Once more, with feeling

Well, here we are again. Things have progressed a little since my last post. I'm back at university, have a new car (Peugeot 307cc) and finding things are pretty much the same.

My 25th birthday came and went with little fanfare. I don't suddenly feel older; I have always had a very old soul. As usual my friends wanted to go out for drinks to celebrate, which would have meant that I would have had to drive. Nice idea, somewhat lacking in the execution and level of thoughtfulness.

The university is still quite disorganised, although the lecturers are finally making their lectures available on the Blackboard system and can keep sending me emails about tuition fees. They still want to give us assignments that are due in the same week as each other. Not including my individual study, I have two assignments due in a day apart.

I'm still single and that's not likely to change any time soon. It's times like these that I regret leaving America and I can't help but wonder how different my life would be. This time last year I was celebrating Thanksgiving with my girlfriend and her family. So many friends I made, when I was out there, most of whom I will probably never talk to again.

On the plus side, my appetite has improved; the cold weather is making me burn more energy trying to keep warm. I have discovered the joys of high-definition content. Even at 720p the quality and detail looks amazing. My current PC as it stands can just about play it, though it can't handle read / write to the same disk (no torrent downloads / video playing on the same disk).

Let's hope things are different when I write my next post.

Alex.

Catharsis

It has been almost a year since my last post to this blog. There have been ups and downs, laughs and tears. Three months into the new year and I am back to where I started once more.

My health is much improved than this time last year, although I'm am still no where near what I would call fit. Once more I am home alone on a Saturday night with nothing better to do than write to my heart's content.

I'm fairly certain my friends have, for reasons unknown, decided to go out drinking without me. Well, to be accurate, I know they were planning on going out drinking. Whether they decided to exclude me is where my uncertainty lies. Whilst I'm fairly quiet and don't drink all that much, it would have been nice to at least been asked and therefore thought of. So instead, here I am listening to music, writing on my blog and adding new material to my fiction.

It is somewhat disheartening to think I made more friends in the three months I spent in the US than I have done in any other part of my life.

That trip abroad has left me with wanderlust and a desire to see a little more of the world. Now would be a good time to do it, as I will be returning to University in the autumn. The question remains; should I spend the money and live a little or spend the time brushing up on my skills?

My heart says live for the moment, but my head says otherwise. The knowledge I once held has deteriorated somewhat and will need work before I return to academia. There is plenty of work that can be done before then and some hard choices needed to be made concerning the subject options available to me.

Alex.