{ it's probably weirder for him. }

[delga]

Bed at midnight, up at 8.30am again! Yay! Also, it's sunny outside, and I have a double lecture at eleven so I'm feeling good. After the lecture, I'm heading to the humanities campus library to do the supplemental reading that I need to do, and I'm taking my copy of Wind in the Willows with me because it will never get read otherwise. One downside to this morning - it turns out that my first text for On Reading hasn't turned up (Henry James' The Aspern Papers). I've emailed The Sister to check that I haven't left it at home, but that seems highly unlikely because I don't remember seeing it whilst I was there. This means that I'm going to have to fork out for another copy because I need it asap. Sigh.

Also, not looking forward to Research Skills. Have been grouped with four people whose names I ken not on a subject that is so insane - it's something like, we have to produce a project on 16th and 17th century country houses and palaces. I...what? And I hate group work because you're so reliant on other people for your grade.

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Prison Break. Oh. Huh. My head hurts.

eta: Michael called Sara, aw. But Sara and Kellerman? And then the whole Nika's jealousy, not jealousy, helping the plan, killing the plan thing. Damn. AND T-Bag! *shudder*

JOHN ABRUZZI WTF. The show is doing damage obviously. Nice move there with the fake out, as always. The skinny kid who doesn't know how to talk, he's funny, as is his whole situation.

Anyway. That was stressful.

I really wish people wouldn't use spoilery icons. It's really kind of rude. And to that girl whose LJ I read about how she couldn't be fucked with spoiler tagging? Have some manners. Just because you don't give a shit about spoilers doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else.

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In terms of fandom, I have Atlantis to watch, then Stargate, two episodes of The Unit and NCIS. So I think that if I get all my work done on campus, I can get back early and relax a little bit. If not, I'm going to have to start freeing up my Saturdays or my Sundays to stay caught up. And to not go crazy, obviously.

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[muldy.livejournal.com]

*hides layout and grins innocently* Spoilery stuff? Never...

And OMG Prison Break is sooo stressful! I like have heart attacks watching it all the time! *but is totally addicted*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I feel for you on the group work issue; I really used to hate it in school, and contrive to be in a 'group' all by myself. When I got to university it was actually better, probably because we got to choose our partners ourselves. That way, you could avoid working with people, whose personality you couldn't stand and who just wouldn't pull their weight. Much better! I suppose the rationale behind assigning groups is a)you might not know the people taking the class with you and b) in "real life" (may I never have to endure it!) you can't always choose who you work with, so you need to learn to work even with morons. It still really sucks though, and you have all my sympathy. *offers tea and hugs*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It would have been really convenient if we could have picked our ow groups because I live with three other lit. students. I would mind less if one of them would email me with information and I wasn't the only one driving this damn train, so to speak, but I'm getting nothing, which makes me apprehensive.

*hugs* Thanks for your support. It always means a lot, and I like hearing from you! ow have you been lately, anyway?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have been very well, thank you, and very busy. I like being busy, so that is a good thing. Sometimes I feel like a broken record, but I really love my job, and feel very lucky to be able to do something I enjoy so much for a living. *is a geek*

We had visitors from a company in our field the other week, and (*due South quote* for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture) my boss couldn't be there, so I got to look after them, take them out to lunch, etc. All the members of the group (except the boss, obviously) gave short presentations of their research to the visitors. I mostly like having the boss around when I do this, because if people ask questions I don't know the answer to, he will step in and answer. That is a double-edge sword, though, because he knows a lot more about our field than I do, having worked in it a lot longer than I have. If you hesitate over an answer, he can easily take over. If you really don't know, that is great. However, if you just needed to think about it a bit, you don't get to show that you actually know as much as you do. Also, him not being there gave me a chance to talk to these people in a more relaxed setting over lunch and coffee, which was very nice indeed!

This evening, I have been out to my community choir. I love singing (though I am not good at it) and we had a great session, learning a beautiful Scottish song, written by a contemporary to Robbie Burns. These singing sessions always make me feel good, and tonight we really sounded great towards the end of the evening. It is teaching me to hear and appreciate harmonies in choir pieces, in a way I never did before, enriching my life in a beautiful way.

By the way, I found a card a while back that made me think of you, and have been meaning to send it to you. I only have an address for you in P, though. Would you like me to send it there? If not, could you email me your uni address on solveig.felton at gmail.com?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hi again! So sorry it took me so long to reply to you - I've been hiding from making real posts and comments.

It's completely awesome and a very-good-thing that you love your job - job satisfaction is what everyone is looking for! So I'm pleased for you :) Also, it sounds like you're very good at dealing with people. It's nice that you got the chance to interact more with the group this time. All confidence-building gestures. (There's a due South quote in there?!)

I used to sing in a choir - three, actually. One in primary school, one in the joint schools' community and one in secondary school. However, a particularly bad cold I had a couple of years ago riuined my vocal chords so I don't really go to choirs anymore. Which is a shame because I really used to enjoy it. Sometimes my friends manage to drag me out to open mic nights, which is nice, but I'm still reluctant to sing in public.

I didn't realise you were a choraler - that's a wonderful discovery! You should really post more when you get the chance because I love to hear about these things that people get up to! And yes, when the different sets of voices come together it's beautiful and so powerful.

And I will email you with my uni address now, although that will change at the end of the academic year :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am very happy with my job. I sometimes feel like I might come off as gloating about it, though, because as you say, everyone wants job satisfaction. I hope I am good at dealing with people, but I can certainly use all the practice I can get. No matter where my career (Oh my! I have a career?!? *looks around in surprise, trying to find out when that happened*) dealing with people is likely to be an important part of it. The due South quote, btw, is the "for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture", something that (How much due South do you know?) Constable Fraser says many times over about why he, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is in Chicago.

I love my singing, though I am not good at it. When I was in my first school from ages 7 to 13 we all sang at Christmas and end-of-year ceremonies, because the school was so small (between 12 and 15 pupils all told). However, we were never really taught to sing; we learned the words to the songs and were told to sing louder, but nothing about whether we were in tune or not. My next school was much larger and had a proper choir, and by the time I started there I had understood that I wasn't good at singing, so I didn't join the choir. At the time, the impression I got was that you either knew how to sing or you didn't, and there wasn't anything that could be done about it. Many years later, my sister found a choir with a leader whose philosophy is that if you can talk you can sing, you learn by practicing and anybody is welcome. My sister loved it and told my mother and me, so we also started going to that. Since then it has become an important part of my life and when I moved here, about a year ago, I made the effort to look for an opportunity to sing; I am so glad I did! I always come away with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. *happy smile*