Cutting It All Away

Thankfully the title is by no means a literal representation of my feelings. In fact it is something more often said with a great deal of pleasure than any amount of pain or sadness… For those who haven’t come across the term – popular slang where i’m from. Cut away means to no longer be doing or be required to do something… and it can be anything. Seems like a straight forward enough definition doesn’t it? I don’t know why it is a more widely used term… And yet many of my friends from home give me that… you’re doing it again… look when i use it…

Maybe there are places in the world where such a term is not needed… but I doubt it… Everybody is waiting to cut away, hoping to cut away, wishing something would be cut away even before it begins. If people could have their way I reckon nobody would do anything much at all ever if they could. Talk about the world grinding to a stop. Unfortunately as sure as the earth will not stop spinning round people can’t stop either. Not that that’s what people want anyway they’re just doing the whole greener pastures thing :). Life’s never great so somebody must being better off them me and somehow I want to be where and what they are…

But anyway in my typically distracted manner I perhaps neglected to mention WHY the topic of cut away is on the brain at the moment. Basically I found out that a computer lab had been correctly dated and is not due tomorrow but NEXT week. A very very good thing if like me you aren’t quite sure why it is your code is adding and not subtracting as directed and you would really appreciate a lab demonstrator’s help…

OK so I basically have no belief in karma but some things are easiest to explain to others with such token phrase… Basically I am blaming the tedious task my friend brought up for me on the fact that I was rejoicing in not having as much work as I thought I did this evening. Note that I didn’t even go so far as to say NO work… but then with work loads like engineering students do less work is rather like no work… Yippee!

Well… This was what I was going to do with my spare time before dinner. Unfortunately that time doesn’t exist any longer… (the big problem about stuff being cut away is that it leaves empty space for new stuff to be inserted) So I say farewell and get on with dinner… and the remaining study I still manage to have for tomorrow…