The Year Without a Summer
Jun. 20th, 2007 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhuzzellI woke up this morning to roaring wind and rain lashing my window. The sort of weather that makes you want to stay in bed all day. But I dragged myself to work, where my boss told me he hadn't meant to put me on every day this week, and said to take today off.
I should probably use today to get some academic work done. I've finally gotten word about how I'm to make up two of my missed exams: for every question I'd have answered on the exam, I have to write a 2000-word essay. With full citations and bibliography. Five of them, by September 1, plus whatever I need to do for Ethics.
But... there was so much I was going to read this summer. Now I'm back in the same place I'm always in during term-time: feeling guilty whenever I'm reading just for pleasure. And a book I've been waiting for for a year just came in the post today (The Spirit Stone; thank you, Kit!)
And the weather has been awful lately. The sunshine mentioned in my last post lasted for all of about four hours, before dissappearing behind its heavy grey shroud again. At least it hasn't been quite so cold as it was earlier. But the wind is still from the east, and I suspect it will stay chilly and wet until it changes.
I should probably use today to get some academic work done. I've finally gotten word about how I'm to make up two of my missed exams: for every question I'd have answered on the exam, I have to write a 2000-word essay. With full citations and bibliography. Five of them, by September 1, plus whatever I need to do for Ethics.
But... there was so much I was going to read this summer. Now I'm back in the same place I'm always in during term-time: feeling guilty whenever I'm reading just for pleasure. And a book I've been waiting for for a year just came in the post today (The Spirit Stone; thank you, Kit!)
And the weather has been awful lately. The sunshine mentioned in my last post lasted for all of about four hours, before dissappearing behind its heavy grey shroud again. At least it hasn't been quite so cold as it was earlier. But the wind is still from the east, and I suspect it will stay chilly and wet until it changes.
