Sunday

[raven]

Happy Holi, dear flist. May your days be full of colour and light, regardless of whether you actually do go and dump paint on anybody. (Although I do recommend it, in socially acceptable situations.)

I have not dumped paint on anyone. I have a hangover. I deserve it. Yesterday morning I had my exam, which was... okay. I hope. The main flaw was that I was so tired - the usual problem, lack of sleep, nine am on a Saturday, etc. - and even so, not to begin with, but by the end of it, I was feeling like I'd fallen straight into that mouth-falling-open, too-much-energy-to-think stage, which is not good at any time but especially when you're doing an exam that involves lots of finicky detail and mental arithmetic.

(One thing that did amuse me. You can't leave the room in the first hour or last fifteen minutes of an exam, and I had weighed up the usual balancing act of caffeine-as-stimulant and caffeine-as-diuretic, and gone for the cup of coffee, yes; consequently at 10.31am I put my hand up, was attended by an invigilator and said as neutrally as possible, "Would a toilet break be a possibility?"

The invigilator looked embarrassed, and whispered, "There's a small condition."

I said I was perfectly willing to hand my papers in for two minutes, I understood that she would sign my current page and write "toilet break 10.31am" at the point I was up to, and nevertheless...

"It's not that," she said. "Would you absolutely hate to use the gents?"

Where no woman has gone before, etc. Apparently the other set of toilets is too far from the exam room as the crow flies to be safe from, I don't know, answer sheets falling out of the sky. Luckily there was no one else in there I might have given a fright; on the whole it was quite an anti-climactic experience.)

Anyway, so, I wrote long lists of numbers and hoped they would add up, and didn't cry into my calculator at any point, and eventually emerged into the dreary wet morning feeling rather like I'd been hit by a truck. When I got home my neighbour was playing Hit Me Baby One More Time on repeat, and I went back to bed.

This is not why I have a hangover. I have a hangover because I went to dr_biscuit's for dinner, and shall we say, for drinking, and had a truly lovely time, and ate a lot of cake, and played Werewolf, which I hadn't played before (shanith and I were the werewolves and killed everyone with a surprising degree of dispatch), and ate more cake, and watched literal music videos on YouTube, and ate yet more cake. Somehow or other it got to be three in the morning. It was a lot of fun. Shim and I delivered teh_elb tipsily home and wandered equally tipsily home ourselves.

Today I crawled out of bed at lunchtime, and ran a few errands, and tried to buy Shim a chocolate heart and entirely failed to do so, central Oxford being lacking in this particular commodity, who knew. I actually rather like having an anniversary of February 29th, but it does mean that keeping track of these things is more complicated than it might otherwise be; nevertheless, Shim and I have been together some integer quantity of years. I'm happy. It needs to be said for the record sometimes, doesn't it? I'm happy.

My exams are not over yet by any stretch of the imagination; I have them the next three Saturdays, and right now I am preparing for my advocacy on Wednesday, hurrah. Before I disappear, purimgifts is open(ing) for business: here are the stories for day 1, and here for day 2. I will do a proper reclist tomorrow, so I can rec complete stories where they're being issued by parts.

Back to work, I guess.

edited to add: I forgot! Lovely anonymous person who sent me the bunch of balloons, thank you very much! An especially nice Holi to you, yes.

Comments

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Yay you, happy Holi. *throws internet paint at you*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

And to you, honey. *paints you sparkly*

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I tried throwing MS Paint at you (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/vermilliona/livejournal/iona_wtf.jpg), but that went a bit weird.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I lolled! That is adorably nineties kitsch.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

. Apparently the other set of toilets is too far from the exam room as the crow flies to be safe from, I don't know, answer sheets falling out of the sky.

I love the image this evokes.

Happy Holi!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

And to you! <3

[roga.livejournal.com]

Happy Holi! :-)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

To you, too! And very sincere and heartfelt thanks for running purimgifts, I'm having such a good time. :)

[roga.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am happy to hear. Also your fics are ♥ :-)

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Happy Holi, happy anniversary, and thank you for reminding me about purimgifts. I really need to get around to reading there.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and a very happy Holi to you too! purimgifts is great, I really recommend it.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Happy Holi! *has no paint in the vicinity, but does have glitter, if that will do?*

And aw, happy anniversary, too.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* Glitter is entirely satisfactory, yes! And thank you.

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

My beloved grandmother's birthday was the 29th of February. She used to joke that she was only one-quarter of her actual age, judging by the number of birthdays she'd had! The best part was that the year she turned 84, I had turned 21 a couple of months earlier. So we had a joint 21st birthday party :)

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7FsoMXqENw#t=3m05s :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

That is really, really awesome. *grins* She sounds like a very cool lady.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Happy belated Holi!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* Not at all, the festivel lasts two days. A very happy Holi to you too.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I did know that, but reading your post convinced me that there had been a feb 29th this year. Which shows how low my reading comprehension level has got. :)

[nerves-patterns.livejournal.com]

Happy Holi!

And congratulations on surviving yet another exam. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, on both counts! :)

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

I think it's definitely the case that whisky lends a particularly virile quality to the next day's hangover. Hope you felt better today!
x

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I felt much better, yes. :) It was totally, totally worth it.

[fyrdrakken]

I am unfamiliar with Holi but I hope you have a happy one!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tau_sigma]

Happy (belated) Holi! :) And the exam is over, hooray. (Are there any more? I hope not, I hope you have a break.)

How would tomorrow be for talking on a telephonic device? My throat is no longer painful, but my voice is working a little less than properly still tonight. But tomorrow night, perhaps?

[tau_sigma]

Also! (And this is why I should comment on posts *when I read them* and not several days later...) Happy anniversary too. I am glad you're happy; it's nice to have someone to be happy with, isn't it? *hugs you and Shim*

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Sorry to comment on such an old entry, but I saw it and wanted to let you know that, if you need to know where in central Oxford to buy chocolate hearts in the future, Chocology in the Covered Market sells them (as did Palm's Delicatessen; damn it for closing). (Also, my anniversary with Rob is the 28th of February! Not as cool at the 29th, but more convenient.)