June '11

I have been telling myself for the past few months that, come summer, I shall do something productive. What this is has variously been learning languages for Graduate school in America, working on business ideas or starting writing again. However, now that it is ACTUALLY summer, I'm being the lazy lazy person that I naturally am.

So. Needless to say something needs to be done about this, but what, exactly? Well, I'm continuing with the anki flash cards to improve my French and Latin vocab, have started noting down more ideas for longer fiction and continue to think up design ideas. I also think it prurient to get into blogging a bit more, so I've been considering buying a domain name so I can present it all a bit more professionally.

Exams.

Exams again soon. Though I haven't updated here much, I hope to in the near future. Didn't I post something similar before? Perhaps, though typing is so tiring. A shame. More books are due to come tomorrow, I hope to read a few before the summer as I have quite the list to get through during the holidays.

Pasta and freedom.

Sat here eating pasta salad, listening to belle and sebastian whilst sipping earl grey while trying to track down 300 year old editions of the Spectator. Why, you may ask. Well, Steele in issue 251 of The Spectator argued that the character of Dorimant is 'more of a coxcomb ... than Fopling' and that he was wholly unsuitable for the role of a comic leading figure as he lacked the qualities of a 'fine gentleman'. Obviously I want to use this as part of my essay tomorrow, but I'd like a bit more background information than the reference in the book I read provided. Nothing turned up on jstor, but I don't really have the time to go through the electronic resources of the library, nor visit there. Hopefully the internet'll provide something.

Setting up a non partisan liberty league up here with Becky from the lib dem group. Very excited about it, it's a contentious issue and one that deserves more than almost anything to be fought over. Hopefully we'll get some support up here, and I'll be able to make a difference before I move back down south for postgraduate study in 18 month's time.