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"I don't care how the pixies beg"
Fly-by post time, and I should BE ASLEEP, god.
- I am (clearly) no longer in Greece: pictures should be coming soon, maybe, and, er, more talkings on this topic. For now, Greece = awesome but Athens was the scariest place, I swear. HOW IS THAT CITY SO BIG? On the top of the Acropolis, I took roughly umpteen zillion pictures of the Vast Sea of Athens because I couldn't quite get over how much city there was. Wows.
(this one is from the top of the Acropolis, near Athena's temple)
(this one is from the top of the Acropolis, just to the side of the Parthenon)
And that's just, like, two angles. :O
- I WANT BSG S4 RIGHT NOW. I am going a little bit insane. The Americans have seen it. The downloading people have seen it. The UK can (legally) see it next Tuesday, when it is on Sky, but I CAN'T, because my laptop doesn't have enough disc space for me to download it (on a side-note, I have, like, ~600 megabytes left on the C drive, and I'm thinking that's not good) and I don't have Sky. I NEED ME SOME LAURA ROSLIN.
And can I just say, as I don't remember if I've said this here yet, I am not spoiled for s4 of BSG. Please do not spoil me for anything. Thank you. (are the dvds out yet? plz?)
- I now have a puppy! His name is Morris, and he is a whippet, and if I never have to clean the kitchen floor again from puppy-accidents, it will be Too Soon. I still have a slight phobia of dogs, but I seem to be doing all right with this one. He's grown so much in the two weeks we've had him, it's weird. Also, I really want to wear some proper clothes again (read: clothes I like); having the dog necessitates looking after the dog, which brings me into close contact with skanky dog smell and being chewed and licked by the dog and cleaning up after the dog (ew, though not like that), so I've basically been wearing old, ripped, jeans and some variation on back-of-the-wardrobe, everything-else-is-in-my-suitcase-and-I-need-something-to-wear top, with a giant nasty sweatshirt. Mmm, fetching.
- I have just bought a student railcard (primarily because I'm bumming up for a St. Andrews Open Day in a couple of weeks, and staying with the delightful![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
missfoxie, hurrah! but also because I plan to go see other people - Maddie, Loz, d'you fancy some Moog-time outside the OT3 gay-up? - during the summer, and, y'know, I'd quite like cheap train fares) and the photo on it makes me look like the undead.
- I just watched Sin City on the tellybox and have only got good praisings to say. :D Moog likes. Lots of voice-over/narration and heavily stylised. ftw!
- Am off to the cinema tomorrow with my mother: we don't actively want to see anything that's on, but we want to go to the cinema (dark, film, chocolate, non-dog-clothes. Yes plz). We're thinking about Son of Rambow, because if not, we're consigned to Awake or 10,000 BC (which I can't stop saying in the voice of Voiceover Dude, you know, like, TEN THOUSAND B.C.), so, er, Son of Rambow y/n?
Sleepy tiem nao. Zzzz.
- I am (clearly) no longer in Greece: pictures should be coming soon, maybe, and, er, more talkings on this topic. For now, Greece = awesome but Athens was the scariest place, I swear. HOW IS THAT CITY SO BIG? On the top of the Acropolis, I took roughly umpteen zillion pictures of the Vast Sea of Athens because I couldn't quite get over how much city there was. Wows.
(this one is from the top of the Acropolis, near Athena's temple)
(this one is from the top of the Acropolis, just to the side of the Parthenon)
And that's just, like, two angles. :O
- I WANT BSG S4 RIGHT NOW. I am going a little bit insane. The Americans have seen it. The downloading people have seen it. The UK can (legally) see it next Tuesday, when it is on Sky, but I CAN'T, because my laptop doesn't have enough disc space for me to download it (on a side-note, I have, like, ~600 megabytes left on the C drive, and I'm thinking that's not good) and I don't have Sky. I NEED ME SOME LAURA ROSLIN.
And can I just say, as I don't remember if I've said this here yet, I am not spoiled for s4 of BSG. Please do not spoil me for anything. Thank you. (are the dvds out yet? plz?)
- I now have a puppy! His name is Morris, and he is a whippet, and if I never have to clean the kitchen floor again from puppy-accidents, it will be Too Soon. I still have a slight phobia of dogs, but I seem to be doing all right with this one. He's grown so much in the two weeks we've had him, it's weird. Also, I really want to wear some proper clothes again (read: clothes I like); having the dog necessitates looking after the dog, which brings me into close contact with skanky dog smell and being chewed and licked by the dog and cleaning up after the dog (ew, though not like that), so I've basically been wearing old, ripped, jeans and some variation on back-of-the-wardrobe, everything-else-is-in-my-suitcase-and-I-need-something-to-wear top, with a giant nasty sweatshirt. Mmm, fetching.
