Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

Am very, very tired from being up all night and having worked all day, but had a wonderful evening.

Spoke to my pretty-much-future housemate and while I’m nervous about him moving in, I think things will go really well. I’ll still have a bathroom to myself, haha! I definitely feel like I’ll be the most useless of the trio, but I did point out I will be able to help them through any villanelle crises they may have (why didn’t I study something useful at uni?). Gosh, how will I survive with two computer-nerd homebrewers? I’ll really miss my current housemate Frosty…I’ll have no one to platonically snuggle with and watch cool DVDs with.

My old music school buddy DH had me over for dinner tonight and cooked me a very decadent spaghetti carbonara…I honestly don’t remember the last time a bloke cooked for me! Well, there is Rob, but I live with him. Also caught up with J, his housemate, who has been approved for the priesthood. It felt funny telling him about how I’d kissed a girl for the first time whilst listening to DH play Chopin on the piano. We drank most of a really good bottle of white wine (been ages since I’ve had decent white wine), again thanks to Rob. I owe him extra birthday-present beer.

I’m freaking out less about the sleep thing. I heard back from L, Dee and M (L & D - I’ll reply to your communication later, promise). I think it was M who told me most what I wanted to hear (that being, stick it out for a month and don’t go on extra drugs). That’s really what I want to do. Perhaps if I stop sleeping so goddamn much on my days off I’ll get as hot and skinny as Trent Reznik in The Machinist (joking…maybe).

There are some days where I just want desperately to be lied to and told that it’s all going to be okay. I may, however, settle for Tom Baker’s Doctor Who offering me dusted jellybabies.

It would also be nice if I didn’t burst into tears in front of strangers; I would feel like less of an idiot.

On Wikipedia’s main page they have these cool featured articles - a different one for each day.

Tomorrow’s (well, my tomorrow) one is…interesting.

Lookee!

Sertraline sucks arse. That is all.

(But I still heart Wikipedia!)

Interestingly enough, a friend asked me to go to an exhibition about drugs on the weekend. Curiouser and curiouser!

Feeling really low today and didn’t get what I wanted to do done, but I did get paid earlier than usual which was good. But more importantly, today I finished reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights today, just whistled through the second half, spent the whole afternoon in bed reading it because, well, I didn’t feel like doing anything else. Plus my medication has been making me feel really nauseous which has been no fun and has meant that I can’t have anything for supper.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed Northern Lights, it’s way better than Harry Potter (that might be a contentious issue…) and wish I had the second book already so I could start reading it immediately after I finished the first one. It must be pretty good for me to have read it so voraciously and to want to continue reading the second one straight after. I didn’t exactly feel that way about Christopher Paolini’s Eragon though I do want to read the sequel Eldest and see what that’s all about.

I also got a book the other day from my housemate’s girlfriend entitled Yoga For Cats. It’s pretty funny and it does genuinely have (cartoon) cats doing actual yoga poses! They even have the Sanskrit names for them which I thought was pretty impressive.

Now what to read next? Either the next Jasper Fforde novel or one I’ve borrowed from my housemate which he has neglected to read. Or Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf? But I’m already reading Sylvia Plath’s collected poetry, another book of poetry might be hard going…always so hard to decide what to read! Actually, I was hoping to read yet another fragrance diary entry of The Fragrant Elf’s but alas she hasn’t posted another entry just yet.