Oil and octane mixed with stale gasoline
☆ Canada Day came and went. It was utterly unremarkable at all points, and I really have nothing to say about it. Normally I can work myself up into some sort of enthusiasm, but this time, I just didn't care. But it was nice to have a day off from driving lessons, at least.
☆ The lessons we paid for are nearly finished. However, this doesn't mean I know how to drive. I don't. I'm awful at it. Mum's already talking about paying for more lessons and taking the final driving test and I keep wanting to say "hold your horses. Slow down. I need more time". And she seems to be taking my lack of enthusiasm about driving as a personal offence. It isn't ingratitude (that's what she called it). It's that I hate doing it, and I find it stressful, and expecting me to show enthusiasm about practising driving is like expecting me to show enthusiasm about doing calculus homework. Just ain't gonna' happen.
☆ I've been in a bit of a funk lately and I think it's just because being at home so much is making me stressed out. But there isn't much I can do about that, at least not until all this driving business is over. Until then I guess the only thing I can do in my off-time is hide in my room and try to ignore everything else.
☆ One of my mother's friends will be travelling in the Baltic states for a few weeks. I'm quite envious of that (argh, I want to go to Estonia so badly. Or... anywhere, really). Anyway - my mother told her that of course I'll be willing to look after her garden -- without asking me about it first. Wonderful. I don't mind yardwork, really, but I'm pretty annoyed that neither of them bothered to have the courtesy to ask me directly. Is it bad of me to hope that I'll at least get some cash for this? None was mentioned, mind you, but if I'm lucky they might slip me a twenty for my trouble. I hope. :|
☆ The transfer of the Baltdex from the text version is now complete. Basically this means that everything covered under the text version is now on Delicious. I'll be going through the old parts in order to check for things I might have missed over time, but at this point I'm going to consider it "finished". It's nice to finally have that done. The Nordex was updated yesterday as well.
☆ All the enthusiasm flying around about Vol. 04 is making me pretty happy, even if this volume is kind of scarce on Nordics. Can hardly wait for translations of some of the strips (mostly have the Asia group strips in mind when I say this). To be honest, at times like this, I sometimes wish that I'd ordered the volume (and I felt this way with vol. 03 as well) but on the other hand, I don't understand any Japanese at all, so it'd be kind of a waste, ah. I guess the only thing to do is cross my fingers and hope that eventually some company will pick it up again, now that Tokyopop has gone under. I regret not getting the English releases of vol. 1 and 2 when they were still easily available.
☆ The lessons we paid for are nearly finished. However, this doesn't mean I know how to drive. I don't. I'm awful at it. Mum's already talking about paying for more lessons and taking the final driving test and I keep wanting to say "hold your horses. Slow down. I need more time". And she seems to be taking my lack of enthusiasm about driving as a personal offence. It isn't ingratitude (that's what she called it). It's that I hate doing it, and I find it stressful, and expecting me to show enthusiasm about practising driving is like expecting me to show enthusiasm about doing calculus homework. Just ain't gonna' happen.
☆ I've been in a bit of a funk lately and I think it's just because being at home so much is making me stressed out. But there isn't much I can do about that, at least not until all this driving business is over. Until then I guess the only thing I can do in my off-time is hide in my room and try to ignore everything else.
☆ One of my mother's friends will be travelling in the Baltic states for a few weeks. I'm quite envious of that (argh, I want to go to Estonia so badly. Or... anywhere, really). Anyway - my mother told her that of course I'll be willing to look after her garden -- without asking me about it first. Wonderful. I don't mind yardwork, really, but I'm pretty annoyed that neither of them bothered to have the courtesy to ask me directly. Is it bad of me to hope that I'll at least get some cash for this? None was mentioned, mind you, but if I'm lucky they might slip me a twenty for my trouble. I hope. :|
☆ The transfer of the Baltdex from the text version is now complete. Basically this means that everything covered under the text version is now on Delicious. I'll be going through the old parts in order to check for things I might have missed over time, but at this point I'm going to consider it "finished". It's nice to finally have that done. The Nordex was updated yesterday as well.
☆ All the enthusiasm flying around about Vol. 04 is making me pretty happy, even if this volume is kind of scarce on Nordics. Can hardly wait for translations of some of the strips (mostly have the Asia group strips in mind when I say this). To be honest, at times like this, I sometimes wish that I'd ordered the volume (and I felt this way with vol. 03 as well) but on the other hand, I don't understand any Japanese at all, so it'd be kind of a waste, ah. I guess the only thing to do is cross my fingers and hope that eventually some company will pick it up again, now that Tokyopop has gone under. I regret not getting the English releases of vol. 1 and 2 when they were still easily available.