Whale Day
2008-05-28 @ 11:57 p.m.

I finally decided to be a bit more proactive in the matter and modified a template so that I could compile the last stack of EVs. It's looking good, if I do say so myself. Still got some problems, but those are pretty much beyond my control, so I'll just highlight them tomorrow when I bring the hard copies back to the office. Then it's off to VivoCity to do some serious shopping! I am, at the present moment, inexplicably hungry. I have developed a sudden desire to seek out online literary journals and read them. Though whether that'll actually happen remains to be seen, considering that I've meant to read the back issues of QLRS ever since I was published in it but I've never ever got around to doing it. Instead, I am clicking through Excel files, crunching numbers and rescaling charts. I haven't even managed to finish reading any of my library books. Sometimes I feel like I borrow books for the sake of being able to say that I've attempted to read them. There is no denying that my borrowing list sounds intelligent, almost pretentiously so. Come on, Tomas Tranströmer? I picked it up because his name sounded cool, his work was deemed important and significant according to the blurbs on the back cover, and I've never read anything by a Swedish writer before. The closest I came was as a kid, because Roald Dahl, while born in Wales, was born to Norwegian parents. I know, I'm being silly. For the record, I did manage to read some of the poems, which I half-understood most of the time. I'm starting to understand the appeal of poets like Frost. Haha...