Today was my first appointment with my therapist for the summer, so Mom and I trekked over to Yellow Springs for the afternoon. I haven't been there since Junior Year of high school (I think?) so it was nice to come back and see that nothing much had changed. Luckily, it was a gorgeous day today, so before my appointment we wandered around, popping into Dark Star Books (Geek-gasm!), Jennifer's Touch (a tiny jewelery store with gorgeous wares), and The Winds Cafe for lunch. It was a really nice little trip and I ended up liking my new therapist, Dr. B, although he does remind me a little too much of Tobias Funke.

I'm still slogging through Doctor Faustus, which is quite frustrating. You would think a book about a man selling his soul to the devil would be hella entertaining, but there are so many long-winded digressions that when you finally find a nugget of interesting ideas, you're too beaten down to care. Normally I would have given up already, but for some reason I feel like doing so would be a big failure on my part. Like, if I put it down for good, I would be acknowledging that I'm not smart enough to read it. So now I have this weird ego thing going on where I have to prove myself to Thomas Mann (even though he's dead) when I could be reading Sandman or something less leaden. Self, why do you do things like this?

Mood weird Tags: books, good day, life at home, mental health stuff, shopping

After waking up at 6 this morning to finish preparing for my 8:30 Imperial China final, then writing for two hours, then heading down to the computer lab and writing a book review for Latin for two hours, let me say this: Zzzzzzzzz. I am so exhausted, but in that happy way you feel when something that's been hanging over your head is finished. Now I jut have to start packing and prepare for my American Gothic final on Thursday. Since I have two and a half days to blow, I think I'm going to celebrate the end of the semester early and have funtimes today.

Right now, I'm planning on changing out of my gross "I put these on after getting 4 hours of sleep clothes" and donning something cute, then going outside to frolic and take some pictures of my campus while it's pretty out, then getting a late lunch / early dinner at the coffee house, then coming back and doing some swatches for my nail blog. I think it's a good plan. :D

Mood drained Tags: good day, life at school