Tock!

[j4]

Time passes. More stuff gets done.

Supermarket success: one bag of Taste the Difference Jersey new potatoes for only 60p in the end-bin, which will do nicely for lunches; a sweetheart cabbage (also reduced) and some bacon for dinner (a cabbage, bacon & cheese bake which we ended up combining with the leftover pasta, and very nice it was too if I do say so myself); and some little pears (reduced -- spot the pattern) as snack-food for work. Didn't impulse-buy anything unless you count the pears, and that's really to save me buying less healthy and more expensive things later.

I've been slipping a little on the not-spending-money front: bought two summer tops on the market (8 quid for the two of them) and henna from Lush (and some shampoo, but I need to wash my hair with something, and the Lush solid shampoos last longer). Also bought a "Saint" book on eBay, but that was only 99p (+p&p). However I still think I'm doing a bit better than I was before, and now I've transferred the cc balance to an interest-free one that's another 10 quid a month or so that I'm saving.

Started reading one of the books on my immediate to-read pile, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and decided that it's not really worth finishing -- feels like DWJ on autopilot, perhaps it's just intended for a younger audience? Or perhaps it's that I find DWJ less convincing when she's writing about wholly/mostly 'fantasy' universes, and at her best when she's writing more explicitly about the points where the lines blur between fantasy and the 'real' world. (See: Fire and Hemlock, Witch Week, Homeward Bounders -- in a way they're all stories about the power of myth/story, which is something that appeals to me a lot.)

I must convince myself that I really don't have to read everything in the world, or even everything in the house.

Having said that I did get through most of the first chapter of The Muse in the Machine: computers and creative thought by David Gelernter. It's interesting, but a lot of it seems quite obvious to me.

I also made progress on my dress for Glastonbury.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

You're going to be doing something that requires incredible levels of skill, that will make everybody in the vicinity swoon in awe -- something which is actually a performance art, which is after all what the festival is all about -- and you're wondering if you should be worried that you haven't coloured an old dress in with some felt-tip pens?

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't appear to be that skilled at it. :-/ And the thing about "everyone in the vicinity swoon with awe" -- I wish! ;-)

When I started doing all of this poi/devilstick one thing I hoped is that it might help me pick up hot women. That hasn't worked. Oh well... It's lucky that's not the only reason I do it, I guess.

Still, I wish I had the creative talent to do the kind of things that you do. That dress looks awesome (as did the cakes and everything else I've seen you do)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

it might help me pick up hot women.

The ones who stand too close to the fire-poi? ;-) *ducks*

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

quite possibly. And I now have a shiny 20l jerrycan for taking all the paraffin I'll need for a week onto site. :-)