- I have just bought a student railcard (primarily because I'm bumming up for a St. Andrews Open Day in a couple of weeks, and staying with the delightful
missfoxie, hurrah! but also because I plan to go see other people - Maddie, Loz, d'you fancy some Moog-time outside the OT3 gay-up? - during the summer, and, y'know, I'd quite like cheap train fares) and the photo on it makes me look like the undead.- I just watched Sin City on the tellybox and have only got good praisings to say. :D Moog likes. Lots of voice-over/narration and heavily stylised. ftw!
- Am off to the cinema tomorrow with my mother: we don't actively want to see anything that's on, but we want to go to the cinema (dark, film, chocolate, non-dog-clothes. Yes plz). We're thinking about Son of Rambow, because if not, we're consigned to Awake or 10,000 BC (which I can't stop saying in the voice of Voiceover Dude, you know, like, TEN THOUSAND B.C.), so, er, Son of Rambow y/n?
Sleepy tiem nao. Zzzz.
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StevensonHynes in it. Empire said it was lovely? Idk. But, you know, such are my thoughts on the subject.In other news, I've totally been to St. Andrews! Er er, not the University, but the town - it's a stone's throw away from Perth, where my family are, and it's beautiful. You'll love it. (Presumably the Uni is also good...?)
Would love some Moog Time; in fact, I demand it. When'll it be? :D
Love at youuuuuu xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hurrah, so if I end up in St. Andrews, you will have no excuse not to visit me! Ahahaha. :DD
Er, Moog-time would be sometime this summer? idk, I can do whenever, pretty much; I have no real plans other than OT3-GAY-UP. God, so looking forward to that. ♥
More love at you, Miss Groove.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ♥
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Hah, well, re. this summer: I'm going to Paris in late June (avec ma mére), seeing Hamlet in August, there's a chance I'll be going to visit family in Scotland at some point as well as jetting off to various Uni open days and, hopefully, going to Liverpool for a bit with
Love love love. ♥ xxxxxxxxxxxx
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I've not been to Greece and would love to go someday so more pics and talkings on the subject would be fine with me.
I have S4 on my harddrive but I shall make sure to spoiler cut and make a note that you're spoiler free. I've been meaning to have a play around (I have a new laptop *beams* have I told you that already? Lol) abd try burning some things to disc. Should I manage it(!) would you like me send you the series on disc?
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stupid stupidnessbrain doesn't like watching stuff on computers - you know, like I've watched all the others on the tellybox, and it's just a greater impact: to me, things on the computer never feel real. But thank you (a lotttt!) for your offer. :DDDThere will be pictures of Morris. He is a little sweetheart, he really is.
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Those are amazing photos. It really is an enormous city, so sprawling and dense. You ever been to Rome? Thanks to this second semester of Classics, I now totally wanna go see eeeet!
You can wear pretty clothes when you see meeeeeeee. I will be wearing pretty clothes, oh yes. I hope the weather is good *has fingers crossed*. It'll probably be cold but bright, as per.
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It is a huge city. What I found particularly awe-inspiring is when we visited the theatre of Dionysus, where Aristophanes' plays would have been performed during the festival of Dionysus; after studying the festival and the theatre in immense detail for the last couple of years, it was really, like, :O wows to be stood where all these people would have sat, and where all these plays would have been performed, and where all these different kinds of energies would have been, and, just, nnnngh. I'm talking crap. Sorry D:
I can bring the rest of the photos with me, if you like? I might not put them all here, so if you want to see more bits of Greece, I can bring them! (Also, some really daft pictures of me avec mes amis).
PRETTY CLOTHES. Did you say we were going out somewhere for dinner on the Tuesday? I CAN HAS A DRESS?
I've never been to Rome D: I really want to go. It would be amaaaaaazing.
NOMLES TIME IN 16 DAYS. ♥
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No, I totally understand. That's exactly how I would feel. Awe-struck by the fact that you're standing right where they did all those years ago. It's how I would be in Rome and loads of places around the world that I have read about in Medieval History (e.g. Istanbul, nee Constantinople). I mean, I was freaking out wandering out Washington DC, all those places from TWW!
Yes, bring the photos with you! I wanna seeeee! And yes, I plan on taking you out for dinner on Tuesday, so bring a pretty dress to make you happy. It'll only be somewhere like Bella Pasta or Pizza Express though, as am Poor Student. Are those places okay?
