Here, have a thought-dump

[marshtide]

1. I can cycle. It feels a lot like sitting. This means I can't do it for very long and I have to do it very carefully, but a short burst of cycling can still get me further from home than a short burst of walking, so maybe I can stare at a different patch of grass tomorrow or something? It would, of course, help if my bike had any kind of suspension or a decent saddle.


2. In contact with the university - they've already offered me a later exam date and they'll look into what else they can do.


3. Random obsessions. I'm sitting around playing with my camera a lot at the moment and I suddenly really want a better one. Mine is a pretty good point-and-click digital with a few decent adjustment options. I also don't have any money. I think this is a sign that I am a. being kind of silly and b. becoming my father. Damn it.


4. John Ajvide Lindqvist is releasing a new zombie book set on an island quite a way off the coast by Norrtälje. A more conventional zombie book, this time, because apparently identifying with the monster was getting so tough that he needed a break. Babel has interviewed him on this island, where he stands on the rocks wearing a t-shirt saying "guns don't kill zombies, people kill zombies with guns." I don't even know. It's just something about the combination...


5. The cat has dedicated today to knocking things off shelves again. In his defence I think he's doing it because he's trying to chase the latest ant invaders (damn, I really had hoped that we could move before ant season) rather than out of pure bloody-mindedness - this time.


6. I'm restless. Reading good essays and theory doesn't help. I need to write something incredible. Or smash some horrible, harmful idea. I am, of course, not really geared up to do either of those things.

But I really need to get out there, one way or another.

Comments

[antisoppist]

set on an island quite a way off the coast by Norrtälje
I feel my year abroad at a folkhögskola on Väddö would have been improved by the arrival of zombies. There was very little to do apart from learn Swedish (which I suppose was the point).

[marshtide]

Oh yes, the area around Norrtälje is just so exciting. A really thrilling place. :|

[antisoppist]

Being dependent on the bus service, I only made it to the incredible excitement of Norrtälje about twice, and even then all the shops shut at lunchtime on Saturday so there wasn't much point. I learned to knit socks. It would all have been very different if they had invented the internet.

[marshtide]

Yeah, they still do that. :|

[crystal]

1. I can't cycle. Various friends have threatened to teach me, but they never followed up on it. I like your grass pictures.

2. That's good news, right? =D

3. I have a weird obsession with cameras, too, though I take less pictures than you do, I think.

4. I don't think I should like zombie books so much, since I absolutely hate most zombie movies. But there's something strangely alluring about them.

5. Cat Cat Cat! =DD

6. Nngh, I feel the same way. Trying to distract myself by obsessing over less thinking-involved things.

*snuggles up with Liz*

[marshtide]

Haha, well, I did grow up in a place where there were basically no buses, so I HAD to lean to cycle. :D My mum only learnt when I was a kid, though, so I guess she would have been in her late 30s or early 40s by then. We learnt together! With my dad herding us around. *laughs*

[jae]

Have you thought about a recumbent bike? My partner had the same problem you have (before her surgery), and she wouldn't dare cycle on an upright anymore. Plus...more fun! And cooler! (I may be biased.)

-J

[marshtide]

They are probably awesome, I have every belief! But I don't have any money, unfortunately. The bike I have now was bought for me last year by Valborg's parents from a charity shop. Bits keep falling off.

[jae]

Aw. :(

Well, I would loan you one of mine if you were local.

-J

[februaryfour]

Doug bought a new iMac. I don't even like Macs, and yet I really like the one he has. >_