Saturday Photo: crabwalk

Thursday Photo: seafood for sale

Tuesday Photo: akita inu i

Saturday Photo: ainu costume

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Here is a semi-accurate list of books I’ve read or re-read this semester (in more or less chronological order):

1. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2. Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe
5. Contempt by Alberto Moravia
6. The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández
7. A Woman Alone & Other Plays by Franca Rame and Dario Fo
8. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
9. Seeing by José Saramago
10. A Heart so White by Javier Marías
11. Silas Marner by George Eliot
12. Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
13. In the Castle of my Skin by George Lamming
14. Mythologies by Roland Barthes
15. Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett
16. Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge
17. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
18. The Outsider by Albert Camus
19. Crabwalk by Günter Grass
20. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
21. Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
22. Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes by Tamar Yellin
23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
24. Tinkers by Paul Harding
25. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

I might have missed a book or two out, but that’s mostly it. I’ll do one more before the semester is up.

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Thursday Photo: doubling corners

Week 12

It’s Week 12. I’ve been fighting many fires, so I’ve not been updating for a while. Here’s a quick rundown on what has been happening:

I’ve just finished Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. A very beautiful book. I’m basically trying to squeeze in as much reading as I can before the exams right now.

Been making friends here and there,which is always a lovely thing.

It’s also a big week. I’ve a couple of interesting things to do (that is, unless you consider assignments interesting as well) and also some big decisions to make. I hope to get things sorted out soon. More on that as it happens.

I’ve also been chasing my submission. And I wonder if I should do something to the two short stories I have on my hands right now.

Yes, next week is the ominously named Week 13, which means school will be over soon. I have one essay left to complete. Well, actually, I have one-and-a-half. There’s also a small quiz early next week. So it’s not exactly plain-sailing all the way to the finish line. The exams loom in incredibly unappetising fashion.

The weather’s been pretty crazy. Incredibly warm sometimes and then inexplicable rain. Today was one such warm day, though today came without the rain.

And that’s about it. Because I haven’t been sleeping and my brain feels like kueh tutu.

There is a new Decemberists song available for download, and you can get it from their main page [here]. I like it. Feels confident and not overdone. I was perhaps less surprised than when they released “The Rake’s Song”, but in a good way. I’m looking forward to the new album.

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Missing in action.

Been remarkably busy. Should be on the way back soon.

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Tuesday Photo: traditional dance