Thursday, February 2, 2012

Starting something new here... yet again

So, for my one follower, (HI!) I'm going to start adding something more to this blog. I know, exciting, huh?!

First of all, I'm going to continue with my translations, right now being my major thesis project (hopefully) as I work through it. It's called "I Am a Cat" by Natsume Soseki. It's about the changes in Japan during the westernization and industrialization in the Meiji period via the views of a pretentious house cat. It's a very famous novel and will be rather hard for me, but I welcome the challenge. I will post it here, in pieces as I work through it. I may not get through all of it, but this summer I might do the rest if you are enjoying it :)

Secondly, I've decided that I want to start baking more. I've been working in a dining hall this semester, cutting fruit, which is next to the bakery. It's made me want cookies a lot and I want to try new goodies so I think, if we have the cash, each week I will try a new goodie recipe and bake it. I plan on using my hubby and his coworkers as guinea pigs and to keep me from eating ALL the goodies.

So, that's the plan. I only have two sentences done on the translation so far so I'm going to wait until I have something a little more substantial than that to post!