It would appear that I have agreed to step out tomorrow into the pitch black December night, cross a frozen boardwalk to a snow-crusted island, put up a tent upon it in a -10°C storm of hail and snow, heat it up to 80°C, bathe in it, and then keep vigil over a fire pit inside an Iron Age ringhouse until dawn in an effort not to freeze to death ( Read more... )

Well, university's all started now, classes are going - not that I have any classes left to take anymore except when I just happen to feel like it - and my thesis is finally nearing completion as well (about time!) It's close enough to being finished, in fact, that I'm starting to get that slightly sick feeling in my gut, mixed satisfaction and ( Read more... )

Chapters written: 4. V. Good. Stubble update: subtly hairy ( Read more... )

t's pretty amazing how sometimes a lot of changes and developments in life can occur in a pretty short time, even though superficially, you could say I've really just spent a lot of time sitting home and playing Valkyria Chronicles. It's like water flowing under a frozen river? That seems like an appropriate simile somehow, possibly due to how ( Read more... )

Ahh, autumn. A month has passed that I'm back home, which really should be all kinds of nice. This is a nice time of year - it's still warm - ish - and the autumn colors are just getting good, and there's all sorts of outdoors-y activities like mushrooming and such to be done. Which really makes it all kinds of annoying that I've had a stubborn ( Read more... )

So it's the famous Walpurgisnacht now, but sadly no world-destroying witches have been in evidence. I did, however, go out on a picnic at a Bronze age cairn, so perhaps that probably counts for something ( Read more... )

Well, it's the end of 2010, now! This is a joyous occasion worthy of celebration by watching fireworks and baking delicious tea scones, at the very least ( Read more... )

So when it's a particularily beautiful autumn evening outside, do you ever get the feeling that it's the last beautiful day of the year?

It's not really all that difficult to tell. From now on, the winds will pick up, it'll get wet and drizzly, and darker, much darker. And all those pretty yellow-red leaves made by the Great Cosmic Artfag in the ( Read more... )

I have spent most of the last week in the grips of a persistent and spectacularily distracting flu. I've also played a lot of Zerg in Starcraft II. I would like to think that there is no deeper connection between the two than that I really like the Zerg and that once you're sick in a sufficiently unpleasant way it's increasingly difficult to do ( Read more... )

Well, it so happens I'm 24 now! It's a weird kind of number, and for the life of me, I can't think of anything clever to say about it. That's funny, in a way. It's not as if a great deal of things haven't happened in the last year, but at the same time, I don't feel substantially older at all. Perhaps that's about as much as can be said about that ( Read more... )