Housekeeping

[raven]

The house smells wonderfully of incense. It's very soothing, and I am curled up on my bed ostensibly reading Plato but mostly appreciating the scent drifting up and the warmth of the light. Plato can be very inspiring indeed, but not when he's threatening to throw the poets out of the Republic, so he can just sit on the floor face down for a while. Outside, it's cold. No snow, because of the nearness of the water, but everything is bright and clear.

This is my last week here in a while. A good thing, in many ways - much as I adore my parents, I can't live here for too long; I don't get much done, and the landscape is beautiful but that's all there is, I don't have any ties holding me here beyond it, and isn't that a wonderful realisation to come to weeks before my last term at Oxford - but not in others. Because, you see, I am going to London at the end of this week for reasons of actual, conventional, am-respectable-member-of-society employment. The job is a two-week internship with a vaguely notable City law firm. There are two problems with this, as far as I can see:

-Timing. Oh, timing. Finals are very important. Yes, they are, and I really need the time to revise in. After much agonising on this point, I have decided to do this anyway. The logic is, well, I would regret it if I didn't, and after my Finals, I really need to think about what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. I am currently on three of four law school rejections, and while this is what I expected, certainly, and I had been making contingency plans - as well as retaking-the-LSAT plans, wow, there's a depressing thought - I do need to seriously consider other things. And an internship of this type is a very useful thing to have done. It makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I'm trying to tell myself it's ten days - two lots of Monday to Friday - devoted to a very good cause, and although it will be exceedingly tiring, I may have to do some work in the evenings anyway. If my brain is too fried for actual revision, then, I don't know, typing up notes or re-reading primary texts, both of which would have had to be done anyway. So there we are. And on the bright side, I will be back down south and in visiting distance of Oxford.

-The second problem, though, is rather different, and more concerned with the, er, um, what? thing. Law firm internship? Me? No, you must be getting confused with someone else. My mental image of myself is of a peaceable geek with far too much hair who occasionally applies for things on a whim. I'm telling myself, on this point, that the last time I accidentally got a job and went into it with this amount of trepidation, I ended up having a stressful but ultimately delightful fortnight working for BBC Current Affairs. We shall see.

In any case, that's where I'm going to be. On April 11th, chiasmata and I are going to see KT Tunstall, which should be fun, and after that I'm back in Oxford and everything here will be all Finals all the time, cue lots of panic, etc., etc. On that note, it is probably time to retrieve Plato.

(Also speaking of which. Vienna Teng in London. Please to be telling me I am crazy for even considering this.)

Comments

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yes! I did, in fact, immediately misunderstand you as having thrown yourself out of your own utopia, which is perhaps indicative of how much time I've spent reading Plato.

A lot of this paper seems to overlap with stuff you've done, I think - Aristotle's Poetics is my next stop, and I think you did that too? (And, ahahahah, yes, we're only the SECOND worst subject. This gives me indordinate joy.)

Can't wait to see you either, my dear! I've missed you. We should watch season three of S&A at some point, too. (Did your mum like season one?)

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

We did indeed do the Poetics. I would NEVER have survived Aristotle without your notes!

My mother adores it - this is our second time round for the latter two series, as we already re-watched season one at Christmas. I'm trying to poke her into writing fic. She actually wouldn't let us start watching it in the week before Austria, because she didn't want to watch one episode in isolation but rather The Whole Lot. (I'll make her fannish yet...)

I think our re-watch of S&A 3 should be added to The List in your kitchen. ALSO, I have another suggested addition which I thought of earlier today, for you and you alone (although the others could try if they wanted to). Anyway, it is thus: I challenge you to write pre-breakdown S&A fic in which Geoffrey plays Aeneas. I don't know who would have written the translation. I don't know where Oliver would have taken the production. I suspect Geoffrey would hate the part. (I may, however, be entirely wrong about all of this!)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I actually have those notes balanced on my knee as we speak. Yes, open to the page that says "it is not appropriate for a woman to be SO MANLY OR CLEVER OMG OMG". It may turn out to be one of those nights, revision-wise.

Hurrah! Oh, hurrah! I do like hearing about S&A converts. And our re-watch definitely ought to go on the List! We still have to show it to Jon and Lizzie.

I challenge you to write pre-breakdown S&A fic in which Geoffrey plays Aeneas.

...whoa. You just broke my brain. Um. Okay, let's think. Oh, lord, he would hate it. Pious Aeneas, let's see, let's see - and he would read it, and re-read it, and declaim it, and be it, and he'd start declaiming things in ordinary life as well, and seeing oracles in his breakfast cereal, and Ellen would throw him out on his ear as usual, and they'd finish in a blaze of glory as he kills Turnus and rips up the script over Oliver's head.

You remember I wanted to write a fic at one point that had Theatre Sans Argent putting on KIng John and Angels in America at the same time? I still want to do this... bloody Finals, get in the way of everything.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

You remember I wanted to write a fic at one point that had Theatre Sans Argent putting on KIng John and Angels in America at the same time?

Write this. Write this PLEEEEEASE.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know I want to! I really, really do! *plots*

At the moment I just want to finish that McCoy-goes-crazy story - about a thousand words left for that, why I haven't written them, I DO NOT KNOW - and Remix. Oh, Remix, why do I fail at you so much.