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When Wu Zetian was about to proclaim herself Emperor the Buddhists presented her with a Commentary on the Great Cloud Sutra that said she was destined to be the King of the whole world, and clearly should be the proper emperor. The Great Cloud sutra refers to a princess of a small kindom in Southern India who was to rule in the place of her father 700 years after the Buddha's death. Clearly the monk commentators had to reach far and wide to get this to apply to Wu Zetian. But my favorite comment about the difference in time and place was the statement, "it is a matter of esoteric teaching" (Guisso 1978:212). The only thing I could think of was Father Ted training Father Jack for the arrival of the Bishops by teaching him to say, "that would be an ecumenical matter". I'm sure one or two of those monks cried out "酒!" in their time.

Right, to the essay...

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I spent the past 4 and a half hours on my essay. I have to say I'm really enjoying it. I could write about Wu Zetian for ever. The essay is currently 8500 words out of 8000 and I still need to write about the Ming Tang! Troublesome. I forsee much editing this weekend in my future.

I also found a great novel about Empress Wu that has been translated into French, and a brilliant French write up of Wu zetian. I realy want to read it as it would be great French practice and could be quite fun.
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2253109568/ref=pd_ys_pym_a_2/403-7704190-0141219?%5Fencoding=UTF8
I really think a trip to Paris after I finish my exams is in order. Bill's been wanting to go since we arrived in London, and well I have too, and now we are both working we should be able to finaly affoard it!

Arrghh

Now they're not sure if they can give me every week, I think what it came to was the girl changed her mind again. As I got email from Robin today saying they were still trying to deal with getting it authorised and that next Tuesday and Wednesday Joelle would be working, but offered me the work on Thursday and Friday instead, for that week. So sounds like she changed her mind about accepting the job, Robin offered it to me which I accepted, and then she changed her mind and said she could work. And rather than saying, it's too late we've given it to someone who does want it, they gave it her back! How Annoying!I officialy hate her! I am also still waiting to find out when I'm going to get paid. I've been working since the begining of Feb and not seen a penny yet. I mean I like my job, but there's no way I'd do it for free! I have bills to pay, and things to buy! I see know why my boss has such a terrible reputation for dealing with people!


This is my 3rd post in English today, I guess that's what happens when you spend the whole day sitting and writing essays, you look for distractions!