Things Getting Better
Aug. 26th, 2009 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceitfiannaThis morning sucked, I woke up later than I needed to and it was raining. It takes me about twenty-twenty-five minutes to walk from my apartment to campus so I try to allow myself more like thirty so I'm not rushing.
Well this morning I woke up at 10:10 and my training started at 10:30, so I arrived late and wet. Also I spent most of the training playing around in livejournal since it was mainly learning how to use all the various databases that the university has access to so that I can help with reference questions.
Finally things were over and I ended up having mac and cheese for lunch and talking with two of my soon to be colleagues and fellow students which was nice. Then I came out and I've slowly been feeling better, I really feel like I might be getting sick and I hate that, I'm just all sore and worn out.
Oh and I just started a thread with Carlotta Brown from Enid Blyton over in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar and it reminded me of another way that Garth Nix is brilliant. One of the classic tropes is the British boarding school being someplace to escape from, usually to a fantasy world. I know there must be a trope of this but I don't want to delve into tvtropes. Nix flips it on its head by having the main characters start out from a fantasy world and then choose to spend time in the mundane boarding school. I'm enjoying playing this out with Sameth and thinking about it since he's this Prince and yet he's missing cricket matches at school. Also I've found a book that I'd be curious to read about a cricket player spending time in the US major leagues, sadly the Michigan library system oddly doesn't have it, but I'll find it somewhere.
Well this morning I woke up at 10:10 and my training started at 10:30, so I arrived late and wet. Also I spent most of the training playing around in livejournal since it was mainly learning how to use all the various databases that the university has access to so that I can help with reference questions.
Finally things were over and I ended up having mac and cheese for lunch and talking with two of my soon to be colleagues and fellow students which was nice. Then I came out and I've slowly been feeling better, I really feel like I might be getting sick and I hate that, I'm just all sore and worn out.
Oh and I just started a thread with Carlotta Brown from Enid Blyton over in
milliways_bar and it reminded me of another way that Garth Nix is brilliant. One of the classic tropes is the British boarding school being someplace to escape from, usually to a fantasy world. I know there must be a trope of this but I don't want to delve into tvtropes. Nix flips it on its head by having the main characters start out from a fantasy world and then choose to spend time in the mundane boarding school. I'm enjoying playing this out with Sameth and thinking about it since he's this Prince and yet he's missing cricket matches at school. Also I've found a book that I'd be curious to read about a cricket player spending time in the US major leagues, sadly the Michigan library system oddly doesn't have it, but I'll find it somewhere.
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