you little wonder, little wonder you

[charloween]

It's been a slow month, academically, but hopefully my supervisor will be okay with Monday's meeting being a paperwork-y meeting. There's extend-my-finishing-date paperwork, which will lead to change-my-visa paperwork, and enable please-keep-paying-me paperwork (to two sources), and also probably going over my resident tutor application. Possibly also ILLO-need-the-book-please-please paperwork.

Oh, and there's a film review I promised I'd write back in April. I guess now it'll be published (online) in time for the DVD release?

Today's weather has been weird: first, the temperature went down to 9 (9) degrees (IN. JUNE.) overnight, and then during the day we got a mid-day thunderstorm, matched with epic bursts of rain (no wind) and periods of blue sky and bright sun (lots of wind). Something terribly exciting is happening in the atmosphere.

I don't mind the cooler weather; I do mind when the calendar says it's summer and I'm still making hearty potato soups and thinking about popping the heat on for an hour so I don't shiver myself to sleep.

But mostly I need to finish reading this chapter and taking notes, and probably stop listening to Bowie's Earthling album. Problem is remixes of "Little Wonder" are more interesting than a fawning 'academic' tribute to an artist who sounds like he was a real dick. (I'm not convinced by the 'forgotten genius whose few films overshadowed his career' argument; I'd buy a 'made a few interesting films, which is the only reason we care' argument.)

I'll be watching this week's Hannibal with my Hannibal-watching friend on Sunday. From Twitter reactions it looks like it was a good'un. *flaily*

Comments

[serrico]

Good luck with all your paperwork! Especially the stuff that gets you money. *nod*

The weather around here was much more summery at the beginning of May than it's been yet in June. Which is FINE BY ME; hellish warmth and humidity are not overfun in my west-facing-windowed housebox. (We had sudden epic downpours the past couple of nights, too. The atmosphere's just thrilling all over!)

I have Hannibal on tap for this evening, which means I'm waiting 'til it gets dark to watch (because yes), which means I can't go anywhere near Twitter or Tumblr for another, oh, three hours. Tumblr Saviour is a wonder, but I don't trust it much farther than I can throw it. Metaphorically speaking.

[charloween]

I need to find a way to make my resident tutor (aka residence don, aka designated shusher of partying undergrads) application sound like I'm just as capable of providing pastoral care as I am of appreciating rent-free accommodation.

I'm not a fan of excessive heat, but I am in favour of overnight temperatures hitting double digits.

Hannibal = tomorrow! (Just occurred to me - this hiatus is going to be epic, no?)