silva rerum

and suddenly his other voice: Where are your sons?

Watching Card Captor Sakura has put me in such a great mood – it wasn’t so long ago that I was young and inno­cent and care­free! It’s dif­fi­cult to believe that I’m cur­rently stand­ing on the pre­cip­ice between child­hood and adult­hood; it’s sur­real that it wasn’t very long ago that I was tying my first pair of shoelaces or turn­ing double digits (I thought it was such a big deal! I was genu­inely tor­tured by the respons­ib­il­it­ies of being 10 back then). I won­der what’s ahead?

I must be liv­ing vicari­ously through my friends on their vaca­tions: L is hap­pily shop­ping in Hong Kong, J is tak­ing won­der­ful pic­tures there as well. N still man­ages to com­plain about Florida but he’s genu­inely happy about being on vaca­tion, I know. J is head­ing to Toronto for busi­ness but it’s still excit­ing. K hasn’t updated me about Costa Rica but I’m going to assume he’s hav­ing so much fun tak­ing pic­tures. I’ve been track­ing K on Twitter and MSN and she’s head­ing some­where too – I didn’t think it prudent to ask where, but I hope she has a safe jour­ney as well! I enjoy read­ing people’s blogs about their trips; it makes me want to have a travelogue when I go abroad as well. Too bad I won’t get a chance to go on an exten­ded vaca­tion until I gradu­ate (due to co-​op and obvi­ous aca­demic restrictions).

I’ve been so sur­pris­ingly pro­duct­ive today, I’m really quite proud! Finished my applic­a­tions for the Dual Degree (B.Sc. and B.A.) and English Literature majors pro­gram. I hope I get into both; I don’t think I have the highest marks but my state­ments of aca­demic intent are quite full of pas­sion and con­vic­tion! Why I am not in arts, I won’t ever under­stand, but I can’t let these oppor­tun­it­ies pass me by!

I recently signed up for CiteULike, an inter­est­ing way to browse schol­arly art­icles. I used to keep paper cop­ies of all the art­icles I found inter­est­ing but, because I find nearly everything inter­est­ing, I was rather quickly over­whelmed. My CiteULike only has a smat­ter­ing of art­icles I’ve read over the times, but I’ll slowly pop­u­late the list. One day, if I ever become an aca­demic, I’ll have a cool list of my favour­ite articles!

Third Girl has been mildly dis­ap­point­ing to say the least; I was expect­ing a riv­et­ing Poirot mys­tery but it’s been very slow to start. I’m not even sure I can say that it has star­ted at all – Mrs. Oliver has been doing most of the leg­work (though that’s pretty much par for the course; Poirot sits and thinks while the auda­cious Mrs. Oliver runs around gath­er­ing her lucky clues).

I guess these days of idle­ness are going to end soon. (I still need to learn how to drive!)