Technically I'm on holiday tomorrow, as in it's the first week of the June vacation for schools here. The sad reality, not unfamiliar to me at this time of year, is that I'll be ultra-busy on two fronts. The first of these: extensive rehearsing with our drama guys for As You Like It to get things moving along for our July show. The second of these: meeting a draconian deadline from the IBO for marking of one of their June papers whilst trying to help my team along in relation to the same. By the way, there are bits and pieces of other stuff to fill in the cracks, if any open.
So how can I possibly think in terms of keeping my mind alive through reading and listening to music? Well, it is possible, but requires some kind of planning - though not so much on the music front which is just a matter of banging something on in a spare ten minutes here and there. I'm thinking more of a rough plan on what to try and read over the next week.
I've abandoned all hope of getting on with reading any kind of novel, basically keeping the three currently on my reading list ready and waiting for when the real holiday starts, and they'll be accompanying me to Europe whence we've set our sights. I've decided instead of keeping a bit of fiction ticking over to devote any and all available spare time to reading the final 100 pages of the second volume of Archie Ammons's The Complete Poems. I really need to finish this and move on, but that's likely to be helped considerably by the sheer quality of the poetry published but uncollected (until now, that is) that completes the mighty volume. Just this morning, before I applied myself to my quota of scripts for the day for IB I read a sequence of five gems in a row, and the world was a better place for it.
So something to look forward to in a week that's likely to fray me at the edges more than somewhat.
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