yep, I definitely have to dig out my academia icons again

Oh, yeah, school's gearing up to go again; I had six e-mails in my Tulane inbox this morning and only one of them was the daily New Wave. *cracks knuckles* I'm flying back next week, moving in four days early so that I can help with the official move-in, as are three of my four suitemates. BACK TO THE SALT MINES.

I am slowly and painfully coming to the conclusion that sophomore year is the one where college fucks you over, because they baby you for freshman year -- or first semester freshman year, anyway -- and then sophomore year you expect them to do the same thing, and they don't, and then you do things like miss deadlines for financial aid and pre-ordering microfridges. *hisses* Did I mention that the price of everything went up? And my financial aid went down? DIE TULANE. At this point I'm wondering if it would actually be cheaper to go do a year or a semester abroad or at some other university's semester-long program.

Also, speaking of study abroad, at the beginning of the summer I was all, "I want to go study abroad in Australia for a semester!" and now, at the end of the summer, my prevailing mood is something along the lines of, "I want to go study abroad in the U.K. for a semester!" (Before y'all go, "Seriously, Bed, the point of doing study abroad is to learn another language, what's with the English-speaking nations?" my first choice study-abroad program is actually this one, but I have severe doubts about my ability to actually get accepted for it. Also, I would like to go somewhere where they speak English; I like English, and the only other language I speak (REALLY BADLY) is Japanese, and I've been to Japan. MANY TIMES. Also, my majors (at the moment) are English and (European to some extent) history and my minor is classical studies.)

...I remember that I was going to say something that didn't have to do with college, but I don't remember what it was. OH WELL.

I know. Canon and I have only a passing acquaintance. This is truth.

Wait, there are seventy years between VotDT and SC? SEVENTY YEARS?

And, I mean, even if Rilian is thirty or forty -- my bet is thirtysomething, though heaven knows they're probably going to make him younger FOR A CHANGE, and I'd already had him kidnapped at somewhere between thirteen and eighteen because it's, what, ten years between his kidnapping and SC? -- nobody freaked out about Caspian not having an heir for the first thirty or forty years of his reign? Or told him to get a new wife? Wouldn't Ramandu's daughter have passed childbearing age? (Or, wait, never mind, she's the daughter of a star, she's probably ageless.)

Oh my God, I have to go find the place where I babbled about the Dustverse conspiracy theories about Rilian's return, because I feel this sudden knowledge makes them so much more legitimate.

Seriously, seventy years? I thought it was only around fifty or so. Hell, that may actually make the three hundred years I have between SC and Dust/LB come up short, and LB says two hundred years since Rilian's reign.

Seriously, seventy years? I was wondering why Caspian was so old and decrepit when it couldn't possibly have been that long, judging by the age of his son alone. Of course, I was under the impression he knocked up his wife as soon as he got back to Narnia. CLEARLY I WAS WRONG.

(This is brought to you by chapter three of the audiobook version of The Silver Chair, which is actually really good. I go on and off with audiobooks, but Narnia works for them.)