I know that the phrase is usually 'spring has sprung'... but it's only just beginning. Today was 17C (omg so warm! not.), which was a nice change. The blossoms have started on the ornamental fruit trees (cherries, apples, plums etc) don my street, freesias have started to flower, and the birds are singing. Today at 4 o'clock, it was actually relatively bright. The problem is, I'm going to be stuck inside more and more. I have a paper due wednesday, then an essay dues in four weeks, and then everything is due in the six weeks after that. I'm going to have to get loads of primary sources and do loads of research, which is terrible, because I get caught up in the reading and suck at the writing. Especially as it's Australian history. Last year, I spent 4 hours doing a 1 hour research assignment on a soldier from the First World War who is listed inside the war memorial in town. This time it's going to be worse. One of my friends found an interesting story from the 50s, when the Communist party was banned for two or so weeks before the legislation was overturned by the High Court. The state headquarters were raided by the police, and the reds somehow found out. They burned the membership lists, and in the main office, wrote on a blackboard, "if we had know you were coming, we'd have baked a cake". Thats the kind of story that is going to fascinate me and make it difficult to actually get the writing of an essay done. On the gaming front- I'm making steady process in Phantom Hourglass and have stalled in Prof Layton. It's hard. The Force Unleashed demo is really good, I'm looking forward to the game proper. I got the fourth and fifth season of Stargate Sg-1. It's steadily improving, I'm really liking it. Issue 32 of Knights of the Old Republic is really good too, I just hate the fact that now I have caught up to the releases, I'm going to have to wait three weeks to find out what happens in the story-arc. I saw the twist coming, because I had accidentally read some spoilers. :( But it's back to the really good art stle of... I think it's Ching and Atiyeh. Can't remember who's doing this one. The conclusion to the whole thing looks close though... on the one hand, 3 years is a long time to sustain a story by releasing an episode once a month, on the other, there is just so much more left to cover and I hate that it seems to be drawing to a close so soon after I started reading. That is all for now. I have nothing left to say, other than I don't want to do my extra reading assignment for Classics. It looks really boring, I chose a bad week. :( Cya.