Sore throat, flooded kitchen and a mound of German translation. Not cool ( Read more... )

I've been back in Bristol for a couple of weeks, and I'm enjoying it so far. To my dismay, I have one weekly seminar, one fortnightly lecture and hopefully a weekly dissertation supervision. Very embarrassing! Some of my archaeologist friends actually have *no* lectures at all, so at least I can still make fun of someone ( Read more... )

Right, they're starting to drive me mad now. Can I leave now please ( Read more... )

Exams are done. *breathes* I can quite happily avoid doing any work for a week or two with no guilt. (Dissertation doesn't count as work, as far as I'm concerned at the moment.) I felt quite lost this evening, so I spent some time with one of the cats in my garden and did a bit more cleaning. Slow work, but when the flat is of a habitable standard ( Read more... )

I've been scribbling down ideas for my dissertation that have just occurred to me, and now I'm in chant mode. I don't want to do my revision! Can't I just skip the rest of the undergrad bit please ( Read more... )

Richard Strauss had issues. I'm revising for my exams on Tuesday, and it's presentation of women in Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier at the moment. It's so ludicrous I'm rather enjoying it, but I need to be a bit speedier. Any kind of sexual taboo you can think of, he's got it covered in one of these. I can't wait to get these over with and ( Read more... )

I've just finished cleaning one of the bathrooms in Bristol- the one that *didn't* have mushrooms when I moved in- and I've seen sights more revolting than I ever intend to again. Things shouldn't change colour that dramatically after Dettolling. Black pipes to sky blue, giant civilisations of mould in the fan developing thumbs and democracy being ( Read more... )

Guess who's exhausted! I've spent most of today (which started at 9!) fighting with zips- I'm making another dress- and getting thoroughly confused by all this foreign money business. After getting most of it sorted, thee was a very nasty moment: I said jokingly to Mum, 'Do they use Euros in Hungary?' (I'm going tomorrow.) Panic: discovered ( Read more... )

Little exam progress has occurred, but that's ok. I've done a bit of practice, and I've made 4 lovely cushions for my flat (in grey and petrol-blue mock taffeta). Good alternative to revision, I think. I'm also perfecting my human pincushion routine, a collaborative piece of installation art between my cat and my sewing machine ( Read more... )

I saw a lovely little cat today. Mostly black, white belly and legs, and the skin on the bottom of his paws (not the fur) was black. Adorable. He (looked like a he) was very sleek and shiny, and quite big. The neighbourhood calico cat came into the flat today, sniffed every room very thoroughly and demanded many cat treats. Haven't seen Spot (the ( Read more... )