I am totally running out of witty titles for my posts here.

Things have calmed down here and I have been sleeping like a baby for the past 2 nights.

Friday at school was tough because a friend complimented me on the way I looked that morning (which is quite surprising as I had only slept about 5.5 hours) and I almost started crying during hall duty because of it. Brilliant, I know. I’m blaming it partly on my lack of sleep but part of me was thinking also “Why can’t I get these sort of compliments from other people?”

I spoke to a small number of friends (including the friend I mentioned above), which turned out to be very helpful.

And while I am not all like “OK, moving on, next, please!” because that is just not who I am at all, I am feeling considerably calmer and am curious where this friendship might lead.

Saturday I spent all day correcting papers and later met up with Marion for some Greek food in my town. Delicious and totally earned… we later spontaneously decided to pay our old favorite bar a visit, where we hadn’t been to in about a year because it had started to suck more and more.

Well, coincidentally, the owner of the place (who has been neglecting it ever since he opened up a bar in Vienna) was sitting in the non-smoking room in the back as we got there and immediately started chatting with us. Not only did he tell us about the improvements that were going to be made (and we took our chance to make some suggestions), but he also gave us a new cocktail to try for free, which was pretty awesome.

They do have a a fireplace at that bar and he took care that there was enough wood and it all felt all warm and toasty and Marion and I just really enjoyed the evening (man, was she drunk!)

Today was more blah, but I started decluttering again and even did some work for school.

So, overall, not so bad, considering