Iiiit's a small world after all
Mar. 25th, 2009 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielIt has been snowing again. Where I live it stayed, and everything is white and fluffy (and slippery) again. Where I work it didn’t, melting away as soon as it touched the ground, but you could still see it fall.
During lunch break, when people were done discussing whether or not they should have delayed switching to winter tyres just yet, one of the instructors noted that he was quite happy about the snow, because if it was falling even here, the place where he was going to go for his skiing vacation was bound to have snow.
Cue questions what place that would be. “Switzerland.”
This being Europe, and everyone present probably having been somewhere in Switzerland at some point in their lives: “Where in Switzerland?”
“The Valais,” says he, and my stomach already started to tingle, because the Valais is the canton where the Middle-earth festival takes place (when it takes place), but surely he’s going to one of the well-known places, Sion or Zermatt or Verbier, not tiny little…
“Near Leuk,” he adds, and I am having a Delirium moment (“We both know the same place! Let us stop and jump up and down together!”). “Leukerbad. You probably never heard of it.”
And I had to take great care not to grin like an idiot all through the meal, because of course I know Leuk. And the mere mention of it can make my day. Funny how it goes.
- - -
While discussing the last preparations for the upcoming Rohan LARP, Órin – one of the GMs – announced that she’d be in England from Thursday on, so if there was anything important that had to be cleared up last-minute, we’d have to turn to one of the other GMs.
Cue the usual question the mention of “England” and “end of march” currently triggers with me. “Oh, where in England are you going? I’ll be in Cambridge from Thursday to Monday. Perhaps we’ll run into each other at the airport?”
She replies: “Oh, are you going to the Born of Hope set as well? We’ll be staying in Cambridge from Friday to Wednesday, and then go on a mad Harry Potter/Tolkien/Narnia spree in Oxford on April 2nd… I’m sure we’ll meet up at some point!”
I had no idea until then that there was more filming for Born of Hope, let alone this weekend, let alone near Cambridge - I am going there to visit my brother and the professor who does the Medieval English Literature seminars in Cologne each summer because apparently the University of Cologne can’t afford their own professor for historical English literature, but that’s fine with me as Prof. Wilcockson is made of awesome – but now I suppose I might as well go there.
Small world indeed.
- - -
So, um. Anyone else being in/around Cambridge this weekend with whom one might meet up? :D
During lunch break, when people were done discussing whether or not they should have delayed switching to winter tyres just yet, one of the instructors noted that he was quite happy about the snow, because if it was falling even here, the place where he was going to go for his skiing vacation was bound to have snow.
Cue questions what place that would be. “Switzerland.”
This being Europe, and everyone present probably having been somewhere in Switzerland at some point in their lives: “Where in Switzerland?”
“The Valais,” says he, and my stomach already started to tingle, because the Valais is the canton where the Middle-earth festival takes place (when it takes place), but surely he’s going to one of the well-known places, Sion or Zermatt or Verbier, not tiny little…
“Near Leuk,” he adds, and I am having a Delirium moment (“We both know the same place! Let us stop and jump up and down together!”). “Leukerbad. You probably never heard of it.”
And I had to take great care not to grin like an idiot all through the meal, because of course I know Leuk. And the mere mention of it can make my day. Funny how it goes.
- - -
While discussing the last preparations for the upcoming Rohan LARP, Órin – one of the GMs – announced that she’d be in England from Thursday on, so if there was anything important that had to be cleared up last-minute, we’d have to turn to one of the other GMs.
Cue the usual question the mention of “England” and “end of march” currently triggers with me. “Oh, where in England are you going? I’ll be in Cambridge from Thursday to Monday. Perhaps we’ll run into each other at the airport?”
She replies: “Oh, are you going to the Born of Hope set as well? We’ll be staying in Cambridge from Friday to Wednesday, and then go on a mad Harry Potter/Tolkien/Narnia spree in Oxford on April 2nd… I’m sure we’ll meet up at some point!”
I had no idea until then that there was more filming for Born of Hope, let alone this weekend, let alone near Cambridge - I am going there to visit my brother and the professor who does the Medieval English Literature seminars in Cologne each summer because apparently the University of Cologne can’t afford their own professor for historical English literature, but that’s fine with me as Prof. Wilcockson is made of awesome – but now I suppose I might as well go there.
Small world indeed.
- - -
So, um. Anyone else being in/around Cambridge this weekend with whom one might meet up? :D
