it's incredible that i got up early today, made oats-porridge for breakfast, cycled 25 minutes through the morning-school-run and traffic to the Science/Natural Science campus at Kings Buildings to attend the first part of the LATEX course. i don't know why but i guess i should learn how to present manuscripts in a professional way and not bother with fighting with Word to suppress its inbuilt desire to do what it thinks i should rather than what i want... we'll see if i manage... it's a little like HTML scripts from the wee bit i have dappled with in both sprache. i know too little of either but enough to get by i suppose. another session tomorrow!
oh... my back hurts from carying too much stuff... i often wish we could have extendable arms.... for the purpose of self-massages... won't it be great?!
in the evening, i met up with ruth and her amazing friends who work for various NGOs and grassroots for Nepali dinner and chatted over refugees and asylum seekers' plight' and the rifts in perceptions between the 'victims' and law-enforcers etc., about scientific dependence on animal organs and animal research, etc. catching up and getting to know a few more unfamilar faces.
when i got back from the lovely meal, i found my new Driver's License with the updated new Address and a package from the Poetry Society in London... lots of poems in the quarterly review.... yeay... here's one i like which is perhaps apt for the apparent chill that has suddenly arrived:
Winter Interior
Sheep in smirr
Without shadow now, the snow,
the straw strewn by her.
She reads indoors.
Words grow smaller.
The kettle on the stool waits with her
through winter.
--- Gillian Allnutt ---
from "A Shepherd's Life: Paintings of Jenny Armstrong by Victoria Crowe"
in Sojourner
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