'Such magic is this to reassure and cheer you on this, your great journey.'

Today I sat three GCSE exams. Intense. But now the horror is over until May, save for one English Literature exam tomorrow morning. I probably should have read Lord of the Flies, but it's too late now. Instead, I'm reading Naive. Super by Erland Loe, which is fantastic. The 25 year old narrator, undergoing an existential crisis, has been convinced by his brother to travel from their native Norway to New York. Naturally, its an overwhelming experience for him, but it's not all bad. I'm jealous, anyway. I'd love to be spending Christmas in New York. The canvas of the Chrysler Building hanging in my room is a poor substitute.

After the exam, school is over for the Christmas Holidays and I can spend two glorious weeks playing around with my new fisheye camera, which arrived today and is every bit as lovely as I thought it would be. I'm a total no0b when it comes to analogue cameras, so this could be disastrous, but I'm excited all the same.
Also, it snowed this afternoon. Thick wet flakes. If it keeps up, we're going to build another snow panda, twice the size of last year's and it (hopefully) won't look like a polar bear (like last year's). Maybe we'll have a white Christmas? A few Snow Days before coming back to school?

All this talk of bears and snow can only herald one thing. The song Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear is stunning, and puts me in mind of snow. The video is just as stunning.