- I just noticed that the exchange rate is down to $1.17 = 1 euro! That's a good ten cents cheaper than it has been. How come you guys couldn't get around to that when I made that massive bank transfer in August, huh?

- I went running today - Thursday, remember, is now my running day instead of my second Waddinxveen day - and there was already a noticeable difference from last week; I felt a lot better. I'm going to do the River Run this March so it's good that I get back into the running habit now.

- On the computer front: I'm switching back to Internet Explorer, because Firefox's temperamental mood swings are pissing me off. I'll probably go back to it a few versions down the road.

- Also: my shutdown problems seem to be solved now that Windows has downloaded some updates, but now iTunes has gotten the idea in its little electronic head that when I click its X, I don't really mean for it to close... because really, why on earth would anyone want to close iTunes? No, I can't possibly mean it, therefore the program takes it upon itself to open right back up again after I close it. And again. And again. Grr.

- As valiantly as I struggled, I think I'm falling in love with those tiny TXs... sigh...

- Double-spaced, the thesis is up to 22 pages and counting.

- I have decided that I love radiators. It's so nice to have this warm thing to curl up against after a middle-of-the-night bathroom run (out in the freezing cold hallway). My walls at home are stone, and therefore cold, which is why I love having flannel sheets: flannel is not cold like normal sheets are. Here, all I have is a duvet, and it's not flannel, but the radiator more than makes up for it.

- The dining hall's winter menu is still earning its aforementioned big thumbs-up. Meatballs, hutspot, tomato-cucumber-feta-olive salad, and vla tonight. Yummy.

- In less than 5 hours, it will be 40 days till I go home.

- Time for chocolate now.