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May. 28th, 2008 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI am at the UEA in the library.
I have... three hours? Well, two and a half and some walking. Before class.
... you may well wonder why I'm here so early. Well it's bus connections, really. If I was one minute later getting to the bus stop near home I'd be half an hour later getting a bus. But then sometimes the bus doesn't come, so I'd be an hour later. And then it would be rush hour by the time I got in to Norwich, so add another random half hour. And then I've only got an hour in the library before class.
It's still early, but, not quite as hugely early.
... I'm still too early. I'd planned to get a later bus. I just woke up at 1300ish without my alarm going off and after that the library is way more interesting than my flat now I've read the books I got out last week.
So I'm sitting way up high above much green landscape with trees in. This is not a view I get from home or college. Pretty cool.
The architecture here makes me think alien planets. Well, most things make me think alien planets lately. But there's all these corners and the ziggurats (which I can't see from here. maybe a different window?) and concrete everywhere and metal bits showing and it's so utilitarian you can see any culture anywhere arriving at it, whilst being quite a lot different than most cultures around here actually put up with. I mean, I know it won awards in its day, but I'm getting a sort of post apocalyptic vibe, you know? Put some metal mesh on the windows and we're talking embattled last stand of a civilisation.
... this is why I call myself a writer. If i'm not a writer, this stuff be a bit odd.
The windows are a bit open, and there's a lot of air moving today. Wind and dark clouds. There was thunder in the early hours and I feel like it's just gearing up to have another go. So of course I sit by the window and choose the one that's open and hear this moaning rushing sound I want to capture for background noise on my hypothetical planet. Ooh, specially that bit - I've no idea what that was, like a seagull siren far away. Neat.
At some point I have to take all the sticky markers out of the books I must return. And make some notes from them. And then put them in the slot.
If that takes three hours they'll be kind of boring hours.
Hee, I just saw a pigeon take off and go away backwards. It's that kind of weather.
I need to get the other Tulloch book out just for completeness, because it keeps getting mentioned. The book list notes say the same points get covered elsewhere more readably. I've read the elsewhere, so I can probably just skim the not so readable one. Maybe see if it uses the specialist words and can make me sound smarter.
And when I say 'need' I pretty much mean 'want to'. Which is cool.
Also around here somewhere is the book on the new series production methods that I keep picking up and putting back because I'm not up to the New Series yet. Only now I've read through 7 and the movie in the other books, so I am. Yaays! Pretty pictures of David Tennant in my college reading. How cool is that?
Okay, I should go do something rather than sitting here telling y'all that I'm going to go do something. I've got my breath back from climbing the stairs (second floor! no fair! :eyeroll:) and I had something to eat and some drink and I@m surrounded by books I should take advantage of.
If I look up if the books are there first I save me some walking around.
:-)
I have... three hours? Well, two and a half and some walking. Before class.
... you may well wonder why I'm here so early. Well it's bus connections, really. If I was one minute later getting to the bus stop near home I'd be half an hour later getting a bus. But then sometimes the bus doesn't come, so I'd be an hour later. And then it would be rush hour by the time I got in to Norwich, so add another random half hour. And then I've only got an hour in the library before class.
It's still early, but, not quite as hugely early.
... I'm still too early. I'd planned to get a later bus. I just woke up at 1300ish without my alarm going off and after that the library is way more interesting than my flat now I've read the books I got out last week.
So I'm sitting way up high above much green landscape with trees in. This is not a view I get from home or college. Pretty cool.
The architecture here makes me think alien planets. Well, most things make me think alien planets lately. But there's all these corners and the ziggurats (which I can't see from here. maybe a different window?) and concrete everywhere and metal bits showing and it's so utilitarian you can see any culture anywhere arriving at it, whilst being quite a lot different than most cultures around here actually put up with. I mean, I know it won awards in its day, but I'm getting a sort of post apocalyptic vibe, you know? Put some metal mesh on the windows and we're talking embattled last stand of a civilisation.
... this is why I call myself a writer. If i'm not a writer, this stuff be a bit odd.
The windows are a bit open, and there's a lot of air moving today. Wind and dark clouds. There was thunder in the early hours and I feel like it's just gearing up to have another go. So of course I sit by the window and choose the one that's open and hear this moaning rushing sound I want to capture for background noise on my hypothetical planet. Ooh, specially that bit - I've no idea what that was, like a seagull siren far away. Neat.
At some point I have to take all the sticky markers out of the books I must return. And make some notes from them. And then put them in the slot.
If that takes three hours they'll be kind of boring hours.
Hee, I just saw a pigeon take off and go away backwards. It's that kind of weather.
I need to get the other Tulloch book out just for completeness, because it keeps getting mentioned. The book list notes say the same points get covered elsewhere more readably. I've read the elsewhere, so I can probably just skim the not so readable one. Maybe see if it uses the specialist words and can make me sound smarter.
And when I say 'need' I pretty much mean 'want to'. Which is cool.
Also around here somewhere is the book on the new series production methods that I keep picking up and putting back because I'm not up to the New Series yet. Only now I've read through 7 and the movie in the other books, so I am. Yaays! Pretty pictures of David Tennant in my college reading. How cool is that?
Okay, I should go do something rather than sitting here telling y'all that I'm going to go do something. I've got my breath back from climbing the stairs (second floor! no fair! :eyeroll:) and I had something to eat and some drink and I@m surrounded by books I should take advantage of.
If I look up if the books are there first I save me some walking around.
:-)