Last Day Off

Hello!

So, my Spring Break ended yesterday, but as today's Latin lecture is cancelled, I got another day off. Tomorrow it's school again. Austen and BritLit. My class talk on ballroom etiquette is in a week, and I'm getting a little nervous about it. I know my subject this time though, so I should be fine. The essay I'm slightly concerned about, it should be turned in in about a month and I've barely started... I finished reading and marking Northanger yesterday, so basically I'm set to start writing, but it needs some thinking first...

Not that I haven't been writing a lot! I've written over 20 pages of fanfiction - finished a 12-page fic and am just getting started with another one, currently 13 pages. Plus some tidbits. It felt so good to be on writing spree, it happens so rarely. Too bad it was in a bit a bad time, seeing as I should have been working hard for school. But then again, it was the contactless week. ^^

Alongside Northanger I've been reading Horace Walpole's the Castle of Otranto, the first English Gothic Novel, published in 1765. It's a lot of fun to read, though I make very slow progress. I also got Karen Joy Fowler's the Jane Austen Book Club and Georgette Heyer's Lady of Quality from the library - hopefully I will have time to read them. They look like quick reads, but I've been wrong before. In addition I bought (from the library) Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies for 20 cents(!) and Elaine Cunningham's Elfshadow from an antiquary. I read the latter in Finnish when I started 7th grade, and actually got a friend through it - she saw me reading it and came to tell it was one of her favourite books. And we're still friends, even though we can't agree on most things. xD But I digress. This list was just to show I don't lack reading, particularly when I should also be reading David Crystal's Stories of English for class. It's not a requirement, but it would help so much... But maybe I'll get into it. Hopefully sometime before the exam.

Rise Against's new album Endgame will be out this week! I'm looking forward to it so much! I've got a reservation, and happen to have a convenient two hours off on Wednesday to go get it. So exciting! Now I just hope they would come play here again... It's so typical, they go to Sweden but for some reason skip Finland. Just like all bands. So unfair. :/

But now I think I should get on with school stuff. There's Latin to do, literature to read, transcription (of George VI's first war-time speech 1939) to check, and a million other little things. Two months of school to go, and I really hope I land a job this summer.

Hero of War is such a beautiful song.

Love, Wilzo