I got an interview!
Mar. 8th, 2008 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokifan_import Picture the scene...
A girl - rather chubby, wearing glasses, with straightened brown hair, in jeans and a camisole. She is listening to the Indigo Girls on her iPod and carrying both Melusine by Sarah Monette, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (both heartily recommended, incidentally). She is drooping, having accepted the sad fate of her memory stick, and therefore the loss of 3000 rather painfully written words of a thank-you fic, which she is now even more painfully re-writing. Despite this, she's quite perky because she's just finished a really, really good book (The Game by Diana Wynne Jones). From all this you surmise she is fairly cheerful, somewhat geeky, and into reading and writing Gothic fantasy.
What you do not know is that she is also impatiently awaiting a reply from Warwick University, her first choice, on her wish to do English Literature and Creative Writing, the most heavily subscribed degree in Europe. (She's also awaiting a fixed internet connection, but that's another story). She innocently opens her email, and:
We would be pleased if you would attend an interview at Warwick...
She jumps up, screams, runs around, hysterically hugs people and generally makes a fool of herself. Those muttering "no change there then..." will be summarily defriended but are not wrong.
I am so happy! This is a chance to spend my time not only reading, but writing - for credit! For learning to do it so much better and attending Writers' Sessions and learning from China Mievelle! For figuring out how to learn from authors I fangirl madly without squealing 'I adore King Rat!' and fainting over my notebook!
I am so very pleased.
A girl - rather chubby, wearing glasses, with straightened brown hair, in jeans and a camisole. She is listening to the Indigo Girls on her iPod and carrying both Melusine by Sarah Monette, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (both heartily recommended, incidentally). She is drooping, having accepted the sad fate of her memory stick, and therefore the loss of 3000 rather painfully written words of a thank-you fic, which she is now even more painfully re-writing. Despite this, she's quite perky because she's just finished a really, really good book (The Game by Diana Wynne Jones). From all this you surmise she is fairly cheerful, somewhat geeky, and into reading and writing Gothic fantasy.
What you do not know is that she is also impatiently awaiting a reply from Warwick University, her first choice, on her wish to do English Literature and Creative Writing, the most heavily subscribed degree in Europe. (She's also awaiting a fixed internet connection, but that's another story). She innocently opens her email, and:
We would be pleased if you would attend an interview at Warwick...
She jumps up, screams, runs around, hysterically hugs people and generally makes a fool of herself. Those muttering "no change there then..." will be summarily defriended but are not wrong.
I am so happy! This is a chance to spend my time not only reading, but writing - for credit! For learning to do it so much better and attending Writers' Sessions and learning from China Mievelle! For figuring out how to learn from authors I fangirl madly without squealing 'I adore King Rat!' and fainting over my notebook!
I am so very pleased.
