Come on back to the war

[devi]

You know those bits in films where the story skips forward and there's an establishing shot showing something that indicates what time we're in now? Newspaper headlines. A pop song. Colour schemes. Jeans suddenly baggy or skinny, hair suddenly fouffy or 'fro. I had a moment like that this summer on the tube at West Ham. In front of me there was a row of people reading newspapers with the Olympics all over them, and some dubstep went 'wommmmm' on my headphones just as we passed a row of wind turbines. Look, it's 2012!

I am posting to LJ from underground, on my commute, with my tiny pocket computer. This morning feels a bit like that. I am wearing glasses. My jeans are indeed skinny. I am listening to an old ultraruby mix (British Summertime). My hair is the same as it ever was. Hello world! It's been a weird couple of years. How were yours?

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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Composed mostly of adventures in the past, be it literary (17th-18th and 19th century), historical (Renaissance-Napoleonic, Napoleonic-modern), fictional (campaign set ten thousand years before Spellbound) or anachronistic (back in the SCA).

Also, I wear ties and sleeveless cardigans now. Ties and sleeveless cardigans are cool.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I can picture that on you, actually. How is your course going?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

At present, pretty good; I'm on schedule and doing fine with the essays and such, and interested in the course material, which always helps. Although I'm thinking of getting a time machine so I can go back and teach Milton a skill called 'brevity'.

Ask me again when the results of the first assignment come back in January, of course.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That's like a Jasper Fforde book in waiting. Imagine the abject gratitude of thousands of Inter Cert students.

(I'm sure the results will be great)