Life
is fairly good at the moment. I haven't posted about what I'm up to in a while, so thought I'd update.
I'm back to Oxford on Wednesday, which I'm fairly excited about. I get there at noon and have my first tutorial at 4pm, hooray! Also, I, er, forgot to do my holiday work... And a lot of my reading... whoops.
Home has been good. This has been my first relaxed holiday since the end of Sixth Form, so I enjoyed being very lazy, reading a lot and spending time with family and friends.
Next term is going to be ridiculously busy. Firstly, my workload has increased; up until now I'd had 8 tutorials a term, but next term I'll have 12, i.e. a 50% increase in essay-writing. Although this is probably still not that much compared to other subjects, it will feel like a lot to me. On top of this, I'm almost certainly going to hold some kind of position in the Amnesty club, and probably one in the newly-formed Linguistics club too. In any spare time, I will be watching Avatar and Drawn Together with friends. Also, I want to watch more films, so will probably do this. And fit in Risk, MahJong, etc. Oh, and perhaps learning Spanish if I get in to the course (I have bought myself a Teach Yourself Spanish book regardless). And cooking a bit more because I'm spending too much on food, I think. Argh, so much to do. How will I cope after this period of extreme laziness?
I'm quite liking the BBC series "Around the World in 80 Faiths" which I'll be watching via iPlayer this term (oh yeah, Heroes will start again soonish, right?). It's on BBC2, Fridays at 9pm, giving a superficial overview of 80 world religions. Last week's episode, still on iPlayer, is about East Asian faiths - probably the only religions I respect to any extent. Buddhism is so good! Didn't quite understand Taoism, but I think one day, when very bored, I will read up on it.
I went to Josh's house today and he made me a CD of Mongolian throat-singing. This sounds exciting, so I will listen to it soon.
I now own an electric toothbrush. This is also mildly exciting.
Tomorrow I will pack.
I approve of the following webcomics in this order:
http://www.qwantz.com aka Dinosaur Comics - funniest webcomic I have ever seen.
http://www.xkcd.com - geekery
http://www.asofterworld.com
I am also amused by:
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
and depressed (but fascinated) by:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com
That should be plenty of links if you're bored and have internet-time. But if you exhaust these sources of entertainment, here is a potentially limitless one: http://www.stumbleupon.com
I'm back to Oxford on Wednesday, which I'm fairly excited about. I get there at noon and have my first tutorial at 4pm, hooray! Also, I, er, forgot to do my holiday work... And a lot of my reading... whoops.
Home has been good. This has been my first relaxed holiday since the end of Sixth Form, so I enjoyed being very lazy, reading a lot and spending time with family and friends.
Next term is going to be ridiculously busy. Firstly, my workload has increased; up until now I'd had 8 tutorials a term, but next term I'll have 12, i.e. a 50% increase in essay-writing. Although this is probably still not that much compared to other subjects, it will feel like a lot to me. On top of this, I'm almost certainly going to hold some kind of position in the Amnesty club, and probably one in the newly-formed Linguistics club too. In any spare time, I will be watching Avatar and Drawn Together with friends. Also, I want to watch more films, so will probably do this. And fit in Risk, MahJong, etc. Oh, and perhaps learning Spanish if I get in to the course (I have bought myself a Teach Yourself Spanish book regardless). And cooking a bit more because I'm spending too much on food, I think. Argh, so much to do. How will I cope after this period of extreme laziness?
I'm quite liking the BBC series "Around the World in 80 Faiths" which I'll be watching via iPlayer this term (oh yeah, Heroes will start again soonish, right?). It's on BBC2, Fridays at 9pm, giving a superficial overview of 80 world religions. Last week's episode, still on iPlayer, is about East Asian faiths - probably the only religions I respect to any extent. Buddhism is so good! Didn't quite understand Taoism, but I think one day, when very bored, I will read up on it.
I went to Josh's house today and he made me a CD of Mongolian throat-singing. This sounds exciting, so I will listen to it soon.
I now own an electric toothbrush. This is also mildly exciting.
Tomorrow I will pack.
I approve of the following webcomics in this order:
http://www.qwantz.com aka Dinosaur Comics - funniest webcomic I have ever seen.
http://www.xkcd.com - geekery
http://www.asofterworld.com
I am also amused by:
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
and depressed (but fascinated) by:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com
That should be plenty of links if you're bored and have internet-time. But if you exhaust these sources of entertainment, here is a potentially limitless one: http://www.stumbleupon.com