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Just watched Torvill and Dean skating to Ravel's Boléro, and I have no idea why, but it must be said that there's something quite marvellously epic about watching bread dough slide out slowly onto the work surface with Boléro playing in the background. Inappropriate soundtracks for the win!

I've got a metric crapton of paper all over my bedroom floor, and it's been there for over a week now; I've tidied around it, at least, so my room is reasonably clean apart from the slipping sliding avalanching heap of it, but it's starting to bug me. I need to sort through it, throw what I can away and sort the rest into easily revisable-fromable folders; the amount of notes I took and photocopied and was given last year for teacher training is quite ridiculous, and I'm going to recycle as much as I can of it.

I live for the holidays, really. I claw back what I can in them, get a moment ahead of myself just in time to fall behind some more. At least I notice that the planning's getting shorter; I'm still no good at future planning, at working when I don't have a deadline nibbling gently on my neck, but at least I'm spending a little less time stressing about it all. Enough that once I've done the beta (priority) and planned a lesson (a little less so) I plan to write a little silly Merlin fic, although in all probability it'll never see the light of day. Screw it - it'll make me happy.

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List three characters from ten favorite books. The challenge is to guess what the books are! (all first names, for consistency)

1. Anthony, Sable, Pippin
2. John, Jane, William
3. Shadow, Sam, Laura
4. Howard, Anthea, Torquil
5. Harriet, Peter, Mervyn
6. Christine, Esmerelda, André
7. Philip, Terry, Eileen
8. Peregrine, Meriadoc, Samwise
9. Sobran, Celeste, Xas
10. Gilbert, Jonathan, John

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...how did I not know that there was an upcoming Vintner's Luck film?

*in shock*

This is almost entirely autobiographical

The thing about Medieval Studies, Merlin had found, was that it was pretty hard to be tangible with your successes. Start talking about it, and everyone around you went a bit blank above the smile, and it was always a little difficult to frame it in a way that didn't make you sound like a wanker for taking it in the first place.

To be honest, the biggest success in Merlin's uni career to date - the way he counted it - was that time he'd managed to survive almost entirely on toast and tea for a month. He'd cracked a couple of times; did the washing up for the guys downstairs in exchange for a couple of slices of pizza and some manky Tesco Value beans, and there was that time he wrote a Psychology essay and got a couple of stir fries and the better part of a six pack of Carling. (He didn't tell the bloke that he'd never studied Psychology, and he ended up getting a 2:1 on it anyway, which'd pretty much confirmed Merlin's suspicions about the subject, actually.)

It was starting to get a bit desperate, though; the student loan covered his fees, and just about scraped the rent too, but god help him if he wanted to invest in something like text books, or trainers without holes in, or, y'know, food. He'd have asked his mum if she weren't - well, she sent him twenty quid every couple of months to put on his mobile, and even that was pushing her budget to the limits. So when he saw the poorly spelled poster on the noticeboard in the 24 hour computer room, asking for someone willing to clean up a student house for a 'resonable wage', it seemed like bloody magic.

He probably should've worried a little bit more about that.

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I have no self discipline at all and consistently fall apart at weekends and don't get any work done. How do I fix this? I swear I have tried so many different strategies, and I'm thinking the only way I can get around this is to get another job and work Saturday and Sunday as well. I'll be frakkin' exhausted, but at least the odds are I'd be able to do my lesson planning after work.

*grumps*