The reason for this blogpost is my totally screwed up sleep pattern. I blame my friend Thao for accustoming me to her unhealthy habit of staying up late. I'm not sure about her day-night rhythm when she's by herself, but for the few days I visited her in Amsterdam, we never went to bed before half past two, and that usually resulted in our sleeping in till noon the next day.
So yeah, I'm screwed. T_T Uni is starting next week with lectures at 8 am everyday (optional attendance, but still) and my biological clock keeps refusing to fall asleep even at half past one.
Anyways. Uni is starting next week, yep. It's a very nerdy thing to say but well I gotta admit that I really look forward to that. I guess I've had enough time-out after the intense studying period for the Physikum exam. Now I'm so pumped to do some medical stuff - meaning uni, getting a tutoring job, looking for a dissertation thesis and stuff like that - I just really can't wait to be busy with work again. I'm craaaaazy, I know. :))
I guess contributing to my energy-charged state are my very invigorating post-exam vacations. I did get my chill time to just relax and I did get to do other stuff I love beside medicine, too.
After exams I went home for one and a half week, and that did me good. Seeing my family always does, though. :) Following that was the one week all-inclusive vacation on Ibiza I booked with Saskia, Basti and Sina. Well, what can I say, we allowed ourselves a treat! The weather was great for the most part, like in this picture:
Oh and did I mention that I totally rode a bike? A real bike, not just a scooter like my Rondo. I mean, it wasn't a badass Harley for God's sake but surely I feel very ready for the motorbikes in Vietnam now. See for yourself:
Bwahaha! Good memories for sure. :)) :x
Beside that, in the short version of things, we had a little friendship drama (that hopefully has pushed us closer now), I learned what touching a jellyfish does to you (not pretty things, I'm still suffering from the aftermath in form of what looks like a burn wound but itches like cray cray) and oh my gosh, the food was heaven. Heaven!
Oh and in that one week I managed to complete reading the first two The Hunger Games books. My brother gave me the trilogy for Christmas but being the typical med student, I didn't have time for fun reads that aren't thick med books, even in semester breaks because I was either interning in hospitals which means no time or I was out on discovery trips which also means no time. But I'm so glad I got back into reading this time round! I finished the last book within the first few days when we were back in Germany, unfortunately quite dissatisfied with how the whole series ended. I then started another book I'd left unread for prolly two years on my shelf till then: Joy Fielding's Now You See Her. Back in the time when I liked browsing in book shops to kill time so much, Joy Fielding's name came up quite often with a bunch of detective and thriller novels. I thought I'd give her a try. Well, can I just say that I won't buy her books again anytime soon? The writing is nice, but her style is too draggy for my taste. But yeah, despite the disappointments I had with my recent books, it feels very good to be a bookworm again, even if it's short-term. :) (I guess it's just very hard to measure up to Harry Potter and/or the Smoky Barrett series.)
Anyway, to go back to the chronic order of things, coming up after Ibiza was a four-day Amsterdam trip in which I visited my secondary-school friend Thao. I had a great time and pretty much grew to love the city but I'll save the details for a separate post (which will hopefully come soon, with pics and a video if I'm not too lazy).
Now I'm back in Giessen again and that feels good too because hey surprise, I actually kinda miss it! Let's see how long I can be this happy, considering that my new dormmate is a potential source of stress and bad mood for me in the coming semester (no prejudice, just a hunch). For now, though, I know I am content. Biggest reason being my discovery of a Chipotle restaurant today (biggest fan of Mexican food here). A Chipotle in Germany! I had a very successful shopping tour with Saskia in Frankfurt and having a burrito at Chipotle totally was the icing on the cake. My burrito was sooooo good. The restaurant has only opened for a month now, it's the first one in Germany I suppose, and oh gosh I'm just so happy!! Now all I need is Taco Bell to open somewhere near and my life is complete. ^_^
Well, it's ten to three in the morning now and I suppose my body is ready to sleep. With a Chipotle dream maybe, please? :x
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