Things

Yay and w00t! I can now rejoice, for my exams are over!

But now I find myself in a quandry, since for months I have been putting things off because, I told myself, my A-level exams were approaching at high speed and I Should Work. Whatever. It proved to be a good justification for not doing other things that would require a lot of time and/or effort. It started off with large things - one of the tasks to do "over the summer" that I noted down in April is "learn ASP" (for upcoming job) - and as the exam period drew ever nearer, smaller and smaller things have crept onto the list. (Or, rather, The List. My life is now ruled my lists of my own making.) It's almost got to the point where if there's any minor task that I find needs doing it will automatically be added to the list rather than be carried out, which has resulted in my rather laid-back attitude of recent weeks.

Anyway.

The point, which I was just thinking about veering towards at some time, is that now I've finished my exams I actually have to start doing some of the things on the list. And some of the more recent items were merely added mentally, which spells trouble because I tend to rely on external memory in the form of notes (digital or otherwise).

Incidentally, I think it's unlikely that I'll exhaust all the items on my list by the end of the summer - one of them is "Read all the unread books", and another is "Watch all the films that are mounting up" (in true me-fashion - which is not to actually do the thing in question but instead do the equivalent of making a note and putting it aside for later - I now have a huge reserve of films that I've either taped or bought since about Christmas and haven't had the time to see yet (mainly because, since Christmas, I've always had Buffy or Angel seasons to watch in boxset form. Alas, no more, for I have caught up with the rest of the non-Sky portion of the UK in that I'm waiting for Buffy S7 and Angel S4. (These parentheses are turning out to be much longer than I had expected.) Bracket ends). (...films taped since Christmas...) and at the last count the ever-growing pile reached about thirty films. They are - hang on, this bracket's getting ridiculously long. I'll come out of brackets now.)

They are: The Cable Guy, Sleepers (can't watch it until I've read the book), The Big Sleep (as above), High Noon, Das Boot, A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Cider House Rules, The Searchers, The Piano, Bridge Over The River Kwai, Raging Bull, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Citizen Kane, Jackie Brown, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Mean Streets, Cube, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Snatch, Midnight Express, Jacob's Ladder, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Wrong Man, Get Carter, The Blue Dahlia, The Deer Hunter, The Green Mile. And that's not counting ones such as Memento which I bought on DVD - I already have it on VHS but it was half-price and I wanted to see the 'hidden feature' whereby you can watch the film in chronological order. Since I've already seen the film it's not included on the list.

Anyway - sorry for the stupidly long tanget, and the frankly messy parenthetical sentence structure back there - there will now follow a short period involving me wandering around and feebly trying to remember what it is I'm supposed to be doing now.

Don't hold your breath.

Although I do know what's happening tomorrow. Tomorrow I will be mostly readin' Harry Potter, because my friend lent it to me today and I have to give it back on Wednesday. My only thoughts so far (I managed to put it down after the first chapter) are much the same as when I read The Goblet Of Fire: that woman is in serious need of an editor. They're too long... (But we love them really.)