#57

It's been a while since I posted anything.

Basically I took a month off from everything (except wrapping up some schoolwork and working on the improvements for my Star Lord costume). I think it was good for me! Not that keeping up a blog (especially when this is more of the journal sort, instead of an active community where I'm required to post for followers) is a big burden, but I just couldn't be bothered to think up stuff to write here, basically.

Christmas happened. What a surprise. I just had a regular kind of quiet Christmas at home with my family and my sister's dog. M is now a 6-month-old perky little Yorkie puppy! He's great. I still wouldn't want a pet of my own, though, but thankfully my sister lives away from home so I don't really have any beef with her having one. I got the UK edition of Cards Against Humanity from my parents, which was awesome. Also some other miscellaneous gifts.

I also spent NYE at home. I've spent the day on a camp for the past 5 years in a row, so it was sort of a strange experience to be home for it for once. Again, I just stayed home. What I consider a great achievement is that I completed Outlast, the Whistleblower DLC and Bioshock: Infinite during the holidays. I also played quite a lot of Far Cry 3. I hadn't really had time to play anything during the autumn, so it was nice to be able to spend some time on games I'd been neglecting for a while.

School started, and I'm trying to work as hard as possible to catch up on the few remaining overdue assignments that I still have. One of them - originally a group assignment - was luckily also overdue for one of the other students in my group, so I can finish it up with her and the amount of required writing was subsequently halved. Yes!

On the subject of assignments, I'm actually at the Helsinki campus library at the moment, working on my report from the work placement period of last fall. I found some good source material, and returned books I was using for my papers on contextual theology and multicultural work in the Evangelic-Lutheran Church earlier - I got the best possible grade for both of those, by the way. I'm pretty proud. Also I did rather well in our professional English course, so that's good.

I was going to go to Taizé again next spring, but that plan was kind of cancelled. Only a couple of people ended up wanting to go, and I wasn't that excited about going with them. Also the logistics of taking the trip there changed, and I wasn't too fond of them. But oh well, I can always go again later with some friends whose company I know I'm going to enjoy a lot! Also I now have some extra money left over, because I'd saved up for the plane tickets to Geneve earlier.  I'm currently debating whether I should buy either a Wii mini, an used Wii, or the Wii U possibly before the summer. I've had J's hand-me-down Wii for over a year, and haven't been able to get it to work. Damn.

Anyway, I think I'm going to work on my report for now. In case someone who's interested in my Star Lord costume improvements, I'm going to edit them into that masterpost from September at some point. Mostly I got some new props and modded them a little bit. But I do have suggestions on where to buy them, etc. so hold out for that!

Bye!