Deliberate Holiday

"-Ah! better far than this, to stray about
Voluptuously through fields and rural walks,
And ask no record of the hours, given up
To vacant musing, unreproved neglect
Of all things, and deliberate holiday.


It feels like forever since I took a deliberate holiday without having a pit in my stomach telling me I need to be doing homework or I need to be packing or unpacking.

My husband and I moved to Oregon from Michigan the week of Christmas. We spent time with our families and then went to the task of unpacking and going from store looking and finally buying furniture to suit our taste and our apartment. We had a week to get our registration done, but by then all the advisors were on vacation. We next had to find where our classes were. I had never been to a public school and it seemed huge at the time. (Now not quite so big.) We then continued to unpack our house and open a bank account and go to school.
Life was busy, but it got even busier when school started. Being an English major means there is a lot of reading. I thought my eyes were going to bug out and my mind could not input another word and that was after only the fourth week. My dad's wedding was three weeks into the term and there was no fun to be had because I knew I had to do Geology reading, Writing reading, and other reading for my English classes. I was with my brother and sister and of course they wanted to stay up to 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning. Monday came around and set me back two weeks (I played catch up.)
My birthday was last weekend and I had a paper due Monday morning. The pit got bigger.
Things are wrapping up and maybe in a week that deliberate holiday is coming. I can almost taste and see it.

My husband and I plan to go camping and see some of Oregon we have not seen for a long time. Then the mad race to finish the term starts all over again. And a deliberate holiday will once again be far off in the distance. Maybe that is the way it is supposed to be. If I had no homework and no job I would be twiddling my thumbs and wasting my life.