Hilary

[raven]

That would be "Hilary" with one L, regardless of recent events. I'm avoiding doing any work, so have a few notes:

-For those living under a rock, Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary. I am happy about this. I am actually also happy about McCain winning, too, in a way. I seem to have two ways of thinking about the Republican contest: I'm torn between wanting it to be McCain, whose McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms impressed me as being thoroughly sensible and/or un-Republican, and wanting it to be Huckabee, who can probably be relied on more than the others to fuck it up in November.

-Oh, look, Ron Paul is a horrible man. (Re: Ron Paul, I am a geek, a fangirl, I spend my life online. I'm also not stupid. In other words, it baffles me how he, a conservative Republican from Texas, seems to want to appeal to my demographic.)

-This xkcd is still the story of my life, though.

-Via the BBC, what Hillary Clinton's victory means for Britain.

In other news, I should rent myself out as Lifesize Goth Barbie and go to Intrusion more often. Last night at pridehouse, sebastienne and others got me glittered, eyelinered, backcombed and into a corset. This done, I went with about twelve people and gaily Intruded. I've never quite seen the appeal of corsetry, being lacking in, er, curves, and I'm not sure I do now, but it was delightful fun nevertheless. I wanted to be a goth when I was fourteen. Now I can dress how I like, and I don't want to be one any more. Life is such a tragedy. Oddly enough, the smell last night - alcohol, leather, sweat and apple dry ice, all mixed together - was wonderfully evocative. I remember why I wanted to be a goth, at least.

(Nowadays, alas, the term makes me want to make jokes about the fall of the Roman Empire.)

Right. Back to the work I am avoiding doing. Because I am a PPEist, and have been doing two essays a week for nearly two years, I get a pay-off - a Hilary term devoted only to core paper revision. This is a level of self-direction new even to me - I am incapable of doing anything now without the pressure of a two-day deadline. All I want to do is read political blogs and fanfiction, and write slow dreamy TOS fic into a notepad window. At the end of the week, the auditions for the Aeneid begin and foulds and I will have to start casting and doing other things that working with real people. I am looking forward to this.

Work. Yes. The most exciting thing in my life at this moment is the prospect of lying around with my flatmates watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and noting Pat's reaction to the fact that Hugh Laurie is not, indeed, American.

Yes, yes, work, I can has subjective ethics revision nao, whoop.

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Actually, the conventional wisdom is that the smartest thing the Republican party could do would be a McCain/Huckabee ticket, and I devoutly hope that doesn't happen.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Me too! I start to get all incoherent when I talk about how much I dislike Huckabee.

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

What do I have to do to be in the Aeneid? (Bearing in mind I have no aspirations whatever to A Proper Part...)

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Assuming OULES is as ever - turn up to auditions on Sunday. When we say auditions... really we mean turn up, tell us your name and something interesting (possibly, in the past we have had favourite biscuit, way of taking tea, and spurious connection to famous persons etc - but this is not obligatory!) and, um, read something. And then you will have a part, because there'll be a sheet of paper on which you tell loneraven and foulds what size part you want... and then the world will be made of joy, huzzah!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

And further to that excellent answer, I'll let you know when/where the audtions are when I know!

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

*grin* about 20 minutes before they happen, most likely. OULES: keeping you on your toes since 1999!

[ktroo85.livejournal.com]

Definately keeping you on your toes, there's still no director for Acropolis Now. I can cast it but there is no feasible way I can direct it (or at least someone else would have to take over in 8th week).

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

I'm exactly where you are re: McCain. He'd be a better option than his Republican counterparts, but I want a damn Democrat to win, and one of the fuckups like Huckabee would be SO much easier to defeat.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Damn, Huckabee is awful.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Pictures!

(Being Goth Barbie in an insane amount of fun, isn't it?)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes, it is! But I don't think there are any decent picures, alas! My camera has just about died.

[lizziwig.livejournal.com]

*does Hillary dance of joy*
*does Hilary dance of woe*

Want to get coffee at some point soon?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yes yes! Let me know when you're around!

[lizziwig.livejournal.com]

Well, once this afternoon's collection is out of the way, I'm free till Tuesday... you free tomorrow late morning/early afternoon? Time, of cpurse, must be left for dressing up :)