Various reminders
Mar. 20th, 2012 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraThursday: Ms Chadwick will be here to present about her recent work in telescope design, and more about the general opportunities for those interested in creating new magical tools and resources. Half-seven, in my classroom, to start.
YPL: I understand that some of the plans for our guests during their time in New London over the holidays will allow for some of our students to join them on some days. Details of the itinerary are still in process, but you may wish to inquire of your parents or guardians about their plans for your time, and which days you might be available. (Your parent, guardian, or other suitable adult would be responsible for transportation to and from a central location in New London yet to be determined. I would be glad to discuss the planned events if they have any questions.)
CCF students: In about two weeks, we'll be meeting to do the specific planning for your continued training this summer (along with the other YPL summer plans). If you have any comments in hindsight about particular aspects of your experience, the selection process, the various exercises, or other details, I'd love to hear them before we leave for Easter holidays. Please stop by my office hours, or arrange another mutually agreeable time to talk.
Fourth years: A reminder that we are meeting for two hours tonight (beginning at 11 this evening) to make up for last week. Thanks again for your willingness to make the change. You needn't bring your telescopes: if the weather does by chance let up a little, I'll have a couple of specialised scopes handy that suit our topic for the evening.
And my own schedule: I do plan to be around this afternoon and evening (rather than my usual Tuesday plans), should you wish to stop by with a question or comment.
YPL: I understand that some of the plans for our guests during their time in New London over the holidays will allow for some of our students to join them on some days. Details of the itinerary are still in process, but you may wish to inquire of your parents or guardians about their plans for your time, and which days you might be available. (Your parent, guardian, or other suitable adult would be responsible for transportation to and from a central location in New London yet to be determined. I would be glad to discuss the planned events if they have any questions.)
CCF students: In about two weeks, we'll be meeting to do the specific planning for your continued training this summer (along with the other YPL summer plans). If you have any comments in hindsight about particular aspects of your experience, the selection process, the various exercises, or other details, I'd love to hear them before we leave for Easter holidays. Please stop by my office hours, or arrange another mutually agreeable time to talk.
Fourth years: A reminder that we are meeting for two hours tonight (beginning at 11 this evening) to make up for last week. Thanks again for your willingness to make the change. You needn't bring your telescopes: if the weather does by chance let up a little, I'll have a couple of specialised scopes handy that suit our topic for the evening.
And my own schedule: I do plan to be around this afternoon and evening (rather than my usual Tuesday plans), should you wish to stop by with a question or comment.
Private message to Gilly Chadwick
Date: 2012-03-20 05:37 pm (UTC)Very much looking forward to Thursday. And my appreciation to Juniper, please, for her giving up an evening with you. Meet you at 4:30, you can talk to Capper (may it do enough good), have supper with the staff (Étienne Froissart has some questions for you, I think, and Pomona and Septima are both looking forward to seeing you) And then you can show off your work.
Sorry for not making it in tonight - combination of catch-up and time with Capper is on my schedule. (And to be honest, I’m tired enough I’m not quite sure I trust apparating the distance at the moment.)
On the rest: not as much improvement as I’d like, as you might guess from the above.
Mum’s been sending those romantic suspense novels you mock so regularly. I know why you do, but at the same time, there’s something quite restful about them. You get an interesting bit of (mostly historical, in these) setting, you get people meeting, horrible things happen, and then everyone good lives happily ever after. Stars in their order, where you expect them to be.
There’s one you might actually like, The Eye of Her Heart - an alternate history Maddelena de Medici, who ran away to wizarding England rather than be married off to a dissolute illegitimate son of the Pope. Adventures along the way. More suspense than romance, anyway.
Two Mum threw in because she knew they’d drive me up a wall in the right way. In Bright Array has the astronomy all wrong but done so it's fun to figure out where they went wrong in their research. (And, of course, I do know the story of the squib astronomers they based it on.) Might even use it for extra credit in class sometime. And the other, Love’s Augury has divination all over its plot and a series of improbable magical challenges and is just hilariously bad. (The cover is all over pink, purple, and symbols, too.)
And truly, I’ve not much attention for research at the moment, even if the weather were cooperating more than it is. So having something that I can lose myself in is rather the thing.