A few reminders
Apr. 24th, 2012 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraI’m delighted to have seen so many excellent YPL counsellor applications come already in this year - just a reminder that to be considered, I will need to have your application in hand by 9am on May 1st. It’s quite clear it will be extremely challenging to make our selections, but it’s wonderful to read your thoughts and ideas. We currently expect to arrange interviews the week of the 7th, but may need to stretch that out, depending on various schedules.
Third years: applications for the CCF programme are now available on my door. They’ll be due on Monday, May 7th.
Fifth years: I’ve been marking your charts from last Friday, and clearly a number of you could benefit from additional time with the exam-format charts. Please come prepared with your calendars to lecture on Friday, so we can arrange some times for further practice sessions before the rapidly approaching OWLs.
Seventh years: I'm delighted to say (but not at all surprised) that you're quite a bit better off, though there's a few fine details we should continue to work on. Remember that your independent projects are due the 4th, and that I still have some time available if you want to review your results before turning in your final work.
A moment for the stars: it’s a particularly good week for spotting several asteroids, namely Astraea, Hebe, and Flora, all found within Leo this week. And Venus is particularly bright right now, though you’ll need to come up between sunset and curfew to have a good look - she’s set by the time we start class. I plan to be around the tower Wednesday and Friday evenings if the weather’s clear, if anyone wants help taking a look at either.
Third years: applications for the CCF programme are now available on my door. They’ll be due on Monday, May 7th.
Fifth years: I’ve been marking your charts from last Friday, and clearly a number of you could benefit from additional time with the exam-format charts. Please come prepared with your calendars to lecture on Friday, so we can arrange some times for further practice sessions before the rapidly approaching OWLs.
Seventh years: I'm delighted to say (but not at all surprised) that you're quite a bit better off, though there's a few fine details we should continue to work on. Remember that your independent projects are due the 4th, and that I still have some time available if you want to review your results before turning in your final work.
A moment for the stars: it’s a particularly good week for spotting several asteroids, namely Astraea, Hebe, and Flora, all found within Leo this week. And Venus is particularly bright right now, though you’ll need to come up between sunset and curfew to have a good look - she’s set by the time we start class. I plan to be around the tower Wednesday and Friday evenings if the weather’s clear, if anyone wants help taking a look at either.
Private message to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy
Date: 2012-04-24 04:08 pm (UTC)Certainly both Harry and Draco would be welcome, helpful, and entirely suitable - that’s not the issue in the slightest. And we’re taking on enough new counsellors that taking them both would not present the challenge it might in some past years. It’s the other considerations that make me worried I might put a step wrong somehow without realising.
Adding Harry to the younger year trips does complicate the security arrangements (though we can certainly manage it), and of course, I have no idea if Our Lord has other plans for Harry’s summer. (And last Raz had heard, nothing was fully settled.) I am hoping, Lucius, that you could at least guide me to the best method of inquiry.
The other one I’m struggling with particularly are the Gryffindor boys, of all people - and I’m still not quite sure how I’m going to untangle that.
Narcissa, on a more enjoyable note: I’ve worked out my own obligations for the summer, and I’m forwarding a copy by owl. If there’s a social event you think I (or Raz and I) particularly should be at that takes place during the YPL events, I can get away for an afternoon or evening from anything except the camping trip with a little notice. Other than that, I’m hoping for both a few days of astronomical collaboration and a few days with my family, but think I’ll otherwise be in New London.
And of course, I’m continuing to think a great deal about our conversation over the spring holidays. If you’re free on a Tuesday afternoon between now and end of term, perhaps tea in New London?