Today marked the first day of a week-long vacation. They call it winter vacation but it feels and smells like spring to me. The window is open and the smell of rain drifts in even now.
Having brokered a trade for a month's study in Paris this summer for my travels around Europe during the semester, I will be spending the week in Nantes.
There is enough to do to keep me busy should I wish it - proposals to be written, grad school programs to be searched for, sights to be seen. All this and yet today I couldn't seem to find the energy to even leave my room. I spent the day between writing, reading, and listening to music. I didn't think much of it at the time.
I still don't. It was a day and I managed to go through the motions. I got up, took a shower, got dressed, made the bed. I don't remember the rest. But I enjoyed every moment of today. It was a day spent in solitude.
Tomorrow will be here fast enough and I will once again venture out into the world. But today, today was mine.
Having brokered a trade for a month's study in Paris this summer for my travels around Europe during the semester, I will be spending the week in Nantes.
There is enough to do to keep me busy should I wish it - proposals to be written, grad school programs to be searched for, sights to be seen. All this and yet today I couldn't seem to find the energy to even leave my room. I spent the day between writing, reading, and listening to music. I didn't think much of it at the time.
I still don't. It was a day and I managed to go through the motions. I got up, took a shower, got dressed, made the bed. I don't remember the rest. But I enjoyed every moment of today. It was a day spent in solitude.
Tomorrow will be here fast enough and I will once again venture out into the world. But today, today was mine.
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