As the sun goes down on today, I have only briefly been further than the boundary of our own property and this was taken on the northern border. It’s a classic “it’s been a lovely day but I’ve had my head in my laptop all day working on a pointless assignment and now it’s getting dark and I have no photo. Oooohhh quick, the sunset is quite nice. Grab camera, shoot pic, job done.”

I’ve done something that I’m not proud of on any level – I stayed home from Uni today, missing three hours of lectures to work on my assignment (which would have meant being out of the house for 9 hours by the time I'd added travelling time and waiting about in between them). I’m not supposed to do it and I’m certainly not comfortable with it myself but for the sake of self-preservation, I decided that I had to sacrifice one part of my course to support another bit. I worked from 7.30am until 6pm so put in the hours for work, just not doing the bit of it that I should.

This assignment that I’ve been blathering on about for weeks must be in on Monday and it’s currently standing at 12,000 words although it can’t be more than 4,500 words when it’s submitted. I’ve got to cull 2/3 of its total length before I can submit it without killing off its messages. In the meantime, I’ve got a big, physical job to do at the weekend which looks like it can’t be put off until the following weekend and hence something had to give.

Speaking to my tutor earlier this week, she said “pick which battles you can reasonably win” and only fight them, hence the skipping of classes. I’m not sure even by this action that I’ll “win” by achieving the right standard but at least I give myself a fighting chance with this stolen time.