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Mo, Moi and More Software Nerdery
Jan. 31st, 2010 05:24 pmI guess this is a bit of round up since I've been quieter in the last few days than I intended.
I met my essay deadline on Monday, which it would seem was a wise move since I spent Tuesday and Wednesday very ill with a kind of vertigo sickness. I've heard a few people complain of a similar thing, so it may be some kind of bug. That I succumbed immediately after essay season is fairly typical of me; I'm so pent up that the moment I relax I collapse.
So, other than wobbling around insanely, I propped myself by my laptop and played with some new software (spurred on my recent Evernote glee). I've been meaning to set up a proper email client since I got my MacBook Pro in September, and I settled on Thunderbird this week. So far, so good. I especially like the reminder that appears when I type the word 'attached' - because there must have been 100s of times I've forgotten that little nugget. My second new toy is Typinator that allows you shortcuts for commonly used statement - like my website url and my informal email signature. Both terribly useful.
In the spirit of my course (which is currently looking at AIDS narratives in literature) I'm currently reading Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library. I absolutely loved The Line of Beauty, and Swimming Pool doesn't seem quite as good - but as a first novel (published the year I was born) it is rather excellent. Today I've also been reading Thom Gunn's The Man With the Night Sweats, which is different in its sparse complexity compared to Hollinghurst's luxurious detail.
i have an insanely busy week ahead. So busy that looking at my calender makes me wince and want to crawl back under my duvet. I had a lie in this morning though. I just hope I have enough food in the flat to save me going shopping. I've pledged not to buy anything more for the freezer until I've used up most of what is in there because since Christmas I've barely looked near the ice box. I mean, it isn't big anyway - but why buy when you have stuff already?
In other news - I am super looking forward to watching Mo on C4 tonight at 9. I actually met Mowlam as a child, and she is certainly one of the most important figures in late 20th century N.I. politics.
That is your lot.
I met my essay deadline on Monday, which it would seem was a wise move since I spent Tuesday and Wednesday very ill with a kind of vertigo sickness. I've heard a few people complain of a similar thing, so it may be some kind of bug. That I succumbed immediately after essay season is fairly typical of me; I'm so pent up that the moment I relax I collapse.
So, other than wobbling around insanely, I propped myself by my laptop and played with some new software (spurred on my recent Evernote glee). I've been meaning to set up a proper email client since I got my MacBook Pro in September, and I settled on Thunderbird this week. So far, so good. I especially like the reminder that appears when I type the word 'attached' - because there must have been 100s of times I've forgotten that little nugget. My second new toy is Typinator that allows you shortcuts for commonly used statement - like my website url and my informal email signature. Both terribly useful.
In the spirit of my course (which is currently looking at AIDS narratives in literature) I'm currently reading Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library. I absolutely loved The Line of Beauty, and Swimming Pool doesn't seem quite as good - but as a first novel (published the year I was born) it is rather excellent. Today I've also been reading Thom Gunn's The Man With the Night Sweats, which is different in its sparse complexity compared to Hollinghurst's luxurious detail.
i have an insanely busy week ahead. So busy that looking at my calender makes me wince and want to crawl back under my duvet. I had a lie in this morning though. I just hope I have enough food in the flat to save me going shopping. I've pledged not to buy anything more for the freezer until I've used up most of what is in there because since Christmas I've barely looked near the ice box. I mean, it isn't big anyway - but why buy when you have stuff already?
In other news - I am super looking forward to watching Mo on C4 tonight at 9. I actually met Mowlam as a child, and she is certainly one of the most important figures in late 20th century N.I. politics.
That is your lot.
