#1 School has reopened and it has been ... exhausting to say the least. I could be a poster child for lethargy - coupled with heavy eyelids but (perhaps) a not so heavy heart. Tired girls beget tired lives - and my 24/7 drowsiness does conclude in me falling asleep a lot or at least trying (!!!) not to with practically a desperate fervour. 

#2 Yet the first week of school proves to be tolerable - maybe even decent - due to my wonderful, wonderful friends (both in and out of CJ). I am beyond grateful for their company, in all senses: at school when I'm barely keeping my consciousness and slipping into a state of doldrums; at home when I get calls at three in the morning just to talk. Everywhere. Anywhere. I laugh until my throat hurts sometimes and I think that is a marvelous thing. 

#3 I secretly love the sore muscles that come with every dance practice - I feel like they're my memento for effort. I do sorely miss the days I came home from dance and I was in too much pain to move - the pain reminds you that you are alive, I think.

#4 Attract people by the way you live. You are irresistible when you are drunk with joy, when you embrace life with an ardor hidden in your veins (yet shows on your face). I am trying, trying, trying to be the person who lives in a way that emulates my passions; my hidden vigour for the world and all it is bound to. There is nothing more beautiful that someone who prizes life with an almost foolish certainty. Better not bitter: that has always been; will always be the aim.

#5 I was going to write an acknowledgement dedicated to how now you have evolved to stranger status but I couldn't bother writing too much about you so I didn't. A true-blue sign of me being over it, I guess (it is kind of amazing how .. quickly I get over these things).