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Thursday, November 27th, 2003
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11:44p
I'm obviously still being bad - having not updated in, er....a while. But I have been busy, so I have an excuse. I should be in bed right now actually, because I have an 11 o'clock lecture tomorrow, which, because it's in Leeds I have to get up uber-early for. I like to try for 6 o'clock. Don't ask me why - I like a lot of time in the morning to get my head together. It allows time for a morning Buffy episode anyway;) Also, I hate being late for anything.
Anyway....
I was just wasting even more time posting to LJ communities. I use my LJ so little that I feel like it deserves a burst of energy to keep it going. And I feel bad after those nice people at the 'Invite Codes' community over there made it for me:( But who can resist posting piccies of pretty old men now that I have the capability?! There's a new 'Kiefer daily' comm - I couldn't help myself;) Also finally made a contribution to the 'Vintage Meat' comm which I've been lurking in since before I had a Blurty even! (Posted Alan Rickman, Gene Kelly, David Warner, Tcheky Karyo and Patrick Stewart. Thought they would probably elicit comment - or drooling, whichever!)
But there are so many great communities on LJ that we don't have here. Now, I love Blurty best, coz I have people here I know now, both that I've made contact with and ones I just like to check up on without making myself known - like some of the people on the Writing Projects member list. I always feel that you should get to know someone a bit in your head before you friend them. But anyway, besides the Writing Projects comm, which kicks the ass of all the comms on LJ ;), they are outdoing us. I just wondered why that should be. I know everyone wants an LJ cz that's what everyone else has, but aren't there lots of people who haven't got the means or the inclination to pay LJ or any friends who will give them Invite Codes? And aren't all those people cool and fantastic? (I know they are, coz they're here) So what's with the lack of communities?
I guess we just have less people, don't we? Hence less interests, or a narrower range of interests anyway. Hence less weird communities. Hmmm.
Anyway (again)
Busy week, and it's only Thursday;)
Monday was frantic work preparation day, Tuesday was stressing about prepared work day, which I needn't have done, coz my tutor was mysteriously absent from the departmento. Wednesday was the Graduate Seminar, our Graduate Seminar.
I gave a third of the whole thing, about 8 minutes worth I reckon. All about the relationship of the Roman emperor Tiberius (AD14-37), who has been regularly denounced, then and now, as a complete tyrant, with his Senate. I dashed this thing off the night before, and then obsessively read over it again and again to make sure it was ok. And you know the weirdest thing, I actually enjoyed it!
Now, public speaking has not, in the past, been something I've done except out of necessity, coz I'm naturally quiet and quite softly spoken and I hate lots of people looking at me all at once. Except that it's quite a kick when it's not scaring you to death! Of course, I kinda know these people now, and I know none of them are sitting there thinking: "Bitch, I hope you choke on your tongue" or anything, and so that calms you quite a lot. But hearing yourself speak for that long is quite scary - the key thing, for me at least, is to not quite believe it's happening. I did that right up until I was actually talking, by which time it was too late and you've just got to get on with it. So I was proud, is probably what I'm taking what is quite a long and circuitous paragraph to say!
So that was yesterday. Today people came to fix us our new water heater. Yay!! From August to November we've been having to improvise various forms of hot water at bath time. And we only have a bath, not a shower. But now it's fixed - phew! I had a bath a few hours ago, and it was so hot I was obliged to add loads of cold water or I would have burned to death! Anyway, I went out for the day and took myself to see Intolerable Cruelty again. I love seeing films by myself. Kelly thinks it's sad, or that's what she said, but I find it really freeing. You can have your own reaction to the film and not feel influenced by the opinions of the people around you, or if you're perverse like me, not feel obliged to disagree with them coz they dragged you to a film you were sure would be rubbish. Plus it reminds me of day-trips to Newcastle. :( Miss Newcastle again. I should go and see Emma Shaw again soon, if she'll have me, as that's where she lives. I need to see that river again.
I really need a break where I don't have to go to Leeds so I can hopefully do some more writing. I find it quite hard to do that thing that all writers are meant to do and write a certain amount a day, whether its good or not. Or at least, I find it hard when I've got lots of other things that I care about going on at the same time. At school I could do it, because school work required very little effort, but now it's all about effort. Which is good for me but also tiring me!
Anyway, better go to bed I guess. I feel oddly happy at the moment - hope it lasts!
current mood:  happy
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