Trying not to surrender

Must...keep...my...interest...up....

....just ...one ...more ...week...

In non-exam news, and I know it's not helpful, but I can't help but think of my departure, now just 5 weeks off. I think it would be easier if I hadn't been through this kind of thing before, and thus wasn't aware of how difficult it is for me.

Perhaps all of my reading this year has been in preparation for this, the greatest challenge yet.

We're going to move out of here 2 days before my boat sails from Osaka. That's a deliberate ploy to try and make it easier on *Twinkle*. Living alone in a place that you have only known as a couple can be excruciating. It will also help me avoid that feeling of walking out on her, and the guilt that is associated with such a thing.

I think I need to get out of the house.