bill.journee.org

Still coming. No, really.

Well if we could live off good intentions wouldn’t the world be a better place. By which, clearly, I mean that I (obviously) haven’t done a new layout for the blog yet. It will happen, I swear, I just didn’t realise how much stuff I needed to do for uni in the last/next week or so. That and there’s no point trying to delude myself into believing that people actually read this blog, so it wouldn’t be the end of the world if I just went ahead and deleted the CSS file and let the blog go without…but I digress. A new layout will be up soon.

Moving on from there, I’m slowly moving forwards with the honours stuff. Not to the point that I can say anything useful about what I intend to do for honours, but forwards.

Other than that I’ve been enjoying the quality journalism this afternoon from The Age, whose journalists (along with most of the journalists at Fairfax) have been on strike since mid-afternoon. Interestingly the quality of the paper isn’t going to be affected. Which is good, because apparently the world stopped turning at 3:30, other than to post that one paragraph piece of journalistic gold. I’m just glad that strikes of the entire journalistic staff don’t affect the workings of the newspaper.

That’s about all I can be bothered typing for the minute, I just thought I’d post something on here in lieu of totally forgetting about the blog for another two months…

Second Post

As per usual, I’ve managed to completely ignore yet another block – this one. For the last 2 weeks, I do have some vague sense of an excuse – I’ve been sick. Usually that would mean more blogging, not less, but for the best part of that two weeks I wasn’t even well enough to mindlessly type rubbish (or, more pressingly, to do university work.)

However, moving on.

I’ve started working on a new layout for this blog, so that’s always good (especially considering the abomination ‘layout’ that’s on here at the moment) so hopefully that’ll be up in the next couple of weeks. I’m going to integrate flickr into the new layout, more specifically my flickr account which I’ve been uploading photos to pretty frequently since I’ve been back at uni. I’m also going to define what this blog is about, which at this stage is broadly:

• linguistics
• photography
• design
• politics
• random stuff

In the real world (see the first bullet above), I’ve been trying to sort out what I’m going to do with honours next year – namely, a topic I feel like spending the year writing a thesis on. I’m actually looking forwards to really getting my teeth into something and sticking with it for a year, but what that something is definitely needs some work – I have no idea at this point.

I think the thing that appeals to me about honours is the idea that it moves past the normal assignment thing. Back in high school, I spent the best part of a term working on a ‘rewriting’ of Hamlet for a literature class with a friend. Nice old website there – which looks ridiculous at 1920×1200, and seems to have some strange unicode things happening there. Anyway, the point is that I really had fun taking the time to do something properly (not that it ever got finished (Cassidy ran away to Europe (yay for nested brackets))) and I’m looking at honours a bit like that – something I can really get stuck into.

I’ve crossed off most of the things in my list above, and I’m running short on time, so I’ll be brief. Free tibet. Seahorse party.

Farewell minions, ’till we meet again! (hopefully sooner rather than in 2 1/2 months time…)