Endorphin high!

I love exercising. It's so great. After dinner, I hadn't been planning on running because it was supposed to storm soon, but I decided to anyway. It was so brilliant! I ran 4 times around the field, listened to my music and just felt generally awesome. I'm also upping my exercises at night too. I am determined to get really, really fit really, really fast. In Hills I'm definitely joining the gym and I think some of my enrichments are exercising too. The endorphin high's gone down now, unfortunately, but it'll go up again when I exercise tonight. I've been so lazy this summer, I need something to throw myself into. Before it was, as usual, revising. But I've finished pretty much all my revision except for latin, which I will never finish. There's five books I should learn, and I'm halfway through book one. Not bad, considering I've never done latin before! However, it is really quite boring and I'm broke so I can't go out (as much) so, exercising will be my new compulsion. As is baking, actually. Weird mix, eh?

Anyways, nothing much has been happening recently. Like I've said, I'm broke, and bus fare and snacks just whittle the remaining away. Was planning on meeting Ollie, but he starts Long tomorrow so can't. I killed a big spider today, which I was proud of, and was going to meet Brier but unfortunately she couldn't. Baked some banana bread today, and some cakes a few days ago, but no one eats them. I think my family is so used to me baking, they don't appreciate what I do for them. Or they just don't like what I bake. However, I will remain optimisitc and say the former, and I will continue to bake until they are forced to eat my food. Because I like baking. :)

I've also been researching a lot of stuff on wikipedia, like always. The articles are always so interesting. I've been watching this series called The Tudors, based on the life of King Henry VIII. I've always been interested and actually know a ton about the Tudor Dynasty, but I thought I'd go look at it a bit more. So I'm learning up on that. I also read some crazy articles in the paper, the most aggravating being:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/2672878/British-woman-accused-of-Dubai-beach-sex-tells-of-ordeal.html

ARGH! It makes me so annoyed when I read that article. Although six years does seem harsh from a Western viewpoint, they are in a different country and they should abide by that country's rules. She says they weren't having sex. One, I don't believe them because they must have been out of their mind drunk if they're willing to behave that way in a public place with someone they didn't know, and the person who caught them isn't likely to lie because they have no reason to. Two- although it is one of the issues in the problem, it's not the main issue. She's saying that they drew the line at sex, and that they shouldn't be punished so severely because of that. They may not have had sex, but it's a very thin line. What they were doing was inappropriate by any standards, and especially inappropriate by the standards there. They both lived there and knew the rules and should be punished for their behaviour. Because they're both expats, and British, and because this has gotten so much coverage, it's highly unlikely they'll get a very harsh sentence. Nonetheless, it annoys me that they're so upset about what's happening to them. It's funny, actually, because I just read another article about how badly the English are viewed by other countries because of their partying ways.

I guess I should also mention that me and Bigs broke up. I don't really know what else to say, except that it's amicable and we're still just as close as we were before. We're just trying to tie up the loose ends ends now. It's sad, but all break ups are sad, and as far as break ups go, we couldn't ask for a better one. He says, c'est la vie merde et bon, but I say c'est la vie de merde et magnifique (because life can be wonderful rather than just good, and I have better grammar ;) )

Otherwise, that's what's been happening. I really need to go out tomorrow, because I'm going crazy in the house. I'm going to wake up at 7 tomorrow, so I can get in schedule for Hills and don't have sleep issues like I normally do. I can't wait to go to Hills- I'm so, so excited. These holidays have just been much too long. We were on study leave since the beginning of April? so that's five months. Nearly half a year off from school! Now that I put it that way, it seems just crazy. I'm not looking forward to the hard work, but on the other hand, the work will probably be quite interesting. I need something to stimulate my mind- despite my revision, it seems to have grown dull and lazy- so that will be good. Hills is such a nice place...it'll be so much fun there. It'll be fun to meet new people, start a new schedule, go to a new building and start new classes (as well as drop the boring old ones like...*shudders*...geography. It'll just be fun because it's new, and I'm bored and it'll be exciting. So yay! Anyway, off to go exercise now...endorphin high! Woot!