Bowling, dancing, not working

Last Friday we went bowling to celebrate a friend's birthday. I have not been bowling for a long time and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I was a little hyper, getting involved in both teams, offering the odd tip to those who thought it was a rubbish game, and taking over the scoring. I was probably 5th out of 10 people, but had a fantastic time. A few strikes and half strikes as well as plenty of no scores. We will be definitely be bowling again soon.



Saturday, we had some friends over for dinner, which, as usual, meant a full day of cleaning the house from top to bottom, shopping and cooking and then a frantic last minute rush to find candles, locate clean napkins etc. We had another great evening and once they had left I decided to take the opportunity to learn to dance. What? Well, I know I cannot sing to due to being tone deaf and I know I am not a great dancer due to no natural rhythm. My boyfriend is a great mover and I wanted to learn too. So we played Emma's Latin album continually while I tried to locate the beat. I usually dance along to the melody or lyrics as I simply cannot hear the beat behind a song. It was a revelation to finally begin to understand what other people here, although I really needed to concentrate.



Of course, these are all activities I should have been putting on hold while I worked up the dissertation further. I did the grand total of nothing on the dissertation this weekend, although I have confirmed a dozen interviews, which will help motivate me. A good friend who used to be a dissertation supervisor at a university has offered to read through my latest drafts and offer some pointers which will be a great help. The next few weeks I have put a ban on socialising at the weekend as we already have a week away booked out for a family holiday to celebrate my father's 60th birthday. I have until 15 April to complete the dissertation and I MUST focus on this more until then.