So as many of you may have noticed, I have been quite quiet
recently. This is because, as I suspected would happen, I have been crazy busy!
But, there are a couple of aspects to this busyness that I had not expected.
So Lara, what have
you been doing?
There have been three things taking up most of my time over
the last month. The most obvious one is work, and the less obvious are writing
and photography. I have stuck to my NaNoWriMo plans, and am 33240 words into my
novel. I still have 8 days left to write, and I think that I can make it if I
buck up and start writing a little more than 2000 words each day. Which is
totally possible, considering that I got to 25k by the 10th of the
month and have just been slacking since then.
In terms of photography, I have been participating in a
mentorship programme as the mentee. My mentor is a Photography professor in the
States, and I have been chatting with him over Skype 3 days of the week. I am
given assignments to do and am learning how to use PhotoShop, and the
experience has been great (Sausi, my tutor, is AWESOME), but it is also
extremely tiring and leaves little time for other things, like writing.
Oh, and I have been packing. Not as much as I should be
since I have had other things taking up my time on the weekends that I plan to
pack (things like photo shoots or trips to PE or no packing tape being in the
house). But there are a good number of boxes taking up the area under the
stairs and we intend to move a lot of them to the new house this weekend. The
move really is around the corner and it is uber-exciting, especially since I
GET A PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO IN MY GARAGE! Plus, two giant gardens, plus a
house-warming party where people bring gifts and things. Can you tell how
excited I am? I don’t think you can. SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!
What have you been
reading?
Oh yeah, I haven’t given up on reading completely. Though
most of my books have, at this point, been packed into boxes, I left one out
for my reading pleasure, and that one is the book that I recently received from
Loot – “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ” by Jose Saramago. I first heard
of the book when I was doing my post-grad diploma and have been intrigued and
wanting to read it since then. Unfortunately, it is not the most popular of
Saramago’s work and has proved difficult to come across. But I found it on Loot
and ordered it a couple of weeks ago. It arrived last week and I have been
reading it (slowly but surely) since. It is definitely interesting, but not the
easiest read. I will let you know what I think of it when I’ve finished, which
will not be this month considering everything else that is going on.
What have you been
watching?
Not very much – one movie and a couple of series when I am
going to bed at night. The movie that I watched was Easy A, which I LOVED and
will be writing a review of later this week (probably). The series that I have
been watching are Dollhouse (I didn’t get into it when it started, but am
loving it now) Misfits (during my lunch breaks at work – another review around
the corner) and Castle (uber-awesome!)
What about that
uber-awesome cat of yours with the incredibly lame name?
Oy! No being mean to Puddims L
He’ll totally kick your ass! He is a superhero after all! He has been saving me
from 8-legged monsters left, right and centre, occasionally jumping on my head
at 4am to do so and attempting to do the same to Grant (though I stopped him).
He is also LOVING the boxes that are around the house and thinks that they are
there just for him. I think he is not going to be such a happy kitty in 9 days
time, however, when he finds himself in unfamiliar surroundings. But there will
be boxes (and spiders I’m sure) to keep him company, so he will survive.
And so my life over the last few weeks has pretty much been
explained. What’s going on in your lives?
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