um well. life is derp. i suddenly know a lot of people and do a lot of things and its really really warm.
keep in mind it was so cold in NL that i'd apparently started growing a light layer of fur. anyway.
also on that note, ive gained like 20 pounds since i got back, which i find raaaather impressive. only because i cannot stop eating all of our delicious american food so hah. which, admittedly is mostly ice cream. but also vegitarian cuisine, so yknow, i gain health points for that.
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| mmm tempeh, my favorite food in the whole world. |
but um, i started seeing a nutritionist and i go to therapy for the first time next week :> it is really really difficult, and i sort of feel like dying a little bit, BUT JUST A LITTLE NBD. i also started working out to keep my muscles intact, because after biking ten miles a day for a year, one tends to become a little bit made of steel, like ya do.
but enough about my now fully-touching thighs. [my pants still fit though, ka-ching.]
i miss speaking dutch, a lot a lot. i'm so afraid to forget it, it being basically my only major life accomplishment. it'd be a shame to lose it. i try to practice a lot, i talk to myself in dutch like a loser a lot. also in there on the loser spectrum, i've considered hiring a dutch college student to y'know... talk to me. which, when you think about it, is really really lame. but, when you think about it just a tiny bit longer, is actually fairly practical, or so i tell myself.
jacque came to visit me last week! it was amazing, i hadn't seen her since january in winterswijk with a terrible hangover. after she left, the rest of the year got immidiately ten times harder. without jacque, who was there to comedically complain about everything with me? nobody understood just how much i loved cruesli or despised having to wear three layers of pants upon exiting my house *quite* like jacque understood. but yeah, we did lots of super premium things. mostly eating ice cream and korean food, but we went to newport one day in the pouring rain and danced in the ocean :> we also trekked over to boston and met up with jenny, another american exchange meisje, and spent the day buttsing around there C: i miss them already~ its kind of a bummer when all your best friends live nowhere even close.
what else, lets see. i've been skyping with jelle a lot, so thats going okay. i miss him very much. and at first, i didn't feel that far away, but now i feel too far away for words. like maybe at first skype felt like the same room even, but now it sort of feels like parallel sliced universes; we aren't on the same plane of existence anymore, and it's really difficult. i don't know. he'll come to visit with christmas though, which should be a real winner. i'm sure he and my grandma will get along like ~*bff*~
on a sidnote, i'm extremely nervous right now, so everything i type is probably sounding like one jittery run-on sentence, but i can't really be bothered sorry <3 watching trainspotting [and other events] have put me in an especially odd place this morning.
also, i realize that the only picture in this particular blog is a piece of tempeh, but hey. sometimes that's just how life is.
also, i've planned my tattoo! hopefully i'll be able to book an appt. for the winter, and then i can take pictures and show you all c: wish me luck with finding an artist!
i dunno, basically life is uncomfortably different now. i can't really talk about it now. it's fun though :> i have other stuff to talk about, like i saw gogol bordello again, but really. don't have the attention span to really talk about anything right now, i just wanted to type some things.
jadusss dat wordt het. dooooooooooooooooooei.
also also, if you happen to be going on exchange and weirdly reading this blog for some reason, [i forget did i submit it to AFS?] anyway, if so, feel free to chat me up about it c:
