Shopping!

Why good morning readers!

Now I don't want to sound like the stereotype of a girl, but I have been unsuccessfully shopping all day and I am exhausted! In my capacity as Head of Costume for ROADS the Musical http://http//roads-themusical.art.officelive.com/default.aspx, I've been trying to find the perfect shoes for two of our male leads.

Five hours later, and I am completely destroyed after pacing the paving slabs in desperation. I really can't believe that I can't find the shoes that we are looking for - they are similar to the plimsolls, and so in fashion! It was so frustrating, and so I've come back tired without my prey!

However (after a nice long drink and a sit down) I began to reflect. How lucky I am to be able to go out and search for something as disposable as shoes, in the freedom of knowing that I am not going to be attacked or in danger. That is something that so many people across the world - men as well as women - are not able to do, which I believe is a basic human right. Why shouldn't people be able to go out and live their lives? I don't want to name any places because in most cases I'm sure there are those that know much more about it than I do, and I do not want to offend anyone. There are so many wrongs in the world and I know that I cannot right them all, but I think to ignore them and not to comment on them is unfair and unjust to the people living through them.

Anyway, enough about that.

Results day is in one week and four days now, and despite me promising myself that I would no longer count down the hours, I'm finding it hard to concentrate on other things. My whole life is depending on these results, and they can still be good but not good enough. It's difficult merely waiting. Waiting. Waiting knowing that whatever I do now, that's it - I should have done it six months ago. I just feel so helpless, especially considering that Clearing (a service run for students that don't meet their university overs to find university places) doesn't begin for six weeks after my results, so I will have to go through six agonising weeks waiting to see if I'm even going to university.

Stressful much? I'd think so! My other blog http://http//thelibraryofemily.blogspot.com/ has been helping me to concentrate. It's nice to have something to focus on, to aim for - university apart - and it gives me a very pitiful amount of pleasure to see what books I have loved and scoffed!

Tomorrow is another lazy day, apart from in the evening when I'm playing keys and singing in the band of my church youth group - something that I love doing. I'll hopefully have soon time to note down my thoughts for all of you, but if not, see you at the weekend!