My book for Teaser Tuesday was Hamlet by Shakespeare, not Hamlet by some unknown person. There’s a reason for this…I’m sure I need a drumroll and someone to pull back the curtain to unveil the reason.

I’m just about to start studying. I don’t have any particular goal in mind. There are two main things I want to study, one being English and the other being business stuff (that’s a technical word for you). I need both of them for the business, I need the English stuff to help me write better blogs and to be able to give you more useless information on my Facebook Fan Page and I need the business stuff to ensure I run a better business. So it was a really hard call which one to do first as I need each of them equally and I didn’t feel I had the capacity to do both at the one time so I mentally tossed a coin and the English won because it costs less.

I’ve enrolled for VCE English Literature Units 3 & 4 and to put that in non-Victorian language, year 12 English Lit i.e. the last year at school before going onto university. It’s only one subject but I’ve got a lot on my plate already and don’t feel I can do more than one class a week, especially as it calls for four to six hours of study a week on top of a three hour class. For me, that’s a big ask so I’ve put the other things on hold for the next couple of years. Next year the choice will be between English Language and business stuff. I don’t know which will be harder.

I’ve enrolled at CAE (Council of Adult Education) in the CBD and I really pity my teacher. I originally enrolled for the Monday afternoon class and went around getting the books from friends with bookshops, I had finally organised to pick up the last book when I had a phone call to tell me the Monday afternoon class was cancelled and would I like to swap to Wednesday evening or Thursday afternoon. I didn’t fancy giving up my op shop shift on Thursday afternoon so that just leaves Wednesday evening. This is where I pity my teacher. I do my best creative work at night when I’m tired, my mouth often opens and speaks before the brain has a chance to say ‘stop’ so I have a suspicion I’m going to be very voluable in class. I do hope she shuts me up and gives the other students a chance.

The books I’m studying this year are:

Freedom of the City by Brian Friel (a play)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by Shakespeare
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

I’d never read any of them before so this is going to be an education. My first class is this evening and I’ve already read Freedom of the City, a very sad story, I’m now in the middle of Hamlet.

All of this hinges on the class actually being on and not being cancelled. I say that as I had a text on my mobile on Monday telling me the class was cancelled. Yes, of course I rang in and spent 12 minutes on the phone trying to make myself understood that I was asking if the Wednesday class was cancelled as well. I think I was told it would still be on but I won’t be certain about it until I get to class and the teacher comes in prepared to teach. So it’s going to be a fun evening, I hope to attend a class but there’s some chance I might get in there and turn around to come home again. If this happens I intend to ask for a refund as I will have missed the first class of English Language and don’t fancy starting late.