Busy doing nothing

Today my order from Amazon.co.uk arrived. I'm so excited. It contained "Angel season 2", "Pride and Prejudice" and Aimee Mann's "Lost in space" - making a grand total of about 1000 kr. But I can affort it since I've just been offered over 2000 kr for about half of my collection of Diddl postcards. And I perhaps have another interested buyer for parts of the other half. I've already watched two of the Angel episodes. I'd almost forgotten how great the show was back then. Now it has gotten a bit too weird for my taste but I have high hopes for the current season. - Though I must admit that Spike's return was a bit of a let down. His death was so magnificent and his entire existence was redeemed - and then it's all "fake" and he just pops out of the medallion - I mean, how lame is that! It totally undermines the beauty of his death. But having Spike back is a nice thing (at least I hope, because I haven't seen him in action on Angel yet) - and also having Harmony back, this is going to be good. And all the tension with Spike and Angel because of their past - and of course because of Buffy. It's going to be so great! I can just feel it!

I've found a flat which I've fallen completely in love with - I haven't calculated on the the key figures yet, so I don't know if it'll be a possibility, but it's really charming so I hope it'll be. Of course things can change when you actually take a look at the place. The most funny part is that it's only three blocks away from where my dad grew up, so he's quite familiar with the neighborhood. It's not very big, only 45 m2 - but the squaremeters are nicely divided making the most of the space and creating nicely looking rooms.

What else has been going on? Yes, I'm beginning the first parts of the expriments for my graduate thesis next week. It's a repetition of our work with rats in the watermaze but with different drugs and different concentrations. But what is really cool is that the professer we work under has been able to use some of the theories we presented in our undergraduate thesis and is now working on a new experiment to test that. Isn't that just the coolest! And I get to have my name on his next publication because I'm now part of the team, being a graduate student. It's just really great! And it really shames the thoughts I had for about 1½ year ago, when I wasn't at all sure it really was a biochemist that I wanted ot be. I'm exactly where I want to be! When he tells us about the projects we can work on I'm genuinely thrilled - I can honestly say that I would gladly spend all my time dedicated to the cause. I like being in the lab and working with the rats (I cannot emphasize enough how cute those little rascals are).

I've also dedicated some of my too spare time doing my own brand of clothes - well it's just a hobby and I'm not going to sell it or anything. I've called the brand "extrinsic" because I think it was a cool name - sort of suggesting "beauty from the outside", cause clothes of course cannot bring beauty from the inside; that's totally up to the person to deal with. Well, my autumn collection so far consists of two tanktops. I think I'm becoming okay in PSP7. I've done some prints, picking up graphics at deviantArt.com, composing an image and ironing it onto the tops. To be frank, I think they've come out just as cool as most of the T-shirts with print you can buy in the shops - and they've only cost 1/4 the price if that even. I think I'm going to dabble into that some more.

Oh, speaking of graphics - I saw "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" the day before yesterday and I was totally in awe of the job with combining the new digital animation with the classic animation. I think I need to get busy with my computer and learn some of that stuff. That'd be so cool. Of course I'd also have to learn how to draw - but I'm not completely hopeless with a pencil so I can do that.
And on with the little personal projects - now I'm going to search on google on how to play the guitar. I own a guitar and I really wish to be able to play it - but I don't even know where to start. So I'll just go check it out now.