Sunday, September 10, 2006
Alas. The very last minutes of our pathetic break. Deeply troubled. It's going to be a mad marathon from now on, what with 6 weeks of crap looming overhead. Next 2 weeks will be the last honeymoon, and it's mostly revision-in-preparation-for-SIP time, followed by fatigue, study, fatigue, study, PLUS some writeup deadlines to meet - and just when you thought it's FINALLY over, the bulk of the revision stuff hits you in the face and it's an all-or-nothing, do-it-or-die dash to the end. Concurrently, others are facing even more shit.
Right, depressing stuff aside ... I guess it's sadness on a different level. Let's just take things as they come.
It's actually been a lovely break. I got to visit my gran in Malaysia, have loads of Me Time, do quite a bit of tank maintenance, visit several aquarium shops and garden centres, added a new CP to my collection, and had enough sleep for the first time in ages. A few things undone, however. Alas!!
Loads of dancing too! Let's see .. Tues - 2 hours, Fri - 2 hours, Sat - 3 hours, Sun - 1 hour. Quite alarming actually, considering I also played through-the-night mahjong with Monty etc on Friday night. So it was Friday 7-9pm rigorous dancing, Friday 10-4am mahjong, Saturday morning 9am-1pm more dancing. My, and I'm still alive.
Anyway, just a minor incident on Thurs. I went to Cold Storage to get some supplies, and by chance saw these 5-pack stockings on sale at the counter at $5 each. EXACTLY what I've been looking for, so I can put activated carbon in them (using them as filter bags) and dump them into the tank. So I asked the lady how much they cost. I must have been whispering (wouldn't you??), as she replied instead, "Oh, those are SOCKS." Grrr. I repeated my question a little louder this time, and ended up buying them. The poor woman was struggling not to look too surprised
(I think she expected me not to buy them, and was slightly alarmed that she said they were "socks" and that I might have taken her literally and bought them for my own use). I didn't bother to elaborate. It would have been even MORE cranky to try telling her I'm putting charcoal in those stockings.
Wenky
11:06 PM
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