Last day of classes
May. 5th, 2006 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo. Today was my last day of undergraduate classes ever.
(...I'm pretty okay with this, actually. Wheee, only one more assignment and I'm done!)
I celebrated by getting Chandra and my library copy of Brideshead Revisited (been meaning to read that for at least four years now) and heading to the steps of Rosse (and when I got cold from being in the shade, amongst the angels on the lawn) to both listen to the Pealers and read. So yes, this did mean that I was reading about bells and spires and such of Oxford while listening to our own churchbells being used to chime out...the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Heh.
I went up into the belltower for the last fifteen minutes, mostly so that I could get in on the swinging of the F bell. I have yet to get the rhythm right for that, but it's fun to bounce around on the rope.
Then there was the AVI/local foods picnic which...was kind of awful, but the sentiment was nice, anyway. Also, there's free Mexican food in honor of Cinco de Mayo later tonight, so there will definitely be some second dinner happening.
I had a nice, longish chat with my Practice and Theory professor (who was also my British Empire prof last semester) this afternoon as well. He's such a nice man; he offered to write me a recommendation for any kind of job or grad school, should I ever need it. Given that an MLS/MLIS degree is looking more and more likely the more I learn and begin to dislike about the field of publishing, this is definitely a good thing.
I perhaps ought to get something more done on my take-home final so I can get it done this weekend and laze around all during finals week, but...it's due Thursday. And I'm lazy now. *g* So perhaps not.
(...I'm pretty okay with this, actually. Wheee, only one more assignment and I'm done!)
I celebrated by getting Chandra and my library copy of Brideshead Revisited (been meaning to read that for at least four years now) and heading to the steps of Rosse (and when I got cold from being in the shade, amongst the angels on the lawn) to both listen to the Pealers and read. So yes, this did mean that I was reading about bells and spires and such of Oxford while listening to our own churchbells being used to chime out...the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Heh.
I went up into the belltower for the last fifteen minutes, mostly so that I could get in on the swinging of the F bell. I have yet to get the rhythm right for that, but it's fun to bounce around on the rope.
Then there was the AVI/local foods picnic which...was kind of awful, but the sentiment was nice, anyway. Also, there's free Mexican food in honor of Cinco de Mayo later tonight, so there will definitely be some second dinner happening.
I had a nice, longish chat with my Practice and Theory professor (who was also my British Empire prof last semester) this afternoon as well. He's such a nice man; he offered to write me a recommendation for any kind of job or grad school, should I ever need it. Given that an MLS/MLIS degree is looking more and more likely the more I learn and begin to dislike about the field of publishing, this is definitely a good thing.
I perhaps ought to get something more done on my take-home final so I can get it done this weekend and laze around all during finals week, but...it's due Thursday. And I'm lazy now. *g* So perhaps not.
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Date: 2006-05-06 05:25 pm (UTC)I'm reading Brideshead, too!
I know! Seeing you post about it inspired me to check it out of the library. (You're the third or fourth person I know who's read it and talked about it in the last several years. I've been meaning to read it since before coming to college, fer cryin' out loud.)
It makes me want to swan around the garden quad drinking Pimms and listening to the chapel bells, so that's what I'm doing. Sebastian Flyte never went to lectures when he was at Oxford, zomg!
Hee! Oxford is a good place to swan about and listen to chapel bells in. I enjoyed my two-day trip there, anyway, although of course my experience with the quads of the colleges was pretty much limited to the Christchurch self-guided tour thingy... ;)
Yep, I'm going to fail my exams. *g*
Oh, exams. Who cares about exams? *g*