Went out for dinner with my parents tonight - no reason, I just suggested it and we went. Can't remember the last time we did that, and it was nice.

Kind of feeling the itch to be social. Trying to tee up stuff with people but everybody is pretty flat out at the minute with uni and such, myself included.

I would like to get back to normal regarding chats and catchups and whatnot.

Kind of wondering how long to leave it. I'll leave it til I'm contacted, I guess? I'm not entirely sure what the done thing is here.
For myself, I'm over it. Knew it was coming, it came. Dealt with it. All good.

Back to the grind.

Drew asked me to meet him today because he was feeling down, said he'd let me know when he was free and then ignored me til 4, when he said he was going out tonight and would let me know his plans in case I wanted to join, then I didn't hear from him again.
He seems like a nice guy, and I feel that he just wants to catch up and be mates so I'm glad to meet up and stuff.

God, it makes me feel so vain and self-absorbed to consider catching up with people based on whether there's subtext involved. Is that vain? I mean it's not like I *expect* people to be, that's not it, it's just so annoying and hurtful to find out people want something from you when all you wanted was to chat. Better to consider it beforehand than to be disappointed after catching up and finding out you were on different pages.
Biggest downside to being single is that a lot more of that sort of thing goes on.

I plan to be single for a long time now. Better that way.
I don't plan on any close encounters either.
Time for me to live inside my head and spring clean with no distractions.

But yeah, Drew seems nice. I'm sorry he's feeling down. I wonder why he's talking to me about it, I'm virtually a stranger, one he met in a bar at that. Maybe that's it, the anonymity of it - it's remarkably easy to talk to an interested stranger as opposed to a friend sometimes.
Always happy to have more friends though, especially now.

God I want to watch an episode of Fringe. Maybe next weekend we can work something out - I can go over there if catching up here is a problem. Something to consider, anyway. I want to know what happens next and it's nice to have a "thing" that's shared with someone.

Found out I can move into my new place between the 7th and the 10th of October - that means over my birthday. Woopdedoo. Definitely hiring a van, maybe movers depending on the price. I'm SO OVER packing my shit in and out of trailers. Drove my parents past the place tonight as it was on our way to the restaurant - they seemed to think it looked good from the outside at least.

So aside from assignments, everything seems to be humming along nicely.

I still need to sort out applications and TISC if I need to go through it. I'd better get my shit together on that front as I'm not holding my breath for help the way things have been going.

Things to do, things to do.