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| Credit: Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half |
I literally did not even leave my house in January except to go to school and like get groceries.
Every single weekend I stayed home.
It was awful.
BUT then I was like...hey maybe I should DO SOMETHING. Or at least set up something to go do and say I'm going to do it and then eventually do that thing. I was really keen to get some photographing of the city done but the weather, up until this last week has been HORRENDOUS.
Even the British people are up in arms about the amount of rain (so it especially annoys me when people are like "YOU MOVED TO LONDON WUT DID YOU EXPECT LOLOLOL!" NO. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS. /end rant)
Like seriously do you think this is normal? People riding their bikes through a flood every year? No. No it is not.
I digress. So anyway, I wanted to do something but people have a tendency to flake (no big deal, it happens, I do it to sometimes) and also have a SERIOUS lack of commitment up in this place, so I decided to just plan things on my own and enjoy being with myself, and if other people are around or join me then the more the merrier.
SO, I booked a ticket to Wicked. I immediately felt better, because I realized that having something to look forward to just makes all the hard things so much easier to deal with, because you can say "Well at least when this shit is over, I get to go to Wicked!" or something like that.
And so I went, and it was PHENOMENAL. Oh my goodness. So now of course I have the theatre bug. Which I always kind of had but nobody had lit a little fire under its little bug butt. UNTIL NOW. Seriously, Wicked was wonderful. I got a cheap seat, 2nd to last row in fact, for only £17.50+fees, and it was great. I couldn't see detail but I could see everything and didn't miss a thing. I really enjoyed myself and had no problem being alone at all (though truth be told if I had to choose to see it alone or with my friend Jenn who JUST LOVES Wicked, I would OBVIOUSLY pick Jenn.)
So now that my bug butt is on fire, I have also booked a ticket to...
The LION KING!!!! At the Lyceum. I got the cheapest seat I could get, which is not as cheap as Wicked but still not too bad. But hey, beggars can't be choosers, eh? I'm seeing it by myself again because I am super cool to hang out with.
And then I am seeing Titus at, I kid you not, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre!!! How surreal to see a Shakespeare play at his very own theatre. Yes, yes, the first one burned down in a fire and the second one was destroyed BUT they rebuilt this third one to look like the original and I'm going to pretend that's what it is. But who cares. It looks and feels like the original and you probably wouldn't have known if I didn't tell you that! I'm seeing it at night, in the summer, after exams are over in early June. By myself, but I am not bothered at all.
Yes, exams....ugggggggghhhhh. Let's not even go there. Again, my point about silver linings, they make everything better. Yes I have exams from May to June but AFTER THAT I get to see Titus. So whatevs.
ALSO I have this horrible essay due very soon and I am working on it again tomorrow (in fact I must finish it tomorrow), but the silver lining there is I'M GOING TO DUBLIN ON WEDNESDAY!!!
Then I get back and have another essay and then CLASSES ARE OVER FOREVER!!! Other than a few review sessions, but classes are over, thank goodness. I am so tired of them. Seriously, no academic classes ever again in my life.
AND THEN, my darling BFF Sara (who, p.s., I talked to a psychic and that psychic said that Sara was my mom in a past life. It all makes sense now.) arrives on April 1st and then on April 3rd we are going to...
MILAN, ITALY!!!
I seriously can't wait for classes to be over, my best friend to arrive and my first trip to Italy to begin! I don't even know what to do with myself. In fact maybe my silver lining is shining a bit too bright and I will be blind to all the word I really need to do...woops!?
Honestly though, I've really worked my ass off and planned things quite well so that I get things done early in order to make these plans, so I think I deserve it.
Anyway, what I'm saying with all this, that probably seems like bragging but I swear it isn't, is if you hate everything and just want to crawl into bed and never leave, like I sometimes do thanks to how awful graduate school is, make plans! They don't have to be really big plans like Italy, or even theatre plans...but make plans and DO something. Force yourself to. It seriously helps. I feel so much better. Not that I don't have my moments (I have them daily) but silver linings are really the best thing you can create for yourself to bring yourself out of a slump...and sometimes to another country!
