Saturday, November 22, 2014
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At long last, the freedom I've been anticipating since March. Basically it's been a horrible final week trying to keep my head screwed on while torturing myself thinking about everyone else's freedom. Fuck the last two exams, fuck the anticlimax. Three blissful months of sloth behaviour, so ready. It's going to pass so much faster than last year's break.
First thing I did once I got home on Friday was watch Beauty and the Beast, Bridget Jones and Love Actually, needed some brainless activities. It was so tempting to watch the OSCURO dvds that I finally collected that afternoon but since Jen has gone to Beijing for a month, I've got to wait so we can watch it for the first time together. Me and Anika also had a long overdue chat. So it was an anticlimactic but very peaceful first day of break.
FINALLY I started reading today, and The Handmaid's Tale was first on my list. I'd already had a vague idea of the basic plot but the first hundred pages I got through weren't what I was expecting, at least in terms of narrative style. Hopefully that can be finished within the next few days. It feels so good to just lie there and not have to stress. Edwina and I made red velvet. Attempts at a healthy lifestyle begins tomorrow.
Since I'm going to limit any form of money spending as much as possible, it seems right to make some goals to work towards in the solitude of home this break. Besides reading, there's a bunch of piano pieces I want to re-master and new ones to learn. It's been a therapeutic activity to play again.
Aragorn, dribble.
10:13 PM