04:22
Sat on the balcony, feet dangling off the edge, eating strawberry laces and smoking. This is a new habit, but the odd cigarette helps me unwind. I've decided against being swayed by the cancer thing - I'm probably going to get it anyway, and it isn't the worst way to die.
It's getting colder now, later in the year. I suspect this will be impossible by the end of October so I'm enjoying it while I can. The very few bedroom lights that remain on in the other halls, thin slits of golden light through implacably dark curtains, are flickering off one by one. Some of them must be like me, simply unable to sleep in unfamiliar surroundings - though I suspect more are coming to the end of their Fresher's Week in style.
I have a lot on my mind, but its mostly silly things. Drama, love, intrigue and other inconsequential things. Or, they would be inconsequential if I could think on them properly. I don't sleep enough to summon up the concentration anymore. I'm fortunate enough to have tomorrow off, my course beginning on Tuesday. So hopefully that will give me time to straighten out my life, and sleeping patterns.
In the meantime, I'm quite content on this balcony. This is a beautiful time of day.