I agree. It has been quite a week. Although I took a bunch of easy classes and I only had to study for one exam, I still caught up on sleep today. I even got yelled at (not in a bad way though) by my clarinet teacher who was shouting "fiero!" Which would be Italian for fierce because it's in one of my college audition pieces and she told me that her cat "Vigo" was more "fiero" that me and he "has a pink nose and pink toes" and that is not "fiero!" It was really quite interesting. Also, I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you that as long as I'm academically accepted into UNH (which with never taking study halls, missing about twenty days a year, only taking one 200 class and having at least above a 3.25 GPA and having my brother a recent alumni, and my brother-in-law working there I pray that I will be) my bassoon teacher (who works there) has garunteed that I will be accepted into the music program and offered scholarship money! Probably not much but it is comforting seeing as though I won't get official results for another month and a half at least. Yes, it has been quite a week

Yes it was indeed. My hand is still on fire....

And make sure you keep that Druid project of yours. It was so good. I want to see it again. Last time I saw it, I was rushed.

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"I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call me Master."

Sounds fascinating, seriously - at least, the history of Druids, and the books. As Guilbert de Pixérécourt said, "Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais". Isn't that beautiful? Old books are so much nicer than new books; much nicer to read, hold, and look at. The content is also sometimes better in old books than in new ones. I might write a poem about this subject at some point.

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Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of the world? Who hath measured the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss?

Well, my Druid fascination was probably predictable.. four years on Deviant Art and I still love anything Celtic!

My Victorian library is quickly growing. One of my friends gave me a book from 1883 called "The Shakspere Flora", which may well be the most beautiful book I've ever seen, and then I just bought two more poetry books. One is a compilation and the other is various works of Robert Browning. It seems the poetry books are the most elaborately decorated.... but in any case, they really knew how to treat a book in those days.
I think one of the best things about old books is finding things that people have written in them.. my copy of "Cyrano de Bergerac" has "To Anne, from her best friend and worst enemy, February 1937" written in it, and I like to wonder about what sort of friendship those people must have had to leave that comment. And the aforementioned "Shakspere Flora" has the lines "Where the rough road ends / there's a valley sweet" on one of the front pages. At least, I believe that is what it says. The handwriting is beautiful but very tiny. And many books besides at least have names of past owners.
It's an interesting connection to the past, these little things people live behind. We don't know their stories but in some way they are still known. I think working at the historical society has made me more interested in the lives of common people, things that aren't recorded in history books. I've actually tried to write poems on the subject before, like you said you were intending to do, but mine never turned out well...

And I do quite agree with the quote you put in there. It's true... books are constant friends, and I think that is why I own so many that they do not all fit on the shelves...

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"There is occasion and cause why and wherefore in all things." - Shakespeare

"of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both" - Stevenson

Your drawings were great!!
The big presentation is gone...
But I still have the movie and its many hours worth of photoshopping...

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"There is occasion and cause why and wherefore in all things." - Shakespeare

"of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both" - Stevenson

Her cat is named Vigo? Please tell me it is not named after Viggo Mortenson
Haha "fiero" with a pink nose and pink toes"
But I understand the feeling of not being able to be "fiero". I couldn't keep my eyes open yesterday morning... And then after my chem exam I went to sleep as soon as possible.

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"There is occasion and cause why and wherefore in all things." - Shakespeare

"of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both" - Stevenson

No, she informed me sometime last year that it wasn't after Viggo Mortenson, but I forget why her boyfriend named it Vigo... We share a common lack of ferocity then. I napped for a good three hours yesterday. It's quite nice to be cat like and lack ferocity sometimes

Thank the Goddess!

I hope she didn't throw mine away...... My poor corrupt popes.

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"I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call me Master."

MEOW!!

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"There is occasion and cause why and wherefore in all things." - Shakespeare

"of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both" - Stevenson