{"id":323,"date":"2005-10-25T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/25\/real-life-begins-again\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:10:17","slug":"real-life-begins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/25\/real-life-begins-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life begins again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semester has started yesterday. Not that it has much of an impact this time, since I finished all my classes and now have time until mid-January to decide on a topic for my thesis, the writing of which will take up the first half of 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore I have only signed up for one class at uni. I&#8217;ve also decided to use the time I have now to brush up my French, so this morning I went to Riehen (takes me about 50 minutes, one way) for a 15 weeks course at the community college, focussing mainly on conversation, which is my big trouble area. It&#8217;s hard for me to have to grope for words &#8211; but I&#8217;m just tired to be embarrassed of how bad my French is after all the years of classes in school&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;ve taken out my beloved sheepskin (birthday gift from several of my friends) and my comfy blanket and am spending some quality time with some favorite movies (finally got &#8216;When Harry Met Sally&#8217; and &#8216;Romeo &#038; Juliet&#8217; on DVD when I was in Singapore, after years of only owning the videos) and lots (probably a bit too much *g*) of yummy Swiss chocolate. Aren&#8217;t you envious? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Not feeling the SAD yet, but I&#8217;ve started drinking my St. John&#8217;s Wort tea just in case &#8211; I want to be able to enjoy my &#8216;free&#8217; months and get things done, both on- and offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semester has started yesterday. Not that it has much of an impact this time, since I finished all my classes and now have time until mid-January to decide on a topic for my thesis, the writing of which will take up the first half of 2006. Therefore I have only signed up for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-life","category-uni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}