Comments | rowana: In which Ro has toppled over the edge and is paddling in the abyss with some soothing music...

rowana

In which Ro has toppled over the edge and is paddling in the abyss with some soothing music...

Oct 14, 2008 16:58

How many Oxford students does it take to change a lightbulb? Yesterday, eleven of us, several cups of tea and a very helpful scout. There have been some fun moments like that. And whilst there are swathes of people who really like drinking to wade through, (as littlered2 discovered when she wandered over to my room on the first night here), there are also ( Read more... )

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littlered2 October 14 2008, 17:53:41 UTC

Sounds like you're having a great time! I'm currently hiding in my room and working my way through a giant "BETTER FOR SHARING" bag of Doritos by my own sweet self. In a minute I will get off the computer and stare blankly at my lecture notes in an attempt to feel slightly more competant and not full of screaming panic. *whimpers* If when we meet up tomorrow (what time, by the way) you find me grabbing at you with a death grip, I hope you'll understand. (Which is not to say people aren't nice! They are! I'm just incapable of doing this.)

rowana October 14 2008, 18:15:50 UTC

I'm currently hiding in my room and working my way through a giant "BETTER FOR SHARING" bag of Doritos by my own sweet self. In a minute I will get off the computer and stare blankly at my lecture notes in an attempt to feel slightly more competant and not full of screaming panic. Well, everyone here keeps asking about you, I'm just a horrible horrible person who's very bad at texting. We might be meeting up for tonight for DVDs, if/when we do so, I will text you, and I would love it if you could come up and hang out with us, it was a lot of fun last time ( ... )

littlered2 October 14 2008, 18:45:57 UTC

Meeting at your lodge sounds like a good idea; I'll see you there. :)

Do people at Hertford really keep asking about me? Actually, I don't even care if that's a comforting lie. DVDs sound wonderful, although tonight I have decided that I will Do Some Work, even if that's just writing out my lecture notes properly and reading some more of The Mill on the Floss. Because that is what Oxford students do.

You're not a horrible person! I'm really grateful that you're here.

We need to meet up for a Firefly thing; I was talking to another girl about it, and she wants to make me watch it also, so we can all get together. Although I fear she doesn't see Joss Whedon in quite the same light I do:

ROSIE: ...but I do watch some quite bad TV. Like Firefly.
VERITY: WHAT.
ROSIE: Well, you know, it's a bit geeky, isn't it?
VERITY: *the silence of SEETHING RAGE*

Right. Work. I think I might put the Doritos on top of my wardrobe first so I don't finish the bag. That would be a low point.

littlered2 October 14 2008, 18:46:59 UTC

Why did I post this as a new comment instead of a reply? Sorry.

rowana October 14 2008, 19:11:30 UTC

Don't apologise! It doesn't really make a difference, as long as you reply. :)

rowana October 14 2008, 19:11:03 UTC

Looks like DVDs tonight isn't on after all, half of our group are off to the Union and the other half are sick in bed, so I'll be here working too, most of the time. But we'll definitely meet up tomorrow! And you are coming to the next dvd/ice cream night we have, work permitting. :)

Yes, people at Hertford are asking about you! It was Emma, (or Merry, as she will henceforth be known online, but please don't tell her what her nickname in my online journal is :D), who said to me last night, "What about Verity who was here on the first night? Why don't you invite her along?" - which was when I texted you about ice cream.

I am a horrible person. :) I keep thinking of you during the daytime and then at night my brain turns to mush and I forget everyone. (I have done this with other people too. Bad, bad Ro. *shakes head ( ... )

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aged_crone October 14 2008, 19:37:17 UTC

It takes eleven of you (with help) to change a light bulb; and you are feeling self-congratulatory and elitist?

....ummmm....okay...........

/me revises downward her opinion of the cleverest people in the country, and starts to worry a bit.

: )

Now: What cheesy romantic comedies are these that you're watching?

We call "washing up liquid" "dishwashing liquid." You will have to come up with an alternate name in case any Americans wander by the kitchen, because otherwise the alliteration won't work.

rowana October 14 2008, 19:52:03 UTC

I know! It's bonkers, isn't it? Gollum does mean it despairingly, (if we're some of the cleverest people in the country, the country is in serious trouble), but it often comes out sounding self-congratulatory and elitist, and I think that it does have an element of that in it. Almost everything everyone says here does - but it seems to be a coping mechanism as much as anything else. There's nothing else which could justify the massive workload and ridiculous amount of stress we subject ourselves to here, for what seems to be such little return.

I think my analysis button has just gotten stuck and is taking a while to turn itself off.

/me revises downward her opinion of the cleverest people in the country, and starts to worry a bit.:D We've already accepted that if some of the future leaders of Britain are going to be taken from our ranks, the country really is in serious trouble ( ... )

aged_crone October 14 2008, 20:15:29 UTC

REMINGTON STEELE!!!!!!! I *love* Remington Steele! It started when I was in college. I met my best college friend when we both showed up in the student lounge wanting to watch the premiere. I have the whole series on DVD.

Yes, he was definitely pretty!

rowana October 16 2008, 01:03:30 UTC

:D He really was pretty. Merry adores Remington Steele, and we both bonded over our mutual love of 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures'.

artemis_obscure October 15 2008, 03:27:02 UTC

Treats are a necessity especially after essays!

rowana October 16 2008, 01:03:59 UTC

So I'm discovering! It's a great excuse to buy chocolate. :)

pigrescuer October 15 2008, 20:16:49 UTC

(dishwashing liquid?!?!)

*waves*

Nice to hear from you! :P

You know that cleverest people in the country thing? My teachers have been doing it to me for years, as grammar schools are supposed to house the top 10% or something. It must be worse at Oxford. ^_^

Also, what's wrong with having a bathtub in the office? It makes perfect sense!

rowana October 17 2008, 13:37:58 UTC

It really is worse - but on the other hand, we're all so stressed from the workload and all the criticism in the tutorials, that unless we had a little 'you are all brilliant!' from someone we'd all go mad. So it's justified!

Also, what's wrong with having a bathtub in the office? It makes perfect sense!

It wasn't in his office, it was in the bathroom next to his office! Which, yes, I can see the sense, but I can also picture my tutor stomping his way up the corridor from office to bathroom with a towel wrapped around him, and since my tutor is about sixty, it's not a nice image. :)

pigrescuer October 17 2008, 19:31:35 UTC

Oh, well, a bath in a bathroom. How ridiculus. Silly me. Why couldn't I see the eccentricity of it before?

rowana October 17 2008, 20:26:53 UTC

In the middle of college! Surrounded by offices! *runs around in circles*

This is my new response to stress by the way. Apparently though, it's a good mechanism because the running around causes endorphins to be released. Yay endorphins!

It is possible that I'm still a little high on everything, and therefore might sound a little maniacal at times. My lovely tutor, (not the bathtub one), did say that we'd be running on adrenaline all term. *bounces*

(Awesome icon, btw)