The week in which I did nothing
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard.
So I had big plans. I probably would have had bigger ones had I had time (also please enjoy how I managed to use had three times in that very short sentence). But a whole week off from school for one reason or another! Imagine! (And all my friends gave me hell for it as well, so I probably should have been at least semi-productive to prove them wrong … or something … yeah.)
Well surprises of all surprises, I wasn’t. My excuse is my upcoming weeks are going to be possibly the busiest I have ever had in my life and I’m resting up for them. As I have posted my travel/visitor schedule, twice I believe, now, I won’t rehash it, but simply add that now I’m also going to Paris with sister and company.
Well Saturday was pretty much recovering from Friday’s Belgium trip. I slept until 11:30, which for anyone who knows me is INSANE! But I think I needed it, so I didn’t feel too bad. It’s amazing how fast the day goes by when you don’t wake up until a little before noon! LOL! So at night we had decided we wanted to go out because, really we just usually end up drinking in some one’s room, so we haven’t discovered Amsterdam’s nightlife to the fullest. We gathered in Sarah’s room because her roommate was tripping to Belgium (as were most international students last weekend apparently.) Haha we ended up not leaving, though there was talk of biking to Haarlam (which I believe I stopped after stating the obvious deterrent of a two hour bike ride each way late at night lol.) But the “party” was quite enjoyable anyway. I got into a deep discussion about human nature, a more superficial one about music, and a fascinating one about writing (which I can talk about for hours.) In the end Sarah, Nick, Tim and I drunkenly agreed to form a ‘writers group’ where we all email each other a work every week and then discuss it the next day. If we actually do it, I’ll probably be surprised, but it could be interesting. I’ve already written my ‘work’ for this week, three short scenes of different emotions. Just creating those three pieces made me remember how much I enjoy creative writing, so if nothing else, something came of it. I ended up finally cutting off my part of the discussion around 4 in the morning (another insane bit of the day) and went to sleep. Unfortunately for some reason I only slept for about 3 hrs (and for a girl who only works well with 8 under her belt, that was kind of rought).
But still it was a gorgeous day and Sunday I went into the city to do some shopping for things like mousse (as I was running out of it) and bobby pins (to keep my hair from going crazy in the wind … for examples of such craziness just see Facebook pictures.) I started feeling sick about halfway through the excursion (cold-like symptoms), so after making my purchases I headed back to Funen to try to recover for the rest of the day. Well I ended up finally watching Supernatrual. I brought season two with me, after I got into season one (thanks mom … lol) right before I left. Well. This kicked off my Supernatural marathon in which I watched the show for three days straight … pretty much. I finished season two (ahhh fabulous!) and moved on to watching season three from streaming the episodes online. This was fine yesterday when it was ridiculously rainy and windy, but today’s gorgeous weather made me feel guilty enough to prompt me to go out in some manner. So I went on a run, and it was lovely. Not as lovely as Jensen Ackles … but you know, what is lol.
Anyway, I just finished the last episode available for season three (damn you writers, wanting your rights and everything…) But I just see no way out for Jensen (a.k.a. Dean). He made a contract with a demon to save Jared Padalecki (a.k.a. Sam) – who, ok so I hated him as Dean in GG but still, is much less hot! – and his year of life he was granted is coming up. Arg. Plus I really don’t like the Ruby, Sam’s love interest, or the fact that the show is turning into Charmed, with all its demonicness – I much preferred it when they were dealing with spirits (even though I would have to close my eyes half of the time lol) Anyway still top-notch. Much better than I had originally thought from watching previews of it (it came on after GG.) Really funny writing, and the bond between the brothers is so awesome and cute : )
Ok way too much about Supernatural, but as its what I’ve been doing for the last couple days it was obviously going to play some part in this post.
So Ok. I pretty much ‘wasted’ my week off, but it will be all good, because my next 6 weeks are going to be one adventure after another. Also I’m looking into travel afterwards. It seems with every minute I change my mind about what I want to do. This morning I was just putzing around online and stumbled across a kayaking excursion around the islands of Croatia. It would be ridiculously expensive, but it looks like it would be totally worth it. Still it will probably have to wait until I’ve become rich and settled in my life, lol. A less expensive version would be traveling around Ireland (which has some great kayaking at some places, so I could at least fit in maybe a couple day trips) and maybe make it more of an outdoorsy kind of trip. I had originally just planned to do the big-city hopping thing, but I’m going to Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg, Berlin and Prague as of right now, so I feel like that will give me that experience. I still haven’t ruled out Switzerland, either for afterwards as I think that would be beautiful in the summer. So we’ll see, I’ll probably change my mind ten thousand more times before it gets here, but that’s what I’m thinking at the moment.
Misc.: I cleaned!! Yay … the room looks much better now! : ) Also I made tacos! I was so excited and proud of myself for how inventive I was about making them … like I heated up the shells in a saucepan on the stove … it was exciting and sure to become an easy dish I can make. The weather here just continues to astound me. It’s absolutely gorgeous! Like every once and a while we will get a truly crappy day, but it’s the exception rather than the rule that I was expecting it to be. I finally got my debit card!!! Yay after two and a half week after mutti sent it, it arrived in my IES mailbox! So excited! Dana will be here in a week and it should be super fun. I’m so excited. The only down side at the moment is that I won’t be able to meet them at the airport cuz I have a class I have to be at, so boo.
Ok off to actually be productive and do reading for class … my first one since last Tuesday lol.
Much love!
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