don't walk away and say you love me anyway

[raven]

I woke up far too late this morning. Still, I have my remix assignment, which is good, because I seem to have been assigned an author whom I've heard of only peripherally, but who writes excellent fic, and also, in more startling news, I won this week's dw_caption simply for being smutty-minded. (Actually, I think jeanne_dark, whose mind went the same place, should have won it rather than me.)

In about half an hour I have to go and have lunch with American Girl (who's shadowing me round Balliol in order to decide between here and Yale) and she makes me feel very provincial and working-class, so I'm not looking forward to that. One side-effect of mentally calling her "American Girl" is that I get the Counting Crows' American Girls in my head whenever I talk to her, and besides it's not as if it's even really accurate. She lives in London, but has a distinct American twang. She's at St Paul's, too. I read about such people when I was younger, but never actually thought they existed before I came up to Oxford. People really do have such terribly posh upbringings and education. It's quite terrifying. I don't care that Claire says I talk like a southerner. Maybe I do a bit (and inexplicably so - when have I ever lived in the south?) but I'm not from down here, and I didn't have a former life anything like the ones people here have had. My quite prosaic existence at an ordinary public secondary school is, oddly enough, unusual, because everyone else went to such wonderful places and did such wonderful things.

Talking of me sounding like a southerner, one or two of Pat's friends came down to visit last week and thought I was the funniest thing ever. So British, they said. To which my quite sensible answer was, well, I am British. But the moment I describe anything as "terribly tedious" or "a tad peculiar" (and believe me, I do this a lot), I am forever doomed to hilarious Britishness. I blame Monty Python.

Anyway, none of this was in fact the reason I wanted to post this entry. Is anyone else suffering from a problem where their entries aren't appearing on other's people's friends pages? I read my friends' friends pages when bored, which is what I was doing blearily last night, only to start worrying that all my friends had taken me off their default view. Which in the light of day seems a little paranoid, so I suspect a bug somewhere.

Edited to add: Talking of bugs, Herald seems to be back up, but it's painfully, painfully slow. Is that just for me, or is everyone watching it creak along at a snail's pace?

Comments

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't have known you were from the North. (You know, that generic place where people... eat... pasties. Or something. Am incredibly amused that Paul thinks Loughborough is the north, when it is the midlands.)

RE: Taking off friends pages. Yes, everyone hates you.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

LJ changed the way that it's set up, so that now if you are logged in as you and you read someone else's FL you can't see *any* locked posts on it, even if they're people who're on your FL.

[jeeshee.livejournal.com]

ugh, webmail...yeah it's being veeeeery slow.

I didn't have a 'wonderful' previous life, nor did most people I know at Somerville. Maybe Balliol attracts a different sort of person?

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
American Girl sounds like a lot of the American Girls I went to school with when I lived in Paris. Talk about making one aware of one's social class at an early age...
Also, I LOVE your icon.

[robette-wild.livejournal.com]

to the best of my knowledge, herald was being 'revamped' this morning. which, naturally, means my email is now futched all to hell. it's eaten my inbox! *smites oucs*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Err. Pasties come from Cornwall. The north of England, on the other hand, is the place where there's never been sunshine and the people talk in grunts.

Yes, I'd figured. I'm planning to knock over Poland any day now.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I don't think I like that, as I won't be able to see if my posts break other people's layouts and suchlike.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's getting slower, too! *kicks it*

I don't know about that. Balliol attracts radicals, traditionally; not that I've seen much of Ye Old Revolutionary Tradition or anything.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Weren't you still very young when you lived in Paris? Really, really early age! *g*

Oh, I do like this icon, but only use it in moods of cynicism. It seems appropriate then, somehow. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*joins in smiting*
*with a big stick*

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

It is rather annoying in that respect, but I generally think it's a Good Thing, following a recent incident when a friend, who is on my FL but not on a particular filter, was staying with another friend, who *is* on that filter, and decided to borrow a computer to read her FL on, without logging out and then in as herself....

[thecapitalc.livejournal.com]

Ergh, Webmail is being so SLOW! The only plus side to this new Webmail is that it now 'expunges' my deleted messages rather than 'purging' them!