Name's changed
Hey, I've changed my livejournal name! It's now larkspurlazuli!
I'm just back from the library. I feel like I've just walked away with an armful of loot. As I walked to the library, I recalled the numerous minutes adding up to hours that I can spend aimlessly on the internet, checking and rechecking my friends' list, email, deviantart account, or anything else just for some stimulation or to relieve boredom. I have one month left before I return home, and many goals and achievements on my 'master list' that haven't been reached. Besides my schoolwork, I have letters to write, websites to design, socks to darn, icons to make, and books to read. Something must change. But it's not just that I need to get more of what I need/want to do done -- I feel like I've been in a rut for too long. Living here at York has become so comfortable, but I feel almost like I'm sitting inside a cotton pillow, warm and cuddly, but unable to see the external world and apathetic about it. I'm just in need of a whole new vitality, inspiration, to living and working.
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. I ended up checking out eight books from the York library for 'leisure reading'. Some of them are really fun, no kidding. I found two outstanding ones on CSS, cascading style sheets, and one on webpage usability that'll help me with my webdesign-- hopefully especially for my mom's site that I'll likely be making this summer. I got several on internet sociology, and one on cognitive science, although I was looking for an intro to AI book, because I'll be taking that class next spring and feel like I've gotten out of the CS loop lately: hopefully this'll suffice. And, and(!!!) a book on the art of Sleepy Hollow. I've never seen that movie before but this book looks downright inspiring. Photographs, conceptual drawings, sketches...It's so dark and gothic, and the pages are even made to look as if they were printed on parchment. It's amazing what you can find if you just look, or even without looking. I feel like my love of learning has been reignited, possibly just by a combination of my realization of the amount of information available at my fingertips, the fact that it can actually help and interest me, and that I took the step to look.
*glee*
Next step: reading them...
I'm just back from the library. I feel like I've just walked away with an armful of loot. As I walked to the library, I recalled the numerous minutes adding up to hours that I can spend aimlessly on the internet, checking and rechecking my friends' list, email, deviantart account, or anything else just for some stimulation or to relieve boredom. I have one month left before I return home, and many goals and achievements on my 'master list' that haven't been reached. Besides my schoolwork, I have letters to write, websites to design, socks to darn, icons to make, and books to read. Something must change. But it's not just that I need to get more of what I need/want to do done -- I feel like I've been in a rut for too long. Living here at York has become so comfortable, but I feel almost like I'm sitting inside a cotton pillow, warm and cuddly, but unable to see the external world and apathetic about it. I'm just in need of a whole new vitality, inspiration, to living and working.
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. I ended up checking out eight books from the York library for 'leisure reading'. Some of them are really fun, no kidding. I found two outstanding ones on CSS, cascading style sheets, and one on webpage usability that'll help me with my webdesign-- hopefully especially for my mom's site that I'll likely be making this summer. I got several on internet sociology, and one on cognitive science, although I was looking for an intro to AI book, because I'll be taking that class next spring and feel like I've gotten out of the CS loop lately: hopefully this'll suffice. And, and(!!!) a book on the art of Sleepy Hollow. I've never seen that movie before but this book looks downright inspiring. Photographs, conceptual drawings, sketches...It's so dark and gothic, and the pages are even made to look as if they were printed on parchment. It's amazing what you can find if you just look, or even without looking. I feel like my love of learning has been reignited, possibly just by a combination of my realization of the amount of information available at my fingertips, the fact that it can actually help and interest me, and that I took the step to look.
*glee*
Next step: reading them...