Happy Easter Again!
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mothwingI hope everybody had a great weekend! We did.
Of course, my fretting was completely superfluous. Meeting Bilks and Mel was really great and they are, of course, as expected, really, both absolutely lovely and I wish they'd be staying longer so we could see more of them!
Funny, how you feel you know people you have ever met online and then suddenly meet them in the reality of Glasgow. I thought it would be a very curious transition which would be a lot scarier, but the day we spent with them was a lot of fun. We briefly toured around the Main Building of the Uni, had lunch at Russell's on Byres Road - which sells the biggest baskets of fries I have ever seen - toured the Byres bookstores (I really had to pull myself together not to buy all those books I'd love to read but really don't need) and went to a book fair in the Botanic Gardens where Bilks found among other things a nice American first edition of Keat's poems (... which I had lusted after, too. It is really a very pretty edition.) and I two books of the Worst Witch series.
It was lovely to meet them. I hope they had a wonderful weekend, too, and I do not doubt it, because no one touring the Highlands can really ever have a bad time. I am really jealous of their tour to the States. I wish I could get to know more of you guys!
Well, and then Easter. Thanks to Mama, who is thoughtfulness incarnate, the latest parcel we received contained little egg-painting kits which we duly used to paint our Easter Eggs. Of course, my grandiose plans were impeded by my laziness, so they were not quite as colourful as I had planned them to be. Well, they tasted good all the same, even though, as always when I paint eggs, some of the colour had seeped through so Crocky was treated to a green egg with greenish yolk and green instead of white.
Oooh, and I have fallen madly in hate with Eavan Boland, whose poems just irk me beyond reason. I know that I used to love some of her poems because she celebrates suburbian life instead of seeing it as a death sentence for poets, but her the way she relates the private and women's topics to the history of Ireland and her sufferings is so overdone in places they make me want to jump through the page and kick her - especially the way she related the personal tragedy of an infertile woman and her diagnosis as such to An Gorta Mór and it's Famine Roads. That really was not necessary, not like that.
Apart from ferociously hating Boland and reading her works to find more reasons for and against that, I have a Roth overdose. Funny, after seeing the adaption starring Anthony Hopkins I never thought I would ever read "The Human Stain", and now I have to, grudgingly started and now love every bit so far.
I can't believe that it is the end of April already... In May, Exams are coming up... the middle of May, already, then we're off. Then July and the wedding of a friend of mine, then August and I am back home. One year. The years are shorter than they used to be.
Today I was surprised by a mail of one of my best friends at home,jaywalker23 . That was really the best surprise of today, since I have not heard from her for a while and now I realise that I did miss her. She is a very special person, a very good artist and a great friend.
Off to finish The Human Stain and to reply tojaywalker23's Mail.
Hugs to all of you!
Of course, my fretting was completely superfluous. Meeting Bilks and Mel was really great and they are, of course, as expected, really, both absolutely lovely and I wish they'd be staying longer so we could see more of them!
Funny, how you feel you know people you have ever met online and then suddenly meet them in the reality of Glasgow. I thought it would be a very curious transition which would be a lot scarier, but the day we spent with them was a lot of fun. We briefly toured around the Main Building of the Uni, had lunch at Russell's on Byres Road - which sells the biggest baskets of fries I have ever seen - toured the Byres bookstores (I really had to pull myself together not to buy all those books I'd love to read but really don't need) and went to a book fair in the Botanic Gardens where Bilks found among other things a nice American first edition of Keat's poems (... which I had lusted after, too. It is really a very pretty edition.) and I two books of the Worst Witch series.
It was lovely to meet them. I hope they had a wonderful weekend, too, and I do not doubt it, because no one touring the Highlands can really ever have a bad time. I am really jealous of their tour to the States. I wish I could get to know more of you guys!
Well, and then Easter. Thanks to Mama, who is thoughtfulness incarnate, the latest parcel we received contained little egg-painting kits which we duly used to paint our Easter Eggs. Of course, my grandiose plans were impeded by my laziness, so they were not quite as colourful as I had planned them to be. Well, they tasted good all the same, even though, as always when I paint eggs, some of the colour had seeped through so Crocky was treated to a green egg with greenish yolk and green instead of white.
Oooh, and I have fallen madly in hate with Eavan Boland, whose poems just irk me beyond reason. I know that I used to love some of her poems because she celebrates suburbian life instead of seeing it as a death sentence for poets, but her the way she relates the private and women's topics to the history of Ireland and her sufferings is so overdone in places they make me want to jump through the page and kick her - especially the way she related the personal tragedy of an infertile woman and her diagnosis as such to An Gorta Mór and it's Famine Roads. That really was not necessary, not like that.
Apart from ferociously hating Boland and reading her works to find more reasons for and against that, I have a Roth overdose. Funny, after seeing the adaption starring Anthony Hopkins I never thought I would ever read "The Human Stain", and now I have to, grudgingly started and now love every bit so far.
I can't believe that it is the end of April already... In May, Exams are coming up... the middle of May, already, then we're off. Then July and the wedding of a friend of mine, then August and I am back home. One year. The years are shorter than they used to be.
Today I was surprised by a mail of one of my best friends at home,
jaywalker23 . That was really the best surprise of today, since I have not heard from her for a while and now I realise that I did miss her. She is a very special person, a very good artist and a great friend. Off to finish The Human Stain and to reply to
jaywalker23's Mail. Hugs to all of you!
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Date: Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 08:55 pm (UTC)And about mailing, I know I promised to write as well and the next one is already in the works, like I said. Really sorry I didn't have time to finish it for the weekend. Hope you at least got my little SMS...
Oh, and greetings to Crocky... :)
*hugs*
PS.: Started listening to a lecture on African American history from around 1550 to now, which has been really great so far. More about everything later. :)
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Date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 10:44 am (UTC)I hope you like the lecture, but I doubt you don't, what with having read the book on Martin Luther King Jr and everything...
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 05:19 pm (UTC)About my weekend, yes and no... I'll write you about that in detail a bit later... I enjoyed the time I spent with mum, though... That was ok, but dad, can´t stand being around him, to be honest... I keep realizing that more and more...
The lecture, yeah, it keeps getting better every time, I enjoy that a lot...
And since the prof is actually African American himself, he´s quite close to what he talks about anyway, so that makes it even more interesting... :)
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Date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 10:09 am (UTC)When I grown and rich and can afford to fly over to the USA, then, my friend, then...
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 01:50 pm (UTC)We still gots the States, yes.
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 04:29 pm (UTC)I could have tried and do small England trip to see you guys in the South, I just never managed because I suck at organising.
But I am definitely going to visit the States one day. :)
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 05:04 pm (UTC)Maybe one day when we all get rich, we could do it together then, and maybe I WILL board a plane, finally... ;)
What is a student of American language and literature who has never been to the States, anyway? :D
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 05:28 pm (UTC)Although - I daresay you ought to fly at least a short distance beforehand, because if you fly over to, say, Britain, you can always tell yourself - "It will all be over in about 45 minutes." - which does not really work if it is "It will all be over in about... 7 hours." :)
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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 06:03 pm (UTC)It´s only that flying for the first time, I´d much rather have somebody I trust with me, than doing it alone... Maybe this sounds a bit ridiculous, but, anyway... ;)
That's what the daughter of one of mum's friends did, last week actually... She plans on flying to somewhere in Spain in summer and wanted to "test" it beforehand, so she went to Munich by plane for a few days... Dunno how it went... ;)