yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

public holiday tomorrow! "assumption day", apparently. god bless roman catholics everywhere cos frankly, i don't see how i'd have held out till friday. ooooo, and ethiopian cuisine for dinner tonight - can't wait for that either.

so... i've been thinking. and it turns out what i need is a P.L.A.N. not exactly a newsflash i know but the thing is, somedays you're just more willing to embrace reality than others. i need to figure out what i'll be doing come next september, and where and - more importantly - HOW? i.e. will it take a bank heist or a hostile take-over of the nikkei or a platinum-exploration dig in my backyard or being adopted into the rockerfeller family... what? plans are everything, you know. and what do i want to study - and why? see, these are just the kinds of questions your average, mentally-stable individual has an answer for, but noooooooooo - not me. no. i must be the one that wanders through life desultorily. and the worst thing about it all is that i DO know what i really (REALLY!) want to do. i do. but i also know that i am soooooo not ready to do that now. maybe after two or three years, i don't know.

oh, and i think my french teacher hates me. not that i blame him - what with me cancelling/ re-scheduling every single session these past couple of weeks. but it's NOT MY FAULT! i mean, if i wrote my own paycheck i could afford to sit these lunch meetings out but life and misfortune being what they are...

now, i know i'm not a lister. not a compulsive one, anyway. not like the friends i have that draw up lists for literally everything - and derive such obvious, palpable glee from it. i make lists only as a matter of expediency. but the funny thing is when it comes to the books i've read and the words i've loved and the thougts i've had and the things i've hated and the ones that baffled me, i feel this need to note it all down. to recount them and then store them away. the thing is though, to what end? i don't get it. but i think i'll try to do it anyway - just for a while. just to see how it goes. so there'll be lots of those on this thing.

here goes...