Reservations. I love having reservations about my life. It’s what makes me aware that yes, something up there is awake and watching me, and is just waiting for me to hit the floor face first. Which I have a habit of doing, both physically and emotionally - however, it’s been a while since the last big spill, so perhaps I’m just getting paranoid in anticipation. ^_^

Life at the moment is more or less in cruise control. It idles past, week to week, without much significant change. Every week I go to Uni (attending Prose Fiction, Gothic/Modern Writing Theory, and Bioethics), I go to work five nights a week (Wednesday through Sunday), I download and watch an episode or two of anime, I read a few books, watch a smidgeon (about 2 hours on average) of television, and… that’s really about it.

Fascinating, ain’t it?

However, the cruise lifestyle has both bad and good points. The bad? Well, the schedule is rather full at the moment, apart from a few days where I have perhaps half a day off, or an evening off - I don’t have a single day where I’m not at either Uni or work. This means that I’m seeing a lot less of friends then I’d like to. I haven’t seen one of my best friends in almost two months now (hopefully will be catching up this week), and another I’ve seen maybe two or three times. Since a lot of my friends have graduated (or are in process thereof) as well, it makes it harder to catch up. As for my ‘younger friends’ in other years of Uni, timetables make synching a bit difficult there too. Also, this session I’m being rather less sociable with my Writing friends… for a number of reasons, which don’t really make much sense, but a big one being time. Sigh. Time.

And what do I have to show for this busy schedule that’s good and fun? Well… I’m more or less enjoying my course, the actual life itself, though rather full, is smooth, and I do have time to do a lot of the things I enjoy - namely, reading, writing, a bit of anime, etc. But I really do miss the socialising with friends, many of whom I’ve known for ten years or so. It’s always hard to walk away from that - especially when you don’t want to do so. It’s all circumstances. Which sucks but… such is life, it appears.

Otherwise? Nothing much is happening. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary, nor is it over-ordinary. I’ve done some recent subtitling/video work for fun, I’ve listened to a lot of music, and I’ve read quite a few books - many of them ‘again’ as I tend to do. I did pick up Sum of All Fears (Clancy) & Jurassic Park (Crichton) for $5 together second hand, which is nice - despite reading them before, it’s nice to have a) a copy (SoAF) and b) a not-falling-to-bits copy (JP). Oh yes, on that day, I also bought three other books - one of which I haven’t read, so I’m saving it. Feet of Clay (Pratchett), Executive Orderes (Clancy), and, as I’ve been urged to buy for ages, BattleAxe (Douglass). I’ve also read the Half Blood Prince through twice now, as well as Crystal Gorge (Eddings, Dreamers Book III) which I might do a ‘review’ style entry about soonish. And perhaps an anime review soon as well - for Mahoraba Heartful Days and Shuffle!

Otherwise? I think I’ll go to bed. :)

Alcata’riel.

-Andiyar