Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

The last four days during which I have been totally away from my laptop... were spent with family. A most informative tidbit of information, isn't that? Doesn't that kind of sentence make you hang on the edge of your seat hankering for more details? No? How disappointed I am. Anyway, last Friday evening (around 5), we left the flat and went onto a train. We were very nearly late, because it's a half-hour ride from the flat to the train station and passengers are expected to be at the station at least 15 minutes before the train departs or else there isn't enough time to run across all the platforms and get to your cabin, you see. Train tickets, here, are separated into many categories: the soft-sleepers and hard-sleepers are self-explanatory. Then there are the seating-only tickets, where you may sit on the various chairs nailed to the train cabin walls but not sleep on a bed, and the standing-only tickets where you're not even allowed to sit (and yes, there are che

I've now been here for nearly two weeks, if I'm counting correctly... the flights were the 4th, and we arrived around the 5th midnight, and it's not the 17th so it's been about 12 days, so I have indeed been counting correctly, and I have indeed been here for nearly two weeks! It turns out that I have been a most dilatory photographer; in the seven months or so since I acquired my camera I have only shot a little over 2 gigabytes of photos. It's rather disappointing, since I was planning to take advantage of the DVD burner in the family computer (not mine) to burn all the photos off and let me start the 2009 collection (my photos are organised by year, place, and then theme, and if the same place or theme is revisited multiple times then I add date-labels to the folder). In any case it seems I shan't be able to do that, though I've been running through my dad's camera memory card and if I consolidate enough I just might accumulate enough for a DVD collec

I type this on my laptop from the computer room of the little flat in Fifth Hun. Outside are my mom and Gobbler and my aunt (mother's older sister), and somewhere running about is the latest addition to the family and the latest in a long line of dogs, Oreo (whom my youngest brother named). She's a little black-and-white ball of fur, whose face is pretty evenly split between the two and so there's always a little bit of oddity for me when I look at her and only one eye is visible (the other is only visible by the light reflecting off it in bright places). It's pretty cold right now--I've no idea what the temperature is, but it's cold enough that the heat radiating off my laptop is a very nice thing for my fingers. I've considered buying myself a nice pair of wool or cotton gloves or, really, any sort of covering to get my hands out of the wind. It's probably compounded by my parents' refusal to turn on the heating except at night, and even then it&#