| 10:35p |
Whee! Happy animal.
It's really weird in a way that I've become loads more chilled out about literally everything this past year or two, everything generally seems to be going well and I'm content and enjoying life. I haven't finished my youth work portfolio because one of my assessors didn't do his bit right so it got sent back to me and he's not making any effort to see me and do his bit so there's no point in me doing any of it. I'll hang onto my file so that I can hopefully finish it at some point in the future, but if nobody else is bothered whether I finish it or not then neither am I! I should really investigate local colleges this year and see what I can get myself trained in for free or very cheap this academic year, in exchange for NUS privileges. That's trivial though.
Money is also trivial because I'm making enough to do what I want to do, within reason, and I'm enjoying making it as opposed to finding it a chore to fill my hours in. I'm generally healthy, haven't been drinking as much as I generally would because my time has been filled with interesting fun things. Hayfever hasn't been bad at all this summer either, though that might have been to do with lots of rain. I've also been going to the gym and eating reasonable amounts of reasonable foods, and I've finally been told I'm on the waiting list for knee surgery - this time next year with any luck I'll have 7 healed up holes in each knee and won't have any further issues with them. The idea of having 2 lots of 3+ weeks off work, bike and life on crutches (but on sick pay too) isn't a problem.
I'm vaguely pondering Leeds/Reading if I can get something cheap last minute off ebay, because I don't particularly fancy being around for Manchester Pride - think I'm all Prided out for this year, not generally being a fan of them in the first place because I have no shame anywhere at any time of year.
I'm also vaguely surprised that I'm still really happy to be with El, and I can't wait for El's resits and house move to be over and done with because that time of year is a bit stressy/dull.
Every now and then I think back and am really grateful that I went to Loughborough for Uni. I learned some valuable lessons about myself, people and life as a whole, and while it wasn't particularly fun at the time, I'm glad that everything that happened happened. So what if I still occasionally miss music scenes, sports teams and people as they were, I'm happier now. |