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Jul. 12th, 2011 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardSo yesterday I was in London all day and today I was in class all day. London was fabulous -- we went and were given a tour of the Bronze and Iron Age Europe exhibits by the two guys who curate them, who were both very nice, and then we were set loose! I met up with the fabulous aella_irene and went book-shopping and tea-drinking, which are both things I strongly approve of. Then I met up with the members of my program to go to The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre, which was absolutely amazing. If you are in the London area and want to see a really good play, you should go and see The Woman in Black. It was not terribly expensive, either! We definitely didn't have the best seats in the house, but it was excellent -- just a really well put together and beautifully acted two man play. Except, of course, for the girl behind me whose cell phone (on vibrate) kept going off during the climax of the play, then going to voicemail so that you could hear the caller speaking. She kept saying she didn't know how to put it on silent or turn it off. Which reminds me that I, uh, don't know how to turn off my non-functional-for-calling-purposes (I KNOW. I SHOULD GET ON THAT) phone either, but fortunately (at least for that purpose) no one can call me.
Now I want to go to ALL THE PLAYS which are showing in Cambridge over the next three weeks, but I shall have to restrain myself as I have, uh, already spent a lot of money. But there's the Woman in White, and the Jungle Book, and Hamlet...
Today: class, followed by more class, followed by lunch, which I ate and then spent running to Waterstones to pick up A Dance with Dragons, then hurrying back to Newnham House to fling it into my room before basically sprinting back to Corpus for our tour of the archaeological labs. (It was...a little intense. I'll stick with literary source-based history, okay?) Then we got an hour off! Then we had a surprise lecture that wasn't on our schedule, but at least was really interesting, but unfortunately everyone was so tired that we kept drifting off, which we made up for by asking a lot of questions. Possibly more than we've asked for all our other lectures put together. Then dinner. Then here. Tomorrow, study day! A.k.a., I shall go meet with a tutor and talk about the paper I am not writing -- I just kind of want to talk about the subject I'm interested in, but I have no intent of actually writing the paper since I'm not taking the course for credit -- and then I guess I shall ponder the actual studying thing. Well, and write the test-pitting report.
To the girl in my program who keeps telling us we shouldn't complain about being overworked: honey, we know it's an academic program. IT'S JUST THAT WE WOULD LIKE SOME TIME TO BREATHE. By the time we finish all our classes for the day, we are too tired to actually go hunt up the required readings for studying, which are only available a limited number of hours in the day, most of which are taken up by our classes. *twitches* Most of the program just retires to the pub.
Anyway. I'm a bit tired, and I haven't looked at the readings since about the first day, and I haven't started by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
narniaexchange fic yet, though I know what I want to write.
ALSO ALSO. Whenaella_irene and I were in the The Forbidden Planet, we happened to see THIS. Which, yes, that appears to be a giant published officially licensed fanfic novel full of Jack Sparrow backstory, and which I am now really, really curious about, because it looks like it might be...good. (Also, it has a surprisingly understated cover.) And I'm wondering if the author came out of fandom, because they use the phrase "beta reader" in the author's notes, and that's not really a common term, is it? FASCINATING. (Also, it looks like Crispin did their research, at least, once again, judging from the author's notes.)
So far my souvenir purchases, aside from shoes, have been books and china. That's...not really the best combo when it comes to packing.
aella_irene and went book-shopping and tea-drinking, which are both things I strongly approve of. Then I met up with the members of my program to go to The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre, which was absolutely amazing. If you are in the London area and want to see a really good play, you should go and see The Woman in Black. It was not terribly expensive, either! We definitely didn't have the best seats in the house, but it was excellent -- just a really well put together and beautifully acted two man play. Except, of course, for the girl behind me whose cell phone (on vibrate) kept going off during the climax of the play, then going to voicemail so that you could hear the caller speaking. She kept saying she didn't know how to put it on silent or turn it off. Which reminds me that I, uh, don't know how to turn off my non-functional-for-calling-purposes (I KNOW. I SHOULD GET ON THAT) phone either, but fortunately (at least for that purpose) no one can call me.Now I want to go to ALL THE PLAYS which are showing in Cambridge over the next three weeks, but I shall have to restrain myself as I have, uh, already spent a lot of money. But there's the Woman in White, and the Jungle Book, and Hamlet...
Today: class, followed by more class, followed by lunch, which I ate and then spent running to Waterstones to pick up A Dance with Dragons, then hurrying back to Newnham House to fling it into my room before basically sprinting back to Corpus for our tour of the archaeological labs. (It was...a little intense. I'll stick with literary source-based history, okay?) Then we got an hour off! Then we had a surprise lecture that wasn't on our schedule, but at least was really interesting, but unfortunately everyone was so tired that we kept drifting off, which we made up for by asking a lot of questions. Possibly more than we've asked for all our other lectures put together. Then dinner. Then here. Tomorrow, study day! A.k.a., I shall go meet with a tutor and talk about the paper I am not writing -- I just kind of want to talk about the subject I'm interested in, but I have no intent of actually writing the paper since I'm not taking the course for credit -- and then I guess I shall ponder the actual studying thing. Well, and write the test-pitting report.
To the girl in my program who keeps telling us we shouldn't complain about being overworked: honey, we know it's an academic program. IT'S JUST THAT WE WOULD LIKE SOME TIME TO BREATHE. By the time we finish all our classes for the day, we are too tired to actually go hunt up the required readings for studying, which are only available a limited number of hours in the day, most of which are taken up by our classes. *twitches* Most of the program just retires to the pub.
Anyway. I'm a bit tired, and I haven't looked at the readings since about the first day, and I haven't started by
narniaexchange fic yet, though I know what I want to write.ALSO ALSO. When
aella_irene and I were in the The Forbidden Planet, we happened to see THIS. Which, yes, that appears to be a giant published officially licensed fanfic novel full of Jack Sparrow backstory, and which I am now really, really curious about, because it looks like it might be...good. (Also, it has a surprisingly understated cover.) And I'm wondering if the author came out of fandom, because they use the phrase "beta reader" in the author's notes, and that's not really a common term, is it? FASCINATING. (Also, it looks like Crispin did their research, at least, once again, judging from the author's notes.)So far my souvenir purchases, aside from shoes, have been books and china. That's...not really the best combo when it comes to packing.