Happy New Year

Well, since last posts I did some things I intended. I fled the country to Japan for a month, which was amazing. My friend Grace made me cycle, do high-temperature yoga (frequently), and have no cigarettes or drink. I became a slim and enthusiastic person! Tokyo is lovely, but only if you spend it in the sento - baths - lying in jacuzzis and steamed surrounded by slim, naked girls. If not in a public bath, you can get hot, milky tea from a vending machine and wander around a shrine talking to nature gods who sprout trees where they land on the earth.
Since coming back I have been neverendingly busy, now doing three whole voluntary jobs whilst trying (without much success) to write four essays. And doing the food courses I wanted to do. Well, I missed one due to hangovers, but overall I have hardly been drinking at all, and only been stoned when Christine came to stay and we had lovely times. Been trying to be a sensible person but it takes time and effort.