Sickness = Unproductiveness

Just a quick update on this, the last day of March 2012. 

Hard to believe, but I’ve only got 65 days left of my study abroad experience. It seems like just yesterday that I was marveling and lamenting over how long it would be until I was home again—and now, it seems like it’s just right around the corner.

At any rate, Easter Break has finally started—hurrah! Two full weeks of relaxation = bliss! 

Alas, I’ve started the break on somewhat of a bad note, as I’ve been laid-up in bed and feeling sick. Fortunately, the stuff I got from the pharmacy earlier today seems to be helping somewhat, so hopefully I’ll be back on my feet soon.

In the meantime, I’ve spent most of today watching stuff on the interwebs: 

I’ve finished the first seven episodes of ‘Modern Family,’ which both EN and Nic have been after me to watch for a bit. I honestly haven’t laughed as hard and consistently at a show since ‘Arrested Development!’ There are so many great lines, and I have to admit that the Cam and Mitchell characters are Nic and I (respectively)—seriously, it’s a bit frightening at times how similar we are.

[NB: Okay, I confess that the above example is a bad one—for the most part, I am far more like Mitchell than Cam. However, ABC has blocked me from seeing most of the clips over here, so I'll work with what I have.]

Taking a break from ‘Modern Family,’ I turned to a gay French flick called ‘Just a Question of Love,’ starring the hot-as-balls and openly gay Cyrille Thouvenin. The story was only so-so, but nonetheless nice in terms of being mindless fluff that I could follow in spite of my medication-induced mental fog…and, it had a happy, sappy ending. And I’m always a sucker for happy, sappy gay love stories…which explains why I then spent the next little bit watching the story of Josh and Nate from ‘Waterloo Road,’ followed by a series of short films along the same line.

So, yeah, not really a productive day.

But, I have lots of things planned for Easter Break, so hopefully there will be some more interesting updates coming down the pike. Since the weather’s supposed to be fairly crappy over the next few days, I’m hoping to do a lot of the indoorsy things that have been on my to-do list for ages, such as: visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum, cruising through the Tate Modern, visiting Charles Dickens’ House, touring BBC, and maybe even getting a drink or two at the Ice Bar. Oh! And I've discovered where they filmed many of the exterior shots from 'Beautiful Thing,' and so I simply must go there and snag some photos!

 

In the meantime, it’s time for my next dose of medicine and so I’ll close. In parting, I leave you with the song that’s been stuck in my head all bloody day…