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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…)

First Post!

Welcome to Journee.org, jumping on the blog bandwagon almost a decade late!

This is the first content worth mentioning that this domain has hosted since I bought the domain all the way back in October 2004, and I expect that the unchanging homepage has developed somewhat of a cult following out there on the internets. As such, welcome hundreds of random strangers. If you are mourning the loss of the old Journee.org, it will be archived shortly at http://old.journee.org/.

Anyway, moving back towards some kind of point, I’m not sure what this blog will be used for. Since I’m majoring (soon doing honours) in linguistics, I’ll probably talk about language here, possibly talk a bit about design and photography and once in a while I might even dabble in some political soapboxing previously confined to my updated-once-in-a-few-years Livejournal.

So, my hundreds of anonymous minions, enjoy!

P.S If you have been following this domain’s non-changing (well, it did change occasionally a couple of years ago, a la Google) then you quite possibly fail at life. That, however, is a story for reddit, so we won’t go into that here.