Of course now that Christmas is about a week away, i’m bumping into stuff i’d love to have for myself, but… Well, maybe with time. Most of them are books. Many books. The few that are not books are an electronic guitar (if it’s about looks, i’m in love with the Epiphone Emperor Swingster), a dslr camera, and if talking general, a laptop. One that will be strong enough to play StarCraft II, has a bigger hard drive (meaning at least 150 gigs) and all its stuff are usable under linux (especially wireless networking and infrared is important). (Neither of which properties my current laptop has.) These are the stuff i plan to buy myself in the coming one year, but still it’d be nicer if someone surprised me…

As for books, there are waaay too many. Just now i was inspired to write this post because i read that the author of the Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer has written (with permission, of course) the sixth piece of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and i’d like to read both. Both the whole Artemis Fowl series, by now six books, of which i only read the first three, and the new Guide. In addition to these, i’m still i serious lack of classics. That includes Shakespeare and Shelley just as much as his wife Mary Shelley, and all the other old “scary classics”. And all the Neil Gaiman books. I wonder if Shiga university library (if i get into that university) has english literature (i have no intentions of reading english classics in japanese), although i don’t expect them to have Colfer or Gaiman there…