Whoo, what a relief. That's my second block just about over, and I'm heading home on the plane tonight. Spent the week trying to get as much work finished as possible, so I haven't read much. Not to worry though, with the Amazon voucher Mom and Dad got me for Christmas, I was able to buy many, many new books. Actual impending glee.

Still February is going to be chock-a-block with project work and logbook entries. I look forward to the end of March, and getting everything handed in. Hoping to squidge some excitment in the cracks.

Got my bags packed, and I suspect it's gonna weigh more than 20kg, being that my shoulder cracks every time I pick it up. Since BA has sold our route to FlyBe, they are a lot more strict about such things. Eep.

Have to get back to writing 'Safe Isolation Procedures', which is almost as much fun as it sounds. Have a nice weekend, peoples!

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!

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 :)