It's been really warm here the past few days ... I swear, I hate the weather in Taiwan! Just last week, I had to wear layers of clothes just to keep barely warm, since they don't have heating here (and I won't get one of those space heaters 'cause I don't trust my cats around them). The past two days, though, have been really warm. I've had to open the windows, which hasn't really helped much (plus they're letting in a lot of mosquitoes) ... I've contemplated turning on the air-conditioner, but that just doesn't seem right in friggin' January ... plus, I like to save on my energy bill during the winter, since in the summer I have to have both air conditioners going almost constantly and ending up paying a lot on my utilities (and summers here are from like April until November).

I finished the rough draft of the last chapter of my thesis. I've still got some revising to do, as well as the conclusion, but I feel like the hardest part is over. So, I've been totally vegging out so far this weekend and don't feel bad about it for once. I've even started writing my first ever story. I've already finished the first chapter, but I'm gonna wait until I've finished a few more before I start posting it at Nifty, in case I end up getting back-logged or something ... I hate it when I have to wait longer than usual for a new chapter of a story I'm reading, so I want to make sure that if/when I post it, people won't have to wait too long. I don't think I'm a very good writer ... I'm pretty confident in my research abilities, and I can write academic stuff pretty well, but fiction is something I've never really tried. Tentatively it's called "Someday Out of the Blue."

Over and out!