Presents still coming in.

Really.

I don’t normally receive too many presents for my birthday, especially since I’ve taken to not telling unless asked, so I suppose this year could be considered a relatively good year. That said, the presents are… a little slow in coming in. But hey, I’m not complaining as long as they’re coming.

And if anyone is still looking, could you get me a nice lumadessa print? [via lumadessa] It would be nice if it came with a frame too. I want to hang something new on my bedroom wall.

Weekend.

It’s the weekend. That went by pretty quickly. It was probably down to my illness. I’m much better now. About 80% back in order, I think. Anyway, for the weekend I’ve got to look into a birthday present for someone, a paper, a lab report, a short assignment, and I suppose my project, although the meeting is to happen today and I’m not sure how it’ll turn out. On top of that, I think I ought to spend some time catching up with some school work. Busy days.

Spending.

Christmas time is coming, and that means I’ll have to cut down on my spending a bit to make way for some Christmas presents. I still have 0ne birthday present to go, though, and that’s one I think I will end up being quite generous with, plus I’m sure I will be getting a couple of games along the way, and the print for my bedroom wall (I suppose no one will bite), so it’s going to be a little rough for a few weeks, I think.

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Free On Friday

On Writing

All these differences come after the crucial task of sitting down at the table and patiently turning inwards. To write is to tuen this inward gaze into words, to study the world into which that person passes when he retires into himself, and to do so with patience, obstinacy and joy.

Orhan Pamuk, from his 2006 Nobel acceptance lecture.

Short Weeks

I’ve been having three-day or four-day weeks of usually few lessons recently. It’s made me feel a bit like an Arts student.

Of course, it’s also the sign that next week is in fact the last week of school. And just around the corner… exams. Oh how woefully exciting.

Plans For The Weekend

Nothing much, actually. I intend to start some writing soon, either on The River or fragments of Singapura, or maybe a completely unrelated side project. On the other hand, I will be on Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet, no doubt. As far as school work is concerned, I’ll be finishing up the last couple of tutorials and reading up on my last lab session. And I also plan to start on my readings so I don’t get overwhelmed closer to the exams. I’ll be converting more of my Japan photos from RAW to JPEG and putting them up on flickr too. And I suppose that’s about it.

So it’s all a bit of slowing down over the weekend, I guess.

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