Random life shaped updates...

It's been a bit quiet in blog land recently. This is for several reasons:

1) I've been busy
2) I've been lazy
3) I've been trying to write a post about religion and struggling to finish it

So I feel I should offer a few updates in order to plug the gap until I:

1) Become less busy
2) Become less lazy
3) Finally working out what I'm trying to say and manage to vocalise it to my satisfaction

Anyway. Things on my mind.

1) Cycling is awesome. I cycled to Bath and back last week and it was a lot of fun. The cycle to and from work is beginning to kill me less too... I even overtook someone going up a hill the other day!

2) My sister and I have almost finished Battlestar Galactica - only the finale left. Very very very exciting...

3) New music joy is currently being brought to me via Brendan Benson and Johnny Foreigner. I'm also falling in love with City and Colour and Bon Iver all over again...

4) I'm house hunting. Again. Anyone getting a sense of deja vu?! This time, there's no mould related nightmares - simply it's because my sister is moving for a job in June and I want to live closer to town and my friends... Fingers crossed this one lasts longer than 6 months!

5) Culinary updates - have ticked moussaka, hollandaise sauce, gravlax, falafel, chicken mole and enchilladas off the list recently, and am attempting bagels this weekend (in memory of Dublin based holidays). A shocking lack of photos to accompany though, so will try to get one of the bagel making...

6) I'm full of joy for graffiti at the moment - I went to the Crimes of Passion exhibition a few weeks ago and have also been ambling around taking photos (I even took my new holga out with me for the first time). My favourite from the exhibition was this one (painted directly onto the gallery wall)...



7) Progress on the novel has slowed somewhat. When I started writing it, I had a good chunk of the storyline mapped out in my head. Sadly that chunk is now written, so I'm now progressing the story and expanding vague ideas as I write, which is a lot harder work. Still, 23000 words done, which puts me about halfway to a first draft...