Still more about today... and a tip

Today in the museum, I decided to try to do my work wearing gloves. (Thought it might create a feeling of connectedness, maar dat terzijde.) With Titan 9'' Nitrile Non-latex Powder free Exam gloves by CLP Tools for Molecular Biology (Medium), to be precise. I gave up after an hour.

And now for something completely different: I received some signals that the title of yesterday's post does not become entirely clear. Maybe I should have said that it takes more than a dictionary to solve... you might need some wit, or linguistic intuition, or creativity. Or perhaps it helps if I write it this way: "En Tokig Te-Bjudning"?

And here is something I found in the Middle Ages: twelfth-century treatises appear to have ideas about what is proper in love that are rather similar to ours nowadays. These are the “stationes amandi”, the stages of loving, any affair ideally goes through, according to a large number of clerics(!):

1. Visus

2. Alloquium

3. Tactus

4. Oscula

5. Factum

White

Observation this morning: fresh white roses along the way to school.

The eight o'clock news: UK gas supplies and storage capacity are low; prices are rising.

Observation right now: fresh, white, quality snow flakes falling from the black sky, covering the earth, even surviving in my hair and on my coat until inside my room.

Connect the dots.

Knit me a scarf. Send me candles. Or brandy.

Send a helicopter to pick me up.

But don't go to Exeter, because it's c-c-c-cold

Exeter glitters. But what about Anna?

Still my moods take me up and down at the speed of a rollercoaster.

This afternoon, exuberantly eating my first flapjack* in my museum's café that can compete with the TheaterInstituutCafé or even the Theater De Krakeling bar (I'll show you. Later)...

On my way home from the supermarket through a dark, wet, and freezing cold Exeter, filled with happy people shopping for Christmas, about to return to their cozy, warm, decorated homes where they'll find their loved ones waiting at the fireplace with hot tea and mince pies... man, I felt miserable.

And now, now I'm all right again.
People in the (clean) kitchen, delicious fresh basil on top of my chickpea spinach tomato cumin dish and the Simpsons on the telly. And choir in a minute.

Today I have finalised my course choice for my very very last semester at UCU. I wish I had done ASIC plus eight courses and still got the right to do an extra semester and do another four courses... Choosing was exceedingly difficult, and leaving UC is gonna be even more difficult...

Anyway: in the end I decided to go for geography (last chance to do something crazy), love&friendship in Antiquity (which also covers part of the modern period, funny enough), if possible another creative writing course (still trying to arrange something), postmodern literature, and the thesis of course (although doubts about it are starting to kreep into my brain like worms in a pink Floyd film). If you are used to count in the same fashion as I do that makes five courses, but one of them will be cancelled (don't know yet which): I wanna try to keep some spare time this semester.

As you might have noticed, this means I won't do the UCU dance course, about which I feel very guilty (as I was one of the people supporting the creation of this course last year). But it clashes with the postmodernism timeslot, which is sort of essential for the completion of a solid basis in the study of literature. So I'll just dance on thursday nights again (I mean at Parnassoos. I might dance at parties, too, but I have the feeling that that won't happen every week. In general, I 'fear' that I won't be going out as much in Utrecht as I do here. But certainly not because Exeter's night life has so much more to offer). You might also have noticed that I won't be doing biology, as was sort of planned - I'll just read some introductory books during the vacation (like I have one). Also, the multimedia-idea had to be abandoned as it won't be on offer next semester. (I don't say this to cause heart attacks with my readers - it would rather diminish my audience, wouldn't it? No: it's genuine information. Want to know what's happened to me? I just liked working on this site so much, that I thought I might take it a bit further and get a proper foundation instead of messing aorund like I've done until now. But, as said, it won't happen. At least not at UC.)

*Flapjack: oat flakes and butter and sugar from the oven (or a combination of havermoutkoek and boterkoek)