"But when you look at them and you see that they're beautiful, that's how I feel about you."

[mooging]

So somehow I have managed to post for such a ridiculous length of time that my paid account expired and the judgemental thing on the homepage is telling me LAST POSTED 7 WEEKS AGO in what I consider to be an unnecessarily large font size, and I am made of epic fail.

CAN WE SAY 4 As?

FOUR

OF THE A-KIND

THANK GOD

(and 289/300 in Latin, hurrah!)


I have since dropped English Language, and am hoping to actually go into my sixth form a lot more this year.

I attended an epically good summer school at Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge at the beginning of summer, during which I discovered that apparently undergraduates eat roughly enough for three people each day, having an en-suite student room is awesome and that I would actually like to apply to Cambridge, not Oxford, so that is what I am going to do. This came as a bit of a shock, seeing as I spent approximately 12 years wanting to apply to Oxford, but then I went to Oxford and didn't really warm to it. I mean, it was nice, but I never got that sense of real longing, you know, the one that makes your heart hurt with wanting to stay somewhere, and within about two minutes of being out of the car in Cambridge I just wanted to be there more, and so here's hoping Christ's College, Cambridge, are looking for someone with M.E., not that many skillzors and an ice-cream habit to study with them!

Er, also this summer I have procrastinated endlessly about getting driving lessons (soon! I must have one before my 18th ffs) and been unable to write stuff for the various fic challenges I signed up for, although I am nearly done on that score.
 
In non-real type things, I really need the second half of season 4 BSG.  Also moar Being Human. Preferably soon. ALTHOUGH, okay, how awesome does the BBC autumn/winter schedule look? We've got Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which I really rather like now the whole coursework connotation is done with, and Little Dorrit, and MERLIN, MERLINNNN, which has the propensity to be either really awesomely campily cheesily good or spectacularly bad, and I'll happily watch either to be honest.

Has anyone seen Hellboy 2? I enjoyed it a lottt. Unpronouncable-first-name del Toro is such a good visual director, and his style really makes the sad fairytale/fantasy enthusiast inside me go all giddy, and, like, creatures and big red people going SMASH is always going to be good. Especially with his sidekicks WATERDUDE* and FIRELADY*. YAYE ELEMENTAL SMACKDOWNS.

Last thing: a tad concerned that I need to have done the whole UCAS thing by the 26th September for my sixth form's imposed Oxbridge deadline and I have NO PERSONAL STATEMENT written yet. Whoops. I really need to go read The Iliad (and no more Greek tragedy, god, The Oresteia is just unreadable, except Clytaemnestra is a bit fabulous).

Dinner tiem nao! How have all you lovely people been? Sorry I've been a bit slack on the comment front, I resolve to do better.

Comments

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Giiiiive uuuuup on The Oresteia. Unless the last play gets, like, 10000000000 times better, I am ready to ignore it completely. Except I hear that it's one of the only works that give a crueller portrait of Clytaemnestra, so idk, because I kind of like bitchy!Clytaemnestra, because, dude, her husband tricks her into letting him kill their daughter after he's buggered off to war to fight for some other dude's cheating whore-wife and then he has the audacity to come back with some other lady-shaggee and cast aspersions on her left-alone-for-10-years-and-taken-a-hot-hot-lover ass? I'm thinking she has the right to a little sword wielding vengeance, personally.

I am going to do my personal statement now! (Well, okay, in about an hour because I want to watch Relic Hunter first, but still.)

FIC CHALLENGE DEADLINES HAVE COME AND GONE. OHHHH BADDDDD MOOOOOG.

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOUR ICON. :D

And I think I might try to get to the end of Agamemnon because I may be going to see it, so reading it could be helpful, and I can put it in my personal statement! :D ...Which I still have yet to write...

I missed my fic challenge deadline too, it was like a month ago. :S BAD ME.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I'm putting it in my personal statement mainly so that if I get an interview, I can talk about Clytaemnestra and from there onto women in classical literature, which I think I should be okay at (NO I WILL FAIL HALP HALP)

I am hiding from my personal statement in general. Also, how confusing is UCAS? VERY, okay, I do not like the things it wants me to know, and I do not know. Have you decided whether or not to apply to Oxford? Where else have you decided to apply?

I love my icon! Thank call_me_daisy for its wonderment.

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

I'm not applying to Oxford, I'm going for Warwick, Exeter, Bristol, King's College (London) and Royal Holloway (London). You? :)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I'm applying to Cambridge, King's College, Royal Holloway, Edinburgh and Leeds (I don't want to go to Leeds). Are you going on the open day tomorrow for the University of London joint-college open day? I'll be away from the computer till Wed, so I'll email you my mobile number and then if you are, we can say hi, right?