Well… honours is done, submitted, completed, finished, and over. In what was a stressful final few days and weeks, the paper took on its final form with not too much drama and slowly tottered towards the required word limit. After a final proofreading on the due date and the requisite printing dramas, it was bound and submitted much to my… well… relief… I guess. You see, I didn’t, and still don’t, feel that much now it’s submitted. I guess when the 28th of November comes and my marks are etched for all to see I will make the transition to happy relief or disappointment at what could have or should have been. Either way, the closure is welcome.
In other news, it seems a happy era of domestic bliss is drawing to its close with my flatmate Shelley and her two-bit partner Willy ‘seriously’ looking to find a house to buy and move out of the McNab mansionette. Current auguries and tea-leaves point to a reshuffle of tenants sometime in December – Storm and I are thinking of taking the two smaller rooms to turn one into a music/choreography room and get a little more rent from the third person… We will likely stay here till the end of the current lease (Nov 2008) if we both decide to stay in Brisvegas.
If only we could sort out what we’re going to do next year. A committee will discuss my PHD scholarship application at the start of December and my current work contract expires at the end of the year. Then there’s the yet-to-be-seen niece in Chicago and a pocket full of dreams… Or I could just stay around and try and record some of the songs that have been doing the rounds in my various bedrooms over the last 3 years. Not to make a buck mind you, but just so there’s something to play when I’m old and senile.
Anyhoos, enough of the ramblings. Hope you’re all well…
Congratulations on finishing the honours. I’m fully aware of the pain of the thesis.