student living – Honest Lies

room Tonight my Dad comes to pick me up as I am going home for the holidays. Living in university accommodation means I have to pack up all my stuff and move it out of my room for the holidays, even though I will be moving back into the exact same room next year. FUN. The picture shows my room after some cleaning/de-cluttering, but before I started to pack. My room may look messy there but believe me, it got worse. My room is in chaos right now. As I sit here behind me are boxes of my belongings scattered about. I have so much stuff to take back: my clothes, my two drawers, my chair, my computer, as well as a load of other things. Getting all this in the car could be interesting! The car was jammed packed when I moved here and I now have even more stuff so I suspect my dad may have to leave me behind to get the train home XD

I am just about ready to go home tbh. Even though I know that the holidays leading up to exam period are a hard part of being in education- having to motivate yourself to study, instead of having a set timetable to drag yourself out of bed for- I look forward to the comforts of home. University accommodation leaves a lot to be desired (oh the mould, mould everywhere!), and I”ll also be glad to be free of lectures and labs for a while. I really do have a tonne to work through for my 5 exams though (6, if you count my Japanese Exam). And I am still struggling with my degree. I do try and study, but even as I start to understand it I still don’t think I am at the level where I will get the grades I want on my exams and I worry that I never will be. I am scared of my exams turning out like the mess that was my A levels.

Right now I am a little stressed, a lot tired, and I want to be these things at home. I wish my dad would come get me already. I”ve had to watch other peoples parents come get them/other people go home since yesterday. Have been very jealous as I only finished uni at 3pm today! Oh, I am so ready to get out of here. Have been since Monday. Back to packing I go!

Shower

I have taken to using a rinse of Rosemary Essential Oil and Honey on my hair. Not because it’s particularly fantastic, but because it is easy to make up and it seems to do an OK job, a better job than anything else (tea, on the other hand does too good a job- gets my hair clean, and turns it to straw too). Washing my hair has become such a chore though. Just, finding the time and the energy you know? I don’t have time in the mornings when I typically shower so I have to take an extra shower at night to do so and it’s such a pain. Showering in student halls is far from a pleasant experience, and who really wants to do it twice? Also, even though the rinse I am using now is fairly simple it is still annoying having to make it up. Why can’t I just grab a bottle of shampoo and go? Why do I have to scrub my scalp and why oh why do I need that final cold, cold rinse? I just find myself disliking how much work no poo is. (And that cold rinse. It’s fine at home cos I can step back and just wet my head, but here in halls there is nowhere to go, and I end up having to have a cold shower too) I’m tired and lazy and it’s cold.

I guess I better suck it up and go shower…

Also: how am I going to explain the jar of honey, the bottles of dried rosemary and parsley and the bottle of lemon juice to my dad when he comes to pick me up on Friday? Me having these things makes no sense, and it’s not like I am about to tell my parents I’ve not been using shampoo for the past 9 months. I don’t want them to get all judge-y on me.

(Yes this is pretty much an entire entry with me whining that I want a good, hot, clean shower and I want it NOW. But is it such a bad thing to want to feel warm and clean after showering, not cold and…icky? This is one of many reasons I really cannot wait to get home. I may end up spending 20 minutes in the shower every day, just because I want to.)

mood: cold
Listening To: MISS A - Good-bye Baby

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