Arbor Day/Morse Code Day/Child Care Professionals Day/Freedom Day (South Africa)/Independence Day (Togo)/Festival Of Roses (South Carolina)
2007-04-27 @ 4:29 p.m.

Managed to survive the last working day of the week without doing anything overtly taxing! Unless you count being drenched in sweat after trying to wrench a bloody power distribution box out of the framework. I perspire easily, which is why I'm glad that I'm going to spend my three years of university in a colder and drier climate. I'll probably regret typing this when my lips are cracked from the cold and my skin is dry, but right now, I hate the balmy, tropical environment of my island home. Have been reading Richard Calder's Cythera, which is getting a bit tedious. The story introduces a cyberpunk future, which is interesting, but difficult to empathise with after the first 100 pages or so. This vision of the future somehow feels a bit dated, built on stereotypes, especially in its portrayal of the North-South divide. I think I'm better off waiting for Tony Ballantyne's conclusion to the Watcher trilogy, which is at least set in a future that meshes better with the present, but what the heck, it's only another 50 pages or so before I reach the end of Cythera, so I might as well get it over with. Then it's on to this a book that's a blend of science-fiction and philosophy, or what the author calls sci-phi.