day in a life

It's 9 in the morning and I finished my hot lemon water and am over to coffee. No school today for me but a whole lot of reading. I am getting through Ovid and I have a lot of essays and articles to read. I am taking a great class called 'Animals in text and pictures' it's about animal ethics and how they are portrayed and their place in the world. Very interesting and I am writing a small essay about the song 'Meat is Murder'. I am also in latin literature reading Ovid for that, finished Eneas and a few others and have a lot more to read. My final course is history of Icelandic literature. That is a tough one, I have a whole lot of big books to read and my teacher is so great but the workload is a lot. It's about 200- 250 pages a week just for the icelandic one.

My boy is doing great in school now, he is hopefully over his initial bump, he reads a whole lot and reads himself to sleep every night, it's very funny and sweet to listen to him read out loud until he falls asleep. I am trying to boost his confidence, he is like me in many ways and if something is hard he wants to give up. We are working on that, both of us. I am gonna try and get my grades up a bit, a am a mediocre student and usually get 7 in everything but I want to get a MA and I need a bit higher grades to get there, I always compare myself to my friends, I know I shouldn't do it cause I am the only single mom in the group. Only one other girl has a kid but she has a great boyfriend who takes care of the kid with her.

Talking about being a single mom... My ex knows no boundaries, none at all. He came to pick up the boy last Friday and told me that his wife is waiting in the car to make sure he doesn't come in for coffee!! For starters he really shouldn't tell me that and he shouldn't come to me for two hours every time he picks up the boy! So when he said this I answered : Smart woman.
I would be annoyed if my husband or boyfriend spent hours with his ex. He has no idea how to act and it's funny how I see this always more clearly now than before.

I need to write more, I need to practice writing, I don't think I have a good style or am creative enough, I have posted a few short stories here in the past and some poems but I don't think it's that good but I want to get better so I want to find a routine or something I can do to work on that....

Well life is busy and I should go read or write or clean or just something other than hang on the computer...