Degrees, climbing and a sudden reminiscent mood

I'm just about getting there - I'm going to graduate soon. Not saying when since it might take longer for nothing is ever certain, but you will surely read it here the moment it has happened, unless I call to tell you first. I was just building up the degree with all the courses with this lady at the office. It ended up that I actually have quite a nice degree coming up because even though I have loads more study weeks than needed, they are organized quite nicely into minors and I only have like 9 extra study weeks that don't belong to any whole. Four of those are this one course I could not take into my main subject since it would have lowered my grade. so I should be getting my degree soon.

I was climbing yesterday and it was great. I didn't get up this wall I consequently have to get up on Friday but I did get to the same spot I got last time. Then since there were these guys there that went up this negative wall many times before leaving just to like get some exercise, I decided suddenly to go the same thing. I've only done the wall once like every time for the past weeks since I got up it the first time. I'd already gone up it once and had tried the hard wall, which took loads of strength so I was a bit skeptical about getting up the wall at all. Then these two new guys came in and I was like "really embarrassing if I don't get up this at all and then they think I can't do it at all". So probably powered by wanting to look good in front of strangers I got up it once. But that's not all. I was so excited about doing it once that I decided to try another time. And I almost got up. I just could not get a hold of the last handhold. Well after I rested a second and tried again, I did. But I (almost) did it twice in a row! How great is that. And like three times that day. And this is the wall I really do need like power to get up and real determination the first couple of times I did it. It feels nice having improved.

I was having coffee and I had this sudden flash of melancholy thoughts about my studies ending and how all my friends are like growing up (well me too) and how like our years of studying are coming to a close even though some of us are continuing on to a doctorate degree. I got into a really reminiscent mood. And well I think I started singing Bryan Adams Summer of '69 - " I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no". That's what I do at times. It just comes to my head without me really noticing. Maybe my reminiscent mood was caused by me noticing this morning that I think I've liked the Manic Street Preachers for more than ten years. That's a long time.

But I have been thinking I have to start doing something new again. I'm sure I've mentioned this before. Like get out and meet new people. But with going to they gym and climbing and having to actually spend time at home doing laundry and stuff I really don't have that much time to do anything social. Not that I have all that many chances at it anyways. But oh well, things always happen in clusters anyways. I'm just not in one of those clusters at the moment. I just have to start doing things and then things will just start happening.