Journal

Week Eleven

Week Eleven. Exciting times. Things stop accelerating about here. In fact, someone’s jammed the brakes before you could even get to changing the gears. A few points of interest:

Today is a scary day. Very, very scary. It is potentially one of enormous disappointment. I suspect that it will be. Oh well, as Orwell wrote, somewhat out of context maybe, “…one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.”

Or, in the words of the old Otis Rush song, “Hey hey, to make it you’ve got to try. That’s no lie.”

I’ve spent a good portion of my weekend fixing up a paper. I hope it turns out okay. Another box ticked in the road to the end of the semester, regardless.

There appears to be an inverse relationship between the amount of happiness that I experience and my football results. I’m conflicted.

I’ve been playing Torchlight. It’s certainly fun, if you like your Diablo. That said, I’ve been victim of a bug that gets my character stuck apparently randomly. What happens is that I’m happily left-clicking my way around when left-clicking suddenly becomes purely attack, even in the absence of enemies, and I’m left attacking thin air, unable to move. I thought it had to do with the inventory, because it tends to crop up after I open my inventory (and my cat’s). It might also have to do with the summoning, because this started once I began summoning things. But basically, since it first began I’ve discovered that it’s down to the Shift key getting stuck. I reloaded every time it happened initially, but now I just Alt-Tab my way out. Frustrating, but not exactly game-killing.

One week to Easter.

One week to the new Doctor Who.

My recent expenditure has left with scant little I can afford to spend on myself. Still, I have every intention to bolster my library with a number of books soon. Dickinson must come in soon; I’ve been without her work for too long. Rimbaud too. I’m also interested in the writing of Kawabata and Mishima. Recent writers of interest (that is, for me) include Javier Marías and Macedonio Fernandez. So, plenty of work to be done.

Although… I should really keep in mind that my waiting list has only been growing.

Oh, some new T-shirts arrived. One of them has a panda on it.

I’m supposed to get a haircut. Supposed. I don’t really think I need one yet. But I guess I’ll try to get one today.

Right. Have a good Monday everyone. Including all my working friends. Who will no doubt not have a good Monday, but it would be mean to hope otherwise.

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