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

Things have at least begun to settle down over the last week or so. I spent a day or two tidying things up here at my parents’ place. The problem of trying to fit three years of accumulated junk into an already full house took some solving, but I ruthlessly threw a lot of things away and managed to get enough stuff stashed under my bed to allow us to move around the house with hardly any acrobatic skill at all.

I spent the final couple of days of last week setting my computer up and finally began the long job of writing a thesis. I’m hoping that having actually begun to write, things will slowly get easier as I get into a routine. It still seems like a monumental task and I feel worse about it since I should have done a good deal more than I have by now.

I’ve also started to go running again. I‘d been a bit lazy for the last couple of weeks of December because of moving house and Christmas and such. But I’ve been feeling lethargic and irritable which is a sure sign that I’m not getting enough exercise. This does mean that I’ve been braving the wintry weather we’ve been having lately. I haven’t been running outside much for the last couple of months, but I no longer have a gym membership so the rain and bitter cold is my only option. I hope I get used to it soon.

I am finding time to have a little fun as well. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with one of my oldest friends from school. I don’t see her nearly often enough, I think the last time we met up was at Easter, so we went for a pub lunch and spent a good four hours catching up with each other.

Yesterday evening I went out for a few pints of Guinness (just one or two too many if I‘m honest) with another old friend from University. He came to see me in Bath a few months ago, but it was still good fun to reminisce about old times with him and we both decided it would be great to get some sort of reunion organised. Something else to add to my list of post-thesis jobs.

That’ll do for now. I had a pretty late night last night so I might try and get an early one tonight and have a nice healthy run tomorrow morning.