find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year

Oops! I have sort of neglected this lately… Life is just one big blur of exam preparation at the moment, sigh. Here are a few things I do remember from the last couple of weeks… probably mostly revolving around food:

• last comedy night of the academic year – it went ok. TBH I was just pleased it was done!

• bizarre yet hilarious revision class with the head of the paper, who has quite a sense of humour.
• graze box :D

• awful day. but I got to eat white chocolate and orange cookies
• exciting pick-up of tickets for a ball I’m going to in June. Yay :)

• a nice lunch at CC with R
• excellent revision supervision on my worst paper. Perked me up a bit!

• another nando’s session with A (yum!) and dessert at an italian restaurant
• AMAZING gig in a church with a band I’ve been following for about five years now. A real treat.

• much laughter and fun with G for dinner. lovely.

• booking train tickets for the post-exam music festival I’m going to, where I’ll be able to celebrate my birthday. Exciting!
• a really rather nice ham avocado salad sandwich. I don’t know why it was so good, but it just was.
• delicious treat of chocolate orange spread on toast… mmm

• awesome, encouraging, interesting supervision on my final essay of last term. Whoop!
• delicious chicken salad for lunch

• my summer job getting final confirmation. Hooray!

• getting into ‘the zone’ with study – discovering that working standing up works for me :)
• getting my new fountain pen in the post and it writing beeeeautifully!

• chilled out morning off, with a cycle ride and trip to the supermarket on the other side of town to buy food, and watching a film
• finding out i don’t weigh quite as much as I thought…

• fun zumba session (probably to the annoyance of my neighbours)

• tasty lunch at CC with R
• catching up with E over a bite to eat
• getting 4 good solid topics revised
• finding out everything is in place for my exam concessions
• a friend asking if I want to move in with her in October. VERY VERY TEMPTING.

• moving onto easier revision topics, at last
• a really nice long yoga session

• a good meeting with my director of studies, and getting encouragement about my dissertation
• making exciting choices for next year’s modules

• a friend popping by before her bar shift for a natter
• fun fun fun college party followed by going to a few bars in town, then chilling out with pizza and a bad movie

• DAY OFF OF FUN! I went teapot shopping, book shopping, food shopping… then caught up on sleep and had:
• a huge feast at nando’s with A. YAY :)
• lots of reading of Anna Karenina (the end is in sight! it has taken me so long!) and drinking tea

• lovely lunch with a friend I hadn’t seen for a while

• chat with the porters
• quick chat with my grandma on the phone

• wearing a hand-me-down sweater from my Dad from about 20 years ago. It makes

• getting a graze box in the mail!
• fun dinner at a friend’s house

• getting lots of boring jobs out of the way
• delicious sushi dinner with E

• morning sun in the library
• finding a voucher that will pay for a replacement for my broken headphones!
• tasty chicken and pistachio salad lunch
• much listening to 2manyDJs

• walking back to the library after dinner, thinking how strange a colour the sky had turned, then seeing A RAINBOW!!! So exciting :’)
• also seeing a happy-looking ginger cat outside the library, which reminded me of my own cat at home

• bar time

• seeing doug stanhope live and going to the pub. lovely.

• day off of joy! best bit: realising i was in the right part of town to visit some friends, and spending a couple of hours catching up
• late night cinema club with friends (watching machete and total recall in our common room, haha)

• nice catch-up and chilled drinking session with E/M/R/J

• a really enjoyable lunch of sourdough bread, houmous, red pepper and tomatoes, plus dutch easter bread with sliced strawberries. YUM.
• lovely easter postcard from my grandmother

• beautiful sunny chilly morning! it was lovely sitting in front of the window in the library
• starting to feel more capable of facing exams
• catching up with my sister on the phone, and getting excited about summer plans

• lovely catch-up with G
• tasty dinner at favourite restaurant
• an absolutely beautiful dark blue starry sky on the way home

• smell of rain in the afternoon
• the thought of having made it through lent with no coca cola! yessss!
• the first drink of post-lent coke. (nice, for a start. then I drank too much and felt horribly bloated and on edge. it seems I’m no longer used to the caffeine)

• hearing a couple of reactions to the little easter eggs I left in people’s pigeonholes in college – it was nice to have brought a little bit of happiness. One person figured out it was me, though!
• successful procrastination-reduced day of work

• feeling more secure in my first revision topic
• getting some good ideas for an essay i’m writing
• post-library barbra streisand film-watching with amaretto and an easter egg!

• going to Holland!
• sending off a job application and getting an almost instant response telling me they want to meet me…

• lovely day of amsterdam goodness – rijksmuseum (partly closed, but what was there was excellent), house of bols for genever tasting, shopping, kroket-eating, and a night out at a bar. Fun!

• horrendously hungover day, but solace came in an amazing big bowl of indonesian/surinamese broth from my friend’s mother

• fun shopping day
• more delicious soup, and dutch baked goodies
• lovely afternoon helping to prepare, then eat, a surinamese feast. YUM.
• fun watching dutch saturday night TV

• awesome day spent at the dutch open air museum, and cycling

• wandering around Albert Heijn in the Hague. I love supermarket shopping in foreign countries
• lovely wandering around the promenade at Sheveningen
• delicious kibbeling
• watching a funny film and eating salad to get over the days of indulgence (then eating more cookies)

• AMAZINGLY LOVELY day in the Hague, having a tour of parliament, looking at amazing Escher prints in the Palace, trying raw herring, doing some good shopping
• a lovely lovely lunch bagel with old dutch cheese, gherkins, mustard sauce and pine nuts. Seeeeeriously good.

• lovely pizza-making session with friends, and eating delicious pizza

• writing my CV, and realising I do actually have some useful experience and skills

• amazing 15 mile bike ride through local villages, and exploring bridleways, all on a BEAUTIFUL sunny morning. JOY.

• pre-Holland excitement (I fly in a week!)
• sunny study break with A
• cooking a proper meal for the first time in a long time (I’ve been living on tasty but pre-made soups and meals, plus eating out…), and enjoying the process (I love to cook!)

• an absolutely freaking beautiful morning to wake up to. blue skies, sun, warmth! am I really still in England, in March?!
• happy drinks with C, who is visiting from Italy
• also getting to see G and E
• super focused productive day of work

• lovely lovely day with parents, involving a great lunch, punting, tasty cake, sunshine…

• excellent day of lie-in, BBQ on the green by the river, beers, fun people… It felt like summer, and it felt like old good times.

• lovely walk to the corner shop to buy food (and amazing biscuits). Beautiful clear day

• lovely dinner with G
• chilling out at the bar for the first time in an age

• beautiful beautiful day. chilled out start, met some people in the college gardens on my way to the library and got distracted in a good way
• excitement of firework testing (in the daytime!) for our college ball
• The smell of the air coming in through the library window was AMAZING

• party fun! went to the annual baltic societies’ vodka party (in a church!), which is always amazing. it was, as ever, excellent, with fun fun people. followed by the end of term college party with fantastic music

• day of recovery. watching trashy tv with M and eating fast food. YEAH.