Spare time

I am off timetable to do my special study module, which is an important part of my course and find I have much more free time on my hands. This is good but sometimes I am so bored and have nothing to do. I have been waking up at 11.30 most mornings and after spending time reading random stuff on the internet, I do a bit of work on my essay and read my book.

I love books! I have always been a fan of books but had never had the time to read regularly and sometimes a book would take me months to finish. Now I am reading The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. I don't have a set genre of books that I particularly like to read. I will have a look on the Amazon bestsellers list and look at the reviews from those who have bought the book and if there is a consistently popular book that is getting a lot of hype I will give it a go. That way I am up to date with popular novels which is always a great topic of conversation. I could chat endlessly about movies being made into films and whether the film version ever lives up the book.

It's been a while since I have read a book that has kept me hooked and this book certainly does. I try and read about 50 pages a day so that I can get through it and often I find it hard to put down. I want to keep going to see what happens. This hasn't happened since I read Harry Potter as a teenager.

In the evenings I tend to catch up with some TV on BBC I Player and check out some of the films that are on. Hence the film reviews in previous posts. I also have skygo as well which is great. I love people and do love to socialise but after a while I like to be on my own reading or watching some TV. I guess having spent much of my A Levels and gap year on my own, I have gotten used to it. Before I would relish company and would always prefer to be around people. At the moment, I am watching the BBC Three documentary - Junior Doctors as well as Call the Midwife - the drama set in the East End of London in the 1950s.

But apart from that I do find myself bored a lot of the time. Sometimes I catch myself staring at the wall - literally and my mind would be lost in some distant thought. Then I bring myself back to earth. One of my flatmates and I usually have lunch and dinner around the same time each day so we see one another and chat for a bit over a cup of tea. It's nice to do that and we sit and discuss what we have been up to during the day. I love being off timetable - I feel well rested, having a lie in and watching lots of films but I do want to go back into lectures and tutorials again. I like the structure and routine that it brings and the focus that it gives me. When I am focussed on uni work I don't think about other things.

Films are my escapism. I guess it's great being lost in another world, feeling like you are part of another story just for a while. I am not that miserable. It sounds like I am doesn't it? But I'm not. At least not all the time. I have good days and bad days really. Ups and downs - the roller coaster that is life. Just like most people.