Getting up and I have nothing to do - I enjoy my sabbatical so much. It's ever such a great change to my ordinary routine that my heart leaps. I go biking, hiking, travelling to various places. I will spend six weeks abroad. Of course there is a project I have to do - a study of postcolonial literature, but because this means reading books and writing comments on them, it's lovely work.
Today I will do some reading, and my study needs tidying a little, and in the evening I have invited a friend: Ruth, the wife of a former lecturer. Although she is in her seventies she is very much alive and so entertaining when she tells anecdotes about her life which has become quite exciting since she decided lately that her sex life was not over in spite of her husband. So I am really looking forward to hearing about her most recent outrages, as she calls then, with a big and radiant smile.
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