Audience of One

Final day (library)

I slept this afternoon so hopefully will be making a lot more sense than last night. I don’t think I should allow myself to post a blog entry when I’m that tired.

Today my employment ended with my other job, that of library assistant. I came home via an animal rights protest that I almost got caught up in (managed to find a side alley while they came past, and took a few pictures of their placards and costumes). I returned home to Return of the King; though I had other things I should have been doing, I was tired and wanted to relax a bit first.

Five hours later having fallen asleep, I was woken up for supper, which was promptly followed by Doctor Who. Now I’m reasonably awake, but had fallen asleep just as the Black Gate opened and really don’t want to do what I have to: namely, prepare a presentation about Japan for the kids’ group I help with Sunday mornings. Tomorrow is our final meeting before I go, and because of the school holidays and the late notice of organising the trip, half of them won’t know I’m leaving until tomorrow.

I think that’s all to report for now. Next week, I visit Nathan in Cambridge (where I will attend a biochemistry and physiology lecture, just so I can say “I’ve attended medicine lectures at Cambridge!”), as well as do all the final shopping for my trip. I’m also accompanying my brother for his AS music recital (or part of it at least) and giving a short talk to the CU that I ran for almost two years (but haven’t been back to since I left school). There’s also more thank-you letters to write, Japanese to learn and cross-cultural awareness books to read and digest. So when I say I’ve finished work, what I mean is I’ll have the time to do all of the work I should have been doing since I decided to go to Japan, but haven’t got round to because of paid employment. (Paid employment really does get in the way sometimes.)

My student loan application has been submitted, and in a month (while in Japan unfortunately) I will be applying for university accommodation. Uni draws near, but first Japan awaits. What fun! (That wasn’t sarcastic. I’m really looking forward to the next few months.)

Edit: Just reading back what I’ve written I realised I said “I think that’s all for now” and went on to write two paragraphs. For those of you with a greater knowledge of the English language than I have, is there a special word for this tendency? I seem to do it rather a lot. (Look, now there’s three paragraphs. I just never know how to stop writing.)

Matthew @ 20:17, April 22, 2006 to Diary | Comments (4)