Life is good.

Friends will know that the last few months have been a pretty hard time for me - I've been pretty lonely, pretty sad and generally not myself. Mostly I've been keeping to myself here in my little corner apartment in Beijing, and when I do go out, I tend to go a little bit over the top to make up for the time I've spent away.

Hopefully that's all going to change, starting now. Spring has finally come to Beijing, and with it, spring rains to wash away winter's general funkiness. I've always loved it when it rains, and today is no exception. Although I do wish the rain was a little bit warmer, and a little bit cleaner.

Anyway, life is good. My semester is almost over, and I'm going to have a nice long vacation starting in a couple of weeks, during which I intend to get the fuck out of this city and visit my recently-reunited girlfriend in Qingdao before skipping off down south to Guilin, the city who's beauty I've attempted to capture in the header image of my website. Some time by the ocean, with my special lady, and some time out in the mountains should be just what my soul needs before the last hurrah, an intensive summer semester that should hopefully give me enough credits to graduate in the fall.

I'm still debating whether to try to get it all done in one shot, or whether to get an internship over the summer and get myself some work experience while I'm over here. The right decision is probably the internship, but that means that I'll have to spend more time at this ridiculous joke of a University, and in this shithole of an apartment. Still, though, nothing good is ever easy...