"A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit."

[dieloreley]

I've had a break. Breaks are good. I'm now feeling a lot better because:

1. I slept more than 8 hours on Wednesday night. I'm not slacking -- my day on Wednesdays sometimes goes from 9am to 10pm (uni from 9 to 2; half an hour break, then I have girl-time with my bestie while driving her home because she lives near work; work from 3 to 5:30; home; training from 7.45 to 10 at the latest) and I'm normally really good about studying afterwards, but I had 4 hours sleep Tuesday night so I was buggered. But instead of going to bed like a sane person would, I stayed up til 12 reading dgficexchange. But was so worth it. ^_________________^
   
   I also got enough sleep last night (although Mum's casting worried glances at me because she apparently was up late too because she was staying up with me. I didn't know! She's sick and slept all day and then was up til 1am. Crazy.)
   
   
2. I stopped being all "Having a crap week. Leave me alone or die." I get like this sometimes -- last major ime was in year 12 (2006) which ended with me posting a set of "Do this and die" rules on my blog thinking that it would strike the fear of God into my friends. Apparently I'm not believable enough because my youth leader called me 'cute' (which was apparently on the list -- don't ask, it was an exceptionally irrational week for me), thinking that I wasn't serious and I burst into tears. Fun times. The only silver lining to that was that James got all worried and gave me a hug. A HUG! Me! Him who never gives hugs! Yes, that brightened my day. Now I get hugs like candy although he persists with the (said in macho voice) "I don't give hugs/cuddles" thing. *rolls eyes*
   
   
3. I've had waaay too much chocolate/ice-cream this week to not feel happy. I'm feeling kinda over-full from my ice-cream sundae (vanilla ice-cream, banana slices, Milo, walnuts, almonds. YUM.) which is probably not a good thing. Oh well. ICE-CREAM!
   
   
4. I discovered the joys of sitting in the backseat/boot of my car (it's a station wagon, I'm not tiny enough to fit in a normal boot... trunk?), windows down, on my laptop with the uni internet through my wireless, listening to music that makes me smile. Even while doing work. I think maybe I'm a bit sick of people. I know I got cranky at church camp because I'm used to being able to go to my room, shut the door and not have to be pleasant.
   
   Is it a bad thing that I feel most comfortable with myself? Because with just me, I don't have to pretend to be something I'm not. James is the closest I come to it and still with him, I hold back truly serious comments because I'm scared he'll laugh at them. I only ever get lonely when I'm bored. Or upset. But if I'm content? I could be alone for ages without feeling lonely. I'm a hermit, so sue.

But anyway, enough of that, I've got a lot of work to do (not surprisingly, 80% of it is French homework -- just Asian Studies and Linguistics reading and learning characters for Chinese). So I'll probably be MIA for the next week too.

p.s. I only have one class on Fridays and it's my most dreaded one because half the time I sit there and go wha-??? Anyway, he gave us a translation piece to do for Wednesday. Wednesday. The day I have all my tutorials and thus all homework pieces due. POO. "I'm sorry, the Easter holiday crept up on me and I forgot. You get less time, so I made it due on Wednesday instead of Tuesday." How is that fair?!

p.p.s. My brother has 3 girlfriends. *raises eyebrow* I know he's cute and all, but... what a player!
dragonsangel68, maybe Mitch+date *shudders* wasn't too bad after all?