Playing Truant

[changeling67]

College is looming - I have got two weeks before I go back and I can't believe how quickly the time has gone. Twelve weeks didn't go by in a flash, in fact it dragged a bit around August. I am meant to be reading some of the classics, but now suddenly I want out. So I am playing truant. Have done my trip to St Ives, Looe and Polperro - Monday, I am booked on a trip with my sister and niece. Squee!! Further afield than usual and I haven't been to this destination for over five years.

I know WHY I am doing this - I am at a midway point. Even though I am a third of the way through the course, in real terms, I am half way through my four year plan. My workload is increasing and I will be tied to a desk writing 5,000 word mini dissertations this year and 12,000 dissertations next year. So I feel like I am on an educational/metaphorical hen night at the moment - running away and refusing to commit, then sigh and then be resigned to being wedded to my course for another nine months.

It's not like I have remained idle - I have read three Dickens, a Conan Doyle, most of Bram Stoker, Ray Bradbury and part the way through Hermann Melville. I think if I can get through the partly-read ones and maybe plough Middlemarch, then I will feel like I have made a substantial effort, rather than achieved nothing and then sitting there, going "Duh" if I am asked anything.

So - out again. I am one boat ride and a camera click away from another fabulous day out :-)

Comments

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I think it's great to make the most of your freedom while you can, and quite understandable. Reading any Dickens is a major achievement! :-)

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I wanted to do some of this back in June, but the tour schedule wasn't available. Then the thick of the holiday season started, so I have put it off til now.

Anyway, all work and no play makes Rosie a dull girl. I don't think my niece has been on a boat yet - that should be fun :-)

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Tis good to rest the mind a bit too! You'll be fine when the time comes to settle down. But the change is NECESSARY!!! Ease the poor old brain and give it pretteh to look at, and fun to relax with!

Enjoy your truanting!!! XXX

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly - I don't want to be staring out of a window in February, cursing the fact that I haven't traveled further than a 7 mile radius since June.

Yes, most definitely my modus operandi is to take some pretteh pix :-D