It is already Sunday, though very early. I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows about an hour ago. I laughed at some parts, cried at some others, but it was a good read. And now the series is over. No more Harry Potter books to look forward to! :( I did not quite read the book in one sitting as I did take a nap in the afternoon and had to go to the grocery store, I guess it took me about 9-10 hours to read the entire book. I was at work this morning and picked up the book, and one of my co-workers told me they had said the last sentence on the radio that morning. I asked her not to tell me and she did anyway. Now that sentence did not give away all that much, but I don’t get why she did that! I asked her not to, because I wanted to stay unspoiled, as I had no idea where Rowling was going with this last one, and the last sentence did tell me whether the ending would be good or bad. >=( But I am glad I managed to stay unspoiled about everything else, though some theories I had read two years ago (right after book 6 came out) were spot-on!

Anyway, the running is going well, I am finishing week two tomorrow, so that is almost one quarter of the program done. WW is going well as well, I’ll be finishing the second week of pointing points tomorrow as well. And tomorrow, I am afraid, I will have to do some major work on my term paper, the ever-lasting project.

Next week and the week after I will be working full-time, so I will be busy. I still have classes next week, so I am only working 35 hours but with the classes, it adds up to over 40 hours so I will be so glad when the week is over. On Friday I will probably see the Simpsons movie, and on Saturday Bea, her new roommate and I are going to have our party, and then after another week of working it will be time for me to pack all my things.

The other day I finally booked my flight to Barcelona leaving on August 29th, coming back (for Christmas) on December 21st. I also booked a hostel for a week so I have some time to find an apartment. I paid €101 for the flight and about €118 for the hostel for six nights which seems like a good deal. I just hope the one week will be long enough to find an apartment. I have been looking at ads on Loquo.com (a Barcelona-based site like Craigslist), and some of the apartments (or rooms in shared apartments really, that is what I will be looking for) are just ridiculously expensive or the rooms are tiny. Right now most ads are for August though so I will have to look again at a later point.

I am not sure I mentioned it before but for the past two months I have had a new roommate, an acquaintance of my landlords. Originally he was supposed to stay for just two weeks, but he’s still there and looks like he won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. He is like over 40 years old, and let me put it this way, unfortunately age does not have anything to do with maturity. I will be glad to be out of here in three weeks, because right now things are not so good (they were fine until about a week ago, but not since). I talked to my landlady about it and the word she (and I) used to describe his behavior, well, it was not so nice (it starts with an “a” and ends with “hole”). Well, anyway, I am not so surprised anymore he neither has a job nor is married at over 40. I am glad I am not staying that long anymore, because it is not very pleasant to interact with him right now, and I would want a roommate who is my age. I hope when I come back the other person will be more my age and not so impossible. (If aforementioned guy is still around then, I would not move back here, but I really doubt it.)

Anyway, on to more cheery things. I ordered more books, three to be specific, all by Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle, Hocus Pocus, and Timequake. I really do have a ridiculous amount of books to read now, most of which I bought this month. I don’t think I’ll have time to read all that much in the next couple of months, as I have so much to do (work full-time for two weeks, write this termpaper, and another, move to Munich, then I’ll be in London for a week, and then move to Barcelona, all within the next 6 weeks, I’ll be so glad once I have an apartment there, and am settled in). I like change, but I do not like these transitioning periods very much, especially when there is so much to do. And I still seem to spend so much time procrastinating. That is something I do not understand very well about myself. I stay really calm until the last minute, but not all tasks can really be completed in the last minute, and I seem to need that last-minute stress to perform well.

Anyway, it is now past 4am and I need some sleep, if I am going to get a good chunk of that term paper done tomorrow.

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