The title of this blog is a good summary of my life at the moment.
Not getting on with the tasks in hand and finding things which are far more exciting to do.
I was inspired by a good friend, Kate, to continue with my blog and share the stories with my friends of my life, travels and general encounters.
So, I revisited my diary entries from Ghana October-December 2007 (goodness that seems so long ago!!!) and have uploaded these to fill the chronological gap that is my blog thus far.
In the Summer 2009 I visited Zambia on a similar volunteering encounter. Although as the blogs reflect, the experiences were so very different. I promise, that before I disappear off THIS Summer, I will get the Zambia experience up here!!!
I'm meant to be revising for my exam entitled "Music, Culture and Politics"...oooh dear. Not much of that going on today. I kinda got distracted by the article I was reading on gender and feminism in Schumann's song cycles. I have felt through this entire course unit that authors make far fetching statements to judge extramusical ideas; especially when it has come to the likes of Wagner and his so-called anti-semitic motives in the Ring.
But to regard Song cycles as a gendered motive on the basis that the female is purely removed from any other ideology of the era, so therefore can either only be defined in a promiscuous way or in the stereotypical maternal, domesticated form is a ridiculous argument.
And I have to potentially write an essay on the above (horror!)
(maybe I should go back and revise).
On the randomness front. Little things please little minds. I bought Andy some silly putty the other day as he was putting some putty onto my door, and I remarked...ooooh "silly putty". And he was like "waaat". Clearly never had the stuff as a kid then.
He's been occupied with the gooey stuff for ages now - how old? 21. Bleeeesss.
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