I'm free!!

Finally, exams are over, and I can face the summer full on! At least, until my results come out and I have to figure out how much bullshitting I can get away with concerning how bad they'll be.

Not much happened within the last two or three weeks between this and the last blog, but a couple of interesting things did happen. I was in the city a few days ago, waiting for the bus, and then some dude comes up to me and asks me if I know where to get weed. What the hell you talking about, you idiot, does it look like I know where to get weed? I'm well-groomed, relatively neatly dressed, and relatively clean, looking (and smelling) like any other normal person - and you're wearing a pair of old-looking jeans, a t-shirt, and smell like you'd probably been smoking too much in one day. I know all kinds of people take drugs, but honestly, is that really the smartest thing you should be doing, walking up to random people and asking if they know where to get weed? I said no to his question, obviously, but then he immediately turned around and then asked the guy sitting next to me. Getting another no answer, he staggered off down towards North Terrace.

The only other event of note happened yesterday, during my last exam. This guy gets up and starts staggering through the aisles, bumping my friend's chair a couple of times, wearing this grin on his face. And then he starts stagger-runnning, making a lot of noise with his thongs, and he runs AT the wall. I'm serious, he ran at the wall. You could see him semi-staggering, semi-running, making a bee-line for the wall. The crappy staggering act didn't mask much, but fortunately the invigilators were looking the other way. He smacks his head into the wall, falls down on the floor, and then the invigilators all rush over to him and see if he's okay and stuff. About ten minutes later, he's being wheeled out of the exam hall by paramedics and wearing a grin like the Cheshire Cat. I wonder what would drive him to deliberately try to feign injury and escape the exam like that. It was an Asian guy, so I can imagine that it was probably due to too much pressure from parents. I am feeling really glad now that I was more of a letdown to my parents, so they can't use the Chinese standard anymore - you MUST get A's, anything else is considered a fail. I feel for you, guy. Parental pressure is a very bad thing.

Now then, how will I spend my summer? It would be nice if I could get a girlfriend, and then I could have a (corny as it sounds) Summer of Love. I suppose I'm a hopeless romantic (or really need to get out more, more likely that). More likely I'm going to spend the summer working and earning money towards that move-out fund. Working three or four days a week should still leave enough time for sessions of WoW, and I should be able to earn enough to buy whatever happens to be the flavour of the week (be it models, games, manga, or something else), and still have some left over for debts, the move-out fund, or whatever.

With the end of exams, and the advent of summer, it's time I embarked on another diet and weight loss phase. This happens every year - I finish one semester/half-semester, and decide to try to lose weight in one way or another. Let's hope this time I'm more successful. I've decided to try for a more basic diet - a liquid breakfast, yoghurt/fruit, and some sort of vegetarian dish thingy for dinner. Let's hope I can stomach the vegetables, since it's only been within the past few years that I've been able to eat vegetables easily, but I still have to force myself to eat things like broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage, and I still would pick something else over a salad if I had a choice.

Here's to hoping.