Oxford

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1162864]

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Just to be clear. I lived and worked there whilst taking my MA at Brookes, and then stayed around for 6 years until made redundant.

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

I studied for a second degree - but also lived and worked there for a few years after that.

[muninnhuginn]

To be honest, I spent most of my childhood saying I wanted to go to Oxford (blame Vera Brittain). So, Cambridge could be counted as a near miss. (I still dislike them both in some deep-seated, visceral way.)

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

I applied there. I was going to go for Pembroke and in an ill-conceived brainwave went for Wadham which was very popular that year and JUST missed a place. But c'est la vie - life would not be the same if I had got in!

The ex had family there, his mum worked for Blackwells and I had a mate at Magdalen doing an MA before that - he was always very, very drunk, like the character from the Fast Show...and the biggest scruff I've ever known.

[sally_maria]

My father studied for his degree there, and it's close enough to home to feel like part of my mental landscape.

Oh, and I'm collecting colleges through Oxonmoots. :-)

[segh.livejournal.com]

My sister still lives there. And the Constant Reader - who is an emeritus fellow of New College - entertains me there for lunch sometimes.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

The living and working there entirely overlaps with the studying for first, second, and indeed third degrees (not that I ever completed the last). Other connection is that for several years after we'd moved elsewhere my brother and sister-in-law continued to live more or less in Oxford, and my brother still works there.

[purplecat]

born/grew up/lived there obviously all overlap. Studying for first degree there was my fault however.

I haven't checked worked? does my Saturday job as a teenager count?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Um...I think I voted in the above poll while I was using tuxedo_elf's computer and was logged in as her. Oops. So the above response from her is actually me!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains it! I wondered what she was doing responding to one of my polls!

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I count all those Oxonmoots as a strong connection.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

1. My father's second ex-wife became his ex-wife when she took a job in Oxford. She's still there, and they're still on good terms.
2. My godfather used to run the bus company - but then he's run most cities' bus companies, so I'm not sure that it really counts.
3. I thought about applying to Oxford, but decided that I couldn't be bothered.
4. My fiance did apply to Oxford, but got turned down.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I've heard rumor there were once Inklings there.
And I visited not once but TWICE during my one and only adult visit to England (a Harry Potter tour, the second time on a Tolkien Tour. Both were wonderful in their own way).
Well, I was born and raised on the Left Coast of the US. There isn't much opportunity to cross the Atlantic from there.

[findabair.livejournal.com]

My connection with Oxford goes back only to August last year, but I count it as a strong one anyway. In August, about three weeks before Oxonmoot, I attended a summer school in Greece where I met my friend who lives in Oxford. We discussed Tolkien a bit, and she suggested I come to Oxonmoot - I had never even heard of it before that! So I went, and fell in love with the city, and got new friends there both in Oslo and on LJ, and lost my rucksack - and went back on my own to pick it up. And loved the city even then :) Looking forward to coming there again.

It's funny with those little coincidences of life, isn't it - how going to Greece should lead to all of this...