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I'm in a tent kind of hard far from the house. It's not really technically all that far from the house but it's in a little alcove of woods. Now I keep hearing the animals I guess making things crackle
And it's mildly freaking me out and I really do need to go to sleep cuz it's after 3:00 and I'm sure people will be up fairly soon.

I guess I'll put earplugs in and hope I don't turn into a snack.

. .. oh cool. When I look out the tent windows I can see fireflies. I have thought they don't go to sleep hours ago.

Too much tree cover and too much
Light from Winchester for stars from here.

Happy 4th. Happy birthday mom. We could see some fireworks far away. Many many sets

I'm still kind of annoyed with myself for not staying over last night too. But that's okay. It's been a good evening.

It's amazing how late I manage to stay up regardless of when I try.

Really weird thing is the birds have never been quiet.

Looking forward to visiting more in the morning. I think I very much do like this little Walmart tent, three sardine. Works well when everything's mostly in the car. Someday I guess I have to try it out in the rain.

vvalkyri

I've been running running running for so long.
And then when I'm not I just lose so much time.
And then it was 4a when I got to sleep last night after figuring I'd go to the Blues because of the DJs but it took me so long that I got there at 1045 and it's over 1130 . . . and the rest was fallen into the phone.

Danced with a couple of the VA Beach guys, but felt off kilter at the dance. Highly aware of not being a sought after partner. Or imagining that.

Could have driven out to the farm where I'm camping tonight after festivities. Probably should have. Ironically if I'd not brought my duffel upstairs there was almost noghting I'd have needed. Have tent and spare and mattress and spare in the car still, and there was laundry that could have become clothes for today and tomorrow. I think bug spray and sunscreen are also still in the car.

It's 2p. I need to get more moving.

I'm sure a lot of this is shock that the BBB passed. And there's SO MUCH bad. So much that people hadn't even really noticed. This'll trigger reconciliation which will affect medicare. Stuff with education. ICE as more funding than defense in several countries. 45mil just for building more detention.

And most states call medicaid something other than medicaid.

Most of the cuts and additional paperwork hoops won't come in until after the midterms. That's of course on purpose.

wildeabandon

Oh look, once again it's been forever since I posted. Since my last update I got hit by another rather tough challenge, albeit this time largely self-inflicted, when my application for Belgian residency got turned down because I was a bit late with some of the paperwork. This led to a certain amount of panic, but fortunately I had just enough visa free days left in the EU after my provisional residency card expired that by returning to London and missing the last week of lectures (most of which were fortunately recorded and made available online), and shifting some of my exams around so they were all the same week, I was able to take them all.

I got my results on Wednesday. No perfect 20s this time, but two 19s, two 18s, and four 17s, which gives me almost exactly the same 89% average as the first semester's rather wider spread. The highest accolade available at KU Leuven (summa cum laude, with the congratulations of the examination committee) kicks in at 90%, so I need to slightly up my game next year, but now that I've got a much clearer idea of what's expected of me I think that it should be achievable, especially if I don't have quite so many curveballs to deal with as I did this semester.

One of favourite modules this semester was Syriac II, where instead of an exam we had to produce a portfolio, the largest part of which was a translation of a portion of a text chosen in consultation with the professor. I did a part of the "Syriac History of Joseph", which retells the story of Genesis 37-39 with various additions. I enjoyed doing this sufficiently that, having done the first three pages for my portfolio, I am going to try and do the remaining 16 over the summer. The same professor is teaching Coptic next year, which is not a language I realised I was interested in learning (nor, for that matter, was Syriac), but he's such a great teacher that I'm really looking forward to it.

I'm now back in London for the whole summer, which hadn't been the original plan, but I am enjoying seeing more of

obandsoller and looking forward to doing so even more when he emerges from the pile of marking and admin that accompanies the end of term for the teachers, when we students have finished our exams and are enjoying sitting on our laurels...

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vvalkyri

. I think I left my keyboard at the house in New Jersey it's a lot harder to write on my phone. I went to sleep at 6:00 after finally getting around to setting up the bed in the tent at like 5:30 a.m. . Got the tent up around dusk.

I'm thinking a lot about memory. Like I extrapolated that I drove amq up at some point because I had stayed over at some point and taken public transit into NYC.

But I remember little about that NYC trip and nothing of driving up together in 19.

If I'd written in dream with maybe I would even be able to find it I have no idea.

It's very tempting to go back to sleep. But it's noon.

I do adore that the tent is comfortable right now and not hot. And I wasn't cold last night either.

Maybe I'll write more sometime.

jack

Swam 2mi downstream from Grantchester to the rollers. That's half a mile further than I did to the canoe club at the Slow Swim.

I was out of practice, muscles were v tired but it was v nice to do. I could have gone farther with another little sit down.

I'd been interested to see if I could do that last stretch into town. It's not really good swimming, more punts and more concrete edges, but it was easy to do. I hadn't realised it was only half a mile.

I have previously swum down from Hauxton Mill to Byron's Pool, and Byron's pool to Grantchester. I guess that adds up to 4.5mi of Granta and Cam, compared to ~20mi length of the Cam (excluding the Great Ouse below the Little Ouse and the Granta above Hauxton Mill)

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