New York State of Mind

So, it was an interesting Christmas and New Years. First week of the holiday was lovely and the Christmas weekend felt nice and relaxing, but unfortunately from that point on things seemed to go a bit down hill. I always have work to do over Christmas, it's just the nature of doing a degree at King's, but this year I've been feeling the pressure to do well more than usual. As if this wasn't stress enough I was struck down with the flu on the 27th which knocked me out for a week, I then discovered my house in London had been burgled and from that point everything just seemed to spiral. Run down, stressed and just generally miserable the last couple of weeks of the holiday definitely weren't the nicest. It felt like a big shame that my time in Manchester was tainted because I love spending the time with my family and it would have been nicer if we could have actually enjoyed it rather than just all being knocked out with the flu.

However, I'm now back in London and I'm slowly but surely dragging myself out of the mess that was my mind. The house is fine, and in fact is looking cosier and lovelier than ever. I've been getting my work under control, and it's definitely nice to see my friends and house mates again.

One of the essays I had to write over the holidays was for my film class and the topic was Sarah Jessica Parker and 'Sex and the City'. After watching countless episodes I find it an extremely fun game to start thinking like Carrie (this effectively involves starting every thought with "And I couldn't help but wonder..." whilst staring thoughtfully into space) So, here are some of the things my friends and I "couldn't help but wonder" this week:

1) Selfless acts, do they really exist? Or are we motivated to do things because of the smug satisfaction you get from doing things for other people?
2) Even if we are motivated by smug satisfaction, does it matter if it still gets things done?
3) Does our generation rely too heavily on facebook?? Have we started to live parts of our relationships online?

Strange the things that occupy your mind when you're supposed to be writing essays...