MOOG TIME IN 16 DAYS. MOOG TIME *cue MC Hammer's Hammer Time music & a matching dance from Nomles*
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Bella Pasta or Pizza Express are both totally fine, lovely face. And shhh your mouth, I am not letting you pay for it all. So there. (D'you know what's weird (I'm going to tell you now), I actually pictured us in Pizza Express for some reason. :O PSYCHIC).
DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH, DUH-DUH, DUH-DUH (CAN MOOG THIS).
ps: ALSO, you have seen some s4, so you can look at icon posts! Would you mind terribly scouting out
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...THAT THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES
(Oh Moog, do you even watch QI, please say that you do. I apologise if not because I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD GET TO QUOTE THAT FACT IN CONTEXT.)
Also: yaye St Andrews! Unlike Loz, I know nothing at all about it, but it's probably great! I also approve greatly of both your student railcard and your offer of Moogtime. Incidentally, I have accidentally ended up with about four epic plans for this summer despite the fact that I have NO JOB, and therefore not a massive income, but it's a bit late now, and I'm still determined to do everything, so I was meaning to ask how much your ticket cost when you came to stay last year? Because depending on that, I may have to consider travelling to the ot3times by coach, or something. AS LONG AS IT HAPPENS.
ps also, since I've just also got your email and I might as well keep all the replying in one place: yes, I would love to read your livejournal coursework! :D
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=]]]] Welcome back from Grecian adventures and...yay for dog? XD Be glad it's not a Scottie, I actually swear THEY ARE THE DEVIL'S DOG.
Ahem.
How's life?!?
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Life is not bad, I guess. How are youuuu? ♥
HELLO HI HI
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...I UNDERSTAND CICERO NOW THOUGH.
:D
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...I WILL NEVER WANT TO UNDERSTAND TACITUS. HE IS SO BORING. THE SOLDIERS, THEY ARE UNHAPPY. A LOT.
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And the only thing we do of him is the AS Unseens. (Although we did Nero & Agrippina at Latin Camp, which was quite interesting...)
What other author are you doing?
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OH HAI SOLDURS, IS U B MOOTINIES?
(I have just done an unseen about Moses. Apparently Latin people spelt that Moyses. ???)
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WHUT.
But yes, your Latin is DIFFERENT. :O:O:O:O *ahem* We do two authors this year and one next year, so I'm sort of drowning in Latin Literature right now.
Sooooooo...thinking about uni yet? My mum kinda forced it on me in October, but I'm glad she did. Going for Classical Studies methinks. :D
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Also, seeing as I've hardly been able to get in to college (blee), I've kind of been teaching myself the stupid Tactitus, which has not made it easier, believe me!
Yes, I'm thinking about uni. I'm off to a St. Andrews open day the week after next (and staying for a couple of days with the delightful
Where are you thinking about going?
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I'm looking into UoL colleges, like Royal Holloway, UCL, and King's, as well as Warwick, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham and Exeter (but I decided that Oxbridge really isn't for me) - I don't want to go TOO far from home. I've only visited Royal Holloway so far, but I loved it SO VERY MUCH, and I don't know if this is because I haven't seen any others or whether I've magically hit on the right place for me first time. :S We shall see!
Orals are HORRIBLE, which is partly why I'm dropping German at the end of Year 12. Are you going to drop any of your subjects?
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Hee, see, my whole 'looking at universities' policy is IS IT FAR AWAY CAN I GO FAR AWAY. You will note that my four main choices are either SOUTH or NORTH (lol Scotland). Why Royal Halloway? What would you like to study?
I...am not going to drop any subjects, because I am clearly a gluton for punishment DD: Not looking forward to the French oral though. (OR THE DAY WITH THREE HOURS OF LATIN EXAMS IN A ROW WHAT - and then the following day I have all my Classics exams, so my brain will be a bit dead after all that).
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Royal Holloway is pretty, fairly cheap accomodation, in the south (I like the south :P), gives you a lot of free money, and has an interesting-sounding Classical Studies course, which is what I want to do. Nottingham sounds good too, though, so I guess I really have to go look at everywhere more in-depth.
BLAH I'm not looking forward to my English exams, in which I KNOW NOT WHAT I AM SUPPOSED TO DO, or R.S. because I'm not sure I can actually write as much as they want in the time given. :S Latin'll be ok as long as I have time to learn it...
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DURHAM, NOT LEEDS.
You are a classy Durham person not a Leeds creature. (why yes I have issues with Leeds, but am v subtle about it, obv)
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You know what, I totally see that subtle issue. It's like when I asked you if you liked Creme Eggs, like, at Easter, in a completely separate email. Oh dear.
Edited because 'oh year' and 'oh dear' are not the same thing. D:
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Ah yes, MY SUBTLETY IS AS SUBTLE AS THIS CAPSLOCK.
XD