Let's try this all again and see how it goes. 
O comforting beleagured livejournal.
How I have neglected you. 

BBC weather, you are a foul temptress. Don't give me those cryptic "rain/clouds/sun" pictures and expect me to know what they mean. Or at least expect me to pretend that you are actually relating information instead of the pictographic equivalent of a meteorological shoulder shrug. Yes, we know, British weather is prone to flights of fancy and ( Read more... )

Who's ready for another exciting round of library observations? Who can tell another essay deadline is approaching? Huzzah!
Deep philosophical observation for the day:

The Bodleian has an unusually high proportion of people with weird hair.
Seriously.
There's "Amazingly large afro" guy (He's there every single day. I saw him on the street a few weeks ( Read more... )

Well, it's official.
I'm a student for life.
It's funny, I wasn't worried about it.
Until I was.
Three years later and only now is the application season over.
I'd raise a glass....
but I feel I've been celebrating already.
So here's to the doctorate.
Huzzah.

The weighty tome that makes up my supervisor's OH SO IMPORTANT! LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE! contribution to the medieval field has finally demonstrated its use to me. It fits perfectly in the distance between the desk and the provided electrical outlets in the Bodleian. As my stupid American computer requires a rather cumbersome adapter (too cumbersome ( Read more... )

Amazing. I believe this is the first time that I have felt truly cared for by a nationalized health service. Well, this is partly due to the fact that my country doesn't feature a national health service. But still. Just another reason to plug for one now.
I recently paid a visit to the local health centre associated with Oriel. I had quite the ( Read more... )

How am I in the library again? I had visions (heh) of running far far away from the Radcliffe Camera never to return. After last week's blissful Monday submission of all things important (i.e. essays of doom), I had a self-imposed vacation which was beautiful. Right in time for spring. Thank god it was mostly rainy and gloomy while I was writing ( Read more... )

Now that the library has become the central realm of my existence, it's only appropriate that I share the absolute strangeness of this new strange bibliophilic universe.
Ok, so on a typical Tuesday morning we have the following:
A movie set outside filming what I can only presume is the latest in the "Lewis" series (sequel of Inspector Morse for ( Read more... )

I have a sneaking suspicion that references to Friends are actually starting to date me, but still the applicability remains. And thus I mention it here:
There is a librarian in the Rad Cam who looks disturbingly like Gunther. Awkward. Very awkward. Especially in the sense that he refuses to stay behind his little librarian's desk and is always ( Read more... )

Oh, and btdubs:
It's snowing.
It's an Easter Miracle!!
Uh no.
Where was all the pretty white stuff for Christmas? When it was holiday appropriate?
Easter is all about spring. Flowers. Bunnies. Sunshine.
Egg hunts are not fun in snow.
England, seriously, get your weather shit together.