Jo - *hugs* I second (third?) the idea about birdwatching... my sister is really into it, and kind of pulled me into it as well. It's very relaxing to watch the birds - we've got two seed feeders and one suet, plus a ground feeder (i.e., sprinkling seed on the ground, hehe) and a hummingbird feeder in the summer, and there are always birds hanging around! We've had some pretty interesting ones too, like Baltimore orioles, cedar waxwings, and rose-breasted grosbeaks, and I love it in the springtime when the bluebirds come! They're usually in my area around early March, and that is
so encouraging, since it's a promise that spring is on the way.
So I hope that you enjoy the new hobby; it should be a lot of fun.
Mask - WOW! You have been busy! Kudos to you - I know how hard it is to be productive when you're depressed and/or exhausted.
And also how hard it is to not stay online for massive amounts of time....
I tend to do that, shame on me... but I did used to be much worse. It's gotten better lately since I've curbed my IM time back to practically nothing.
I thought I was the only one who does that nighttime thing too .... except for the past month, I've been hoping that the morning
would come fast, because that meant that I would be sleeping.
But usually it's the other way around - I dread the next day even if there is nothing particularly stressful going on. Sometimes it's just hard to want to get up and go to uni and see all of the people and have to be in a good mood with them all and everything.....
It frustrates me as well, when people point out problems but don't give you solutions. Way back, my pastor was talking about anger, and how it's unhealthy to bottle it up inside, but he never gave any way that it was
healthy to get rid of it! And that really bothered me, because I generally have a horrible fiery temper (Irish temper, my fiance calls it... teehee), and I really do need to learn how to manage it better. I've gotten better in the past few years, but there are times when I'm just
boiling with rage. I've just learnt to keep it bottled up. Heh.
Anyway, sorry, that was a bit of a tangent!! I hope you're having a lovely relaxing evening... *hugs* And also that it made you feel better to get all of that out on screen, rather than it exacerbating the "yucky" feelings.
*snuggles BigToe*
Hannah - I love your username change!
It's a lovely one, and such a good thing to remember. Hopefully it'll remind us all to focus more on our blessings rather than the stuff that is rotten in our lives. How are you doing today??
My final was for honors humanities II - basically an English/philosophy class. It was an essay exam, and I think I did okay on it... it dealt with
Waiting for Godot by Beckett,
A Christmas Carol by Dickens,
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, and an excerpt from Jean-Paul Sartre's novel/book
Nausea. I rambled a bit on the last part, but then again, Sartre is an existential philosopher, and in philosophy you are allowed to ramble. ;-) The final was mostly focused on the "moral themes" that were in each of the works I mentioned, and I know that I only messed up about 2.5 points out of 80 for sure. We'll see how I did, though. He grades out of a 4.0 scale, and I just need a 3.5/4.0 to get an A in the class.... *crosses fingers*
The rest of my day has been okay, I suppose. Nothing spectacular. I got ready for doing my poetry submission (we have to do that for our advanced poetry writing final) by researching different poetry journals at the library, and choosing which one I'm going to submit my stuff to. And tonight I've got to really crack down and study for psych - the final is at 10:45 tomorrow, and I still have
a lot of studying I need to do. Of course, I will probably be up until 1:30, so I've got plenty of time. Hehe. And the later it is, the more awake I am, so.........
Okay, I really do need to go get something or other done, rather than just sitting in front of the screen all night! I'll probably be back later, knowing me.... I can't resist the pull of CF for very long. ;-)
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