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It's so strange.
We have no idea what to do with ourselves. It's actually gotten to the stage where we've forgotten how to live outside our course. Gavin, one of my best friends, has been basically spending all his time with me, and we both just lie on the couches in my living room and moan about how there's nothing to do.
To pass the time, we've just been messing around with architecture stuff. I've taught myself to use Sketchup, which is a free, simple-to-use 3D drawing application released by Google. I thought that it would take longer to learn it than I did, which is why I never attempted it during this semester like I wanted to, but it's dead easy, and would have been a massive help.
I'm going to try and learn Photoshop as well, since I'm actually pretty shit at that. I've got a few basics down so far, but I've still a long way to go.
I'm actually finding it a bit depressing that I've nothing to do without my architecture work. It's so stressful when we're doing it, but at least we had something to do, a purpose. Right now, there's nothing to fill the days up. Or when we find something to do, it doesn't quite feel right since it isn't working toward some larger goal. So I've just retreated to the comfort of doing things like working on my skills.
It's not like I can actually hang out with friends either. People left within days of the course ending, me included. There are a few people in Dubai at least, so there's that, although quite a few are abroad.
Have I mentioned that I'm back in Dubai for the moment? My cousins are going to be visiting mid-April, which I'm looking forward to - they're pretty fun people.
Hmm, what else?
Ah, I've been getting more and more irritated with the silliness that people post onto their Facebook profiles. I'm generally a pretty laid-back person (lately, anyway. I was a bit of a firecracker when I was younger), but the sheer aggravation these people cause me with their posts...
I mean, the endless sayings about love and coming out strong and being able to make it through anything, it just honestly annoys the shit out of me. As soon as a person starts putting up posts like that, I block their stuff from appearing onto my Newsfeed. I don't "unfriend" them, or block them completely - I just refuse to read their words of "wisdom". It just comes off as trying too hard, in my opinion. A friend noticed me hiding notifications from someone the other day, and told me I was being mean.
I don't really see it that way. I've been doing this for ages now, and everyone's happier for it. I don't have to read it, and you can keep on posting about your very "difficult" lives on your nice shiny computer.
Sorry, I just felt like a little mini-rant.
Anyway, I was happy to see Bruno. He's turning 7 this year, the old dog. I really missed his smell, of all things. It was nice to walk in through the front door, call his name and have him come running down to meet me, and then just bury my nose in his fur and breathe. There's nothing like the smell of him to make me feel like I'm home.
And that's me for now.
Ja.
