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[icepixie]

Well, I had a thesis, but it decided to go play thesis-in-a-haystack, so now I have 1243 words of plot summary, essentially, with nary a point to make in sight.

I think I've forgotten how to write papers, y'all. Seriously. This is really, really bad, 'cause I still want to take at least one more essay-writing English class next year, the Jazz Age class with my advisor, second or third in line to the "hardest grader in the department" throne. Although more and more I'm leaning towards rowdycamels's plan of not taking any more lit. classes...since I've fulfilled all my requirements in the English department anyway, and actually need to take a few more classes outside my major to graduate...hmmm.

In other news, Phling is Saturday, and they're doing "A Night at Gatsby's" for the theme, and I'm missing it. My pet decade of the 20th century, and I'm not there. Argh. Kenyon/Exeter folks should have a mini-Phling here, or something. Yeah.

In other other news, my plan for the semester is to not spend the entirety of any weekend in Exeter unless I have a paper due the next week (so, three weekends out of the following twelve). Suggestions for day, overnight, and two-night trips would be welcome, although after making off with Ellen's guide to Great Britain, I'm going a little crazy with the choices. (There's apparently a small town in Wales that specializes in second-hand bookstores. We are so going there.)

Um...yeah. That's about it for my uberboring life at the moment. It should get more interesting soon, I hope...once this paper's over, anyway. At any rate, I have scenic Exeter and Nashville pictures to post that I haven't gotten around to for the past month.

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

I think I might end up wanting to spend more time in the area...maybe go somewhere in Germany. Hmmm. I know I wanna go see Neuschwanstein Castle, but that may wait until June as well.

*sob*

We "saw" Neuschwanstein, which translated to "here, we'll stop in a field where you can see it in the distance and you can get out of the bus and take pictures." We didn't actually go - went to one of his other castles, and since Neuschwanstein has been somewhere I wanted to go since I was like, TWO, I was quite bummed. As in, sobbing. Which was partly due to the 103-degree temperature, I'm guessing...

That area of Germany... I'd say Munich-Vienna would be where I'd want to go back to. Munich was nifty - a decent public transportation system, huge open-air market, spiffy tourist-y stuff. We also went to Dachau, which was amazing. We actually went to Salzburg on a day trip from Munich - on the way we also went to the salt mines, which were really cool (it was like a log ride underground). So yeah, we were really only in Salzburg for an afternoon. :(

On the way to Vienna we stopped at Melk, which is gorgeous. It's really just the Abbey - used to be a monastery - which is really neat (especially with the museum part that they added), but the library was absolutely stunning. Huge room, floor to ceiling shelves of old books, cathedral-like ceiling with fresco, and the spiral staircase to a second story that rings around the outside of the room like you only see in movies. I could have stayed there for HOURS.

Vienna is pretty darn spiffy, too. Danube River, music, opera house, old stuff - pretty cool. :)

I think I'm going to just start scanning ALL of my scrapbook... which I'd planned on doing when I first got back, so hey! About time! *g*

[icepixie]

We "saw" Neuschwanstein, which translated to "here, we'll stop in a field where you can see it in the distance and you can get out of the bus and take pictures."

That seriously bites.

*writes down Munich-Vienna on list of June possibilities*

And now I have to go to Melk. Oh, yes.

[nickless.livejournal.com]

That seriously bites.

God, I was so pissed...

And now I have to go to Melk. Oh, yes.

Sooooooo awesome. *drools at the very memory of it*