Horror vacui is something I learnt about today, whilst reading for my coursework. It also just happens to describe my day pretty well too! I was up super late last night watching 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (of all things!!!) with some friends, but still wanted to be up by 08:00 this morning to start my effective working pattern to get a large proportion of my coursework done in this week before I go home for Christmas. Anyway, safe to say, that didn't work - my alarm went off, so I dismissed it and set another for a bit later, than that went off and I again refused to get up and set another and so on until about 10:15, when I forced myself out of bed annoyed, and yet still tired, and bumbled through my getting up routine. I went from that straight into checking my internet whilst eating breakfast. Almost as soon as this was finished (I know... strange day in this respect) I met up with a friend from the summer who was in Cambridge for the day and went for lunch. I got back from this and went straight to the bar (what me and my friends today have termed 'the office') and - with the help of the tea and biscuits provided for interviewees and their parents! - worked solidly until 8pm, at which point we walked to Sainsbury's, got them to make us pizza, walked back, ate it and went back to working until around10.30pm. And now I've been writing this whilst my friends play a mightily strange card game around me!
The point being, it's been non-stop! It's been productive, and helpful for my aim of doing my coursework, but it's been full - as if I'm scared of there being any empty space. I think I do tend to do this quite a bit; I work with music because I don't like the silence; I've always picked as many modules/subjects/extra things to do as I could in order to pack my time; I don't generally like to stop, or leave empty space in which I might have to. But in the little, very short moments, in which I felt I had a moment to breathe today, I found myself reminded of yesterday's post and saying to myself, "Let God share it with you; just walk with him; let yourself be still." But I was quickly whisked away by what I was doing and the thought was lost into my own horror vacui. Perhaps I'll do better tomorrow...
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