Date: 6 October 2003
Subject: Winter is here (ick!)
Age: 20 years and 7 months
Time served: 34 months
As I sit here typing winter is tapping at my window, my scarf and coat are sprawled on my bed and we just turned the heating on in the house for the first time in 5 months...*sigh*... with any luck it'll snow right in the middle just to break the ICK-ness factor a little. I reckon that if its going to be cold enough for snow then it better snow, cos if there is one thing I loathe more than Asian tourists at train stations its lazy weather.
Okay, rant about the weather over...I will embark on what i intended to do when I sat down in front of this screen.I have taken a little slice out of my day to send you a little run-down of the last few weeks' events and other stuff i feel the need to bore you with (he he he, I'm 6000 miles away and fully entitled to!)
My summer break went by so so so fast! 4 months just Whoosh! Gone. I did have an aim for this summer and actually achieved it... Mission: work like a dog, earn lots of cash and have a bank balance that would allow me to be a lazy, intoxicated student during term-time and only work during holidays. The working like a dog part was made a great deal more bearable by my mom, lil sis and best friend coming to visit one per month.
I am 2 weeks into my third year at Slade and don't think the lazy part of my plan will happen. Third year is totally manic, I have this thesis to do and extra courses to take at UCL (its a degree requirement and the course has to be in a different dept. to yours)... add to those in-studio painting, seminars, lectures, a few exhibitions and the result is Sherinne running around like a blue-arsed fly. I am quite proud of myself though because I set myself a routine and so far I have stuck to it: 6am wake up, go to gym,get to uni by 9am and force myself to be at uni until 5pm...(sounds pretty easy, huh? but waking up at 6am after only getting into bed at 3am after a night down the student union bar makes it darn challenging some days)
On the love life front... (BTW for those of you who aren't with a significant other, you are more than welcome to borrow a page or 2 from my book, I'm trying to bring back 50's style dating, I'm trying to start a revolution!) Right now, however, I am taking a breather from all this dating madness... a few weeks off should gimme time to de-stress and get going again.
So for the moment I am totally off the market...hopefully next time around I will find a boy or boys who act like men.
Looking ahead for a moment... plans for my 21st are well under way (in my busy - well, cluttered - brain of course) and although the day isn't finalised, April the 10th is a strong possibility. Its all hush hush, cos I have devised my theme and lots of fun stuff - I love it when a plan comes together!
The only worrying thing about the whole shebang is the guest list...so much for my small, intimate gathering. Sheesh, you don't realise how many family members and friends of the family and friends full stop you have until you write ‘em all down. The list is about 80 but hopefully it'll land up at 50 cos I'm sure a few people in Natal and the Cape won't be able to make it. I am looking sooooooo forward to coming home and seeing lotsa familiar faces all together at once.
Anyways, must go, dinner's ready...I'm starving....and if i don't shut up now, I might not (terrifying thought, huh?) hope to hear from you soon... if you're going to be bad, be good at it...eat your peas, wear your seatbelt and say a little prayer for the Springbok rugby team - they need all the help they can get!
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