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alt_nevilleI looked back over my journal, and it seems like it's been ages since I've done an entry that wasn't just a line or two, or a private message. So I thought I'd write a bit here so my Gran can hear about what's been going on in school without waiting for my next letter. Classes are going along rather well, I think. I've been yawning my head off today because last night was the practical astronomy lesson at midnight. We've been doing measurements for locational magic last week and this week, triangulating positions using two stars that Professor Sinistra assigns us, and Polaris. I had botched the equations last week and couldn't figure out what was wrong, until I realised that my watch wasn't set for the right time, and that was throwing all my calculations off. This week went better.
In Transfiguration we're working on vanishing spells, and in Charms, on Silencio. (Sort of an odd coincidence to be working on them at the same time: Do Not See and Do Not Hear.) There's been a lot of written essays lately. I finished the one on bowtruckles for Care of Magical Creatures, and another one on the reasons why salamander blood is used in Strengthening Solution for Potions. I was going to start my essay for Noble Arts: Professor Dolohov is giving us each a spell and asking us to figure out what we can about it, based on the reading. But I'm not sure I'm getting it, and so I'm swapping books with Seamus to see if his translation of De Signatura Rerum is better. Maybe if I reread it in another translation, it'll make more sense to me then.
In Herbology, we've mostly just been cleaning up in the greenhouses for the end of the growing season. I met with Professor Sprout during her office hours this week to go over my notes with her on the experimental cultivars I've been working with this year. She gave me this really cool book about garden design, and it's been all that I can do to keep from sneaking it out to page through it when I'm supposed to be doing my reading for Defence or Noble Arts instead.
With all the work, I haven't had as much time to play chess with Evelyn as I usually do. We've been teasing each other about trying out for the revue. ('You'd be wizard at it!' 'Not as good as you!' when in truth neither of us would ever be caught dead getting up on stage). Evelyn has been thinking about volunteering to help with stuff like the backstage work, or the makeup glamours. That'd be fun, and a way to be involved, but a lot less scary.
In Transfiguration we're working on vanishing spells, and in Charms, on Silencio. (Sort of an odd coincidence to be working on them at the same time: Do Not See and Do Not Hear.) There's been a lot of written essays lately. I finished the one on bowtruckles for Care of Magical Creatures, and another one on the reasons why salamander blood is used in Strengthening Solution for Potions. I was going to start my essay for Noble Arts: Professor Dolohov is giving us each a spell and asking us to figure out what we can about it, based on the reading. But I'm not sure I'm getting it, and so I'm swapping books with Seamus to see if his translation of De Signatura Rerum is better. Maybe if I reread it in another translation, it'll make more sense to me then.
In Herbology, we've mostly just been cleaning up in the greenhouses for the end of the growing season. I met with Professor Sprout during her office hours this week to go over my notes with her on the experimental cultivars I've been working with this year. She gave me this really cool book about garden design, and it's been all that I can do to keep from sneaking it out to page through it when I'm supposed to be doing my reading for Defence or Noble Arts instead.
With all the work, I haven't had as much time to play chess with Evelyn as I usually do. We've been teasing each other about trying out for the revue. ('You'd be wizard at it!' 'Not as good as you!' when in truth neither of us would ever be caught dead getting up on stage). Evelyn has been thinking about volunteering to help with stuff like the backstage work, or the makeup glamours. That'd be fun, and a way to be involved, but a lot less scary.
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Date: 2012-12-07 05:37 pm (UTC)But, mate. There's always time for chess!
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Date: 2012-12-07 06:04 pm (UTC)I just need to test to see if it looks right with the proper sort of lighting and everything.
I can't wait to try out the aging glamour, but I'll have to work up to it first.