Space Oddity

Strange things are happening on my side of the universe. I can’t exactly explain what they are, but let’s just say that there are maybe two or three things that have had me thinking, Well, this never happened before. It’s nothing too terrible. I am losing sleep, but that has to do with something else. And I know how vague all of this sounds, but I guess I don’t really have a choice about that. Suffice to say, it’s an odd time for me and I don’t think it will let up any time soon.

Now for an assortment of things:

I’ve been writing again. Or at least, I began to get back to it last night. I’m not sure if there will be any sustained effort forthcoming but I certainly hope so. I have about a fifth of the manuscript left to do and I hope to be able to complete that as soon as possible.

My cat says hi.

It’s Nobel season and in case you haven’t been guessing, I named a few hopefuls in my blog post over here: [via Who Killed Lemmy Caution?]

Plenty of movies to watch, plenty of things to read. School work is… let’s say, unfriendly. I think I’m doing okay, as far as surviving goes. I’d certainly like to be saying that I have all my homework done and dusted three weeks ahead of time but you know, that stuff is theoretically possible but practically impossible. Like a car appearing on the other side of a mountain because of quantum mechanics.

I’m watching Paris Is Burning today, and I’ll soon have to rewatch Mulholland Drive. The latter is for my essay, which I’m… still thinking about. It’s starting to make sense (the essay, I mean) but there are a couple of kinks I’m going to have to iron out.

I got a haircut yesterday. I now have less hair than the day before.

It’s strange to think it’s October already because it makes me feel like the end of the year is already about.

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Tuesday Photo: water conservation

New Technology

As I write this, I’m firing up my new phone for the first time. It’s an HTC Sensation, marking my first foray into smartphone territory. I suppose, better late than never and all that.

Screen lighting up! Glorious!

Before this I was on a Nokia E66.

And I would like to say that the phone is a bit ironic, because it starts out by saying “HTC: quietly brilliant” together with a really loud chime.

But yes, I’m rather excited about this. I hope I’ll be able to have a uhhhh let’s say constructive relationship with my new phone, given all it’s fancy new capabilities and all.

Meanwhile, I am having a constructive relationship with my notebook, which I believe I’ve told you about. It’s a small and cheap ASUS (coming in at about six hundred bucks) that I’ve found really useful for doing work around the house, taking notes in school, screening videos in class, and the like.

Okay, the phone is working.

Except I know I’ll have a lot of trouble importing everything from my old phone over to the new one.

Anyway, just a note to say hi. I’ve been preoccupied with school work, but it’s going pretty okay. I had a chat with my lecturer about the philosophy of “pretty-okay”. It was rather interesting, going into trains on collision courses and Zen Buddhism. I realise I use “pretty okay” a lot more than i used to. And it has a lot to do with how everyone has a different idea of “pretty okay”. I just like to see how differently they react to it.

Forgive me as I abandon this post now to go to work on a proposal and tranferring things from my old Nokia over to the new HTC. You were my very best buddy for the better part of a good four years, Nokia.

Off I go then. I hope you’re doing pretty okay too.

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