Nature

This has nothing to do with me becoming a hermit, or even self sufficient, it's just a nice little link in with a couple of things that have happened over the last few days.

I was walking back between lecture the other day, deciding it would be better for me productively to go home to attempt the summary sheet, rather than try and do it in Labs on campus and get extremely bored. As I got outside, the possibility of rain loomed above, waiting to rupture the dry spell and pour down, but I had a perfectly decent hoody on me, so I chucked it on and let the light shower carry on. However, only two minutes away from my house, the skies really did open up and water cascaded down onto me, and absolutely drenched me. At first, I felt myself get a little edgy, possibly even a bit annoyed, but then I realised that this was what I had always hoped would happen someday; I was finally completely soaked through and had nowhere to go. It was time to feel completely free and childlike again! I jumped in puddles, I went out of my way to wade through deeper water and I was laughing and smiling the whole time. It was, for a couple of minutes, pure bliss.

Today saw the first experience I've had of a blackout up here in Essex. Excuse me, I should mention that it's not the case that I've never been in one before, just never up in Colchester. It brought up very interesting memories and happenings. If you live in Greenstead, I sincerely hope you have your internet/electric back by now.

Lectures are done for me, as far as I'm concerned now, and so the rest of the week is all about enjoying myself. This is possibly the last Christmas with my good friends, as most will be leaving at the end of next year, while I'll hopefully be in California studying maths and also living the life. It's difficult to even contemplate not seeing them again for a good long while, as it turns out they've become a staple feature in my life. Even today, which had to be the most tame outing with the Chloe, Phil, Sam and Phil household was still great fun. Thanks for an excellent night guys, and an awesome year too, without you it would've just been another boring term. Same goes for a lot of people actually, but here and now isn't the time or place for long winded thank you's.

Time to wrap this up. Over the holidays, here are my plans:

1) Take some time to make further progress on my piece of literary fiction
2) Working on improving the show Future Sounds by creating jingles, samples and general cool stuff
3) Get a Xmas job, make a little cash