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Things that might interest you.

Or might not! Who knows! That’s half the fun.

There is a new Lykke Li album. There is also a new R.E.M. album arriving soon. And recently, I’ve really been enjoying the new PJ Harvey album, Let England Shake.

Things are slowly falling into place, in some way. My FYP, which I’ve yet to describe to you, I know, is coming together, though it’ll be a pretty close finish. My other subjects look a bit tough, but also enjoyable in their own ways.

There is finally the feeling that I’m closing things out, that this is really the final semester. It feels… odd, I guess, but I guess in a way (that is, hopefully the only way in which I can say it without looking silly) I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. I mean, I was half-expecting it to surprise me. But no surprises.

I’m planning overseas trips. Plenty of them. Well, okay, so that’s a lie. Not many of them, but at least more than I normally go for in a single year. (Three, if all goes well.) Fingers crossed!

I’m starting to make headway with my humongous book queue. [Click here for a reminder.] I’m reading Le Clézio. It is my first exposure to his work. My friends all comment on the back cover thus: Who is that dashing chap there? Well, okay, not in the same words, but to the same effect. He was/is a rather dashing bloke, and a marvellous writer to boot. (I’m reading Fever.)

I’m tempted to buy a couple of other books but I’m really strapped for cash (due to said planned overseas trips) and more importantly find it embarrassing to have to explain my enormous reading queue to my parents. Why are you buying so many books? they exclaim. I don’t mind them asking because, seriously, I ask myself the same thing every now and then.

Okay, I’ll tough it out for a month or so first and then get those two or three, plus three others I want to preorder, when it feels right. Then I think I’m done with book puchases till the end of the year. (I swear!)

It’s nice to be blogging again. But it’s time to go back to work.

Have a great weekend ahead.

d

Thusday Photo: jazz