I love walking to work. It's a drag in the rain, of course, but the climate here is pretty dry and temperate, and it's wonderful in summer. I have given up denying to my colleagues that they have seen me talking to myself as they drive past. I get all my fic ideas on the way! The watervole was very cute, like an oversize hamster with a furry tail.
Academic rivalries are amusing. When asked where I am going, I say Oxford, which gets the response “Oh, the Other Place ”. In a fortnight’s time when asked where I worked before, I shall say Cambridge and get exactly the same response.
There are things in life that I regret (Joachim, the Canadian MA student, why did I turn you down because I thought you were not serious enough about your MA? I was only in my second year – what did I know of post-graduate reality? Leaving Cambridge, however, is not one of them. I really don’t like East Anglia, and have rather a complicated relationship with the university. The place I'd never go is Warwick - they work their administrators to death!
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Date: 2007-02-16 04:05 pm (UTC)Academic rivalries are amusing. When asked where I am going, I say Oxford, which gets the response “Oh, the Other Place ”. In a fortnight’s time when asked where I worked before, I shall say Cambridge and get exactly the same response.
There are things in life that I regret (Joachim, the Canadian MA student, why did I turn you down because I thought you were not serious enough about your MA? I was only in my second year – what did I know of post-graduate reality? Leaving Cambridge, however, is not one of them. I really don’t like East Anglia, and have rather a complicated relationship with the university. The place I'd never go is Warwick - they work their administrators to death!