hum dee dum

just another day in Athens it seems... yes i know, that may seem wierd to some of you, but this place has become 'that place where i live, sleep, breathe' etc etc. you learn to adapt.
the weekend's saturday field trip to Brauron and Sounion, as mentioned in the previous entry, was truly wonderful. Sounion was more than amazing and honestly- i just didnt wanna leave. shudda just stayed there and chilled for the rest of the day. eh- they dont need me on the bus!! i cudda got my own! oh well, i followed protocol; cattle mentality i say! mooooooooo!
anyone know who Lord Byron was? well, in short, he mocked Lord Elgin when he took/stole/(whatever you wanna call it) the parthenon marbles and MANY other things that did not legally belong to him back to England (and now in the British Museum) out of Greece. Byron was a fan of Sounion and i saw his name/grafiti on an inner pillar of the temple of Poisidon there! neat huh?

when i got back that evening, which was about 4-5ish (actually pretty early for a field trip!!) i just crashed...and burned... completely and utterly out-of-gas. i think 2 months of non-stop go-go-go and not much of the weekends free finally caught up w/me...funny thing. ha. not. i slept from 5p-9p. got up did hw til 1ish. then back to bed and slept til 1030am the next morning. i felt sooo groggy the next day! almost toooo much sleep! bet nate is thinking- "how could that be??" haha..... so i stayed in and caught up on more hw, esp since it poured down rain all afternoon and into the evening. man, i dont think i have ever taken so much down time since i got here. truly, truly- it was amazing; perhaps even a gift of the gods.

so- later that evening was the celebration of 'great-granny's', er... i mean, Tessa's 22nd bday. we went out to eat, then cake (batter mostly-- THEO! haha..... damn greek ovens), then to the Red Lion pub. downed the carbomb, got tessa smashed, then went home and slept some more. man- this was quite the restful last weekend! now that im wrting about it, i cant believe how much i just slept! man- my dad would prolly say somehting like, "youre sleeping your life away!!! get out and DO something!!" well, sometimes i guess we all need a break, even if just once. dont suppose ill get another one til christmas, so then was my chance if ever.

so far, yesterday and today have been really a rollercoaster ride. i think sometimes issues that you think have become latent in your mind, or seem irrelevent to your life at the moment can unexpectedly blind-side you, really hard. it's not like life stops moving, or you think you cant get past it, but you DO indeed have to deal w/it nevertheless. i think living in such an enviroment that you didnt live in for 20years of your life and had become accustomed to, you learn that things can catch up to you- there is no getting away. geographical space has no relation to yourself, and that's a very important lesson to learn. i know this is vague, but more than anything, the jist of it is most important. lesson of the week: deal with issues as they arise; do not put them off. you will learn more, move on faster, be happier, and perhaps grow closer to those around you.
cheers to that.
im out.