British Word of the Day: jumper - sometimes wool, sometimes acrylic, long-sleeved article of clothing. (American's "sweater"). eg: "You've gotten chocolate all over my jumper sleeve-it's dry-clean only!"
It has been quite some time since my last post.
But not without sound excuse: my computer has been less than reasonable for the past few weeks, alternating between The Blue Screen of Death (rather foreboding, though in a playful hue) and 'You are not connected to the internet' types of screens.
It's been trying my patience for a number of years now--never a Dell, never again. Problems with it since Day One.
In addition, I've begun and completed Middlemarch for 6th Week. I have fully enjoyed it, though I managed to read over 400 pages total yesterday in order to be able to discuss it with my tutor. I've been becoming paler and paler, and I'm certain that yesterday added to my increasingly British pallor. (i.e. white.)
The days seem to be getting warmer, and this morning I actually went without a full coat--it was just a light jacket. The sun broke through the Oxfordian clouds, and the dreaming spires were in full view today--it is surprising how few people here own sunglasses. I suppose there isn't much use for them here.
I've much more to do--long essay preliminary proposals are coming up, and I have to get a stack of books together to prove I'm ready to write. We're required to have 20 secondary sources on top of some primary sources (which won't prove difficult, given the outrageous amount of books they've managed to pack into this one city) and I must have read 5 of them, and read one book review on one of those 5. After getting the bibliography for all 20+ books, I will then be ready for Monday morning at 10 AM.
Weekend plans consist of:
Chapel Choir practice
Dinner at Crick
Pub crawling
Library crawling
Bibliography hunting
Napping
Churching
Eating
Tea partaking
Chapel Choir singing
Indian food eating
Reading
Reading
Reading
Resting
Until then.
Cheers!
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What is the syllabus for the pub crawl? I hope it involves a trip to the Purple Turtle, Sainsbury's Local, and the Kebab Stand.
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed you actually read _Middlemarch, the book I did not read twice for two separate classes! While writing this, a _Middlemarch character name popped up in my head---Lydgate! (right?)
ReplyDeleteIs "jersey" a variant of "jumper"? "My argyle-patterned cardigan jersey has raglan sleeves" (and aren't all those words found in Jabberwocky?)
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Take care---spring is coming, even to England.
We're reading _Henry V in Shakespeare class.
JC
My advice is to merge the pub and library crawl into one big creep. A pubrary/lipub crawl. The Bod is much more interesting after a pint or two of ale.
ReplyDeleteOh the blue screen of death. That happened to my computer when I was in africa....it was a regular occurance. I'm beginning to think foreign countries do something to dell, or maybe dells just arn't the best computers. I hope it continues to work because I want to continue to read your posts! love.
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