Dead or a alive?

Well, my bank account is definitely more dead than alive... The last couple of weeks have been hard, very hard, and the only way I know how to cope with that is by shopping. So I've been visiting charity shops and eBay quite a lot lately. My finds include two prints of Glastonbury and Wells, a small framed water color of some harbor, a cut glass vase, a wool coat (of course there had to be a coat) and a silver anchor necklace (and maybe some other stuff as well, which I'm not mentioning because if I list it all it will seem even more terrible than it already is). Which seems like a lot, but if you consider it the price for my sanity, and it keeps me away from other more mind numbing substances, I would say its not too bad. And I keep using the excuse that I'm supporting charity. Thank god my parents are coming over the 21st of March, because I really need some family time. When the work pressure is this high, you need some nice and kind people around to keep you from freaking out. Since the other Dutch girl left, I have become a little closer with another, more quiet girl at the lab, who turns out to be really nice. I'm getting the feeling that she too finds it hard to fit in and connect to the other people, with their know-it-all attitudes. She is way more down to earth and not afraid to admit she makes mistakes, which I can really relate to (since I make a lot of mistakes too, but face it, everyone does!). So maybe I found a good friend in her, and these last 3 months and 2 weeks won't be as dreadful as I though they would be.