light-headed and foolish … and I don’t think I can blame the heat

Things I have done so far this afternoon:

• Finished reading ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan (dedicated post on this to come in the next few days – just need to let everything sink in first)
• Re-watched the movie ‘Atonement’ (I watched it when it originally came out, which was a very long time ago, so I thought it’d be good to re-watch it, especially since I just finished the novel)
• Sat around staring into space completely gobsmacked by the enormity of the story that is ‘Atonement’
• Walked around the house, uncharacteristically relishing this heat just because there seems to be something poetic about it – the heat itself, that is (it’s above 30C today even though it’s only early October; not humid, though, thankfully)
• Ate a Snickers ice-cream thing, which was essentially a Snickers bar with ice-cream instead of nougat. (It was delicious!)
• Asked myself many, many times if I should go for a run, or allow myself a rest day so that I can run further tomorrow.
• Switched on my laptop to retrieve files to transfer to “new” computer (post on this also likely to follow some time in the near future)
• Contemplated what is to become of my old laptop (I’ve had it for almost eight years)
• Actually apologised to my laptop because I’m not sure I will have further use for it (well, not very often, anyway), and promised it that I would write a post in its honour.
• Considered writing a post about something worthwhile (e.g. ‘Atonement’, the footy finals, the dry heat, my old laptop, etc) and then decided I wasn’t up to the task because my mind is still lost in the world of ‘Atonement’
• …and then wrote this instead.