Palfrey's life

I got horrifcally stressed about things over the weekend (discovering the module that I had been failing to turn up to turns out to have a "3 strikes and you're out" policy to non-attendance, and that this is my second module to slip, combined with a non-wish to talk to Koen about this, and a complete lack of social life i.e. stress relief in recent times). I actually got as far as calling my parents. Ok, they've always said that I can always call them at any time, or ask them for anything. And I've always believed that, but I've never taken advantage of it. I tend to prefer friends over family, but now there isn't anyone here I can really talk to about this, and I needed another voice to talk to, not just text chats. I told them all about my stress, was practically crying at various points, and I resolved to talk to Koen, which I've done. We've re-arranged my MSc timetable somewhat, and I'm less stressed. I can now focus on just the PhD work for the rest of this quarter (until beginning of April). I think I'm going to go home for about 2 weeks or so over Easter, just get me away for a while, take a complete break. Veg out, watch TV, read, walk around Ealing a bit, see London again. Explore the bits of central that I've wanted to for a while. Take the camera, go tourist for a bit.

I brought quite a lot of this on myself (well, at a basic level because I accepted this mad program to start with), but I'm working through it. It's a bit hellish, but copeable. I'm definately going to AEGEE thing on Wed, need the social interaction. Have finished watching Voyager S1, it's methadone to DS9's heroin, but it's still good. Got a few enterprise eps queued up to watch, but it's not a patch on even Voyager. Damnit. I want my proper Startrek (or another series of Firefly, or S4 DVD's of B5).