Dear All,
This is my first vacation free of the Borg, and I would like to share some of my feelings:
University (the evil place where you learn critical thinking) has just stopped, and after a semester of hard and succesful study it feels like sliding into a warm bath. I love the things that I do there, but as our friend Salomon said, there is a time for everything :)
Almost seven days per week of total freedom :)
In the morning, I get up early and read literature, then I make my breakfast. I take a shower, and begin the day with translating some Coptic manuscripts to prepare for an exam next semester.
Then I finish the book I started in when I woke up. After lunch, I walk through the house and the garden and talk Persian to myself to practice conversation and have some exercise. I also translate some poetry.
Then I start in a new book, or a play, or a book of poetry.
Then I practice conversational Latin via podcast for a couple of hours.
In the evenings, I watch a film with some friends, or go out, or read or translate some more, whatever I feel like doing.
Life is wonderful, the death sentence has been lifted, I have walked out of prison.
I walk through the city park. I watch mothers with little children feeding the ducks.
They will not be destroyed by some vengeful God.
The sun, shrouded in clouds, shines bleak upon one of a billion worlds, and I live on that little world. There is no greater purpose than to be happy and smile at other human beings.
Great is the world, and its Creator, and great is mankind.
Believe me, leaving is hard, but in the end it is worth it.
Regards,
Deus Mauzzim
(of the Creator-of-his-own-world-class)