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Sky was showing all of the Indiana Jones films in a row on one of its movie channels to-day.

I didn't get much done to-day.

Also, Raiders is the best.


Have a comic about how cool my new phone is!



As an aside, here's the words I've taught my phone so far (in rough chronological order):
● yuri
● XD
● pwned
● raptors
● raptor
● ChairmanWow (to make it quicker to log in to things)
● btw

That's either a statement on me, or my phone's dictionary's inadequacies; make up your own mind.

I haven't decided what to call it yet, which is a deeply significant decision which I will have to put some thought into, clearly. I'm not sure what me buying a smartphone means for the Zlorq family*. Technological singularity?


I've also got a new desk! One that's big enough to work on and not wobbly.


(Picture from aforementioned phone because my camera has no batteries in it.)
Also a drawer unit so my stuff has somewhere to go that's not the windowsill (my mum really hates that).

I went down to the Adult Learning Centre in Cobham to-day, only to be told it hadn't existed for two years. XD Oops. Anyway, I got a brochure at the library (I might get a library card - it's a pretty lame tiny library, but there must be something in there worth reading), and found a Japanese course in Guildford for JLPT practising purposes, but... it might be a tad too easy. The learning goals lists, along with reading hiragana, katakana, and 80 kanji:

"Ask and answer questions using "Nani( =what)", " Dore( = which)", " Doko( =where) etc..."

...yeah, that's not going to take 12 lessons, guys. Really. Trust me. (This is their Level 2 course, apparently. I don't know what they do in Level 1, but it doesn't involve asking any questions.)


I still have one or two of my comics from Italy to finish, and then there will be a big post about it, promise! I've been busy looking for jobs and researching MA courses and assembling IKEA furniture and probably doing something else that I can't remember now. Sleeping.


Ooh, also, I have been reading Dune. I was expecting it to be a bit silly in an old sci-fi sort of way, but it's actually really good so far. Also, I'm a fan of the idea of sending someone to a planet to insert a prophecy legend into the culture there in case anyone needs to get help there however many years into the future. (I've just read that bit and I have no idea if it's going to be an important plot point or if no-one has any idea what I'm talking about. I imagine it's going to be at least a little significant. At least I hope so, because it's an awesome concept.)


This post ended up being longer than I intended it to be.


*Have I mentioned that my phones are named after/represent in some strange way the royal family ruling a small independent moon colony? It was founded by Zlorq III, which is something I named one of my phones once on a whim.
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