Retail therapy for toolomaniacs!

(Not quite the same model.)

I've been wanting one for *years*. Wheeee!

Holy shit. I could live a month on that ( Read more... )

Hmpf reads Judith Butler. It's dense reading, very slow, with a lot of rereading, and marking things with little question marks in the margins.

( my brain has other ideas )

Today I had a doctor's appointment which ended up a bit more painful than I had expected. So, on the way back home, I felt I'd earned the right to drop in at the art book bargain shop - where I found this... for 12 euros.

Yes, I bought it. As I said: I'd earned it! ;-) Plus, I hadn't used up my monthly books budget yet. (Now I have.)

Jewellery designs come to me at a rate of several per day at the moment which, considering my usual lack of inspiration in that area, is quite amazing. So, I'm sketching away, scribbling down notes, and playing around with bits of metal and all the stuff I've collected over the years to 'some day' make something from, and today I even spent several ( Read more... )

1.) Happy coincidence:

I'm about to receive a number of French comics from two different sources in the next couple of weeks. Wheeeeeeeee! Also, nager let me know yesterday that he found the first part of Mohiro Kitoh's Wings of Vendemiaire on ebay this week, a collector's item he wanted to give me for a present a while ago but couldn't find then, and ( Read more... )

After more than ten years and I don't know how many rings I seem to have *finally* gained a grasp on how to get the metal to submit to my will.

a pointless post on what I did after the 'Zwischenprüfung' and what I'm going to do next. And why this journal will have a lower priority for a while still ( Read more... )

Oh boy. What a year. And it's only one and a half months old, too ( Read more... )

Real Life: went to uni today to find some info about British universities where I might spend my year abroad. Looks like Birmingham is the closest match for what I want. Actually, I wanted Cardiff, but they only have one of my subjects there ( Read more... )