Got the rest of my college work emailed away, and although I might have corrections on it, it's a big relief to get it finished. Woo!

079. Nahoko Uehashi- Seirei no Moribito
080. Lian Hearn- Grass For His Pillow
081. Cory Doctorow- Little Brother
082. Lady Murasaki (trans. Richard Bowring)- The Diary of Lady Murasaki

So that's all the books I've been up to. I'd especially recommend Little Brother (thanks Mo!) which you can download off the author's website. It's full of awesome tech. Go read.


'Fake' by Alex Roots. Nice modulation :D

I'm off to have weekend adventures. See you soon! x

083. Jack Kornfield- The Eightfold Path for the Householder                           
084. Charles de Lint- The Blue Girl                                                                            

Slowly getting better from my flu. Been doing lots of homework, and I had a nice weekend with Chrissy and Ryan visiting from Aberdeen. We walked around the canals, had nice drinks and window-shopped our way around the East Gate Centre. I bought a couple of t-shirts, so clearly I was doing it wrong ;)

Just into my last week at college. Still have a couple of things to catch up with, mostly around three phase theory and earthing, which I'll be working on in the next couple of days. I've been really enjoying this sort of thing:

TN-C: combined PE and N conductor all the way from the transformer to the consuming device.	TN-C-S earthing system: combined PEN conductor from transformer to building distribution point, but separate PE and N conductors in fixed indoor wiring and flexible power cords.

I should be headed back home on Friday. It's been an interesting month, I've learned a lot more testing, done some project work, made a little ground on doing regular meditation and writing in Japanese. I would've liked to have done more exercise, but my walk to college every day and back will have to suffice. Right, to the homework pile!

Basically spent the whole week in bed ill (deprived of internets). Slept lots, and in the last two days finally managed to get some of my logbook done. Towards the end of the week I even read some books.

Twilight sort of tastes like fanfiction to me. I even had daydreams of doing comparison charts between Twilight and the Dead series because of the similarities. Vampire first boyfriend, check. Werewolf best friend, check. Heroine strong-type who happens to get hideously beaten up, if not once, then on a regular basis, check. Heh.

085. Barry Farber- How To Learn Any Language
086. Stephenie Meyer- Breaking Dawn
087. Stephenie Meyer- Eclipse
088. Stephenie Meyer- New Moon
089. Stephenie Meyer- Twilight
090. Ma Jian- Stick Out Your Tongue

Still dizzy, but I'm going to go back in to college tomorrow. That's right. HARDCORE.

091. John Ajvide Lindqvist- Let The Right One In
092. Charlaine Harris- From Dead to Worse
093. Charlaine Harris- All Together Dead
094. Charlaine Harris- Definitely Dead
095. Charlaine Harris- Dead As A Doornail
096. Charlaine Harris- Dead to the World
097. Charlaine Harris- Club Dead
098. Charlaine Harris- Living Dead In Dallas

I might've accidentally spent most of this week reading. I'm not going to keep up this speed, going to force myself to focus on my coursework, which I have rather a lot of. Saying that, I did really enjoy the Harris books. It was all very light amusing fiction, although slightly formulaic. In this case, though, that works. Rather like watching one of your favourite soaps.

On Friday I watched 'Let The Right One In', then on Saturday I read it. I think that the movie had a better effect. It followed the book quite closely, but the ambiguity of the film was nicer somehow.

At college, we've been doing project work (design and plan an installation for a newly built warehouse and old asbestos riddled pump-house) and 3-phase theory (phasor diagrams and the such). When I'm underway with my project I shall post up some pictures. I don't really have great internets here in Inverness- the College have annoying filters and the coffee shops aren't very close.

Also been playing Guitar Hero on my DS. It's very good, but it makes me miss my own guitar.

I thought it might be more fun to count down. :D

099. Charlaine Harris -Dead Until Dark
100. Lian Hearn - Across The Nightingale Floor

Got to Inverness on Sunday, and I'm staying again on Montague Row. Filled up my wee computer to the brim with music, films and eBooks to keep myself amused. I've only been at college for two days and already I have a boatload of homework. Going to be very busy for the next while, but that's okay, it'll stop me getting listless and bored.

Also, if you haven't seen it, watch Mononoke. It is made of so much awesome, words cannot express. Seirei No Moribito is pretty damn good too :)

Hope 2008 went well for you :)

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon contemplating what I wanted to do with the next year, and thinking about what I'd got out of the last one.

The Good:

• Completed my first year of Electrical Installation, and was in Inverness at college a total of four times.
• Worked like hell, paid the bills
• Completed an OU Level 1 course in Maths, which I passed with 88% (Yay!)
• Did a 90 Hour 'Foundation Studies in Exercise' course, just for teh lulz
• Sang tenor in the Christmas Choir for the second year
• Wrote some songs with Neil
• Little trips to Glasgow to see friends and remind myself what civilisation looks like.
• Living in Shetland and seeing my parents and sisters.
• Keeping my job.
• Got a wee Asus laptop. Sweet.

