Good news, everyone!! I am currently ploughing through my last essay of the academic year, after which I will run away to sunny and exotic lands, meet interesting and exotic people, and eat exotic fruits, possibly including pineapple.
By which I mean, I'll go to Cardiff. And then home to the Isle of Wight, at which point I'll begin an arduous five months of living out of boxes because my bedroom has been a building site for the last year and a half. Didn't I only leave home 9 months ago, I hear me ask? Why yes, yes I did.
It's ok. It's part of the natural growing-up process to be bitter about how quickly your parents move on. It's due to the assumption that they don't properly have lives of their own, and only do these things to annoy you.
At any rate, I think I'll be a lot more psychologically healthy when I'm not "stuck in the gap" any more. People warn you about that if you're going on a gap year, getting a feeling of aimless in-between-ness, but my gap year was purposeful and busy and awesome. This year, however, has been rather more... voidish than I would have liked. I'm currently working on deluding myself into believing that the second I leave here I'm going to emerge from my cocoon as a beautiful butterfly... which I imagine will look something like this:
Shalom!
That night he had a stomach ache.
ReplyDeleteThat is very cool :)
ReplyDeleteI can't read your creative splurges any more..... :(
Aw sorry, I made it private! I was under the impression that nobody read it any more :p
ReplyDeleteI'll fix that :) thanks!
I maintain that the butterfly in 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' (see last page) is UPSIDE DOWN. Have you ever seen a butterfly with wings which are narrower at the top than at the bottom? Is this deliberate, or just VERY BAD art?
ReplyDeleteAnswers on a postcard, please.
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