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14 October 2011

Name change… The token fat black girl.

Hello Cyber World!

It’s been an age! Welcome back to me. I must apologise for being away for so long. It has been such a rough few months. So much has happened yet so little has changed. Do you ever get moments like those where your world feels like it was turned inside out and upside down but you feel like the events that took place are not worth mentioning? Well, that’s my story.

Brief summary of my life thus far…

I went through such a crazy stage this year of most of my evening classes at varsity were cancelled and had to get to varsity during the day which meant that I would have to take time off during working hours to go to varsity. THAT WAS A CHALLENGE IF THERE EVER WAS! Needless to say, last semester my marks were not awesome. I was THAT average student i.e. I would be excited if I got 50% for a test… ugh!

My mother got ill, very ill. She has always been ill with arthritis and stuff but over the last three and half months she got progressively worse and the last month was to become one of the most challenging time of my existence. She was so ill with goodness only knows what. She had to be carried to the loo, she only slept. She was too weak to do anything. She could not eat or drink. If she did she would pass it either by involuntary purging or a more conventional way – which for manner’s sake I shall not blatantly mention – but more brutal. She got to a stage of passing blood. She stopped breathing twice and so on and so forth. Eventually she was admitted to the hospital where they have been able to treat her somewhat. She is better now and we are back to fighting over everything which is a good sign!!

As a result of my mother’s sickness, I decided to take a break from my studies this semester. I was not crushed as I knew that this was something that I needed to do for my sanity, my family and work. I am happy to announce that I am getting that feeling back of wanting to study again. When I decided to quit, it wasn’t fun to study anymore. It had become something that was a chore and felt like I was doing something bad as I felt bad for taking time off work to go to class and I was not spending as much time at home, gym and my spiritual life had taken a knock. It was a well deserved break. The only challenge is that next year I will be studying via correspondence and that will take a lot of discipline. I really will need as much support around me to carry on as studying via correspondence works hand in hand with procrastination and I believe that I have a PhD in procrastinating. Take for example this blog…

Brief summary to continue next time!

Peace, love and sore Achilles!

p.s. Joke of the day… apparently Chuck Norris had phone sex and it took two days for Blackberry to recover!!!! J