One of the many reasons why my friends are awesome....

They send me cards like this one....

 

Part of the note inside reads "You are truly splendid and I belive have the good taste to find this card appropriately amusing"

I do indeed have the good taste Na'amah, you lovely loon you :)

Now just to figure out how to display it in all its glory.......

So much time, yet also so much to do

I feel a little like I'm missing the perfect blogging opportunity right now.


I've moved county! I've got a new job that I love! I'm discovering whole new sides to life re social media, the amazing place in which I live (seriously Rochdale haters have you looked around? I keep finding so many great and surprising things in this place) and the general brilliance of being able to take on the world without Depression presenting problems! I'm re-engaging with many things that I'm passionate about once again!

And yet this blog is all....

It's not even that I'm not writing anything, there's loads of draft posts on my Blogger dashboard just waiting to be edited, as well as lots of dog-eared sheets of paper collected from train journeys and coffee-consuming sessions in the local library. Finding the time to edit them has been a bit difficult though.

I've got 5 weeks left before I start my new full-time work in a high school. There's a lot of things that need to be done, and I'd be kidding myself if I pretended that updating should be my highest priority right now. But hopefully by the end of the summer I should have enough things in place that more areas can just be maintained rather than being completely re-evaluated and overhauled, as they are being at the moment.

Come September I'll start updating on a 'proper' twice-weekly basis, and you'll have your ears talked off (or appropriate written medium equivalent) with all these things that I'm feeling incredibly excited about and want to share with you. Til then I'm putting one of those things into practise and not placing unnecessary
pressure on myself by setting yet another unrealistic goal.

Here's to getting the boring yet practical things out of the way, and to going out and living enough to have the raw experience to provide material in the first place. This is supposed to Essaying in the Real World after all...

I am very excited because...

 

It may be a good 14 years after it's original release, but I've just installed Planescape Torment. One of the seminal RPG pc games in terms of character creation and development as a consequence of your actions in the game rather than just a roll of the die, and with a wonderfully messsed up, complex storyline to go with it. I now just need to find the time to play it.....

In Five Years' Time

I've been thinking recently about where I'm headed in the longer term. It's taken me a little while to make the mental switch from viewing life in terms of the academic year to building towards a general sense of my future, investing in things that may be years down the line.

Here's some of the more visible froth at the surface of my still bubbling cauldron of hopes and plans for where and who I'd like to be.

Specific things that I'd like to do in the not-too-distant-future:

Learn to drive

Visit another continent

Make a wedding cake, or another equally fun celebration cake

Host Christmas dinner

To have paid off at least 1/3 of my student debt (more would always be nice but there's a possibility that I might retrain and add to it over the next few years, and who knows what financial hurdles may be ahead)

I dare you not to whistle for the rest of the afternoon