Preparation

Christmas and the New Year are now well and truly over. Unfortunately for me now, I'm caught in the middle of two dates. Once the New Year was over, the interminable plodding onwards towards the return of University began. I go back to Hull on Sunday the 9th, and so these days are feeling rather empty. I feel like I'm just whiling away the hours, dreading the inevitable. As if everything is building up now for the new term.

It's not being made easier by the fact that I've had to dig out some maths assignment I'd forgotten to complete. And I've had to start some work on my research for my next politics essay, which is majorly demoralising as the issue is about the threat to liberal democracy from globalisation. Oh, deep joy!

It's a very difficult feeling to deal with. I know I still have time, at least three days, before I have to go. But it's strange the way it's sitting at the back of my mind and now dictating my life to me. No sooner had I got out of bed on January 2nd, the feeling was there, even with seven whole days to go. Consequently, it's made me feel like I'm wasting time. I have so little of it left here before I must return to the drudge of Being Educated.

I always wonder whether other people deal with deep and pervasive moods like the one I'm in. I presume so, but I just don't know anything about it.

Onwards, but not upwards. Like I said, I'm not growing in height any more :)