Nadir

My parents went away this monday to wednesday. I had the house and car to myself again. Woo hoo! Organised a LAN at my place, managed to rearrange the furniture in the house and get it back again without my parents noticing. Missed out on pizza, or even getting anything from the shop because we were so caught up that we only realised we should have dinner 15 minutes past midnight - when everything had closed.

Had drinks on wednesday night, with a whole bunch of people I've been meaning to catch up with. There were some others that I hadn't expected, as well as some people who said they would come who didn't. Such is life. The main problem I found was it was difficult to really catch up with individuals, with such a big group of people. There must be some most efficient size of a group of people - but I have yet to work it out yet. Maybe next time, I'll aim for fewer people, and split them up into smaller more managable sizes.

I went out and bought some extra textbooks the other day. The original plan was to buy them this financial year, so I could get some tax reduction thingo, but according to the seminar I attended, I need to be working or at least have my contract first. Oh well. I bought the books cos I felt I should get into gear and start taking initiative on doing some work. My usual plan during semester holidays is to get myself so bored by doing fun stuff that I have nothing else better to do, and get myself the motivation to do some pre-emptive study. I think it is the feeling of being able to do what you want, when you want with no pressures, until you get to the stage where there is nothing left you feel like doing. In this way, I get annoyed when I'm asked to do chores and things around the house which have inevitably built up over the exam period. Parents expect no excuses once you're not busy, but for me I feel like I need to get all the stuff I want to do out of the way first so I feel free. That's why it is the normally the case too where I do more housework spontaneously when my parents are away on holiday.

Just yesterday, I think I finally managed to get to that stage. I had just been diabloing for a while, no-one else was on to play with me either - so I sat looking around my room and stared at the wall. I sighed. I fiddled around for a while,, but nothing really interested me. I looked at my new bookshelf, at the unopened package of Netters. I sighed again. And then I decided to unwrap my book, have a look at it, and then proceded to study. Looks like it wasn't a waste of money after all.