August Birthday Weekend 1 done! It's the fifth birthday now, I just realised. Amazing and noteworthy in my book. I wonder how long this will last, how long we'll last and what will happen next. Soon we will get too old for birthdays, too busy for dinners and too far from each other (in many ways)? Only time will tell.

Ask Bryan, I'm always kinda moody on Sunday nights. Heading back to school and an unexplainable sense of homesickness. I know it doesn't make sense when I live 1.5 hours away. And maybe it shows I haven't really... 'fit in' (yet?) Or maybe I've never really appreciated home and family until this experience of campus living. Perhaps it would have all been too much for me if I had chosen to go to the UK for 3 years. Pretty sure Paris won't be the same though. But, I really do get homesick at night in school. Just two seconds of glumness. Then I return to mugging, which is 'home' for me in another way. My safe and happy place.

This week: another August Birthday weekend, more panic, more readings, meetings thrown in. My well-rounded university life yet breaking-new-academic-ground semester.

"I don't know why I set myself out for failure all the time."
"Don't bluff lah."

Haha.