Layout suggestions needed

I keep trashing my website design because i’m never really happy enough with it. Designing not really my strong point, I’m pretty happy with this thus far.

Not going for a corperate layout, since I started school again, or at least for this version.

Now please be brutal, this is the only way I’ll get better at designing.

http://www.digitalosophy.com/root/layout.jpg

Mainly the content section concerns me (i.e. where the text and mouse logo is).

Looks a bit bland to me, any suggestions?