Essay reading after a couple of lacklustre weeks

So Christmas came and went. As did the new year. I've been semi-ill for a week now, and I still have some residual flu symptoms.

Aside from feeling tired and unwilling to do anything I've been mostly excited about making cosmetics, reading the recipes in one of Aromantic's guides and thinking about which ingredients I would like to buy. But I'll try to be realistic: I don't have too much money to spend on supplies and some ingredients I would have a lot left over even from making many kinds of products. I'll wait for the Plush folly course to arrive, and see later on what I want to buy to experiment with. I have time. Also I remember that if I am to really succeed in even a modest way I need to get some friends excited about my products as well, and that is something I can't do yet since I don't have any experience about them myself! Ideally I would like to create products for my closest friends and go on from there.

I'm supposed to write an essay about the use and planning of 3d-modeling software for next Monday (it is Thursday now). As I sit here in my living room covered in sheep hides (I got two for Christmas and I'm in love with them) I'm reading the book Ihmisen ja tietokoneen vuorovaikutus (Human-computer interaction), edited by Antti Oulasvirta. Essays generally make me really nervous and my habit is to just give up, but this time I want to give myself all the time and freedom I need to write something barely passable just to get it over with.

I read about theory of action, and it brought to my mind the operating system I dreamed about a while ago. I would really like to be a part in developing such a system! Maybe there is something for me in this line of work after all.

Nevertheless I'm planning to take only one course next period - about the internet & networks. (Sound vague enough? I have no clue about what it is about either.) Other than that I'll focus on staying relaxed, go to Helsinki in January and to Barcelona in February.