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Date: 30 April 2005 22:12:28
Nothing much to actually say about the diet really - other than only one more day to go! I've still got quite a lot of stuff in the freezer that I've cooked this last month, and I'm enjoying it on the whole so much I'm sure I'll carry on the good habits, just allow myself a few more treats.
I am looking forward to that Easter egg though :)
Today was a long old day - I had a reunion over near Richmond/Twickenham way of my university CU, which brought all sorts of mixed emotions. On the one hand, it was wonderful to catch up with people that I've not seen for ages and ages (some of them not since I left uni, 15 years ago). On the other hand, one of the things I'm having to deal with in my counselling is some of the effects of my early Christian experience, of which CU was a very dominant part, so at the same time as being really happy to be there I also had to acknowledge to myself some things that have made me really angry, although not let that spoil the day.
Sadly I had to leave after lunch (the reunion was going on all day) as I was working at the hospice this afternoon (tomorrow afternoon too). Not a particularly noteworthy shift, as shifts go, but I'm grateful for the hours and for the money, both of which will help me out no end. But even though it's not even 10 o'clock I'm now knackered - probably as much to do with negotiating the South Circular twice today with no air conditioning on a muggy day as it is to do with having to work. I'm really starting to feel my age - not only (as we were reminded today) did I go to uni exactly half my lifetime ago, but now it's 10 on a Saturday night and I'm ready for bed. How sad is that?
Happy Orthodox Easter by the way to those who celebrate these things. A girl from my former church has just gone out to Romania to spend a bit of her gap year there, and she has been sending emails describing the place which are bringing back lots of memories (she's in the same part of the country that I was, in '94). In fact I remember we celebrated Easter twice in my first few weeks there, as Orthodox Easter came only a week after the Hungarian Reformed one that year. I still remember all the trees lining the roads of the villages being bedecked in colourful ribbons, a Transylvanian tradition I gather. They also had a tradition (for both lots of Easter) of men going round visiting all the houses and reciting poetry whilst sprinkling perfume on the women - as you could have several visits from various different friends and relatives it made for a very fragrant Easter!
So: Paste Fericit! Hristos a înviat! (Happy Easter! Christ has risen!)