a new look

[tla]

My mother made an appointment for me at the "Best Little Hair-house in Texas", which was today. I managed not to come away with Big Hair, but it is significantly shorter, layered up a little in the front, and has reddish highlights. I only had say in the details of what was done to me, not the overall list of things to be done. But I think my hair turned out well anyway.

They also waxed my eyebrows. God damn that hurt.

The baby horse is still cute. She was apparently licking Mom's chin earlier today. And if Mom had had a camera with her, she could have gotten a shot of mama and baby curled up sleeping together.

We had dinner with a few people that are somehow connected to Airborne (where Dad works). They seemed nice, even if I was kind of tired and yawning a lot. Mom and Dad made sure that they all knew the news about Oxford, though. It kind of feels like having gotten into MIT all over again. I had to point out that it's not yet a done deal, since everyone else is already forgetting that little detail. Sigh.

I want to KNOW already. Argh. And about the scholarships too.

Comments

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

_I'd_ like to see Tara with Big Hair.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

...waxed...eyebrows?

Dude, your parents' state is weird.

Also, your cat has spent the last ten minutes assaulting me. He seems to miss you. It's getting hard to type.

[tla]

Yep. It's like plucking, but all at once. With the commensurate multiplication of pain.

Poor kitty. Hug him for me and tell him I'll be back soon.

[liadnan]

Not that you know me but...

It is highly unlikely that, having been accepted by the Modern History Faculty, you will be refused a place in a college for a postgraduate degree. (Works the other way round for undergraduates, but their teaching is college based whereas for a postgraduate colleges are frankly largely about social life). Even if your first choice of college refuses you, because of a numbers issue or a desire to have a particular emphasis, someone else will take you.

You didn't go for Corpus by any chance? My former college and the home of James Howard Johnston, one of my former supervisors, who is one of Oxford's more eminent Byzantinists. Also a lovely man.

[tla]

Hey look, someone who knows about this stuff!! (And has Byzantium on his interest list! Neat.) Thank you for the reassurance.

I think I did go for Corpus. Naturally, I didn't write my choices anywhere except on my application, but I think I went for Exeter, Corpus, Keble, and Wolfson. Or maybe one of them was University.

[tla]

Now that I know of your existence, I'm going to pester you some more. I hope you don't mind.

I was told today, by someone who went to Cambridge, that the colleges will want to interview me before deciding whether to let me in. Is this true? If so, when are they going to ask? Am I going to know whether I'm in before July?

[liadnan]

Not at all. Email me if you wish: the address should be visible on my details page.
College may well want to formally interview you, though they may not be too bothered given you are in the US and it really is pretty much a formality. I am pretty sure USians and Canadians who were there when I was got away without a college interview. They did me, but I was only an hour from oxford, in London. Cambridge and Oxford don't run according to precisely the same rules in this regard though.
You should certainly know before July. Come July much of Oxford's history and classics bods decamp to sunny places to do research and become unreachable.
I should have a been a proper Byzantinist, really I should, rather than working on early med. northern europe. I can't remember why I didn't now.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

I demand posted photographs. :)