More Clarity Today

Hopefully anyway. I realised after glancing over yesterday's entry, that I had leaped wildly from writing about biscuits to punctuation marks to emotions, with not a clear thread between them. I think it was reflecting the state of chaos that was in my mind. Still slightly chaotic: not much sleep again last night, this is getting tiresome. Strangely enough, at the end of November, it was too hot to sleep! I ended up flinging the window wide and throwing the quilt off. Falmouth has a very different climate to the North West - my family report that there have been regular frosts since the beginning of November, and the cats and dog are pressed close to the fire every evening.
That's another thing I'm missing: a real fire. My parents have always had one, and it makes a winter evening. We have even roasted sweet chestnuts in it, and toasted bread on a fork; it tastes so much nicer than toaster toast. But not long now until Christmas holidays and some time to enjoy home and home comforts. As I think I've said before, the two weeks I will have off will be the first proper holiday in a long time. I'm going to try and use the time well though: plan what next, do some writing and take time just to enjoy.
I had a really interesting conversation with someone today about enjoying studies. That I think was the main reason I came here, because I enjoy writing, and I want to learn more about it. I have ambitions to, but I've never wanted to do a degree simply to gain a qualification.
Today has been a good day actually: I felt like I got somewhere with creating my website; it now has some proper content and the start of a layout; and I was offered a great opportunity with the college which I'm going to take. Since I've come here there have been down days, and I have thought at times I'd just like to go home, but then chances come, people reach out to you and you can take what is offered and be able to offer something yourself. I don't know if that sounds quite right, and hopefully I don't sound too pretentious, but essentially I am enjoying the journey here and realising that I made the right decision.