In Which a Thesis has been Handed In, and a feeling of Pleasantly Aimlessness Prevails

So, at last those of us in my Ancient History class have slain our various thesis-beasts, which is nice, not least because it means I’m finally not sick any more. I didn’t actually feel very stressed many days (maybe 4 or 5 all up), and it never reduced me to tears or tantrums (remarkable mainly because of how distressingly easily I’m reduced to either), but apparently I was more stressed than I felt, since I got a nasty cold in late July and didn’t get better until mid-October. I got worse, at times, and improved occasionally to a mere cold-like state, rather than the fluey depths I had occasionally sunk to, but it’s really nice to be not sick at all, now, which hasn’t happened in some months.

What else is new? Well, obviously there are some things, but the miracle the internet being what it is, just about anyone liable to be reading my blog already knows that I have obtained for myself a Young Man for high quality with which to en-boyfriend myself. (So to speak) The problem, of course, is that saying “boyfriend”, which is obviously right, sounds so Dolly-magazine, somehow, but how else ought one describe such a person. I’m quite partial to “Young Man”, myself, which is sort of retro. It comes of reading too many Agatha Christie books in my youth. People’s maids are always spending their afternoons-off stepping out with their Young Man. Also, I think it’s one of those joking terms my mother always used, and now I keep saying it absent mindedly. Anyway, long story short, that whole thing is Pretty Neat. He’s pretty awesome, you guys.

Also, tomorrow is Melbourne Cup day! And in a moment or rare goodwill, my manager (who was a bit of a jerk last week, but let us pass serenely over that) has given me the day off, so I can go to Penrith and attend my parents’ Melbourne Cup party, which was always a fixture of some excitement in my youth. This is particularly handy since one of the nurses who’ll be there lives next door to Simon’s (the Young Man in question above) parents, randomly, so since I’m 100% confident that his mother will have wandered over to chat and check my credentials, given her reaction on learning that their neighbour was our family friend, I’d rather like to scope out how that’s likely to have gone.

Other exciting news includes the Rapid Approach of Christmas. This is made all the more exciting by the fact that the Swing Dancing people are having a Christmas dance, and some of us are learning a routine. It will be So Awesome, you guys. Anyone at all interested should definitely think about coming to the beginner class this week, since this Thursday is the first week of term, so you could get pretty passably good at it in the 6 weeks between now and the dance. C’mon, you guys! It will be great, and you should definitely check it out! It’s at 7pm, costs $12, and is at Swingtime, at the corner of Parramatta and Missenden Roads. Dooooooooo iiiiiiiiitttt….