Actually, that title is a lie. I didn’t have time to write this last week and then I forgot about it. But, yes, after three years, I am on the last legs of my degree. It’s bizarre! A weird feeling to think that in less than a month (it’s under three weeks now), I will have finished my final final (or final exam, or whatever term one ought to use for mass communication) and officially no longer be a BA student.
I guess I still fall under that term until I graduate in July, but once my exams are done, I exist in that limbo of doing nothing.
And, to be honest, I don’t know what I will do. Not in a bad way, just in an I’m-undecided-and-I-have-a-ton-of-things way. Life is rife with opportunity and it’s not always a good thing in that one cannot do everything or achieve all of the plans. Quelle domage.
I had always planned to do several posts about university (particularly for those of you who don’t know what it’s like a British university, which can be something different of an experience from other countries), for instance about what I’ve learnt away from the academia, and I can’t say if I’ll get them done over the coming weeks—unlikely, as I’m normally shattered once I’ve finished revision for the day—or instead once I am done for…well, for all.
That’s weird.
Anyway, I hope to get a few of my ideas onto paper and write them up into blog posts; and I am happy to take requests for specific topics, though, as I say, I have a few in mind already. My blog could also do with a redesign and my creativity has been dipping into the visuals recently, so I feel capable that I could somehow choose a nice theme to outline this blog. And I am in the midst of thinking about my new About page. It’s where I go when I find a new blog, and I’m finding that mine no longer fits my requirements of a writer’s blog. Not to mention that the style is about two years out of date.
Other than that, I plan to spend most of the summer working, as I feel like it is time I stepped up to the plate and did something responsible.
I haven’t forgotten about writing, and I haven’t stopped altogether. I’m just not mentally healthy enough to try and deal with massive rewrites and concentrated draft edits that need time and peace and quiet set aside. I don’t have the energy or the motivation, and I can’t tell when I actually will. Probably in those last weeks of May after my exams, when my mind has been given some time to settle, but not enough that it starts to screech crazy.
Uh, yeah. That’s why I’ll have things to do when I’m not working.
In other news, it’s raining again as I type this. Oh April.
Alexandrina Brant 