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[juliet]

Finally finished uploading my London-Australia photos.

(The new ones start here.)

This afternoon I have mostly been putting things into boxes, which is a traumatic process. The boxes (two teachests & Cepheus-the-bike) go tomorrow morning. I have the FEAR that I will end up with random extra bags to carry onto the boat when I realise on Sunday that I forgot to pack $important_thing (which will doubtless also be *heavy*).

Test packing of the rucksack reveals a) things fit!, and b) luggage is about 50% books & other paper, & 50% clothes. I may end up either abandoning, or posting home, books at San Francisco[0].

[0] The last time I was in San Francisco was when I was 21 and spent the Easter vac driving round the SW of the States (bless Oxford & its 6 wk vacations, even if the 8 wk terms are actually designed to generate insanity and overwork). As I didn't have to *carry* anything anywhere, due to having a car, I ended up buying enough books that I had to buy a bag to carry them home in. And then I forgot that I also had a bottle of vodka in the bag, which obviously broke on its way through baggage handling. Thus all my Arnistead Maupin books are slightly crinkled and vodka-ish.

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[dancefloorlandmine]

my Arnistead Maupin books are slightly crinkled and vodka-ish
Which is vaguely suitable, in some ways.

the 8 wk terms are actually designed to generate insanity and overwork
York's were 9½ weeks, which was almost as bad, but gave added opportunity for bad jokes.

[zebrallama]

I've thought about term lengths a lot ... and come to absolutely no conclusion! I've had those 8-week terms (Cambridge). Here I have 12-week terms (ANU). There are pros and cons. Well, that was an intelligent comment, wasn't it? But I've written it now and I hate to waste words, so *posts*

Term lengths

[cesy]

I eventually came to the conclusion that the 8-week terms don't actually save you any time - they compress 10 weeks of work into 8 weeks, and then you go home and collapse for 2 weeks, so you have as much actual holiday as if you'd had a 10-week term in the first place.

It does, however, teach you to deal (or not deal, as the case may be) with the kind of pressure that you'd get in a job in the City, which is possibly part of the reason that career path is so well-worn.

Re: Term lengths

[juliet]

See, I mostly went home (or, in later years, stayed in Oxford) & went straight to Office Angels/Reed to get temp work, so only tended to get a couple of days to collapse. But I do remember finding the temp work a pleasantly easy break after termtime :)

It definitely taught me to work to deadline. Which may or may not have entirely been a good thing, in that it also taught me that I *can* pull things out of my arse just in time, rather than encouraging more *stable* work habits. I've developed those since, mind.

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[marnameow.livejournal.com]

There is a medium-sized jiffy bag on its way to you, which weighs about 1kg and takes up the space of maybe four paperbacks, all told. So you should keep space for that!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

How long are you in San Francisco for? I am leaving Melbourne on the 10th of June, then off to Auckland, and am going to be in San Franscisco from the 19th of June to the 3rd of July, arriving back in the UK on the 4th of July. :)

[ladyjulian.livejournal.com]

San Francisco makes me jealous in a happy way! I want to go back now...