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June 24, 2006
The Eye of the Storm
I got that essay in! I did it! By the skin of my teeth but I’ve got this far in my life to discover that this is the way I do things. I crash and stumble and trip over the finish line but I get there in the end. I may have lost a few limbs on the way and my performance may have been abysmal but the relief, oh my God, the relief.
And despite the fact that getting the extension on that piece of work has not put me in the best position for the next one, I have decided to take the weekend off. I’m not writing or reading anything that’s got anything remotely to do with my degree, oh no not at all. Because when it’s getting to the point where the word processor is giving me The Fear, ugh and T.S. Eliot is giving me The Fear and God rest her poor tortured soul, Virginia Woolf is starting to give me The Fear; the time has come to hold my hands in the air and admit that I need a break.
So I’ve been reading some Zoe Fairbairns and some Margaret Atwood and a rather charming book of short stories from the twenties. I’ve also been blitzing the house from top to bottom, to make up for my neglect over the past couple of weeks and also because I’ve got a house full of family tomorrow coming to wish my daughter a happy birthday.
This time tomorrow night I’ll be begging T.S. Eliot to come back from the dead and recite me his poems one last time...
All will be forgiven no doubt.
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Posted by purple elephant at June 24, 2006 11:20 PM