Wednesday 31 August 2011
childbirth is the second most painful thing in the world, right next to being burnt alive. fact.
0 comments Posted by RB at 13:53Well reality has well and truly kicked back into action! I am back from Alice Springs. Back to temporarily living with the 'rents, back to searching desperately for a job and back to stressing about money! Oh the joys!
I've been back in Scotland for 3 weeks today. Doesn't seem like that at all, feels like Australia happened years ago. Funny how that can happen. Why does that happen? I guess that will always be one of life's little wonders! At the end of it all though, I had an amazing time. I've made a few awesome friends that I WILL see again and for that, all the new stresses of being back 'home' has been worth it!
Now, onto the new stuff that's been happening...I'm going back to school! Well, sort of! I've signed up with Open University to study for a BA (Hons) in English Literature. I know, right out of left field that one eh! Well, I love writing, especially stories, blogs(!), songs, poetry, etc and I love reading...so seems like a natural progression to study English Lit. The course incorporates creative writing so I get the opportunity to improve my writing technique and I also get to analyse different subjects. My first module is about reputation, so I have to study up on Cleopatra and Paul Cézanne (that french artist...). I'm not really all that excited about art, but hopefully studying art from an analytical angle will give me enough knowledge to perhaps appreciate it a bit more. My first assignment is due in November, so i'll be getting studying soon. Can't wait, i'm really excited about it!
Meanwhile, I am still searching for a job either full time or part time. The good thing about being off just now is that i'm getting to spend heaps of time with my 3 year old nephew. Last week I got to look after him all week, but this week he has started going to nursery. I still get to spend time with him, but not all day like last week. He even managed to get me to the swimming pool last week and that's no small feat! He's just a wee cutie! That's not taking anything away from my other nephews (2) and my gorgeous niece of course!
I mentioned to my good friend, C, yesterday that I was trying to decide whether to update my blog or not and he told me I should write a song because apparently, according to him, i'm good at that. Soooo...I did. I don't have it in front of me at the moment, but i'll post it when I get the chance. Only got the lyrics just now and I have to work on the arrangement. It's times like these that I wish I had a piano in my house that I could set up shop in front of! Not that I claim to be any kind of piano player, but i'm sure I could play about a bit and get some kind of melody happening. I already know in my head how the song goes, I just need to work out chords. I might have to enlist the help of a decent guitar player instead of my amateur self! Watch this space.
Rhona out.
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