when did 'lord of the dance' become the drunken freshers song of choice?
Hi! So, I've moved, and the partner and I are now living in Scotland and starting (finally!) at university.
This was freshers week, and lectures start on Monday. Yesterday and today I completed the mildly stressful but actually quite straightforward task of changing my degree programme from History and Russian Studies to History and German Studies. I realised that I actually wasn't feeling excited about Russian anymore (partly because it meant starting again from scratch with people who didn't know the alphabet) but it was mainly because I had no intention of going to Russia on my year abroad. Homosexuality isn't so fun there, my legal relationship status wouldn't be acknowledged, it really fucking TERRIFIED me etc etc. And if I wasn't going to do a year abroad there (I hadn't realised I felt so certain about this, but suddenly it hit me that I really, really was) then I'd have to change degrees at some point anyway, so it seemed simpler and psychologically cleaner to do it now. As well as taking German as part of my degree programme, it also means I can pick up a Scandinavian language, which I always intended to do at some point in my life; I'm enrolled on a beginners' Norwegian course as my outside subject.
Anyway. It took us a while, but we're here, and if all goes to plan I'll be graduating in 2016 at the grand old age of 23.
Oh - also, ALSO, I have been making some use of my fake Kindle (that is, my laptop) for fanfic-reading purposes. The best things I've read so far are Give and It Shall Be Given Unto You by kaiz (Harry Potter, Snape/Harry and other pairings, some off the wall post-war things I enjoyed even if a bit far-fetched in places) and Sing A Mad Rebellion by Femme (Snape/Harry, other pairings mentioned, a dystopia/spy fic with some occasionally awkwardly-placed sex but some very solid characterisation and good use of the genres - and politician!Harry, which I love).
This was freshers week, and lectures start on Monday. Yesterday and today I completed the mildly stressful but actually quite straightforward task of changing my degree programme from History and Russian Studies to History and German Studies. I realised that I actually wasn't feeling excited about Russian anymore (partly because it meant starting again from scratch with people who didn't know the alphabet) but it was mainly because I had no intention of going to Russia on my year abroad. Homosexuality isn't so fun there, my legal relationship status wouldn't be acknowledged, it really fucking TERRIFIED me etc etc. And if I wasn't going to do a year abroad there (I hadn't realised I felt so certain about this, but suddenly it hit me that I really, really was) then I'd have to change degrees at some point anyway, so it seemed simpler and psychologically cleaner to do it now. As well as taking German as part of my degree programme, it also means I can pick up a Scandinavian language, which I always intended to do at some point in my life; I'm enrolled on a beginners' Norwegian course as my outside subject.
Anyway. It took us a while, but we're here, and if all goes to plan I'll be graduating in 2016 at the grand old age of 23.
Oh - also, ALSO, I have been making some use of my fake Kindle (that is, my laptop) for fanfic-reading purposes. The best things I've read so far are Give and It Shall Be Given Unto You by kaiz (Harry Potter, Snape/Harry and other pairings, some off the wall post-war things I enjoyed even if a bit far-fetched in places) and Sing A Mad Rebellion by Femme (Snape/Harry, other pairings mentioned, a dystopia/spy fic with some occasionally awkwardly-placed sex but some very solid characterisation and good use of the genres - and politician!Harry, which I love).