It is my birthday. Harry made dinner. Our adorableness is frightening, sometimes.

Am attending a conference on teaching at the TRC, largely to broaden my mind, as I do not expect to teach for some time. The conference organisers seem unnaturally pleased with themselves for having thought of such a conference. I suppose that among wizards instructional skill is not a high priority, or certain of our Defense Against the Dark ( Read more... )

Bought books yesterday. My advisor wrote the Manifolds text, algebraic methods looks like it might still be too easy (though the problem sets are the true test), and I already own Royden's Real Analytic Thaumaturgy, which is required for a course I'm not taking. The TRC bookstore is huge. Utterly massive. I was in a sort of heaven ( Read more... )

Owl from Viktor this morning, informing me that Laura Madley was upset that Neville ignored her so completely. Had no idea that Laura and Viktor, of all people, maintained a correspondence of such emotional depth. Pity they're years apart and live in different countries.

Have returned from Duelling Society and am strangely exhausted. The past few days, in brief:

Thursday I met with my advisor at the TRC. He told me that I should take all of the fellows' core arithmancy seminars. I'm reminded of my third year at Hogwarts; I learned, of course, that I can't do everything, but I would like to. Would also like to ( Read more... )

Ron arrives tomorrow. Hurrah! I've been missing him ever since we left the Institute. (As well as missing the Institute, or the sense that I was doing something worthwhile there; I've had a longer holiday than is really healthy for me ( Read more... )

Still missing the Institute, though, and wishing my duties at the TRC had begun. All the parties in the world can't substitute for access to a good academic library. Two weeks . . .

Flat-warming party went off nicely, except that Bill suddenly decided he didn't approve of Fred and George (weird sibling issue that I don't understand; sometimes it's pleasant to be an only child) and starting lecturing them on their parochial outlook, lack of interest in world affairs, etc. Think he offended Alicia, at the very least; she's ( Read more... )

Having a flat-warming party tomorrow, with whomever we can persuade to Cardiff (or who happens to be here already-- Bill has suddenly decided to move here, at least for a few months, and there are one or two girls who were a few years behind me at Hogwarts.) Alicia is here for the weekend, dissecting ancient Quidditch games with Harry; Angelina ( Read more... )

Neville came through Cardiff with us last weekend; he's planning a holiday nearby with his grandmother. It was quite pleasant to wake up to Harry and Neville discussing duelling strategies ( Read more... )