Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

– Robert Frost

Operation get life back on track is in full swing. Been doing a lot of thinking and seeing friends and sorting things out… and at last there is progress! The progress being that for the first time in quite some time I feel as though the happiness I'm feeling now might potentially last longer than a few hours. It probably has something to do with my flu finally starting to clear up giving me a chance to stop blowing my nose in misery. Although it’s not just that, it’s more. When I think of different aspects of my life I like how they are… well some of them anyway.

My friends are wonderful and I had a great time catching up with everyone at my party, it was such a good night. For me anyway. One of my friends from high school who I hadn’t seen for over a year came, which was incredibly good! She is one of the sweetest girls ever. Angi Pangi got me Jeff Buckley’s Live at Sin-é which is the bestest CD in the whole entire universe!! I am listening to it now. I am constantly listening to it. I am addicted. My housemates and their significant others got me a $200 gift voucher for Chaddie, I’ve never gone shopping with that much money before! Its gonna be good…

Things are happening with a certain friend of mine too, which is rather exciting. We’re going slowly taking things as they come and its great, no pressure or expectations or labels or rules, just the pleasure of each other’s company. This makes me smile. I went to his place for dinner last night before heading over to laz0r to watch the boys be drunk and admire Moose's lovely lovely beard and crash there so I had quite a good night. Oh and Smoodge loves me now which is exciting cos I love her too.

I varied my enrollment yesterday, I'm now doing a subject called Eastern Meditational Traditions. It sounds so good! It’s about the role of meditation in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism so we get to learn about yoga and eastern philosophies and such. CANNOT WAIT.

Lately I’ve had friends come to me for advice or just to talk and it’s been quite good. I'm getting a bit more confident in what I believe and I feel like I can help people, that I can give people decent advice at least really listen. It also gives me a chance to think about things from different angles, and consider situations I’ve never been in myself. I like it, I like it a lot. I'm seriously starting to consider doing a degree in psychology after this one. Its silly cos in VCE my psychology teacher was also my careers advisor and because I was getting top marks in psych she was trying to convince to do it at uni. I considered it briefly but then completely dropped the idea, I thought psych was something I liked to study but something I would never do as a career. So instead, I focused on languages. I have no regrets about this, I still want to learn languages more than anything and having the opportunity to study philosophy is wonderful. The thing is I think I needed more time to decide what I believed in and study human nature in the real world. Now, particularly after my experiences with legacy and casa, I have this overwhelming desire to help people. Not that I didn’t before, its just now its something I want to build my skills around and really be able to get into the community and just help in any way…

My current view on how I should live my life is to try as many things as possible. I still want to work as a translator and also find ways to express myself creatively as much as possible. Now I'm adding psychologist to my list of professions to try. There are so many things I want to try, so many flavours in the ice cream shop.

Human interaction is a wonderful thing.

My life is changing at the moment, I can tell. I'm trying to make everything fresh and make little changes so that I feel like the change is more permanent. This includes appearance, I cut my hair the other night (all by myself and I didn’t screw it up, so proud) and I plan to get my nose pierced tomorrow. They say a change is as good as a holiday and seeing mine are nearly over and I still feel like I need one this better work!