*rolls up sleeves* Right, nee-sama has instructed me to blog, and blog I shall, though the effort may well kill me. *makes dramatic gesture* *waits for applause* *not a sausage*
Right, I suppose I'd better start with where I last left off. Exams. Exams now seem a very very long time ago, which is all to the good. They didn't go too badly, I don't think - I didn't really come out of any of them going 'dear God that was awful' - well, except the Latin unseen, and so did everyone else with that one, so at least it wasn't *unusually* awful. Some of them I actually almost enjoyed, worryingly enough, especially when I got to bitch about Ascanius in the Vergil exam. Fun fun fun.
In any case, I won't continue to bore you with the details. They were horribly tiring, to the extent that I look back now and wonder how exactly I managed to get through it comparatively intact. Well, apart from my tried and tested practise of making up Little Rituals. I make up little patterns for myself to break up the time - like I had a bar of chocolate, and I allowed myself a piece of it after every exam. It means I can break the exam time up into more reasonable sized pieces. Don't know quite what that says about my psychology, but never mind - it seems to help.
But in any case. I came, I saw, I answered essay questions. Let's move on.
Post mods celebrations, as most people reading this blog will already know, were fantastic. Thanks to you, you, you, and especially you for a great afternoon/evening/night! Exams finished, went to the Turf tavern for post mods drinkage (it's a tradition, one only ever goes to the Turf after metriculation and exams...), and there managed to persuade Katy, Andrew and Liz to abandon their normal hard-working (hem hem Andrew) lives and be decadent students with me. After lunch of scampi and chips (mmm, carbohydrates) and copious quantities of champagne/vodka and orange, and after feeding Andrew and Liz with smirnoff ices and Katy with a bacardi breezer, we decamped to wander round Oxford singing the Spongmonkeys, and to buy balloons. *happy smile* The balloons have little slashy gender-ambivalent men as weights at the bottom. I was muchly pleased. Then back to Andrew's for weirdness and pancake-making in a crypt (Oriel's an odd college...), then we rounded up Tasha and went for dinner with too much chicken (can one have too much chicken?). Then back to Tasha's for our patented random crap evenings. *happy sigh* Again with the mushy 'I love you guys' sentiments. Yeah, out of character, I know. What, I can't have layers?
In any case. Post mods celebration was gooood. Mods dinner on the Thursday was....interesting. Kinda. In a somewhat alarming way. I mean, I love my tutor dearly, but I'm not terribly good at making conversation with him. So dinner with three other classicists and three tutors was...yeah. Interesting. Kinda. Food was damned good though - the only time college ever spends any money on us, ahhhh. We even got the halfway decent port. Mmm, port.
(What? What? Just because I like old lady drinks...)
Then Friday, which would have featured the Edamame trip, if I hadn't had to do choir instead. *pulls face* I want Japanese food! No fair! I had to miss Collindale *and* the Edamame trip this term. That sucks ass. Not even cinnamon ass, at that. Elephant ass, maybe. But I got to meet up with the usual suspects at G&Ds, and then back to Tasha's for a bit. Except I fell asleep at about 1.30 and had to get kicked awake at 3.30 so I could return home. ^_^;;; 's not my fault, it's been a busy term, damnit.
Next point of interest (other than trying to find somewhere to eat in Oxford on a Saturday night, which is next to impossible) would probably be the communion and confirmation service I sang in on Sunday morning. Went pretty well, I think. We got to sing the Vierne mass, which is fantastically amusing, especially in the Kyrie, which has the biggest organ part known to man and sounds stunning on the evil gothic organ in Exeter chapel. The Kyrie is great, actually - really scary sounding, enough to really put the fear of god into the congregation. Mwahahaha. It's going to be on the new choir CD, check it out...
In any case, got to go home at last on Monday, and spent a blissful couple of days doing fuck all except scan things. ^_^ I've finally got round to scanning the Lost Angel artbook so I now have decent quality scans I can actually do stuff with. As a direct result of this I've been learning to make winamp skins - the first one's just finished, hurrah! Not quite sure where I'm posting it yet though - might put it in the random section of Avernus or ask Nee-sama if I can put it up on the Noodlebowl download section, on the basis that it gets more hits. I'll think about it. Skin making it strangely addictive, and also oddly fun, though I'd be kinda hardpressed to say why it should be so - especially when it involves sitting up till 4am squinting at the screen in order to get it *just* right...
So...yeah. AS scans, and also some Petshop of Horrors scans for the teeny tiny Tet-chan shrine we're planning. Because the net doesn't have enough shrines to man-eating goat boys. I also chatted much on messenger, and nagged certain people (you know who you are....) to write random fics inspired by the random yaoi pairings generator. Expect some up on the site in the not-too-distant future. Ahahahaha. Look out world...
Oh, and I bought clothes. I have a most excellent new blazer. It makes me feel somewhere between Ford Prefect and Three Men in a Boat. And now I really really really want a battered old brown leather satchel. I feel it completes the look.
Aaaaand I think I'm up to date! I'm back up in Oxford at the moment, since I've got various choir recordings and assorted crap to do for a week or so. I'm kinda looking forward to lazing around doing fuck all for a bit - got to read some of my Greats texts in translation, but that's about it as far as work's concerned. Very nice too. I'm planning to read Biggles and random sci-fi, write much fic, and work on my Japanese and winamp making skills. We'll see whether any such virtuous activities will actually get done...