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29 July 2011 23:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quinaraI'm moving house tomorrow! Mostly packed up now, but since I'm moving across town via the goodwill of a car-borrowing (but nevertheless still insured) friend, I'm starting to worry whether I have an impolitely large amount of stuff. Not much I can do about it now, of course, but I have a feeling the best way to do the move will be to park my housemate and me at either end of the journey (housemate is current nextdoor neighbour, also moving via my friend) and pingpong the car between us to make full use of the available seats. But then that doesn't sound very fun for anyone. But then that's why they call them favours? (*tries to convince self that her stuff is a single carload if only the driver is taken into consideration, thus making rudeness+boredom reasonable*)
I also should be going away to France in a couple of weeks time, though, to learn French for a month, and my house won't actually have internet before then, so I'll be tethering my laptop to (through?) my phone and may be somewhat absent (at least until I've done some hesitant forays and worked out what my MB allowance actually means in terms of surfing time - must look up the LJ and DW suffixes to open links in that super-blank style so as not to waste stuff). Once in France, of course, I'll either make loads of new friends and never be here or find everyone on my course strange and off-putting and want to spend as much time away from them as possible. So presence cannot be predicted - though I wouldn't mind using the month away to finish some writing projects, because I fear my target of drafting through the end of the Spikeid by WCUK is unlikely to be met (I have all of X, maybe half of XI, though I think I need to rework that, and none of XII, though everything is now very clear in my head).
To be fair, I was in the writing habit last week, so it's possible I'll get back; it's just that the conference we had this week, the cause of my drunkenness in my previous post, rather sucked up all of my time. It was very good though, and I finally recognised myself in seminars again - ie. I was awake and engaged and approved/feared as the Annoying Young Person with No Name who Insists on Asking Questions. I'd lost my nerve, mostly, over the year and it was nice to find out that the belligerence hadn't been completely beaten out of me. Must try and retain it as the future goes on...
Anyway, seven days to WCUK!! Looking forward to it. (Must write talk.) There is nattering to be done! :D
I think that's a post? My brain's been churning with remembering the various disparate things I've been needing to keep on top of (have a wedding to go to as well, natch, including hen do on Sunday, meaning I likely won't be sleeping in my new house till Monday), so all I have to offer is this random brain-butter stuff. Soz.
I also should be going away to France in a couple of weeks time, though, to learn French for a month, and my house won't actually have internet before then, so I'll be tethering my laptop to (through?) my phone and may be somewhat absent (at least until I've done some hesitant forays and worked out what my MB allowance actually means in terms of surfing time - must look up the LJ and DW suffixes to open links in that super-blank style so as not to waste stuff). Once in France, of course, I'll either make loads of new friends and never be here or find everyone on my course strange and off-putting and want to spend as much time away from them as possible. So presence cannot be predicted - though I wouldn't mind using the month away to finish some writing projects, because I fear my target of drafting through the end of the Spikeid by WCUK is unlikely to be met (I have all of X, maybe half of XI, though I think I need to rework that, and none of XII, though everything is now very clear in my head).
To be fair, I was in the writing habit last week, so it's possible I'll get back; it's just that the conference we had this week, the cause of my drunkenness in my previous post, rather sucked up all of my time. It was very good though, and I finally recognised myself in seminars again - ie. I was awake and engaged and approved/feared as the Annoying Young Person with No Name who Insists on Asking Questions. I'd lost my nerve, mostly, over the year and it was nice to find out that the belligerence hadn't been completely beaten out of me. Must try and retain it as the future goes on...
Anyway, seven days to WCUK!! Looking forward to it. (Must write talk.) There is nattering to be done! :D
I think that's a post? My brain's been churning with remembering the various disparate things I've been needing to keep on top of (have a wedding to go to as well, natch, including hen do on Sunday, meaning I likely won't be sleeping in my new house till Monday), so all I have to offer is this random brain-butter stuff. Soz.
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Date: 30/07/2011 10:11 (UTC)Where in France are you going ?
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Date: 30/07/2011 22:36 (UTC)As for France - Clermont-Ferrand. It's a city I don't really know anything about (my mum claims we drove through it once), so I'd love to hear any bits of information you have about the city! Apparently there are trams.
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Date: 02/08/2011 18:41 (UTC)From what I remember, it's a really pretty city. It's located in the middle of an old (extinct) volcano chains, so you might get to take a few walks on them - if you like that).
Also, if you like cheeses, the Saint-Nectaire, particularly the fermier kind, is worth trying.
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