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I usually reserve this sort of post for my life-in-uni lj, but. Uh. So apparently Friday the 13th is unlucky after all. Bloody hell. I just went to the SSL this morning, like a good studying-for-exams person, and when I was at the zebra-crossing a bunch of zombies shambled out of Holywell Cemetery.

faf;sga; it was like something out of Shaun of the Dead, or perhaps that's because that's the only zombie movie I've seen. At first I thought they were finalists who'd just gotten trashed or something, because there's certainly been lots of those shambling around lately. But no, it was definitely bits of decomposing flesh and not confetti, and I'm pretty sure they weren't in subfusc, either. And since they were on the other side of the zebra-crossing I couldn't very well do anything. Thankfully these were slow zombies, not the super-speedy kind, and to be fair some of them looked quite amiable (I hear Kenneth Grahame is supposed to have been buried there, but I don't know what he looks like). I ran back up Longwall and down Holywell -- but then I remembered that the uni church on Radcliffe Square has tombstones, bloody hell. When I got to the lodge there was a huge crowd, and I thought I was too late -- but they were just tourists, so I got past and back into my room. I think they've shut the main gate now, but for once I regret that Brasenose doesn't have code-locks.

Still going down for hall in a bit, though. Assuming no one within the college has fallen prey yet.

status update

Lunch went fine, but Radcliffe Square is quite the scene of carnage, at least from what I can glimpse from the lodge. I think a few zombies slipped into Lincoln as well -- either that or there was some very enthusiastic trashing going on in the back quad/garden place which I can see from my room. Hope they didn't make it over the gate and into Carpark; no one here seems to have been turned yet, anyway. There were still croquet games going on in the lawn when I went for my revision class, though I think some of the mallets have been used as impromptu weapons.

Didn't sign up for formal hall tonight, which means I either leave the college or stay hungry. Decisions, decisions. I reckon the kebab vans will probably be taken down quickly by the ravening hordes, so that's out. Maybe I'll try Balliol, though I'm not sure any colleges are keeping their gates open at the point.

I heard most of Teddy Hall's been ravaged -- that's what comes of having a graveyard inside your college, I guess. Some of the Assassins players there got a chance to use their in-game skills in real life, but there's a huge difference between stabbing someone with a pen labelled "knife" and whacking a zombie into submission with a fire axe.

On the bright (?) side, some people who'd been punting earlier today say that they spotted Tolkien and Isaiah Berlin up north, quite some way past The Victoria Arms.