We finally turned our clocks forward for spring today -- so now we're back to being 5 hours apart, Atlanta. While I lament the little bit of closeness that I got with the States (one hour less apart), it's the best thing that could have happened to us. We get an hour of more sun each day! Probably won't really get an hour of sun every day, but today we did, which felt really nice. I went to the park after I got off work at 5 and actually got to enjoy some sunlight before the ground just froze me through from the bottom up. The sun is nice but you can't just stand around in it, and sitting down means exposing yourself to the entirety of the ground that only seems to chill down instead of warm up. Anyway, I got a good hour or so of vitamin D, enough to last me a few days!
I'm always a little sluggish for an hour or so after work because my body's tired -- but I can't really nap because my mind's so awake from not having to think about anything all day. It was a pretty good day today, though, because I got to take a break from sandwich-making and work on some street signs that my boss Terry is going to put up around the park soon. Everyone goes absolutely nuts when it gets slightly sunny -- the park gets crammed with people (imagine a beachfront in CA, no room even to lay down a towel), so Terry wants to take that advantage to do a little marketing. So I'm painting our logo and address and deal info along with some pictures of cups of coffee in bright colors and things like that, which is a lot of fun for me, because I love coloring things -- and getting to make pictures to put in the park is an even more fun thought.
Leander and I are planning a community-wide clothing swap for the middle of April, a way for all of us (me, her, and Lucy) to get rid of some clothes before we have to pack up our Leeds lives and get on a plane to move away. Leander and Lucy are going on a 6-month volunteering/teaching trip to Cambodia, leaving May 1st, and while I'm unbelievably jealous that they're going to get to visit some amazing and exotic cities, I do not envy the paperwork hassle that they've been having since September. Why so much paperwork is involved in a 12 hour plane flight, I have no idea. And why people can't just move around where they want to, I have no idea. On that note, I just discovered that plane flights to the UK from the ATL are ridiculously cheap right now (and if anyone is planning on a late spring visit, I would highly recommend looking up some flights!) -- so jump on it before the airlines change their minds. But back to the clothing swap idea -- we're making posters this week to hang up all around Hyde Park, and we want to get all the ladies of the area involved, and hold it in the park so that all the people who are out and about see it and get involved themselves. We just want to feel like a community one last time before everyone goes their separate ways -- and what we like to do best is chitchat about fashion and things like that, since we spend so much time together anyway, so why not? Leander will offer free/cheap haircuts and I might just bake something vegan to make a few pounds on the side. We're pretty excited about it -- it might be small enough to be just our immediate friends, or big enough to make some new ones!
On that note, though, I should run off. We're making a house dinner tonight (4 different curries to choose from!), and hopefully by now Amlyn has cleaned the kitchen. We all try to rotate when it comes to washing dishes, and we're generally pretty good at it, but the boys have been behind lately, so me and Leander are on strike and we're going to wait to see how long it takes for the boys to get their act together. Amlyn promised to clean up today, so we'll see how that goes. Boys are always trouble when it comes to washing dishes.
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