Good day

2003-12-20 at 4:21 a.m.

You didn't want to know that, right? Right.

Anyway, today has been rather pleasant. I got up late, slight hiccup when I realised I have no money for my ticket to Northumberland, but then I remembered I have a Switch card so thats alright. Then I got the tube to Victoria and went to the Catholic bookshop there. I had a scout about looking for (cheap) things which might conceivably be helpful for the SI & Christianity project. I found a couple of things - a letter from the Pope about Christ within the sick (devotional content, I'm thinking) and a thing about mental illness which has turned out not to be very useful, but which is interesting anyway. I saw a great book, quotations from the Fathers and Saints and Popes and stuff about depression, but it was £10 so I can't afford it right now. Maybe after Christmas.

Since then I've been emailing people I said I would, going on chat to ask people there about SI, and thinking. I've come up with some ideas - which I'm too tired to talk about now - and a title : provisionally, I'm going to call it "Self Injury: A Theological Reading". I was going to call it "Mortifying the Flesh: A Theological Reading of Self Injury" but I'm not so sure about it. Its a choice between the two anyway.

I'll work on it over Christmas. I don't want to start creating graphics etc before I have the subsections of a site mapped out, before I've decided what I'm actually going to talk about. Up in Northumberland I have my commentaries, bibles, and theology books so I'll dig them out and have a good look through. I'm not sure how good this is going to end up - I certainly don't have the resources now that I had at university, but I can always revise, I suppose. No more directly typing into a site for me - this is going on disk so it can be edited better.

Anyway, tomorrow will be a busy day, I'm going to print out a load of interesting stuff I found about this online.

On a more personal note: I'm getting increasinly worried about money. Because I've been in London for so long, I haven't been able to cash my cheques from the Department of Work and Pensions, so I've been getting money from dad. However, lately he hasn't given me enough or not at all, so I've been digging into the money that was sent to me for my birthday. From having £60 I now have £10. I really, really hope I can get it back from the giro money - because I wanted to spend it on something special, not food and stationery! Anyway, I'm trying not to think about it.

*Think happy thoughts* actually I've been better today. Probably because I have a project to work on. I just worry that I won't have the stamina to keep it up. That keeps happening with me, I get a good idea, get obsessed with it for a while and then give it up. Hopefully (this sounds bad) the fact that I'm still an active SIer means I won't get bored with it. Hopefully. I think it is a worthwhile thing to do.

Anyway, off to bed for me.

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