~The Dance of Eternity~

#~I know what it likes to lose someone you love
/ and this felt just the same~#

Absolutely irrelevant quote but I just happen to be listening to Dream Theater's Through Her Eyes and decided to put it in.

Anyways, what's been going on this week?

Well, not a lot. School continues to be school. I shan't labour more on that one, though it is looking likely I will be heading back there after Easter for more supply work. Which, in a way, is fine, as its close and the work seems pretty darned regular.

Still not quite out of my overdraft. I would have been, this coming week, if it wasn't for my new retail therapy programme.

Ya see, last time I was clinically depressed, I was in Lancaster and the basis of my therapy was coming home and seeing friends/family more. This time I'm already at home, and since the depression is less about work and more about other stuff, I decided to use my ill-gotten supply teaching gains and engage in therapy of the spending kind.

Couple of weeks ago I bought some small things for myself. A computer game, some stuff for school, etc etc. Nothing huge. This, as it turns out, doesn't help. It seems the therapy is directly proportional to the amount of cash spent!

So Thursday night I bought myself an iPhone ¬_¬

I'm a fan of gadgets. Always have been. And I do like having swish phones. So the iPhone was the one I had to have. It has since been named - the iTrout - and played with, and I have to say I love it. It does 99% of the stuff I want excellently! Sure it has some annoyances too: it doesn't have a snooze alarm and it lacks an easy way to put custom ringtones on it, AND everything has to be done through iTunes (*shudder*) but for the day-to-day stuff it really is superb!

The weekend has been mixed. Went out for a few hours Saturday night with the lads, but it wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped, and even several shots of rum and bottles of Smirnoff Ice couldn't enliven that for me. Next weekend is Andy's birthday, so that should at least be fun!

And finally, 4 days more till Easter. God I'm looking forwards to the holiday. >.<

~Jon

Edit:

Oh yeah, I completely forgot. The Dance of Eternity thing. Well yes, it IS a Dream Theater song title, but its also a reminder to me to write about how the book is going. Obviously not a very good reminder, as I'm adding it in now ~_~;

I started part 4 of the book in earnest this evening, mostly after Cat sent me back the copy of parts 1-3 she's been reading for me. Not only has she read it, but she's put notes and comments and helpful things on it, which is much more than I expected and I must give huge thanks to her for spending the time on it. Hopefully that will help me push through this writer's block and get on with part 4 and finish the whole thing. I've just written the opening scenes, which talk about the Dance of Eternity. So there's the link. Rawr.