I've been done work for just over two weeks and so far I have managed to stave off boredom - a very good thing. Here's what I've been up to:- Feeling nostalgic about work being over and reflecting on my experience.
- Hardcore cleaning my room. It was unlivably, disgustingly cluttered when I moved back home and I hated it, so I've been reorganizing and getting rid of A LOT of things, be it recycling them or putting them aside for donation. It's so liberating to dispose of things I no longer want, use, or need but that I've held onto for so many years.
- I went up to Christine and Alexander's cottage for a few days, which was awesome (and also exactly what I needed to look forward to in my post-work nostalgic haze). I got to do all of the Up North-y things that are, in my mind, summer essentials: swimming in the lake, reading on the dock (and jumping in the lake when it got too hot), campfire-ing (even if it was lit by a blowtorch), small town ice cream outings, canoeing, and so on. It was also nice to be around people 24/7 again like I'd been at work, after a week of being home, mostly alone during the daytime.
- Reuniting with high school friends. Six of us went out for lunch the other day and it was fantastic. I always find that I don't realize how much I miss people until I actually spend time with them again, and this was no exception. It was also great to catch up with them, and to see how their quirks, interests, and personality traits that I recalled from years past have begun manifesting themselves as passions, fields of study, extracurriculars, and career aspirations.
- Planning things for the extracurricular activity in which I am very involved (as many of you know). We had a series of very long meetings to iron out some major details for the upcoming school year, and I'm feeling good about how things are going so far.
- Slooooowly adding onto a number of blog drafts I have sitting around on my computer. I intend to post some of them shortly, but the main issue is that I started these drafts back in July when the topics were very much on my mind but, due to the busy-ness of work, I didn't have the time to make them publishable. And now that I have the time, I find myself lacking the motivation to do so because I now have new things on my mind and these have been pushed to the inner reaches of my brain. So I simply have too many blog-meriting thoughts milling about my head! I can't wait to move in with my roommates in a few weeks because I'll actually be able to talk to them, face to face, about such thoughts. For now my sole outlet is writing, and you can see how that's going...
- Thinking about the move, and trying to picture fitting all of my stuff into a small bedroom. I have been spoiled with reasonably large living spaces all my life (or, the small ones have only been temporary), so this will be a change to get used to! I honestly don't know if I can fit a dresser, desk, and double bed in my apartment bedroom.
In the meantime, I'm hoping to see a few more friends and to start brushing up on my French. I've started reading some of my French-language Archie comics every night, and once I've finished them I may move on to magazine articles, short stories, and novels. Also, the booklist for my upcoming Children's Lit course was just posted so I'll be collecting the 20 books from around my house, as well as various used bookstores.
Finally, I've been sitting outside for about an hour, first drafting this post and writing it out by hand, then typing it up, finding an appropriate picture, and publishing it. And this hour has been one of the best I've had in a while because in all my "busy-ness" I haven't taken much time to be alone with my thoughts, and this was the perfect setting to do so. (And also, it's freezing in my house due to excessive A/C so the comfortable warmth of the outdoors is a nice change.)
