“Lifehouse is on tour this summer with the Goo Goo Dolls…”
And unsurprisingly, all the dates are in America. I am dying just a little inside.
Today’s been another really lovely day. A mix of company and quiet, which is something I really value. Slept all morning and in the afternoon the Gravestocks came round, ostensibly because it was B’s birthday, but also so we could kick their asses at Racing Demons and they could vice versa at Articulate. Suuz lived up to the wtfbbq tradition of Articulate by seemingly describing ‘hallucinating’ by telling Benjamin, “It’s what you do to your girlfriend… later on”.
After we’d finished, Suuz and I walked into town to fetch some chocolate to finish off the caramel shortbreads I was making, which was lovely too as we hadn’t had a chance to talk properly since she’d got home. It’s funny, she hasn’t outwardly changed much since before going to Nepal, but she has a sense of something different around her now. An aura, if that didn’t sound so weirdly mystical. I think it’s just how much she’s grown in herself and in God, and how she’s really living that, in everything she does. It’s calming and somehow inspiring to be around her.
Two songs.
KT Tunstall – Throw Me A Rope
Relient K – When I Go Down
Both are rather lovely and peaceful. The first they played on Brothers & Sisters last week, ahah, and today I have been listening to it on constant repeat, because the sound is so gentle and the songwriting is somehow addictive with all its perfect, unforced rhymes. The second I listened to very late last night and oh was it needed. It was the first time I’ve heard a song and related to every single word.
Oh and, my caramel shortbreads have turned out awesomely.
Today has been just awesome. Last exam. !! Awesome.
And this afternoon/evening have been lovely. The beautiful weather lasted all afternoon during our walking around Bradgate, and only really broke after we’d barbequed everything and were sitting down to eat, hee. And the rest of the evening was spent with food and then with John’s bed, which as we know is extremely comfy. I wish Lou and I could’ve stayed longer, but it was her dad picking us up at 9 or my mum picking us up at 10, ahah, so we took what we could get.
I’m worried, but I trust that, like last time, it won’t last. I wonder about something else too, but I imagine that, unlike last time, that won’t either. But both are beyond my control, so I’m going to get back to the important things, like. other stuff.
LAST EXAM FWEE has not really sunk in yet, but I’m sure it will soon. Tomorrow I’m just going to… sleep. And possibly go into town to buy some chocolate to finish making chocolate caramel shortbread with. But that’s really the extent of my plans.
So, today has been… productive. AEA was interesting, ahahah, in that the prose translation was awful (though I wrung sense out of it… just about) and the verse easier, which was unusual – but Pliny was using some Very Long Sentences. And the Catullus litcrit after that seemed very easy indeed as you get a translation with it, though for one of the 10-mark questions I wrote 3 sides and for the other I wrote 1. Time management at its finest, yes. Miss O’C ambushed us on the way out of school to ask what passages we got just as Lou was declaring “and Susan was getting all horny with Mike” and I was putting my headphones in.
So I’m listening to my Grey’s Anatomy playlist at the moment. Yes, I have a Grey’s playlist. And I got hold of Vega 4’s Life is Beautiful the other day, which they played on that episode in S3 where there’s that girl who burns her hand so she doesn’t have to take/fail an exam and everything goes melodramatically “I’m not crazy!” in an elevator. OTT storyline, but the song was awesome. quite Chasing Cars in style, but by meaning much more like Five For Fighting’s Superman. which is a wonderful thing.
Tomorrow’s exam is an afternoon exam, which is awesome as I can sleep in. But even today’s morninglong exam turned out okay, despite lack of sleep. A lovely surprise to see you again this morning, as I was just preparing to not for quite a while. And Lou and I McDonald’s-ed it for lunch and spent the afternoon wandering shops and discussing things in an empty common room. Then I came home and slept. Three-hour exams are surprisingly tiring.
And tomorrow in general should be really fun. Freedom, finally.
Didn’t get up early enough to be feeling tired yet, sadly. But I have a 3 hour latin paper to do in the morning so in a minute I’ll be off to bed regardless.
This evening we walked all the down the golf course from my house to the end of the road, then we fought through overgrown stuff (“It’s a path!”) to the layby and walked back up again. This evening was stunning, even though the rest of the day has been very unsettled. That might or might not be describing the weather. But everything is beautiful at sunset, and perfect from far away.
