Autumnish bits and pieces
It's stopped being summer very suddenly. I quite like this time of year. I feel ready for a bit of cold and dark now, after the summer, although I think I might tend to be more down, stress-prone, and liable to be obsessive when I see less daylight, so I'm thinking about getting one of those UV lamps and sticking it in my dark basement office. And we'll need to sweep the chimney and light the stove soon; this afternoon I bought some of the Really Easy Firelighters for Lazy People from Mackays in preparation.
I collected a bowlful of shiny conkers from the edge of Jesus Green today, and have put them in a bowl on Roe. I want to get some glowy autumn leaves to take home, but everything's all soggy at the moment.
I've started another OU couse; this one is the Level 1 general-science-from-pre-GCSE course that's supposed to go before the course I started with last year, but I have to do it in order to get just about any OU BSc I might eventually be interested in doing, and having forgotten all my GCSEs it's the gentlest route towards knowing any physics and chemistry again. It doesn't really start until October 1st, but the first lot of stuff has just arrived, looking all pristine and glossy and fine, and turns out to begin with step-by-step explanations of what a decimal point is and how to use a calculator, which is handy for reassuring my boyfiend that I'm not silly to have signed up for it and will still have enough energy to cope with any and all kittens that we might hypothetically acquire.
The other thing that starts on October 1st is Michaelmas Term, so I will have to summon some extra patience for cycling with. But I quite like the feeling of town when it's full of all the new students.
I'm having another bout of screwing small things into the bulkheads. Today it was cuphooks. Tomorrow it will be fire and carbon monoxide alarms.
I have run out of tea and awakeness, so that is all.
I collected a bowlful of shiny conkers from the edge of Jesus Green today, and have put them in a bowl on Roe. I want to get some glowy autumn leaves to take home, but everything's all soggy at the moment.
I've started another OU couse; this one is the Level 1 general-science-from-pre-GCSE course that's supposed to go before the course I started with last year, but I have to do it in order to get just about any OU BSc I might eventually be interested in doing, and having forgotten all my GCSEs it's the gentlest route towards knowing any physics and chemistry again. It doesn't really start until October 1st, but the first lot of stuff has just arrived, looking all pristine and glossy and fine, and turns out to begin with step-by-step explanations of what a decimal point is and how to use a calculator, which is handy for reassuring my boyfiend that I'm not silly to have signed up for it and will still have enough energy to cope with any and all kittens that we might hypothetically acquire.
The other thing that starts on October 1st is Michaelmas Term, so I will have to summon some extra patience for cycling with. But I quite like the feeling of town when it's full of all the new students.
I'm having another bout of screwing small things into the bulkheads. Today it was cuphooks. Tomorrow it will be fire and carbon monoxide alarms.
I have run out of tea and awakeness, so that is all.