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minervasoloI think I might be coming down with something. What timing, eh? Just a cold and a slightly sore throat, and that might just be from over-heating at night. I have the radiator off and the window wide open, but still I get too hot. I'm a Surrey girl! I'm meant to be freezing with the heating on full and two coats on!
I seem to have an oppressive number of Christmas cards. They take up the shelf, reminding me that I have yet to even begin writing any. I'd say it was a job for tomorrow, but I have so many now. I keep forgetting we stil have seminaars this week. But I have to do it tomorrow, because people will be leaving very soon.
Forgot toothpicks for fondue. Also forgot to take the fruit out of the freezer this morning, so there will be very cold fruit. And I found a fondue recipe, found several, and I figure I can probably muddle through with the ingredients I've got, if I don't kill the chocolate, like I did last time I tried melting chocolate.
Ooh, just got reading list for next term!
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Woo!)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Tennyson, In Memoriam
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
I have to read Dickens, Marx, Gaskell, and Collins before reading week, i.e. before next term. As well as a bunch of background. I guess Oliver Twist over the holidays (I have to get a really specific edition with certain illustrations, which means, I'm sure, it's not going to be a cheap edition), and hopefully The Communist Manifesto. I know I find Hardy awkward and tiring to read, but at least I've read something else by him. Hopefully Charlotte Bronte will have less irritating characters than her sister did (I had no sympathy for any one of the characters in Wuthering Heights). Can't really comment on the others.
I seem to have an oppressive number of Christmas cards. They take up the shelf, reminding me that I have yet to even begin writing any. I'd say it was a job for tomorrow, but I have so many now. I keep forgetting we stil have seminaars this week. But I have to do it tomorrow, because people will be leaving very soon.
Forgot toothpicks for fondue. Also forgot to take the fruit out of the freezer this morning, so there will be very cold fruit. And I found a fondue recipe, found several, and I figure I can probably muddle through with the ingredients I've got, if I don't kill the chocolate, like I did last time I tried melting chocolate.
Ooh, just got reading list for next term!
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Woo!)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Tennyson, In Memoriam
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
I have to read Dickens, Marx, Gaskell, and Collins before reading week, i.e. before next term. As well as a bunch of background. I guess Oliver Twist over the holidays (I have to get a really specific edition with certain illustrations, which means, I'm sure, it's not going to be a cheap edition), and hopefully The Communist Manifesto. I know I find Hardy awkward and tiring to read, but at least I've read something else by him. Hopefully Charlotte Bronte will have less irritating characters than her sister did (I had no sympathy for any one of the characters in Wuthering Heights). Can't really comment on the others.
