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Journal Entry: Tue Jul 8, 2008, 3:26 PM
  • Mood: Stumped
  • Listening to: Steven Wilson
  • Reading: Ulysses, Joyce
New Hampshire amazes me more and more every time I return. For just a little taste: Where else (in New England, anyway) are you given a selection of CDs to listen to whilst getting an MRI, all of which are country music; and where else can you find a pamphlet about what creation means for God (plus, does God really cause natural disasters?), open, on a bench at the gym; and where else does the book store in the mall have a larger "Christian Fiction" section than its "Poetry and Drama" section (which consists of little besides Jane Austen's "memoires" and several copies of Romeo and Juliet)?

Yes, that's right: I'm back in the US of A. And, to be honest, my "hometown" is rather more frightening than being alone in Morocco for eight days (which was quite an experience, I can assure you). I'm supposed to have started work on my thesis, but I feel rather cerebrally depleted — partially by the intellectual intensity of the past year, but mostly, scarily, by my current environs. Instead, I've been reading and re-reading Ulysses, which almost makes everything worth it.


Why does anyone else bother, after Joyce?
(A question that may or may not be rhetorical.)

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 21
  • Current Residence: among the dreaming spires
  • Interests: horses, words, tea, music, philosophy
  • Favourite band or musician: Porcupine Tree
  • Favourite poet or writer: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Borges, Faulkner
  • Favourite game: academia

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`Bringa:iconBringa: Jun 12, 2008, 2:48:12 PM
Promise to repent is essential. Also essential is repetition of confession. Come see me again in a week, my child.

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*xiooua:iconxiooua: Jun 12, 2008, 10:47:10 AM
Thanks for the favorite! =)
*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Jun 12, 2008, 8:18:15 AM
Erm, so, I have to write 15,000 words in the next 7 days. I'm gonna have to take a rain check.

(I promise to repent?)

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`Bringa:iconBringa: Jun 10, 2008, 1:34:50 AM
Bless me, Rachel, for I have sinned.

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*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Apr 11, 2008, 4:21:10 AM
hey thanks =P

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~Arkhein:iconArkhein: Mar 7, 2008, 8:43:06 AM
Hey, congratulations of your seventy-four thousand winning/running-up entires to the 365tomorrows contest! Oh, wait, it's only three. Only three. Geez. lol.

-Ark
*simplyprose:iconsimplyprose: Mar 1, 2008, 9:11:58 PM
=), thanks for the watch!
*SRSmith:iconSRSmith: Feb 29, 2008, 8:32:49 PM
Thanks very much for the :+devwatch:, it's very much appreciated.

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^GeneratingHype:iconGeneratingHype: Feb 28, 2008, 5:39:22 PM
Thank you kindly for the :+devwatch:. I really appreciate the support.

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*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Feb 28, 2008, 10:56:06 AM
Oh yes, skill (and muscle) has definitely gone down the drain. It's pretty depressing. Good luck with the volunteering (and let me know if it works out!): I briefly considered attempting to work at a stable nearby, but the stupid BHS has so many rules and regulations and safety things and exams you have to pass, and such. :(

And . . . ahh, that sounds like a beautiful life.

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~insanexflame:iconinsanexflame: Feb 28, 2008, 4:40:22 AM
oh, that is quite lucky. my friend is in a house that the college found for him with three other Americans, and he's become good friends with them but I don't think he meets many other people.

I wish I was on an equestrian team! that would be hard work, but it would definitely be nice to even see horses from time to time. I'm dreading the pain when I ride again after a winter, semester, and summer off... and the amount of skill that will have gone down the drain by that time. I'm thinking of trying to volunteer at a stable here just so I can have the environment, at the very least.

if I can marry Johnny Depp and live in Bermuda and Oxford alternately with my string of Thoroughbreds, you can marry a horse-owning trophy husband in Oxford. really. I'm sure there are plenty of those to go around.
*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Feb 28, 2008, 3:07:55 AM
Yeah, right now I'm pinning all my hopes on impossible fellowships that I'll never actually get. Sigh. (Trophy husbands are always good too, though . . . ooh, especially if they have horses and/or money to buy me horses! Hehe.)

As for meeting people, I'm really lucky in that I'm living with 25 other people from my college in a little compound thing, so I have a somewhat reliable base of friends here. This also means I haven't been spending so much time with/meeting British friends, though, which is unfortunate. Ah well. I'm on the equestrian team, which allows me to meet a few people (and horsey people! I always get along with horsey people) and also ride, though painfully infrequently. (Literally painfully: the few times I do ride I'm sore for days afterward.)

When I come back here for grad school/life, I'm definitely having a horse. (You know, as long as I'm living in impossibilities I might as well compound them, right?)

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~insanexflame:iconinsanexflame: Feb 27, 2008, 6:02:42 AM
oh goodness, yeah. after visiting once I started plotting grad school there. too bad the tuition would be around $40k for the one year. plan B is to find a nice British trophy husband.

I'd be too afraid to meet folks, too. in fact, my friend from home is trying to get me to call up her friend in London, but I can't do it. have you been fitting in alright and having fun on your own? I'm finding that fitting in just goes differently here, but I can do it. I don't know if I think it's as easy to make tight friends, though.

oh lord, and how are you getting by without horses (or do you have yours here)? I walked through a nature preserve the other day and saw someone cantering through the fields, and I just wanted to be her so badly.
*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Feb 26, 2008, 2:56:36 PM
Eep! Sorry! Completely forgot that people can actually comment here. :o

Anyway, Oxford is the most wonderful city I've ever encountered, and I, too, am in love. I'm already scheming about how I can come back here as soon as possible and stay for as long as possible. (Grad school and more grad school, yay!)

((Also, I'm kind of afraid of people, particularly new ones. I'm tempted, though.))

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'cause there's beauty in the breakdown
~insanexflame:iconinsanexflame: Feb 18, 2008, 6:47:16 AM
I just remembered that you're at oxford right now. I was just visiting there this weekend! I'm so in love with that city.

how is everything going there? I know another writer who's there right now and he's a very cool guy - let me know if you'd want to try and meet him. I don't know how many people you've gotten to know what with the one-on-one tutorials.

anyway, good luck with the end of the term. send some dreaming-spires love towards London for the folks who aren't constantly surrounded by the historical and intellectual.
~Xannijn:iconXannijn: Feb 7, 2008, 1:42:25 PM
Hi there random deviant! :wave:
Keep going! :love:

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~Legolasagna:iconLegolasagna: Feb 4, 2008, 10:41:11 PM
You are a genius. I watch geniuses.
*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Jan 27, 2008, 3:39:04 AM
Right back atcha!

(For some reason I thought I was already watching you . . . as it turns out, I wasn't. Oops.)

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`AbCat:iconAbCat: Jan 27, 2008, 1:14:48 AM
Thank you for watching. :~)
~Platypi:iconPlatypi: Jan 14, 2008, 3:57:57 AM
Your writing is like, amazing. Lovelovelove.

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~ByrneFoto:iconByrneFoto: Dec 21, 2007, 9:37:04 AM
Thanks for :+fav:ing it's very much appreciated. Have a very Merry Christmas! :santa: :heart:
*MichelRajkovic:iconMichelRajkovic: Dec 2, 2007, 3:45:11 PM
Thanks a lot for the watch ;-)

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~apocathary:iconapocathary: Nov 17, 2007, 2:36:25 AM
dun dun dun |:

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*IfrozenspiritI:iconIfrozenspiritI: Nov 15, 2007, 2:02:58 AM
well I seemed to have missed you, too, so apparently there must be some sort of conspiracy going on around here. :ohnoes:

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