h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I don't want to push this jogging metaphor too far, but it's definitely kind of appropriate, and it is the exercise that's been keeping me sane. Last Poets I handed in my Final Project Report ; today I had a "colloquium" (a surprisingly unscary talk on said rather hopeless Project); next Thing is the first of my Final Exams - and in three weeks time, my degree will be all over!

And, as usual I'm up, down, , , , , , ... It's going to be a struggle right to the line this month, that's for sure!

The other day, I realised that despite living in Reading, in the heart of the *Thames Valley* for almost three years - I'd never actually seen the Thames. So I set off to find it, with what turned out to be a kind of Chinese Eccles cake (as given to my Japanese housemate for cutting someone's hair) to fill me up. And boy, is it beautiful by the meadows there! Blue sky, green grass, flitting birds amongst the mini-lakes . And yesterday, there was the most beautiful - but that just goes to show that the weather has been as typically "changeable" as my mood!

I also got picked up from a steep decline last week by the magic of cinema, which proved once more to have real power over me. In this case, Spirited Away, which I'd seen before but ain't half . I came out feeling like I was flying, just in time to get the good news that my Dad got his job in the Netherlands! What an international family we've become of a sudden, with my sister in Paris and all...

So, I get knocked down, but I get up again - "the race is long and hard, but in the end, it's only with yourself". I keep stumbling (as my sleep-deprived brain is all too keen to remind me), but however badly things go, I refuse to give up. See you at the finish line, I guess!

[IMSoP]