The things we make, the things I've done

I acquire so many hobbies when I'm procrastinating. When I'm not working, my every thought is filled with what I could be creating. I've found useful outputs for this, such as knitting. Don't tell Matt, but I'm knitting him something really exciting for Christmas! And yes, it's now been a few days since that festive occasion, but I've barricaded myself into the house for revision, so I haven't seen him yet. We'll have our own post-Christmas festivities, and I'm pretty excited.

I've had an uneventful break. My last week of uni was filled with things and plans, which kind of overruled my revision. Now the floodgates have opened and knowledge should hopefully be flooding into my mind. That said, today was my first proper day of revision, and although I got a lot done, it's going to be a long slog. Not to mention that tomorrow is new year's eve, and so some sort of partying will happen, and productivity will suffer. It sounds like I'm ultra-lame, but I seriously have a LOT to catch up on. Anyway, let's see what I've made recently.

Article one is my brother's birthday card. His annual aging was a bit earlier in the year, and I took the liberty of making him an elaborate card. Here it is:


It went down pretty well. My brother may be 23, but he still appreciates the finer things in life, such as Optimus Prime and Pokemon. Bless him.

In terms of cooking, I had a big culinary success with the Thai Fishcakes I made for myself and my flatmates. The recipe was from this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pasta-Pancakes-Ultimate-Student-Cookbook/dp/1844007332 which is currently in London so I can't say what went in. But they were delicious, and here's photographic evidence:

Tasty.
I've started reading the complete works of Shakespeare. I'm going to be in a musical next term, and its plot is based (loosely, I may add) on the Tempest. I read the musical libretto first, as I got hold of it first, and I've since been trying to match up the characters with those in the actual play. I read the majority of The Tempest aloud to myself in the bath, and based on initial readings, I'm afraid to say the Musical (Return to the Forbidden Planet) made a lot more sense. Never fear, I'm planning to re-read the play again, to read into some of the meanings. That's what one does with Shakespeare, right?

I've now started on the Taming of the Shrew, anyway, and it's going well. So far this rich Lord is playing a hilarious prank on a drunkard he found passed out by an alehouse. He gets the drunk guy taken into his house and put into the finest room. He has him washed etc while he is unconscious, and he asks all the servants to pretend the guy is a Lord when he wakes up, to fool him into thinking he's always been a Lord, and his whole life was a dream. He even gets a guy to dress up as a woman and pretend to be his wife! What a joker. Anyway, where I've got to the drunkard's just woken up and is starting to believe the farce. Intriguing!

Happy belated Xmas, and laters to all.