Two notes, and a special event
Mar. 14th, 2012 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraMy thanks to the three members of the YPL oversight board (and the invited guests) for an instructive and thoughtful conversation yesterday. I greatly appreciate your time, your decision and your feedback, and I’ll be in touch regarding various items as we discussed.
Students:
I’ll be back to my usual more varied schedule of availability in a day or two, as I finish tidying up a few loose ends. I also expect to be scheduling some practice observation times, particularly for the exam years. They’ll happen whatever the weather: if it’s cloudy, we’ll use one of the projections. Signups in my exam years first, and then they’ll be posted on the board for anyone who wants as there’s room.
A presentation:
Ms Gillian Chadwick, lead designer for the recently released Empyrean 3001 telescope, has agreed to come speak to anyone interested at Hogwarts on March 22nd. Discussion at half-seven, in my classroom, and then we’ll move outside if the weather is decent.
She’ll be discussing the telescope itself, along with the charms, runes, and arithmantic calculations involved in her design work, so there should be plenty of interest to many of you. She’ll also be bringing some of their prototype models so you can see the changes through the development cycle.
Students:
I’ll be back to my usual more varied schedule of availability in a day or two, as I finish tidying up a few loose ends. I also expect to be scheduling some practice observation times, particularly for the exam years. They’ll happen whatever the weather: if it’s cloudy, we’ll use one of the projections. Signups in my exam years first, and then they’ll be posted on the board for anyone who wants as there’s room.
A presentation:
Ms Gillian Chadwick, lead designer for the recently released Empyrean 3001 telescope, has agreed to come speak to anyone interested at Hogwarts on March 22nd. Discussion at half-seven, in my classroom, and then we’ll move outside if the weather is decent.
She’ll be discussing the telescope itself, along with the charms, runes, and arithmantic calculations involved in her design work, so there should be plenty of interest to many of you. She’ll also be bringing some of their prototype models so you can see the changes through the development cycle.
Private message to Septima Vector
Date: 2012-03-15 12:32 am (UTC)He’s been to see me twice, so far, rather grudgingly, and then complained I wasn’t fully at his disposal this past week at the times he preferred. I’ve set him up with a few projections to work with, but if he’s being this difficult with me, I can’t imagine anyone else is having better luck. I’ll tell him, but can you reinforce that I expect him at at least one of the practice sessions above, and two would be better?
Private message to Arca and Volans Sinistra
Date: 2012-03-15 12:47 am (UTC)Haven’t had time to put quill to journal properly until this late today. As I said in the quick note on Mum’s journal last night, they decided largely in my favour. Huge relief, as I was quite sure it was going to go badly once I saw the invited guests.
In order:
1) They cleared me entirely regarding January. I have strong guesses about what actually happened, but they are not apparently pursuing it further. No, I don’t know why.
2) They’re tabling the question of an assistant until the end of term, and agreed to discuss some specific roles and names, rather than a general “it might be nice.”
3) There’s more conversation about guiding Harry Marvolo in particular. I gather from what little was said that it’s an ongoing conversation between Our Lord and several Council members, and until they decide on a direction, it’s hard to determine our next steps.
4) Somewhat grudgingly, I am not otherwise in trouble (they really had no cause, but it was good to hear.)
The rest of it, well. Thinking over a lot of things, really. Mum, thank you for the last package, and the sachets are helpful, and that second tisane, the one you thought, seems to work best. (Not wonderfully, but some, and I’m more willing to use it than a potion.) And Dad, thank you for all I learned from you about how to lay out information to guide the eye to what I want someone to pay attention to.
Love you both, still don't know my plans for the Easter holidays, will tell you when I do.
Private message to Raz
Date: 2012-03-15 01:08 am (UTC)Hoping to spend a little time on the tower tonight, and may not see my journal for a bit (and certainly, I know you’re busy as well), but wanted to drop a note to reassure you since we didn’t get much chance to talk at supper. I managed a better than usual nap this afternoon, I really am trying to be sensible, and I hope things will improve now. (And I am thinking about what you said, about this kind of thing coming up again. Thinking about a lot of things, really.)
I don’t know that I said this clearly enough last night, but thank you. I’ve no idea how I’d have managed the past weeks without you. Both your desire to fuss, and your care about how you do so awe me. And knowing you were there, waiting, yesterday, helped me more than I can put into words.
Time with you is always better. Love you. So very much.
Private message to Poppy and Pomona
Date: 2012-03-15 01:29 am (UTC)Raz took very good care of me - a nice quiet supper out, and then we stayed at Spence, and the time with him was very much a restorative. I had a decent enough nap this afternoon, too. Still thinking over a lot of things, and expect to be for some time to come, now I haven’t the distraction of the investigation to stop me.
It went well enough in the end, though the combination of the invited guests was about as bad as I’d feared it might be. (Lucius Malfoy was rather more help keeping things on track than I’d expected, and a bit terse by the end at this wasting his time - more at the committee than at me, thankfully.) Bellatrix Lestrange was as pointed as ever, but I’d expected that much. There are apparently deeper political things going on, and I don’t even want to try and speculate at the causes.
Right. Now I'm for the tower for a bit, and maybe not thinking about a few things and thinking about others. Still quite busy through this week, but maybe tea early next?
Re: Private message to Poppy and Pomona
Date: 2012-03-15 02:16 am (UTC)We may take tea whenever you've time and inclination. Between now and then you're to let me know if there is any way I could be helpful.
Re: Private message to Poppy and Pomona
Date: 2012-03-15 02:36 am (UTC)I will let you know if there's anything you can do, but it continues much the same (I do hope it will improve now the meeting's done with - though I've only another two weeks or so before I have to deal with Stint in person for the first time in person since December.)
Tea certainly. And particularly if the weather continues being this uncooperative: I only got about forty minutes under the stars before it was just too miserable to keep trying.