Perhaps it's because I'm jaded that I'm unable to muster the same sort of enthusiasm and eagerness the other fresh-out-of-school temps bring to their work. I alternatively envy them and pity them-they just don't know what they're getting into. But, at least, work has certainly gotten more interesting and challenging, a far far cry compared to a mere week ago, but I'm already counting down the weeks. 3 more months, just 3 months! Why doesn't time seem to fly by anymore?

I suppose I'm glad I don't hate going to work. In fact I do enjoy it in a weird, perverse way. But, perhaps it will be an utterly different story when and if I do start teaching. Perhaps I wouldn't be so sanguine then. In the meantime, marking scripts is mind-numbing (and sometimes interesting) work, and I need more stimulating books to read to and from work, either that or I'll have to develop the ability to survive on much less sleep if I so desire to have some resemblence of a life after 9.30pm workdays..

On a more positive note, I've made active plans to start exercising again! Finally... inertia really is exercise's worst enemy. I know. I'm just plain lazy.

I've just realised I've yet to make full use of Blogger's image hosting facilities! I guess this has been a long time coming, but here's the gang from Beijing!

I finally found it, a site that's streaming Corinne May's On the Side of Me. I confess I've never really listened to her (even if she's supposed to be one of our pride and joy), but after hearing On the Side of Me repeatedly on the radio, I've fallen in love. She's got that rich, melodic, mellow voice I adore. Plus this particular song gives me the same sort of feeling I get when I listen to my Chihiro Onitsuka album - soothing and soulful. And more than ever, I need soothing now.

Cash-strapped as I am, I might actually buy the album.

I'm not the easiest person to love
I'm often the one who lets things go unresolved

Yet you choose to be
on the side of me
on the side of me
Yet you choose to be on the side of me
on the side of me

I'm not too proud of some things
I've done in my life
The skeletons in my closet
Are too big for me to hide

Yet you choose to be
on the side of me
on the side of me
Blessed Charity
You're on the side of me
on the side of me

Everyone needs a friend to hold
when it's cold outside
and there's no place to go
Everyone needs a friend to hold
all alone I cried
there was no place to go
I remember when nobody cared
but you

I'm not the easiest person to love
But you, you've opened your heart to show me what I'm worth

'Cause you choose to be
on the side of me
on the side of me
What a mystery
You're on the side of me
on the side of me

Everyone needs a friend to hold
when it's cold outside
and there's no place to go
Everyone needs a friend to hold
all alone I cried
there was no place to go

I remember when nobody cared
Nobody cared
But you...

Yeah you choose to be
on the side of me
on the side of me

On the Side of Me - Corinne May