Well I can't believe I almost forgot to write here, given that today has been pretty sweet, despite the usual seminars of a Thursday.
I wasn't too sure if today was going to be as bearable (or fortunate) as it turned out to be. I'd already set my mind on going for a walk in the two hours between classes so once my first was finished at 11, I packed me a salad and headed down to the Barbican in the breezy sunshine. Look at that salad! Kale, spinach, chicken nuggets, Wensleydale cheese, and green olives. That is some healthy stuff right there!.....pity I let myself down tonight haha but more on that later. After enjoying lunch on the Mayflower Steps (or the site of the originals), I wandered on to the Hoe and further on round to the west side of Plymouth city centre, linking up places I already knew and essentially expanding my knowledge of the area. I aim to know this town really well by the end of the year [maybe].
Around 12.15, I was back in town and remembered I had committed myself to #SavetheCulture (an ongoing endeavour to share books with friends) so I dropped into a Waterstones, bought a copy of A Clockwork Orange. Luck came here in the form of £3.15 on my store card which allowed me to use the fiver in my wallet instead of my card. Then it was just a case of posting the book off and getting back to campus in time for my seminar at 1pm. On the way, I snagged a free piece of cinnamon pretzel and threw my remaining spare change at some people on campus raising money for Cancer Research (a charity I leap at when I see it because it means so much to me). I was offered the chance to throw baked beans at a girl in a paddling pool as part of the campaign but I was running late. In class, my friend Ben was presenting with two others on The Beggar's Opera. They had composed a short quiz at the end with an Easter egg as a prize (which I considered myself to have no chance of winning) until I realised that very few people got more than 3 of 8 questions right, guaranteeing me the egg (and this is the 'let down' I referred to earlier as after dinner tonight - delicious peanut, tuna and veg stir-fry), I unashamedly ate the entire thing!
The final thing for the night was a performance of Sweeney Todd at an on-campus lecture theatre which took up 2 1/2 hours of my night - and now, with another 9am class in the morning, I need to catch up on sleep, I believe.
It's been a better day for sure. I hope tomorrow can treat me just as nicely.

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