Nott What You'd Expected...

Yeah.... About that...

So this 'groove' I was supposed to find? This vien of productivity running deep in the bedrock of laziness?

Yeah, there's no way.

It's sunny, I'm tired, and friends from back home are 6 hours behind. How's a person supposed to get any sleep, when the day consists of waking up at 9, class until noon, missing the bus at one, napping until 5, then AIM until 3am?

I've tried, albeit not the 'old college try' that maybe it deserves, but I have tried to at least think about the future- upcoming tests, papers, and assignments- but it seems so far away.

Back in the states, state schools are out in a matter of days, with Luther just behind. At least at Luther, colleges getting out before us meant that visitors could come up and enjoy certain Conference Parties or Senior Week activities... Here it's a three week, post-birthday stint filled with Mark and Carol's horrifically scheduled finals and papers, all arranged perfectly to avoid travel (not that this is a problem anymore...$), and avoid studying for other finals. We may have words later...

This post almost sounds like a laundry list of complaints and whinings, but i'll fain thereputic value and continue.... On another front, our transportation compensation has also been thrown to the wind. Since our arrival in Notts, M&C have begrudgingly picked up the tab for all travel- bus or tram- and we, more or less, took advantage of it. Now, with rising costs and a strange system of loading credit onto our transport cards, they'd just assume reinburse on a weekly basis. Along with this revelation of reinbursement was the plan to 'pay only for extracurricular trips after 6pm and two 'freebies' a week'... so, as if our antisocial behavior wasn't bad enough, it now costs 5 dollars out of pocket to visit the city centre.

Bollocks.



The last few days has really been a combination of feelings, similar to those felt during last finals period (uselessness, laziness, fatigue, laziness, monotony), the feelings normally felt at the end of the school year (anxiousness, senioritis), and the feelings felt after having spent 4 weeks away from 'home' coupled with an impending trip back home after studying abroad for 8+ months.

So I'll say it again.... Time to buckle down, get in gear, focus... read old TV Cultures chapters left unread, write the 7 page Travel Essay for M&C that isn't due for three weeks, read the last novel for Brit Novel course....


...or do what we should do on a Wine Wednesday such as this, and visit Thirsty Boozers, grab some cheap Verduzzo, and watch back-episodes of LOST.
God Save the Queen.

....now where's that corkscrew....

posted by Kevin @ 3:12 PM