Moar exams and stuff (p2!)

They're all over now. Four months free, will mostly consist of playing video games, reading, writing, brushing up on Latin and a few other modern european languages.

I reckon I'm getting to the end of disc 2 on FFXIII, pretty good so far. As I've found with the other FF's the malaise around the battle system is present, picking what characters to form the party with is trickier than the negotiations surrounding the hung parliament. Got Red Dead Redemption arriving tomorrow, though I want to get to the end of FFXIII before I start on that.

Going to see a play the end of next month, I think. Though the whole drama surrounding it is ridiculously stressful. The sort of drama we're talking about here is 'might as well fuck off out of the country to bypass it' sort. Yeah, that bad. Oh well, i'm sure it'll all go smoothly, it's just more stress I don't want to be dealing with after I've had the wonderful experience of revising hard for exams for the past month. I though I was able to relax now, but the metaphorical gods have decreed otherwise.

Speaking of fleeing the country. I usually do a couple of weeks away in June or July. This year I was going to start off in Norway and travel down to Israel, but with Israel decided to be absolute arses today, I'm guessing the whole region's going to be destabilised for the year. Well, more so than usual at least.

I guess I could avoid it, or just go to SE Asia, but heat doesn't agree with me, and I'd originally been planning that route for a while now. I suppose the risk is worth it, I just won't continue down to Egypt through Gaza. That'd be asking for trouble, and my picture alongside an article about a stupid student that's gone and got himself injured/kidnapped isn't really what I want my print debut to be.

Other things to do over the summer include attempting to get my exercise levels up. I'm going to attempt to continue activity twice a week, to replace getting in to University, lest I sink back into minimal exercise levels. That wouldn't boost my chances of managing University come September energy wise. What I was thinking of was a bit of biking and swimming, it's moderate exercise and I can increase the length biked and swam accordingly.