The Domestic LIfe

I've been living a rather more domesticated life lately, buying plants, eating healthy, studying for exams, trying to drink less.

I've been frantically trying to pass the Big Test that would allow me to be considered for a job by the European Commission. They tell me the odds are better this year, but then they tell me that this is the difference between competing against 12,000 motivated go getters, and 30,000 for a couple of hundred positions, so I've been having trouble motivating myself to study. Especially since the EC seems to be constantly disgracing itself lately with its inept running of the economy and willful ignorance of that ineptitude. *sigh*