If last month's near miss was a close-run thing, the possibility of The Life and Times of Miblo del Carpio receiving no further enhancements for two whole months in succession is positively unprecedented. With last month's article having been written and the final twenty-six minutes of June being wisely spent, this will happily be avoided, but a quick glance at the bottom of the Table of Contents reveals that we may soon be faced with a traditional chapter's worth (chapters in The Life and Times of Miblo del Carpio traditionally contained eight articles, until there was a change in the law); I say, we may soon be faced with a traditional chapter's worth of interludes. Thus we may be breaking at least some new ground and making the unprecedented precedented.
But if these stylistic concerns are of no interest to you, let yourself be satisfied (since we are now entering the final twelve minutes of June) with the knowledge that I have on the 17th June taken the final exam for my Approaching Literature course, with the prospect of approximately seven study-free months ahead of me, during which I will be embarking on my grand career, to continue with my studying as a 'real-life', doing it how 'everybody' studying with the Open University does it, part-time student. More positive activities (since it is doing words in which many of you delight) include my joining MusicBrainz to begin contributing my vast musical knowledge to its archives; my acquisition of Tortoise's new album, Beacons of Ancestorship, their first album of original music for five years; and the less active activity, as far as I am concered, the Wimbledon Championships, in which I am whole-heartedly supporting our one and only hope, Andy Murray. On a final dour note, there still has been no sign of my mystery girl.
Word of the Week
Flit
flit /flɪt/ v. & n. —v.intr. (flitted, flitting) 1 move lightly, softly, or rapidly (flitted from one room to another). 2 fly lightly; make short flights (flitted from branch to branch). 3 Brit. colloq. leave one's house etc. secretly to escape creditors or obligations. 4 esp. Sc. & N.Engl. change one's home; move. —n. 1 an act of flitting. 2 (also moonlight flit) a secret change of abode in order to escape creditors etc. [ME f. ON flytia: rel. to FLEET5]
Definition courtesy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary
P.S. With great fortune, the article has been published at the time of "Tuesday, 30. Jun, 2009 – 23:10:37". We were in serious danger of slipping over out of June and into July (the exact time now, as I go back to edit in this postscript) being "Wed Jul 1 00:05:43 BST 2009", according to date, but we can thank a glitch in the system, or perhaps a newly updated method for dating our published articles, that we don't have a gaping hole in the archives. A very big thank you to (either of) them!
