Not much has really progressed in the world of Hesti recently. More gone backwards or not moved at all. I have just given in my notice at my place of work, which I have mixed feelings about. I love working there but with Christmas and Masters I just wouldn't be able to keep it up. Going to be very sad to say goodbye to all the lovely people I work with but hopefully I will be able to keep in touch, from the other side of the bar! It does also mean I can pick up some shifts at the Baths again over Christmas, which I have to admit I am really looking forward to. I always loved walking around the Great Bath when it was a cold miserable day because the steam used to make it so atmospheric, so really looking forward to what it will look like in the dead of winter!
I am also failing in buying things. Since having a job I actually have money and it is great! Only I keep forgetting that I won't have a job soon and therefore stop spending!!! Just bought a load of jewellery off of the internet for my various piercings and managed to basically get all of the sizings wrong. Another classic Hesti moment! So as a result I am now re-stretching my ear from a 3/3.5 to a 4, because for some reason I think that would be easier than sending them back for new sizes! I also bought a big bag of balls (te he) because I kept pinging the balls off of my bars when drunk, so now I have 50 balls of various colours but no where to put them so I want more jewellery and more piercings! Bit of a fail.
One sort of good thing that is happening at the moment is I am actually getting on with writing my essay! Well, when I say writing I mean reading books and making notes and thinking up awesome one liners that I want to put in! Today I went to the library and got a book out called 'J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator' by Hammond and Scull. For some obsurd reason I never realised that Tolkien was an artist and most of the original pictures for his texts were actually done by him! The picture of Smaug I put on the bottom of my last post was by him! No idea! And yes I feel very stupid for not realising! Today I have completely fallen in love with his work and now want to get one of his dragons (the one to the left) tattooed on my wrist (if I ever man up enough to get one done that is!). That dragon is (apparently) inspired by Beowulf and the words underneath read 'hringboga heorte gefysed' which is taken from the Old English which means 'Now was the heart of the coiling beast stirred to come out to fight.' How cool is that!? So yeah, my day has been predominately dragon filled!
Writing essays, thinking about working at the Baths and also updating this has made me feel a bit homesick which is strange but I must soldier on. I have work tonight which hopefully won't be too bad and I might be able to pick up a few tips to add to my jar! If it is empty (which is quite often is at the start) I think I will just either sit and think, or clean and think about my essay some more, just to at least pretend that I feel on top of it all!
I leave you with another of Tolkien's paintings which I really want to have on my wall at some point, it is 'Smaug flies around the mountain'
Laters!
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