It's holidays and I'm still procrastinating...
I've pretty much picked up where I left off when semester started - the days when I'm not working are filled with books, Zelda: Twilight Princess, other games, craft, television. Not so much television at the moment, because the Sci-fi channel has decided to go back and re-show earlier Star Trek seasons that we saw fairly recently, unfortunately for me. Or perhaps fortunately, as there are things that I'm supposed to be doing these holidays.
I have to renew my US passport, which means going to Sydney to apply in person, as my last US passport was issued before I was 16. My brother needs to renew his too, and we've just booked flights and everything to go down next week - Monday and Tuesday. Yay.
I have to investigate minor details about my exchange such as where I'm going to live in Montreal for an entire semester.
I have to figure out how I'll be getting from Vancouver in early August to Montreal by the start of semester in early September.
I ought to get out my French textbooks and see how much I've forgotten.
I'd like to tidy and set up my sad excuse for a website and set up a proper travel blog for my trip.
I'm leaving in just over three weeks.
But I just want to sit around and play Zelda...
I have no idea how much of the way through the game I am at the moment. I've just gotten to the desert and am about to look for the Mirror of Twilight, though lately I've really just been searching for bugs, fishing, and collecting Poe souls. The annoying thing is that I resumed my game last Friday morning, and after watching me play, Alan started a new game (he finished it last holidays) in the afternoon. He's currently at the exact same place in the story as I am.
I'm knitting myself more gloves at the moment, but this time fingerless ones. They're Knitty's Fetching, but I've made some modifications. Mine are knitted from the fingers down, rather than from the cuff up. (Or is that from the fingers up rather than from the cuff down?), and they'll reach over halfway to my elbow. Knitted in black alpaca yarn that I got in Hobart. Mmmm... alpaca...
In between reading Australian science fiction short stories, I picked up Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard. It's been recommended to me a few times over the years. And deservedly so! It's a really good book, funny, interesting, a dramatic plot and real characters. I love the fact that the two young wizards have a white hole (I must say that looks like a rather pathetic Wikipedia article. How sad. White holes sound interesting.) as a sidekick. How often do you see sentient astronomical phenomena in a book? The magic system is much more like that of A Wizard of Earthsea than Harry Potter. Magic is all about words and naming things, and for the more complex spells they persuade objects to do things - no mere "alohomora" and tap of a wand to open a lock, they have to talk to the lock about how very long it's been closed and wouldn't it be nice to be open again for a little bit? I'm definitely going to investigate the other books in the series at some point!
I have to renew my US passport, which means going to Sydney to apply in person, as my last US passport was issued before I was 16. My brother needs to renew his too, and we've just booked flights and everything to go down next week - Monday and Tuesday. Yay.
I have to investigate minor details about my exchange such as where I'm going to live in Montreal for an entire semester.
I have to figure out how I'll be getting from Vancouver in early August to Montreal by the start of semester in early September.
I ought to get out my French textbooks and see how much I've forgotten.
I'd like to tidy and set up my sad excuse for a website and set up a proper travel blog for my trip.
I'm leaving in just over three weeks.
But I just want to sit around and play Zelda...
I have no idea how much of the way through the game I am at the moment. I've just gotten to the desert and am about to look for the Mirror of Twilight, though lately I've really just been searching for bugs, fishing, and collecting Poe souls. The annoying thing is that I resumed my game last Friday morning, and after watching me play, Alan started a new game (he finished it last holidays) in the afternoon. He's currently at the exact same place in the story as I am.
I'm knitting myself more gloves at the moment, but this time fingerless ones. They're Knitty's Fetching, but I've made some modifications. Mine are knitted from the fingers down, rather than from the cuff up. (Or is that from the fingers up rather than from the cuff down?), and they'll reach over halfway to my elbow. Knitted in black alpaca yarn that I got in Hobart. Mmmm... alpaca...
In between reading Australian science fiction short stories, I picked up Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard. It's been recommended to me a few times over the years. And deservedly so! It's a really good book, funny, interesting, a dramatic plot and real characters. I love the fact that the two young wizards have a white hole (I must say that looks like a rather pathetic Wikipedia article. How sad. White holes sound interesting.) as a sidekick. How often do you see sentient astronomical phenomena in a book? The magic system is much more like that of A Wizard of Earthsea than Harry Potter. Magic is all about words and naming things, and for the more complex spells they persuade objects to do things - no mere "alohomora" and tap of a wand to open a lock, they have to talk to the lock about how very long it's been closed and wouldn't it be nice to be open again for a little bit? I'm definitely going to investigate the other books in the series at some point!