Tomes of Doom

Just got back from the Warwick interview day. It was mostly fine, except for the actual interview part. 'How does what you do in lighting transfer to your understanding of prose?' You what now?! I blagged most of it, made up complete drivel and tried to convince her to read The Catcher in the Rye which I currently loathe and I'm not sure whether I convinced her I liked it or not. She also asked me how reading fantasy connected to real life issues - so I made up a load of bull about Lord of the Rings and underdog stories, which she then promptly told me could happen in realism as well as fantasy so I had to cover it with stuff about the distance between you and the character helping you see things more clearly or some other such shit.

Trust me to get the interviewer who 'can't bring' herself to read Fantasy or Sci-Fi, bloody typical. There was a nice Scottish guy interviewing opposite me and he sounded really nice and easy going. The woman I saw had all sorts of rights stuff stuck to her door and obviously liked the social issues brought up in literature. I couldn't exactly tell her I'm uninterested in politics most of the time, could I.

Ah well... doesn't really matter anyway, I've got offers from other places, so, if Warwick don't want, me at least somebody does.

The Arts Centre is nice, though.