Lovely day

Today was unmistakeably a lovely day. There's no other way to describe it, despite the fact that I spent it locked up at home trying in vain to finish my German presentation. The presentation is about Social Problems in Germany, and I have basically managed to touch upon all the ills that trouble the place, all except for drug addiction! I just cannot find a decent website which gives me decent information about drug dependence in Germany in German. Actually I can't even find one in English! Don't all the website-makers (for want of a better word) in the world know that in Germany there is a considerable group of hardcore junkies who deserve to be acknowledged in colourful bar graphs and pie charts and line graphs and the like? The only websites I found were insufferable scientific texts choc-a-bloc with names of chemicals, hormones, cells and the like which, while highly impressive, put me in a state of boredom which verged on some sort of trance. Anyways, after polishing the rest of the presentation and postponing the drug addiction part yet again, I realised that it was high time I did something useful, so I went downstairs and resumed reading this really interesting book I got from the library about Coleridge. Usually books about literature make very slow and heavy reading but this little old book has proved to be quite stimulating and useful (hopefully!). Moreover it is thin, which at this rather stressful time of year is of great importance.

After two hours of reading and underlining and hoping I understood, I realised it was already seven o'clock and hence I called it a day, ate and sat myself here to type the blog I'd been intending to type for quite a few days. Typically I have gone completely out of point and am rambling rather aimlessly. But then again, I'm not. These last few days have been just lovely, for no particular reason, except that I've been feeling better than I had for a long time! Even an ordinary, rather unproductive day like today could not dampen my spirits. And this, for a professional moaner like me, is no mean feat. The thing is, I have decided to stop putting myself down about being so undecided and lost and start putting all my energy into the things that I love, hoping something will come out of them.

On an even more incredibly positive note, I must say I actually enjoyed the Group Skills seminar!!! The group I was in was great and some of the activities were good fun. There was the inevitable dose of bullshitting (excuse my language) and overanalysis of the simplest things and actions in a vain attempt to go deeper than the surface. However, at the end of the day we did go a bit deeper, in that we got to know each other just that little bit better, and I suppose at the end of the day that's the whole point of such seminars.

Anyways, guess that's much more than enough for today. (The problem of me boring myself keeps recurring! Dammit!) And, no, I won't be giving the details of last Saturday night! There's only so much laughing that I can allow Disirenn (;-p) and Claire to have at my expense hehe! Jokes aside, thanks for being there when I needed you!

Till next time
Take care and enjoy the sunshine
Lizzy
xxxxxxx