Journal

Free On Friday

On Writing

All these differences come after the crucial task of sitting down at the table and patiently turning inwards. To write is to tuen this inward gaze into words, to study the world into which that person passes when he retires into himself, and to do so with patience, obstinacy and joy.

Orhan Pamuk, from his 2006 Nobel acceptance lecture.

Short Weeks

I’ve been having three-day or four-day weeks of usually few lessons recently. It’s made me feel a bit like an Arts student.

Of course, it’s also the sign that next week is in fact the last week of school. And just around the corner… exams. Oh how woefully exciting.

Plans For The Weekend

Nothing much, actually. I intend to start some writing soon, either on The River or fragments of Singapura, or maybe a completely unrelated side project. On the other hand, I will be on Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet, no doubt. As far as school work is concerned, I’ll be finishing up the last couple of tutorials and reading up on my last lab session. And I also plan to start on my readings so I don’t get overwhelmed closer to the exams. I’ll be converting more of my Japan photos from RAW to JPEG and putting them up on flickr too. And I suppose that’s about it.

So it’s all a bit of slowing down over the weekend, I guess.

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