Last Day Before

How surreal is this...it feels like we're all trapped in some kind of time warp...everywhere around us people are getting ready for the holidays. Christmas lights are out, end-of-year sales are beginning, soon they'll be piping in the holiday music, and Goblet of Fire has premiered in the UK. And we're still stuck studying stuff like international trade. It just doesn't feel...natural. Especially when you think of it, so little of what we're doing now will actually matter in a month's time.

(I realise that Econs is like the Physics of the humanities...you have a set of principles that don't apply all the time, and you have to choose the right models for each set of circumstances, and you learn it all with the knowledge that you'll never need to see most of it ever again. Bleah. Very frustrating, macroeconomics. I shall be much happier when next week is over.)

Hmm but on the bright side at least it's about to happen. Sixteen hours to go until the last lap of this twelve-year sojourn through the halls of academia starts. At this point I really am impatient for it to just happen and go away. Heh, the Christmas trees are beckoning =P

And well...the year is finally winding to a close. It has definitely been worthwhile. These two years have, all things considered, been the happiest time of my life, I have to say. Not the most pleasant, not the most eye-opening. Just more in equilibrium. And in this balance, yes, even school has contributed in some way. Given a different set of circumstances I don't know whether I could be happier. Not that my dreams have come true. But I have more dreams now.

Right...melodrama over. I shall do my yearly summary of everything on Christmas, as usual, so you guys can wax lyrical with me on the 25th =P For now, though, it's time to hunker down and get this thing done! To everyone, may you have clarity of mind, calmness of heart and precision of expression as we enter this the greatest of our tests. May you be kept safe and satisfied as these weeks pass.

As for me...I'll survive, I guess. It's just something we all have to do. Like NS, which, from this perspective, is actually looking quite promising (I actually had a dream about it last night...was sent to OCS, but then reported to the wrong unit, and I woke up just before some sergeant condemned me to an eternity scrubbing the toilets). Shall have a trip to look forward to at the end of the year...it's rather timely, really, how these trips appear at the times when I really need something to support the spirit. It's a marker that shows that there's an end to this gloom =P

Onward! I shall see you guys on the other side of the brink.

pondered by phoenican @ 7.11.05