Ok, I’ve been slack. Not just a little slack, but on an epic
scale. Since semester finished I’ve been spending more and more time away from
my laptop. Time that has been channelled into far more pleasurable activities,
like seeing my friends and reading. Always reading. This slackness has meant
that I didn’t print my reading list for May or June, something that I have now
rectified.
With the countdown to my final semester I have started
getting things into order. I’m in front for my reading, which is a good thing.
Today being the 1st of July, and day 183, I am quite pleased that I
am currently reading book 187. It’s all downhill from here. I realise that in
lots of way this challenge has taken over this blog. The last few posts have
been little but my reading lists. It would be easy to think that it has taken
over the rest of my life too. But it hasn’t really.
I don’t go out any more or less than I would if I wasn’t
reading. I can honestly say that I haven’t missed out on doing anything with
friends, or going places with Miss R. I don’t entertain any less, or see fewer
movies (though there hasn’t exactly been a wealth of stuff worth seeing). In fact
the only thing I do less of is watch tv. Which, in the grand scheme of things,
I can’t take that as a bad thing.
On the baking front I finally sourced chestnut flour for my
wheat/gluten free baking. It’s first outing as part of a vegan chocolate
pumpkin cake was a success. I plan on consuming the last of it with a bowl of
warm custard after dinner.
I’m running a second photobooks class on Tuesday morning,
and have managed to pick up a few extra shifts, so the bank a/c is slowly
recovering from the chunk my rego took out of it. Work also paid for my first
aid course. I expect my certificate in the mail any day now.
The quest for full time work continues. There are
possibilities with the opening of the new library in September, but council is
still looking over the positions. In the end what they decide will come down to
money. I don’t want to leave my library, but it’s hard to live on only 17.5 hrs
a week.
Maybe Miss R and I should open that dessert home delivery
business …
