Journal

Assortment of things.

Sorry, Shakespeare

I was going to watch The Tempest. It’s in April. I was saving up for it. I even had a small fund established and had pretty much saved the money I needed for a good ticket. I think I’ll perish the thought, though. Firstly because almost no one around me will watch Shakespeare. Also, it does have a prohibitive price considering the fact that most of my friends are poor students. Finally, it is a little strange to ask random people out for Shakespeare.

I suppose the money can be put to good use in other places. For instance, I also have an Audubon fund running; I hope to obtain Birds Of America this year. And there are camera plans too, of course.

Things We Like

I finished my first run of Mass Effect 2 yesterday. Lovely stuff. Certainly like it better than the first installment, but while the finale sets you up for the third very successfully, it also feels a little unsatisfying in terms of the stand-alone game.

I’m moving onto Empire: Total War, but I’ve also tried my hand at some Trine, and I really enjoyed my time with it. That is, the first twenty minutes or so. I really dig the presentation, although for some curious reason my movie files don’t manage to complete. They just stop halfway as if they’d finished. No biggie, but still a small irritation.

Books

I ordered five books online. A stand-alone copy of The Tempest, the Everyman’s edition of Orwell’s Essays, a new copy of Flowers For Algernon, a China Mieville’s The City and The City, and the forthcoming paperback edition of Ishiguro’s Nocturnes (preordered, that is). I suppose that will be all for my book expenditure for a while.

Work

Not exactly fantastic, but at least I’ve got stuff done here and there. Having been writing so much, I’d forgotten just how short a thousand words actually is, so when I tried to draft one of my essays yesterday, I had to sort of crimp it down to make it fit. It’s also been a long time since I did any such writing, so I’m sure that first draft is fraught with awkward expressions and ugly sentences.

But I have two others to deal with and a project, and a test. Or two. So that’ll have to wait.

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