Due to a recent move, promotion, change of circumstance I have been very quiet. Now, however, all of that is behind me and I can yet again focus on keeping my habit of writing at least tiny bit every day. I have a couple of assignments at university coming up so I am still preoccupied with lingua franca, standard English and TOP GIRLS. Still it is a great pleasure to be able to sit down and blog for a while.
My new apartment is really lovely. Whilst it is small it is also very cosy and even though I am struggling to come up with a logical and tidy system to put everything away it is still brilliant. It is very sunny in there as well as I have windows facing South and South-West. I am close enough to the Sea, well actually it's the estuary, but far enough not to feel the nasty winds that usually come from the water front. The town is lovely and quite alive too. There are plenty of shops in the high street, and due to loving attention to my needs of Mr. Moon, I have located my favourite shop which sells second hand books. I have increased my collection with an English dictionary and E. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. I know, I have read it six times already, but I have a feeling that in the next couple of years I will have an urge to read it again.
Also in my new work place I have located a reading buddy. Another bookworm, who like myself is capable of reading multiple books at the same time. We already have begun the sharing process. I thought I would intrigue her with Simon Blackburn's The Big Questions: Philosophy. I know it may sound difficult, and in a way it is, but since covering philosophy in my last year at university, I am genuinely interested in the workings of it. I thought philosophy was all about analyzing without necessarily achieving any results. However, I was mistaken, philosophy Is a great process of thought and logic, in constructing and then dissembling arguments. At least this is how I see it. The question is not always as important as it may seem, its what comes from the question that matters.
Talking of big questions, I have another book from the series which I am itching to read, it is The Big Questions: Mathematics and is written by Tony Crilly and edited by previously mentioned Simon Blackburn. I could not find much information on the author except for a short summary of who he is On amazon, which reads:
Tony Crilly is Reader in Mathematical Sciences at Middlesex University, having previously taught at the University of Michigan, the City University in Hong Kong and the Open University. His principal research interest is the history of mathematics, and he has written and edited many works on fractals, chaos and computing. He is the author of the acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley and the hugely successful 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know.
So while this guy might not be as popular to have a wikipedia page dedicated to him, I am sure he is really clever, this assumption is of course made by a person who does not understand mathematics very well and this is why she is going to read the book.
having moved to a location where I am closer to work (35 min walk from my front door to be exact) I have more time for little pleasures in life like reading a book or watching a good film. Talking of films I am currently so obsessed with the Band of Brothers series and now whilst googling it I found there is a book as well, so it was immediately added to my very, very long wish list.
In conclusion all is well, the spring is in full swing now, the weather is lovely, my mood has abandoned its usual depressive shade and I am looking forward to a lovely summer on the seaside. In the meantime I would like to be more honest to myself and make myself as much as possible. Oh yes one more thing I had some good news from an agent in Scotland regarding my children's book, but that is another story entirely...
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