Random thoughts

Thursday 11 August 2005. 2005!!! Can you believe it? It is already 2005!

Today I was thinking how painful the moment will be when I will finish my studies in Leicester...I've been here since September 1999 (with a 9 month interruption). I've been here more time than in Thessaloniki when I did my first degree. But I don't know why, it seems much less time...Perhaps because I was always feeling that I am in transition, that my staying in Leicester had an expire date...

What I definitely need though is a long holiday. A very long one. On a remote village on the mountains or on an island. And I also need the time to stop. I need a break, a break from time passing. Time has to stop for a while, because it passes so fast that I don't have the time to count it. I need a 'time stopper'; where can I find one?

I also need to go offline as soon as possible. In 1999 I did not know what an e-mail or a website was. In 2005 everything is about, from and through e-mails and websites. I spend more time online than offline. My laptop has become the extension of my mind (Marshall McLuhan, I wish that machines were only extensions of body as you said, but it is worse!).

But first I need to finish that thesis. I just hate it right now. I will never again mention the phrases 'everyday life' or 'archaeological monuments'.

That's for now. I am not in the mood for more. What pisses me off is that when everyone else is on holidays, I have to stay put and continue working...More is less after all...