To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

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So. There was too much exercise yesterday, I think. "I hurt all over" is an entirely accurate statement at this point in time.

Meg and I went ice skating yesterday afternoon at a rink 40-ish minutes away. (We weren't going to, but the weather forecast pushed the bad weather back a couple hours, just enough so that it only started to snow when we were back in Mt. Vernon, yay!) I haven't skated since last February, in London, so there was pain. Also the rental skates didn't like my ankles, for some reason. Plus, Meg knows tricks. Meg tried to get me to do tricks. Uh, no. I just watched the nine-year-olds in the center who were obviously there right before or after their lessons doing jumps and spins and felt inadequate. *g*

Because it isn't Phling without horrible weather, February (or Phebruary) obliged by snowing like crazy after we got back, but not freezing the ground, so the giant morass of mud between Tafts and Old Kenyon was still there to get my shoes and tights all muddy as I walked to and from Peirce. Sigh. There was some hand-washing of pantyhose at 2 AM this morning....

Phling was its usual drunken orgy, although surprisingly less of both than it has been in the past. It's probably a good thing that Dempsey is getting remodeled next year, as I think with our recent expansion of the student body, we've reached critical mass for Phling. There were definitely more people there last night than there were sophomore year. But Whitney and Potato Famine played well, and they were fun to dance to, which was nice. I left immediately after.

And now I should probably do some work. Maaaaybe. Since comps are DUE IN A WEEK, OMG.

OMGflail!

Scans from this BSG article in this week's TV Guide. It's an interview with Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. Spoilers for the first couple episodes of the back half of S2.

I do enjoy adama_roslin.

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I finally found some dress shoes to go with the suit I'm wearing to my interview. They're very cute, look nice with the suit, don't have too high a heel, and are comfortable enough to walk in, which is always a plus. Woot!

And I found Christmas-in-January-because-we-can't-exactly-go-shopping-in-Gambier presents for everyone I still needed to get them for. Excellent.

Back home in one piece. Wheee! I managed to start a really bad cold on Friday night, of course, and am still feeling rather like death warmed over. I think I was definitely the zombie of the Columbus airport last night.

But we still managed to see Potter yesterday. It was very well-done and had even more nifty costume-and-set eye candy than the other movies; beyond that, I won't spoil anyone.

Um...yeah. I should be doing Anglo-Saxon translations today, but I'll probably end up reading fanfic, because hey, vacation! (Except for that whole comps thing...)

Overheard near the post office: "I hate when the [post office] box is empty. You can almost see your sad face reflected in the bottom."

Lucky for me, my PO box wasn't empty--yesterday was paycheck day. Aside from packages, that's the best kind of mail!

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The market has egg nog and Christmas candy out. When did it get to be the holiday season? I have been SO OUT OF IT lately. Either that or it's just too early for that kind of thing. And I say this as someone who really, really likes Christmas stuff.

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Unrelated to earlier things, but lovely: Remember that British Empire paper I was supposed to do a rough and a final draft of? Apparently the rough draft was so good, I don't have to do a final. Nifty!

Guess what.

I'm going to NYC for a publishing job interview in January! Woo-hoo!

I ran the gamut of possibilities for the three interviews I applied for. HarperCollins accepted me (WHEEEE!), Random House listed me as an alternate (if someone who got chosen doesn't want to interview, I can sign up instead), and Holtzbrinck (owns Tor, Bedford/St. Martin's, etc.) rejected my application. I am uberexcited about getting even one acceptance, though, because...HarperCollins. And possibly Random House. Woot!

( Random quiz with pretty picture )

I had more to say here, but it all flew out of my head. Alas.

Is it a sign that I've been working on this paper for too long if I find, "...as time went on people began to realise that it might be a matter not only of tea-growing, but of tea growing in Assam and adjacent States!" really funny?

It hasn't been a productive day, but it has been a nice one. I got a rough draft out of a poem for comps (FINALLY, I've started working on them in a less than lackadaisical fashion), then we (my flatmates and Ellen's friend from home who's currently visiting) went to Apple Valley and bought apples and pumpkins and took pictures. Then we had a long walk along the Gap Trail, taking pictures of the pretty fall trees and cornfields and prairie down at the BFEC. We just got back from dinner a few minutes ago.

One of the two dollar movies tonight is Elizabethtown, which I've been wanting to see for ages, though I'm not really sure why. The critics seem to say that it's vacant but shiny, and really, that's all I expect out of something I pay $2 to see. ;) And shiny it ought to be...Orlando Bloom and Kentucky horse country scenery. Shiny!

Also, yesterday we finished with the Stupid Book in my British Empire course. Stupid Book could've been cut down by roughly half if the author had ditched all the wiggle-words: "this could be seen as," "this might be considered," etc. etc. Also, the snide remarks about her subjects were unappreciated by pretty much the entire class. That particular discussion was pretty cathartic, actually.

So, yes. Good couple days. All will come crashing down tomorrow when I actually need to start doing work. but... *shrug*

Hooray for real food!

We went into Mt. Vernon tonight for some Fiesta Mexicana. We'd planned to go to Wal-Mart, but...uh...no. I think Coshocton Avenue is a lot like Brigadoon--it likes to hide itself whenever we want to find it.

My computer has been all fixed up and sacrified to the vagaries of the US Postal Service, which can't get it here before Tuesday. Grrr. So, more camping out in the library for me! (Although I think I might actually get more work done when I'm there than when I'm at my own computer, so this may end up not being a totally bad thing.)

You may have noticed that I changed out my icons to emphasize the fact that it's fall. Yay, fall! I took a bunch of pictures yesterday of the trees and such, before the cold front moved in last night. They turned out pretty well. I'll post them...sometime soon...

Yeah. That's about it. Happy October Break!

Meep! High/low for Thursday is going to be 59/34. Hello, fall.

*waits for the annual mocking to commence*

It was...quite cold this morning. Quite. And tonight, when we were walking back from ballroom, Peter and I could see our breath. One the one hand: Hooray for fall, my favoite season! On the other hand: boo for cold fall nights!

Speaking of ballroom, we had more males than females for the entire night. I danced for every single bit. This still shocks me. Learned a new swing step, too, and got back into the groove of waltz after not dancing it for a year. And I managed to teach a newbie guy a step in each dance, which is really amazing, since I don't actually know the guy's part for that particular step in swing. Hmm. Perhaps "encourage to do with correct technique that doesn't fling me across the floor" is a better term to use for that. Er, yes.

That's all, folks. I gotta get some comps work done while I'm in a poemy mood.