A fickle time of night: The Recovery Post

That, my friends, is the one perk of studying. The breaks. Of course, the worst is over. I still can't believe I have officially taken my last papers in RGS it's crazy how quickly time passes when you forget to keep your eye on it. Just two weeks ago I was getting all stressed out and spending my holidays cramming my brains dry.

Alright, no. That was a lie. Over my September holidays (the one-week one, yes) I successfully procrastinated 10 000 times over the course of many many days, and I cannot for the life of me see how I managed to cheat myself into thinking I was being productive. seriously, for the whole of the holidays I was avoiding revision for any of the sciences other than chemistry and also of course, literature. I think subconsciously I was very much afraid of getting started because it'd sort of be admitting my ignorance and having to face the things I had to study was really crazily daunting. I also wanted v badly to be able to dress up and go out and so I kept wasting time on travel and stuff...

I just made studying sound like a really bad thing, but no. Once school started and I really got into the studying mood it's a pretty cool thing. I managed to rediscover my ipod and fall in love all over again with anberlin & the fratellis again. Good music is the key.

(alright now my sense of time for this post is really screwed because I saved that last chunk as a draft and today I have more to say ahhhhh)

o.k. one downside of this newfound liberation is that it has screwed severely with my sleeping hours. when I got home from my paper on friday I was so eager to take a nap I slept from 11am - 3pm and that night and every night since I have been sleeping at 4am. I should stop, really really really really really. My nose is working up and I can't open my eyes seriously have to peel them open just to see.

I'm going to die so early because of my lousy habits...

o.k. pictures!

so Nicole and I went to the airport to study on goodness-knows-what-day-now. We got there at 4pm or so and officially started work at 5 (haha we are not the most efficient I know). After we finished work at 10pm we spammed a gazillion photos for each other and together on timer mode, with my cam teetering precipitously - okay maybe not precipitous, but still - precariously on a random wall.

this is by far both nicole and I's favourite photo out of the awesome billion because we look simultaneously equally ridiculous.

yey tourist in our own country

beautiful nicole

one of our shots from far away. we managed to catch the last train that night despite our time-wasting. just in the nick-o-time.

The Sunday before my chem and lit papers and thus before all the papers began was insane. My family and our neighbours went for a dinner and I made the mistake of drinking more alcohol than I was used to (did not get drunk thank goodness I stopped before that) but I am not a drinker and the next day I took my tests with a headache. :( fortunately, I am used to my diseased state and so it did not kill me. in fact, I think I functioned fairly well in my discomfort. still, not the cleverest thing to do.

and now I am hobbling back and forth across time and space but I have finally gotten to what I really wanted to write about! The best part of my after-exams is definitely spending my day making my own DIY bokeh filter out of $1.65 black card and then testing it out. It's so exciting I wanted to test it out immediately and so I made my cousins and sis and marcus go out with me to the roadside to take pictures of the street lamps and car hazard lights; the pictures are in no way artistic I just felt so excited playing with the bokeh. today I brought my camera and filter to school and I think I am getting butter! better.