| iv: god, I love you, but you trouble me. |
[03 Jul 2009|06:04pm] |
[Genie]
How put out would Mother be if I absolutely needed to leave early?
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| iii: vacation, all I ever wanted. |
[02 Jul 2009|04:29pm] |
Never let it be said that my mother's flights of fancy are entirely unproductive. Well, in all fairness, I suppose that this hasn't quite been a flight of fancy, but it certainly wasn't planned too far in advance, either. Her showings and exhibitions on the continent, yes, those had to have been. However, her decision to bring Genie and me with her was one of her more whimsical notions.
Paris was hardly anything special, really. There were far too many American Muggle tourists for my liking, but such is always the case and there really isn't any use in fighting it, however irksome it is. Munich and Moscow are much more my speed and taste; it's only too tragic that we couldn't stay there longer. Mother's collaboration with Nikolai Cherevin is going to be up in the Jaworowski-Kaitukin Gallery until October, and, if one were to ask me, I would have to say that it is easily her most visually engaging project since her Walpurgisnacht installation at the Airikkala Gallery in Helsinki two years ago.
Rome, I did quite enjoy, but, regrettably, the sun and the heat can be quite vexatious. This truly is the only problem with taking the final leg of the journey in Capri. I'm sure that I might enjoy it if the beach were to my liking, but there really isn't anything about this that I enjoy, so hopefully, we'll be back in Britain soon. Or perhaps Mother will let me return early for the carnival, that would be fantastic.
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| ii: i've seen paradise, but i don't care |
[21 Jun 2009|03:27am] |
I still haven't the faintest idea what this is meant to be about or why we're all going mad over doing it, but fine. If this insanity is going to permeate all levels of the rising seventh-year student body, then I suppose I'll be expected to indulge in aforementioned ludicrous waste of time as well.
Sparkplug McCormack
Evan Chambers
Ryan Flint
Rhys Stebbins
Rose Weasley
Izzy Finnigan
Aviya Goldstein
There. I hope you all know that there are several much more productive things you could invest your time in pursuing.
[hexed to boys]
Sparkplug. You're at the top of my ridiculous "list" thing. My sister is going to murder me, you realise, because she told me not to do this, but I do believe that we had a tacit agreement that I was to include you and so I have. You promised, now explain what you were talking about.
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| i: don't know much about history. |
[06 Jun 2009|12:13am] |
As ever, exams time has come, and with exams time comes study groups time. Given that some people have expressed difficulty balancing their difficult studies and their extracurricular activities, I've decided that, this year, said study groups should try being public. I've arranged with Madam Pince to have the tables behind the Arithmancy stacks sectioned off specifically for these groups. Within the larger gatherings, there will be divisions by year, so that third years all study together, fourth years do similarly, and so on. All of them will begin and end promptly, so as to facilitate everyone's busy schedules.
( cut for table. )
In regards to the all-day Saturday session: the idea is for older students with good marks in certain subjects to come and field questions from their peers and younger years. I, for one, will be present addressing questions for Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Charms, and Transfiguration. As it is an ongoing study group, it will begin at nine in the morning and continue until the library closes, and both tutors and questioners will be welcome to come and go as they please.
As a general rule for all of these, I'm going to ask that, if you attend, please do so seriously. Frivolity certainly has its place, but it is not at these groups. Our motive in organising these sessions is so that cooperative learning and review can help better everyone's performance on their respective exams, and ruining it for one person would likely ruin it for everyone.
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[05 Jun 2009|08:32pm] |
Do you dream about music, or mathematics, or planets too far for the eye? Do you dream about Jesus, or quantum mechanics, or angels who sing lullabies?
His fontanelle pulses with lives that he's lived, with memories he'll learn to ignore. And when it is closed, he already knows he's forgotten all he knew before. But when sleep sets in, history begins.
( Read more... )
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