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04/01/2004: "Set sail!"
The good thing about simple New Year's Eve celebrations is that there is little chance of messing 'em up. My simple celebration was a success and 2004 has had an excellent start. Snow was falling all over the country and I greatly enjoyed driving my dad's car with worn summer tires on the white motorway (cheap thrill - as long as the car stays on the road).
I am now back in St. Gallen and getting ready for the last sprint of my University career: preparing for and writing my finals. Tomorrow, I'll be getting up early to get back in the work schedule. I'll also be seeing some friends in the Appenzell mountains, which will be neat since I expect there'll be tons of snow.
The weeks ahead will be really crappy for me to keep smiling because they'll require my working 10-12 hours a day. Learning stuff by heart that long is quite painful. I might put a mood-metre on this blog - like the terrorism warning system they have in the US. I guess an "Orange" level would be pretty bad and a "Red" level put me close to dumping all my books in the rubbish bin and taking the first low-cost flight to somewhere crazy.
I've started discovering more about blogs and I really enjoy some teenagers' ones. They show a snapshot of daily reality and remind me of my teen years - days when I'd wanted to disappear off this planet to somewhere like Mars or go on a rampage against all stupid teachers brainwashing 
these millions of poor children or create a new form of art by taping toilet paper rolls to my bedroom wall... I feel I've become quite boring: my vision of craziness and rebellion is crossing the road when lights are red (well, in St. Gallen, I'm still the only human being daring to do so, and when I do, everybody stares at me as if I were some extraterrestrial wearing a pink turtle-neck).
I want to wish James (Abscond.org) and Max (Inmyplace.net) the best of luck with whatever it is they're doing, please keep up your sites and, if you read this, I wouldn't mind more pix!
