Europe After the Rain

It's another day. Windy, cold, though not rainy anymore.

I am slightly more active today. Was able to sleep more, eat more, and read more of the unbearably boring comparative con law reading. Read a very interesting, though very awkwardly written, paper for my health law policy seminar. Went to Starbucks in the afternoon for a bit. It was very crowded.

Talked to Dickie and G in China and my parents and SF...

Then, just as I always do when I'm depressed, I went and bought myself the very pretty, but very expensive, green silk scarf from a Japanese store near my house that I have always wanted. It was $50, but it made me happy. Hooray for retail therapy...

ABS came back to C-Town tonight and we had dinner. I told him the news and he was not shocked. He's known about my concerns with Boyfriend for a while, and we have just talked about them the week before we left for interviews and callback visits. He is also the only person among my friends who have reservations about whether it was the right decision, since he likes my Boyfriend and also has a bit of prejudice about the niceness (or the lack thereof) of straight males.

Came back and read more comparative con law, and literally was bored out of my mind. A lot of it, I think, is the European academic's style of writing. Unlike American academics, who tend to make their writing more lively or animated, Europeans tend to stick to a very dry, detached, and passive style. Not engaging at all, and usually rather theoretical and abstract. The few American authors that our professor included in the casebooks are much easier reading, but the European authors (and that's most of the casebook) are driving me up the wall...

Am still sad, but getting better. I go back and forth though, so perhaps it's too early to tell...