This coming week most of the international students will be gone. Many are going on the school-arranged trip to Berlin. Others have gone to other places. I'm staying here, somewhat purposefully and somewhat because I failed to plan any excursions in advance. Part of me is pleased with this turn of events because with any luck I'll be able to get a leg up on all sorts of neglected projects. And part of me is feeling left out because, well, I left myself out. So it's pretty much a grass-is-greener kind of thing, that no matter what I do this week, I'll want to be doing something else.
And I am feeling pretty blah already. I'm in the kind of mood where all I want to do is take a bubble bath and watch TV. (Unfortunately, I have neither a bathtub nor a TV, which pretty much ruins that plan.) Yesterday there was a Halloween party, but despite my best efforts, my incredibly clever costume idea went highly unappreciated. (It's so clever that I'm not going to blog about it, just in case I ever get the occasion to try it again.) Also, against my best intentions and/or better judgment, I've been sucked into the high school aspect of law school social life and that's going to make the near future annoying and unpleasant. And then on top of all that, I was supposed to play soccer today but the league I was to play in (with the school's men's soccer team) won't let women play. So the week off's begun with an auspicious start.
Things can only get better from here, right?
Written at home on Saturday, posted at school on Sunday.