the glorious 25th of May

[kaberett]

• I am very nearly at the point where I'll have read through all my lecture notes by the time exams start! Yes, I recognise that cramming for Finals is a bad plan. Yes, I recognise that I deserve to fuck these up (though, sadly, this is not the worst-prepared I've ever been for exams). But I am so ready for this to be over. (Ask me again how I feel about that come results day...)
  
• I. Okay, you guys, this having come home thing? This having come home to relax thing? I cannot even. My baby brother - he's 19, and has about half a foot on me height-wise - got home this afternoon, explained that he'd had a really crap day, and then plonked himself down on my lap for a hug. I DO NOT EVEN. IS THIS WHAT FUNCTIONAL FAMILY LOOKS LIKE? IDGI.
  
• I washed my hair and now feel Much Less Gross.
  
• Aforementioned baby brother helped himself to my Scrabble game with my mum this evening, which he almost never does, and he did A-level maths on one side of the table while I went "AUGH WHY ARE THIS ONE LECTURER'S NOTES ALWAYS SO VILE" on the other. And we conspiratorially et the last of my birthday cake (... my father had anti-socially sodded off upstairs and is always rude when we play Scrabble so, uh, we did not feel the need to invite him to partake) and also LOTS OF TOAST and it was great. And I won by somewhere over 50 points, having had obscenely good luck by my standards (up until the final two moves, I'd only had two turns below 30, and even those were well above 20...). IN THE PROCESS I discovered "bloosme" and "blancket" in the dictionary, both of which are RIDICULOUS words I am very pleased to have been exposed to.
  
• Stripy parrot tulips! My mother and I have developed a Thing about stripy tulips, and she got these for my birthday and then forgot to put them out, but they're still magnificent and I've been really enjoying them.
  
• Regular meals! Sunshine! Honeysuckle and lilac and etc are all out, and the fig is doing magnificently, and we had tagine for dinner and were generally disgustingly middle-class and I have been roped into making another round of preserved lemons.
  
• Chatted to my grandfather on the phone; he sent me a clipping from the Telegraph about a volcano, recently, so I thanked him for that; and he advised me to look into getting a disabled person's railcard when I stopped being eligible for the Young Person's one; and he wished me luck in my exams and HE GOT ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE FIRST TIME ROUND WITH NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION. THANK. FUCK. (It's the DLA equivalent for over-65s. I was Involved in the joint clannish effort to get him to fill it out such that this would happen, but I still don't trust the DWP as far as I can throw them.)
  
• I've got lots of Buffy fic swilling around in my head; there's In Which Lilah Doesn't Die (because, seriously, fridging someone because ~romantic tension~? Not. Cool.); also the one in which Dawn goes to Anya for advice about How Do I Even Human, and Anya is, um, entirely herself about the entire situation.
  
• I DID PHYSIO hurrah hurrah.
  
• I know the loveliest of people. ♥
  

Comments

[subluxate]

But what do "bloosme" and "blancket" MEAN?!

[steorra]

I was also about to ask this. Google was not telling me.

[kaberett]

"bloosme" is Spenserian English for "blossom", as a noun or intransitive verb; "blancket" means grey or whitish, again Spenserian, from French. :-)

[steorra]

Okay, so "bloosme" is just a spelling variant while "blancket" is its own word.

[kaberett]

"bloosme" is Spenserian English for "blossom", as a noun or intransitive verb; "blancket" means grey or whitish, again Spenserian, from French. :-)

[subluxate]

Ooh, interesting! Thanks. =) I couldn't find them--Google didn't give me any results whatsoever. "Did you mean 'blossom'?" "Did you mean 'blanket'?"

[pipisafoat]

maybe this is a sort of weird thing to say but: i like watching you live.

[kaberett]

I write it all down to remind myself I know how to. I'm glad you like it. ♥

[untonuggan]

SCRABBLE.

bloosme! blancket! <3

Yay physio!

Good luck on your exams!

[swaldman]

You probably know this, but just in case you don't:

You can get a "16-25" railcard at any age, so long as you are in full-time education. I'm guessing it may be less faff to get than a disabled person's one, though I don't know if there's a cost difference.

[kaberett]

I mostly flagged that up 'coz it's my grandpa being very sweet :-)

I'm 23 so young person's railcard is easier for the time being, BUT I also hold a Blue Badge and a free bus pass and I receive DLA, so getting the Disabled Person's Railcard (at, I am pretty certain, the same cost) might actually end up being easier than proving I'm still in FTE :-)

Thank you!

[noldo]

Disabled Person's Railcard is 8 quid cheaper according to a brochure I read at Nuneaton station last month -- had been meaning to flag that up to you. :P