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Hate this time of year. It's dark, damnit, and today it spent all day raining. Raining. England gets snow. What does Dublin get? Rain, rain, and more rain.

Went to the gym. Did a good workout, much hampered by the fact that I haven't been in serious training since early October.

I'm realising after the fact that I've been very fortunate to have been educated where I was, in the manner that I was. I've a basic grounding in the sciences, with emphasis on biology and physics. I've a basic grounding in geography and can actually read maps, a skill never to be over-rated. I'm reasonably well-educated concerning modern European and Irish history, and not too backward when it comes to world history. I can make myself understood in both Irish (a useless skill, to all practical purposes, but one I quite like having) and French. I can read poetry and prose critically (a skill I intensely disliked acquiring). My understanding of calculus and trigonometry has gone rusty over the last six months, but I can still follow an equation if someone else works it out, and I still know my algebra (we will never, ever forget the minus b formula, precious, not after learning it off both backwards and forwards).

Though my education in religion is not what it should be for a graduate of a former (still, although the teachers are all laypeople now) convent school, that's okay. I was always far more interested in learning about religion (other belief systems, other faiths, their histories, the place religion occupies in society) than I was in learning rote doctrine.

Never thought I'd say it, but I miss school. Sigh. At least I knew what I was doing there. :-)

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