hawkwing_lb: (Anders blue flare)
I'm sitting in a coffee shop, four days before Christmas, working on my thesis. It's ten to four and twilight is blue-grey between the buildings, and for reasons that I cannot explain I feel in great charity with the world.

Barring acts of malevolent deity and natural disasters, in the spring I'm going back to Greece for a six-week internship. The internship is part-time: I'll have time left over to work on my own research. If all goes well, I'll be home for June: if everything comes right, I'll be away again in July or August, back to the land of sunlight and stark shadows in the season of the heat.

It might be hard, but so far, the PhD is being so damn worth it.
hawkwing_lb: (Prentiss disguised in Arthur's hall)
It has been a blessedly peaceful day. The which I needed, but did not know.

Sometimes it's passing hard to see the forest for the trees. I never thought, you see, to see life itself as a benediction. I have gained so much this year, in everything that matters. Grown some, I hope, too. And if I have a deeper understanding, and a more abiding fear, of loss, I suspect it should count as a small price.

It's something, to find kindness and friendship unlooked-for. And keep finding it, over and again. I can only hope to be worthy of it.

I have some resolutions for 2009. But I will put them behind a cut, to spare the innocent.

Read more... )

Tomorrow, there will be essay, from morning til night. But not until tomorrow.
hawkwing_lb: (Prentiss disguised in Arthur's hall)
It has been a blessedly peaceful day. The which I needed, but did not know.

Sometimes it's passing hard to see the forest for the trees. I never thought, you see, to see life itself as a benediction. I have gained so much this year, in everything that matters. Grown some, I hope, too. And if I have a deeper understanding, and a more abiding fear, of loss, I suspect it should count as a small price.

It's something, to find kindness and friendship unlooked-for. And keep finding it, over and again. I can only hope to be worthy of it.

I have some resolutions for 2009. But I will put them behind a cut, to spare the innocent.

Read more... )

Tomorrow, there will be essay, from morning til night. But not until tomorrow.

Good news

Jul. 18th, 2007 04:06 pm
hawkwing_lb: (Garcia freak flag)
Heard on the radio while at the gym this morning: Bertie Ahern promises to bring forward legislation for civil partnerships within the next twelve months.

Bertie, you're usually a wanker and a chancer, but if you carry through on this one, I might actually respect you just a little.

Good news

Jul. 18th, 2007 04:06 pm
hawkwing_lb: (Garcia freak flag)
Heard on the radio while at the gym this morning: Bertie Ahern promises to bring forward legislation for civil partnerships within the next twelve months.

Bertie, you're usually a wanker and a chancer, but if you carry through on this one, I might actually respect you just a little.

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