Xanga Featured Question: What are your plans for the summer?
A friend who uses Xanga to run their blog occasionally answers so-called Featured Questions, an idea that site has that supplies interesting questions to, theoretically, stimulate good writing. I thought I’d answer a few myself as this blog is getting a bit monotonous to update at times as it feels like writing a ship’s logbook.
Xanga Featured Question: What are your plans for the summer?
Goodness me I have a huge amount of these this year. There are so many things I want to catch up on, so many things I want to read, so many people I want to talk to. I’ve made myself a list, in fact, of things for the summer and am adding to it when I think of others. The problem is that it is only six weeks, which is somewhat limiting. So in terms of catching up, I want to get back into Wikimedia and freenode. I want to get back into answering press enquiries for the former, and just being around and being helpful for the latter. At present I am so inactive it is annoying as I can’t help these things I have been trusted with jobs in.
I have a lot of books and the like that I want to read. There are various bits of philosophy I want to understand, and I’ve ordered Russell’s History of Western Philosophy. I can just read away, and post things that I don’t understand to the fantastic Debate List community for help from others – I want to keep this list going as in the summer people do have more time to answer it. I’ve also got a pile of fiction to read, such as some of Tolkien’s non-LOTR books on Middle Earth. Then I’d like to do some background study in preperation for my application to Oxbridge; this likely means some sort of maths plus the above philosophy. So I have lots of learning that I would like to do that I simply don’t have time for at the moment. My parents think I should get a job this summer but I really don’t need any extra money as I hardly spend it and would much rather spend the time expanding my mind. Additionally, I have lots of games to buy and play on my recently-constructed computer. Various exciting worlds await.
My only concern here is of course to ensure that I use my time effectively. I am going to try and plan my time around Wikimedia/freenode, learning, and gaming as described above. Through all this I intend to try and tweet regularly, and try not to entirely lose touch with others via handy Internet tools, and of course there are various special events planned, like the Debating Matters final, and university open days. Let’s see how well I manage to do it all – after exams, and a few weeks of starting next year’s work.