crying 'bide, lady, bide!'

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In which Fiona reflects on the oddities of life.

I have, for once, fallen ill at a convenient time. Because classes don't start until Tuesday, I can sit around my room huddled under blankets instead of slogging through classwork and such. I am of course annoyed - nay, infuriated - that I cannot go out in the beautiful clear autumn afternoon, but quite honestly I don't trust myself to be aware enough of my surroundings to cross a street, and I'm much better off in bed with a cup of tea reading Thomas the Rhymer. Again. 1) Because it is a delicious book, with words and glorious images and songs enough to fill my music-deprived soul (nope, still no practice time), and 2) because my only other reading material at this point is the Trial and Death of Socrates. In Greek. While it is a fascinating document, I simply don't have the vocabulary to understand more than one word in five without a dictionary. So, to Elflyn land it is.

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Re: hi fiona!!!

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I agree, Edinburgh rocks. I'll be spending New Years there, so I do intend to climb the Sir Walter Scott monument (hereafter in my mind the "weird gothy monument") at some point. Geek that I am, I of course had to look at the half-finished copy of one of the Acropolis buildings to see if they'd angled the columns properly outward (I couldn't tell if they had). Great view, though, like you said. The observatory was closed when I was there, but I noticed it too.

All you talk about hostels reminds me that I have to renew my youth hostel membership, as I'll probably be needing it.

Have fun with that science proposal!