Dear Myra, why have you drawn a moustache on your arm?

Please don't cry for what can't be. Yes, you are in a most saddening, heart-wrenching position but be happy for the happiness that does exist and could exist for you also, if you go out and find it. Happiness might even be hiding in your room, if you just tidy up a bit.. Remember, that they are in a difficult position also and empathise with their situation. It is hard on all of us. I don't want to sound patronising and possibly unsympathetic, no, that's the opposite of my relationship with you, but there are plenty of people you've yet to meet and should meet.. Of course you could blossom on your own also. There's still so much to you that you've yet to nurture and grow. Bloom and grow.

Love isn't easy, but it is understanding.

poor darling, neglected blog and I'm too lazy to write the html code to embed this webcomic: QC #826

Got off the night bus around 新宿西出口, brushed my teeth in a public bathroom, walked through the 駅 cos it's raining, then down Meiji Dori to breakfast at McDonald's.

As we were talking about caves, cos the idea of exploring some excited Rachel.

Aaron: "the fearless Myra is actually afraid of something?"

Ha, ain't that cute? I suppose he thought so cos I'm often saying "let's" and had planned to go travelling alone - around a country where I can barely speak, read or understand the language. But I reckon I'm scared of more things than most people.

You know how it is.. you've just realised that holidays will begin soon and that means deadlines will come sooner, so you list them - deadlines for essays, reports, presentations, plus any final exams. Upon working out the rate at which you need to pepare and produce results, you panic, declare sleep is overrated, stock up on easy meals, snacks and, above all, caffeine. But, suddenly, within the first few days of your hermit life, you find that everything is suddenly infintely so much more interesting: the book acting as a platform for your snacks, that had been renewed several times, needs to be read this instant; that hobby you'd been meaning to take up is now something you can explain at great length; you agree that your room needs to be tidier and cleaner.


(Of course, I'm exaggerating; most of my time has been spent feverish with the travel bug.)