Visas and so forth

We're in the middle of completing the final form involved in Laura's permanent residency application. The main requirement this time is to demonstrate that we've been cohabiting as a married couple for the past two years - something which I wish I'd known sooner would be required, since we don't get much correspondence addressed to us jointly. (This is student accommodation in my name, hence all the bills are sent to me only.) We've had to resort to requesting letters from organisations we've interacted with, confirming that they know us to be living together here... quite a lot of palava, but hopefully it will all be over soon.

L is so clearly happy with her new job (she's got an apprenticeship as a piercer with a shop in Cambridge). It's really great to see her so positive and upbeat. I think the opportunity to socialise (with someone other than me) is doing wonders for her. Between that and our ongoing courses at the Buddhist Centre, we're both feeling a lot more content with ourselves. We're starting the full-year Buddhism course next week - something I'm still vaguely astonished with myself to be devoting time to. Nonetheless, I can't deny that meditating regularly has been having positive effects on me, and Buddhist philosophy - once you get past the popular misconceptions about it - is really pretty interesting.

Revision is ongoing, still not as much as perhaps I would like, but definitely better than none at all. I'm running another modafinil experiment which, if it turns out well, should give me a few extra days' effective study time over the next few weeks. It seems to be going alright so far.

I have been playing with StyleXP - unfortunately I have thus far to find a style I like more than the default one. Perhaps I'll just design one of my own - my tastes don't tend to overlap much with those of others. I've also finally got around to learning the keyboard shortcuts for Firefox, and haven't really touched IE for a few days now, which I feel absurdly pleased with.

New game idea is brewing, but I recognise the danger of this while I'm supposed to be studying, so I'm just going to write down what has come to me so far and ignore it until post exams. ;)