sleeping is for quitters

[helenic]

Two days into term, and Cambridge's infamous Time Distortion is already in full play. The last 48 hours have seemed longer than the entire week beforehand. Since this time on Monday I have sat two 3-hour exams in Prose Composition (and, I should add, done the entirety of my revision for those exams), attended two afternoons' of Part II Option Seminars so I can choose my papers for next year, done huge amounts of Whitby shopping, had tea with the_lady_lily, uisgebeatha and feanelwa, dyed my hair plum-coloured, gone to Wake Up Screaming with kungfuchaos and danced my little socks off (fishnet stockings, I mean - and had to walk back across college at 7am in said fishnets, because I'd been passing out from exhaustion four hours previously when I'd have been under cover of darkness) consumed approximately 21 units of caffeine, 17 of alcohol and 4 of ginseng, flirted outrageously with maga_dogg over coffee and allowed myself to be fed suspicious concoctions of galamgal-steeped gin and tonic, attended a tutor meeting, a DoS meeting and two supervision arrangement meetings, decided my options for next year, thought lots about my thesis topic, cycled to elise's house but forgot the house number so stood in the street phoning approximately seven people before I finally had to tell calnen my livejournal password so he could look it up for me, drank cider and watched cheesy vampire films with elise, surje and several others who don't have livejournals, cooked approximately 78964573191.19 mushrooms, worked a three-hour shift in the college library, finished the His Dark Materials trilogy, written several very very long emails, and, erm, not packed for Whitby.

I was intending to write more at this point about my options and thesis, but since they won't be confirmed till I have my (second) DoS meeting at 11.30am tomorrow (inbetween doing laundry, having a bath, all my packing, doing last-minute shopping and running ever-increasing amounts of errands - oh, and missing my first two lectures of term and all my other supervision arrangement meetings) I shall write about it after that. With spectacularly poor timing, since getting back from Elise's this evening I've come down with a sudden and improbably virulent cold. Damn not being able to be interestingly pale or snort loads of crack. Damn it all.

Comments

[karajanks.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of mushrooms.

Sounds like you're having a great time (except for the cold). Hope you feel better soon so you can continue to milk this for all it's worth.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

even if I miraculously recover from the cold in the car, I'll still have four days worth of hangover and exhaustion to contend with when I get back next week straight into the middle of supervisions and lectures. I have a suspicion that this term will be one of those where you're going so fast you can't tell if you're running or tripping over.

Also, I would like to add that I hate revision.

you are absolutely breathtaking in that icon...

[lanthanum.livejournal.com]

...i just had to say. :)

Re: you are absolutely breathtaking in that icon...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

RAH. Thankyou!!

[entangledbank.livejournal.com]

Yay! You're back. Looks forward to interesting things to read...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I've been back for a while - just writing privately, for some reason. I have a lot to catch up on ...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

See, calling Liz who would have called me would have got it you in one :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

yeah - the "calling approximately seven people" should have been modified by "and about twenty others who DIDN'T PICK UP"

really nice to see you the other day though. huge apologies for being annoying and classicsy.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That's alright, everybody does it. I smile quietly and think of quantum mechanics.

[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

PLUM-coloured? Must see :)

Hope the cold is better soon. :/ And what did you think of the end of the His Dark Materials trilogy?

(using this icon because I know you like it ;)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

mmmm, pouty jonny goodness.

I really liked Amber Spyglass. The whole celestial plot was a bit over-explained - there kept being "revelations" which we already knew. And it was never explained why Lyra was Eve. It was obvious what the temptation was going to be, but the separation - that was so, so daring. I couldn't believe it. But it worked. It was very inspiring, even if the message was repeated quite a lot. And Asriel and Marisa's death - WAH.

I still like the first one best, though.

Oh, and:

[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

Wow :):) You must be one of the very few people with colouring that suits plum-coloured hair.

I wanted to hit Philip Pullman for that ending, but it must have been good writing because I cried every time I thought of it for WEEKS.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty :)

I take my hat off to your sheer indefatigability [if that is a word]; you manage to do so much while not appearing tired in the least. Hope Whitby is good, by the way. xxxxxxxxx

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Good to see you 'back' in the LJ sense! Gosh, you're certainly sucking the marrow out of student life!

I was sceptical when you mentioned plum-coloured hair, but it looks good on you.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Damn not being able to be interestingly pale

*stares at ceiling and keeps her thoughts to herself* ;)

On a completely different note ...

[naranek.livejournal.com]

.. are you still interested in that fridge? If so, give me a convenient delivery time and location and it's yours.

Re: On a completely different note ...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

hrmmm. I'm honestly not sure.

Basically, a fridge would be really really useful. I currently share a tiny one with like 6 blokes. I could put it in my spare room and it'd be great.

On the other hand, officially, we aren't allowed fridges in our rooms. I'm sure I could get away with HAVING it in there, but GETTING it there without the porters noticing would be damn near impossible.

I remain unsure. Argh. Sorry. Give it to someone else, if anyone else is interested. Have you tried selling it in the local paper?