not everyone here is that fucked up and cold

Okay, it's been a while. In words of one syllable or less: stress, work, house inspection, essays, gigs, Camden, essays, cleaning, stress, going out, exhaustion, work, stress, going home, tiredness, illness, barcrawl, tonsillitis, work, cleaning, work, illness, Athens, home, family, getting healthy, work, friends, relaxation, finally some zen.

Well, largely, anyway.

The best moments of the last month or so:

* Athens overall, but sliding down the Areopagus with Becky, drinking absinthe with Joe and playing Mafia with everyone rank pretty highly.

* The mini Mooky meet. I'd met Candy the week before, but it was incredible how we all coalesced: it was like meeting people for the first and for the umpteenth time. It was so weird, but amazing too. I want another one.

* Does It Offend You, Yeah? All right band, nothing special, but the gig was a lot of fun. It was a lot of emo kids, so it was very high energy and made me feel teenaged again. I did get headbutted in the ear by some drunk bitch, but apart from that we got out alive.

* Catching up with the Cambridge peeps again. I miss the Marias a lot when we're not together.

* Going out gay clubbing with Ruby. I'm not totally happy with how we left it, but hopefully we'll pick it up again in the summer.

* Drunken texts from Jenny and Joe. 'Nuff said.

Things I'm looking forward to:

* We're now talking about Mooky meets in Cambridge and Brighton, which is something to look forward too.

* Hole on May 9th. I can't wait for this. Seeing Courtney Love will help fill out my grunge quota for the year, which began with Alice in Chains in November.

* Maria needs to go to Paris in the summer for her dissertation, and so we're talking about going together. Looking forward to this is keeping me sane.

* My parents are going to help me with getting my hair colour stripped (if it's the best thing to do), so hopefully I'll be getting blue hair sometime soon.

Things I love right now:

* Mark Lanegan. The Gutter Twins are absolutely fantastic, and I'm on a real Screaming Trees kick as well, so he's kind of soundtracking my life at the moment.

* Alice in Chains. I don't know why, but it helps a lot with my Greek homework.

* Raspberry sambuca. Mixed with lemonade it is my new lifeline.

* Coffee. Writing this essay would be impossible without this amazing, life-giving substance.

* My Antigone essay. It's weird, but I love this so much, it's mad. It's just incredibly interesting as an essay, and it's one of those rare beasts that actually feels like it might have a cohesive whole at the end of it all. I'm really enjoying writing it all.

* My new boots. I got them in Camden during the Mooky meet, and they're making me very happy.

* The fact that I can even think of things that I like lets me know that things will turn out okay, after all.