millennium approaches

[raven]

Firstly, re: Angels in America, comment now or forever hold your peace.

Second of all, my laptop is hooked up to an IV bag feeling sorry for itself. I hope to have it back in two weeks. I am truly bereft, it is awful. It is astonishing, how attached you get to inanimate objects. And also, I don't know about real people and their living arrangements, but I never noticed before that a laptop is the focal point of a student room - or maybe it's the sort of people I hang out with, but still, laptops are important. Poor old Loki. And quite apart from anything, I will now need to be awake during daylight hours so I can use library computers for, y'know, the internet, and fanfiction, and ESSAYS.

(On which note, this week's features the end of the Cold War. It ended! I was beginning to think it didn't! Thank god for Gorbachev.)

And speaking of endings, today I handed in my examination entry form, having been somewhat emo about it last week. It's odd, seeing my degree down in black and white. Three years, eight papers, five philosophy, three politics, and that's it. The end. I'm still not sure how I feel about leaving this place.

Anyway. It's a beautiful day outside, and I should probably go to political theory lecture with ridiculously attractive lecturer, but, you know, I am still here, just sort of quiet. Not having my own laptop around means I have to actually get my coat and scarf and go out when I want to go online, so, you know, if you really need me to know something in the next couple of weeks, probably best to actually ring me.

And, also, I have started writing my yuletide story. No, writing it. With paper and pen. Oh, look, it's 1998.

Sigh.

Comments

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Wow...I can't believe how the years have passed so quickly. When I first met you, you were still in the equivalent of US high school and now you're ready to graduate with a degree. You've accomplished so much and grown so much, I'm proud to have known you.

No, it's not just the people you hang out with; a laptop seems to draw focus to itself no matter what room it is in. Now that I've actually got one I can't imagine never having had one. The room in which the old computer resided has now become sadly empty.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you, sweetie. It's really nice to hear that, and wow, it has been a very long time since I met you. Five years, in fact!

I need my laptop back pronto, I think. Managing without it is not fun.

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

CHANGE OF PLAN DO NOT GET TICKET FOR ME, I am still going with you all but I have a comp.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Noted! And it's all right for some. :)

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

I take that to mean that you are SEEING ANGELS IN AMERICA (in the UK)?! Ugh. Mad jealousy here.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly crappy student production (http://www.angelsinoxford.co.uk), but yes. *g* I do hope they do a good job of it!

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

maybe you will feel exactly like i did when i finished school.. of course the system is different over here but it took me 5 years and only god will ever know how many papers i actually wrote.

at any rate, was ready to get the hell out. after 5 years of struggling to keep a job and good grades, broken down cars, asshole professors, frustrations, and swearing every other week that i was just going to drop out and work full time.. i made it! there it is, my diploma on the wall! time to get out and make a difference in the world!



this week i've started looking into loans so i can go back. :X

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

And congratulations to you! And good luck with going back! I need a break now, but I'm pretty sure I will be doing this again soon...

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

it's so, so hard to stay away.

i've found that while having a full time job (although i haven't been since i broke my ankle) is rewarding in some ways, especially if it's one pertaining to your degree in some aspect.. it's not the same as being at school.

at school, you are working towards a definite 'end,' although i guess in my case i'd like to be a lifetime student. working is just working.. like i said, it is rewarding, but it's also kind of 'endless.'

hard to explain. i do plan on getting my doctorate in psychology, because it is my first and true love! hah. however.. i feel that after all of my hard work, it's time to go back and do something 'fun.' aka, medieval literature.

sheesh. i'd hate to see what nerds do for fun.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

t is astonishing, how attached you get to inanimate objects

But unlike people, the 24 hours after it's confirmed dead and replaced, you're completely over it - it's just a WORTHLESS HEAP OF JUNK that you don't know how to recycle!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I am NOT over it. It has taken 59GB of data with it. It will be a good long while before I'm over it.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to belittle your pain! I just meant that mine went earlier this year, and now it is sitting in the corner of the spare bedroom whilst I wonder what the heck to do with it.

Fortunately, niallm magicked all the data off the hard drive for me, and once that had been done, it instantly stopped being the place where all my friends lived and just became this huge albatross with no emotional attachment whatsoever. I hope you manage to get everything important off yours.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

(I can't remember the last time I wrote more than a side of A4 by hand. Yow.)

The offer of a spare for the duration still stands, if need be. Let me know.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

And I think I'm going to take you up on it! I can't connect any laptop but my own to the university network, so no internet, but it would be great to have one just to type my notes on for a couple of weeks. Thank you so much, again!

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Have emailed you - I hope - with details.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Gah. We first met in real life at an Oxford open day, for crying out loud. This finishing-degree thing does not seem right.

I already tried to ask when I could call you this week, but I'm guessing you didn't have time to reply to my text or it went astray before it reached you.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It isn't right, no. Absolutely not.

I have no excuse not to be replying to texts right now, because I'm not replying to emails either, so I am very sorry about that. Am even busier than usual, is my only excuse. Can maybe try and have a chat later in the week?

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Yes, whenever you have time. Perhaps Thursday or Friday evening, after about 8pm?