about not looking like an idiot in front of my teachers.

- I'm going to start belly dancing again. Yay for losing weight! I'll be off doing it for an hour once I finish this post.

- faience  is my hero.

- I don't know if it's a good idea, but I kind of want to rp the TARDIS from Turn Left. The one whose Doctor died. Baww yeah. But I can't think of a good journal name! I've been trying to think of something involving emptiness or darkness, but nothing comes to mind. Any suggestions?

- The files are ready. *pats laptop* Good old boy.

Spent all day cleaning my room and am exhausted now. You might think cleaning a room isn't that hard, but there were huge piles of stuff everywhere - dirty dishes, dirty clothes, books... Even I don't usually let things pile up that much, but I've been too busy. Anyway, much nicer now.

I've also started working on an awesome vid. The topic is sekkrit, suffice to say it will be adorable.

Also also, I went to the mall for groceries and ended up buying something on a whim.

( I blame cosmic_celery entirely. )
Pointless post is pointless.

I'm going to be a hermit this weekend, because I've got a huge thing to work on... so I need to stay away from the interwebs. Hopefully I won't miss anything too much fun, but if there's something so awesome you think I need to see it, or want to cheer me up or something, feel free to post here because I'll be grovelling back to the internet in a couple hours anyway. Well, I'm going to get a few more hours of sleep, and then I'll get started... Wish me luck.

I GET TO GO TO OXFORD, YAAAY!

I just got an email that I'm allowed to join the excursion in October. :D Next Thursday there will be a meeting to talk about the details and all, so I'll see if I know anyone else then. I'm so happy and excited. I bet it will be awesome and fascinating.

It's also nice to have some good news in the middle of all the stress and bad feelings I'm going through because I'm not working as much as I should. I'm frightened of the paper, I still have to find literature for the exams, then actually read the literature, and also improve the US presentation because I didn't give it last Monday. I did get out of the UK presentation (for which I feel slightly guilty, because the teacher didn't seem all too happy), but more bureaucracy has floated into my mailbox. I just keep thinking, once this is all over (tentative date for the Ethnology exam is mid August), I get a summer with no Latin or papers to worry about and the excursion to look forward to. So that's great and I can't wait.

Wheee Oxford!

I’m sitting in the train home to my parents to spend the long weekend there (well, when I post this I won’t be in the train anymore :P) and to hang out. I’m rather looking forward to the break and the being served (and to the cats, yay!). It’s nice not to have to do anything, though I did take some work with me, because I can’t afford to not do crap for five days this semester (more on that later). Sadly the weather is supposed to be bad, so we won’t get to do a barbeque like we wanted.
( School, school, and... belly dancing )

Bah, being back at college sucks. I already miss the comforts of Hotel Mom and Dad, where I could sit around the living room all day and only had to cook when I felt like it. Now I've got to run around shopping, signing up for stuff, and struggling to get my schedule together because there's so little classes left for the poor Magister students. At least my room looks nice now because I spent all Sunday afternoon cleaning up and setting up all the stuff I brought with me, and the sunny weather makes it hard to be in too bad a mood. Still, being on my own sucks.