The Bad:

• Stress. At college, at OU, at house mess.
• Working too much~ tired busy, no time :E
• Feeling like I'm not really getting done what I want to do.
• Living in Shetland, away from my friends

I am thankful for another year.

Thoughts for 2009:

• College work: I have project and logbook to complete by the end of March, so that will take up the first quarter year.
• Computer: Want a workstation for recording music as my current computers aren't really snippy enough to deal with uncompressed audio.
• Album: Want to get some more substantial music-making done, take those songs and get them on a computer.
• Meditation: Make the habit of doing it every day.
• Gym & Exercise: To keep going whenever possible.
• Japanese: Muuch more work needed XD
• Livejournal: In a moment of MADNESS I went and bought another years subscription, so I shall make an effort to post once a week.

And for a bit of fun I'm going to go for a HUNDRED BOOK CHALLENGE, since I got to 69 in 2007 ::list::. I'm not going to count manga or graphic novels, since I could probably whip through a hundred in a week. Got a nice Amazon voucher for Christmas from Mom & Dad, so I gleefully went and ordered a huge number of books.

Have a nice year, my peoples! :D

1. Aeschylus- The Oresteia
2. Plautus- The Brother's Menaechmus
3. Plautus- Pseudolus
4. P.E. Easterling- Greek Tragedy
5. Milan Kundera- The Joke
6. Dōgen- Shōbōgenzō
7. Trudi Canavan- The Magicians' Guild
8. Trudi Canavan- The Novice
9. Trudi Canavan- The High Lord
10. Josef Skvorecky- The Engineer Of Human Souls
11. Peter Levin- Write Great Essays!
12. [Aristotle]- The Athenian Constitution
13. Everyman's Collection- Haiku
14. A. Andrewes- The Greek Tyrants
15. Thomas Cleary- Zen Antics
16. Lubomir Dolezel- Narrative Modes In Czech Literature
17. V. Ehrenberg- From Solon To Socrates
18. Primo Levi- If This Is A Man
19. Primo Levi- The Truce
20. Primo Levi- The Periodic Table
21. McGregor & Boorman- Long Way Round
22. Herodotus- The Histories
23. Primo Levi- The Drowned And The Saved
24. Roy Armes- The Cinema Of Alain Resnais
25. Marguerite Duras- Hiroshima Mon Amour
26. John Ward- Alain Resnais, Or The Theme Of Time
27. Sallust- The Jugurthine War
28. Richard Osborne- Eastern Philosophy
29. Ronald Mellor- The Roman Historians
30. Philip Thody- Introducing Sartre
31. Kraus & Woodman- Latin Historians
32. Thomas Scanlon- Spes Frustrata: A Reading of Sallust
33. George Paul- A Historical Commentary on Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum
34. Donald Earl- The Political Thought of Sallust
35. Simone de Beauvoir- The Mandarins
36. Sorley Maclean- Dàin do Eimhir
37. Cicero- Selected Works
38. Jeff Lindsay- Darkly Dreaming Dexter
39. Jeff Linsday- Dearly Devoted Dexter
40. Neil Gaiman- Neverwhere
41. Neil Gaiman- American Gods
42. Neil Gaiman- Anansi Boys
43. Nicholas Fisk- Starstormers
44. Nicholas Fisk- Sunburst
45. Nicholas Fisk- Catfang
46. Brian Scaddan- 16th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations: Explained & Illustrated
47. Ian Marter- The Sontaran Experiment
48. Ray Bradbury- The Illustrated Man
49. Hunter S. Thompson- Hell's Angels
50. Julian Bridgewater- Home Electrics
51. Robert Harris- Imperium
52. Rumsey & McCormick- Sound And Recording
53. Shelton- Electrical Installation
54. Apple- Soundtrack Pro Manual
55. Hamiru-aqui- 270 Japanese Gestures
56. J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
57. J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
58. Simon May- Atomic Sushi
59. Roald Dahl- Danny the Champion of the World
60. Jonathan Rice- Behind The Japanese Mask
61. Jim Pym- You Don't Have To Sit On The Floor
62. Eric Chaline- The Book Of Zen
63. Joe Joseph- The Japanese
64. John Whitfield- Guide To Electrical Safety At Work
65. Sarah Shurety- Feng Shui for Your Home
66. Isaac Asimov- Complete Stories
67. Douglas Coupland- Girlfriend In A Coma
68. John Whitfield- The Electricians Guide To The 16th Edition Of The IEE Wiring Regulations BS 7671
69. Trevor Linsley- Advanced Electrical Installation Work