Two nights spent drinking ought not to leave me pleasantly refreshed, but it seems that they have ( Read more... )

Why am I awake this early? There is no human reason that I should wake up at 5:45 after last night, but I have. I know that if I try to get another couple of hours sleep I will inevitably take another six to eight hours, miss LARP and job applications, and be thoroughly pissed off with myself. So I'm doing useful preparation-type things instead, ( Read more... )

I return from the pub crawl, pleasantly full of good beer and cider, having had a marvellous evening of conversation, prettiness and general joy. Soon it will be time to sleep, but there's time for music yet. Particularly when it's proportion-finding folky stuff. Some are easily manipulated by flattery, some by intimidation, some by bribery. My ( Read more... )

I'd never properly noticed before that Rent begins at just this time of year. It's finally cold enough to go walking and feel the tension between your blood supply and the air, to need to keep moving to stay warm. I can imagine what Scotland and the Lakes must be like - practically deserted, semi-covered in snow, brittle and bright. Why yes, I am ( Read more... )

Life seems to be occuring at much too fast a rate for me to keep up with a realtime journal, so it's summary time again ( Read more... )

I seemingly managed to imply that I'm eternally exiled from Oxford in my last post - thankfully that isn't true, and if it were, I have a decent selection of masks. My college have tried to exile me, but I'm pretty sure that they don't have a leg to stand on. To exclude me from college grounds, possibly. To deny me permission to enter the city, no ( Read more... )

So, I have a job. I'm temping for a solicitor, who is rather difficult. The organisation is horrific - I get the impression the person I'm filling in for runs the entire place usually, and knows everything that's going on at any given time. I obviously do not. Still, they are paying me. And damn well better be, given I'm getting up at 6am, and not ( Read more... )

I've had this journal for 4 years and 8 months. After a gap of just over 9 months I'm returning to write in it again. Livejournal appears to have had an influx of OULES (good), already had a large number of LARPers, who I now know much better (good), and seems to have taken on advertisers (not good at all ( Read more... )

Intellectual breakthroughs are astoundingly satisfying. I suppose if anything, I can make an analogy to studying a science course as being more like bowling, and an arts course as batting. Developing coherent arguments in the arts has always seemed to be less about surmounting particularly tricky conceptual problems, and more about building a ( Read more... )

I'm feeling oddly fragile and weak today. At first I thought it might just be that I haven't eaten lately, but I had a huge curry last night. Enough sleep? Check. So what's going on? I sincerely hope that this isn't me becoming an Old Git, after having spent Saturday night in Holywell Manor bar, Monday night at the Cellar reminiscing with dtszza about ( Read more... )