Ten Things to Do While Playing Hooky From the Thesis/Exegesis Lecture at Uni Today.

* Look, this is the one and only lecture I went to last year, and it was the one that made me think they didn't care about us poor Literature students who only write about other people's work rather than creating our own. I mean, do they think that creativity isn't required or utilised when writing a critical piece. See Oscar Wilde about that if that's what you think! Not all critical essays are as boring as bat-poo or as obtuse as ... well, as lots of other critical essays. So there.

1. Go to Borders and drink chai lattes and eat smiley face cookies while watching people bespatter books with their chai lattes and smiley face cookies. While you are there you can search for the next book in the crime series' you are reading, only to find they don't have the next ones on your list (that you haven't made yet, and, possibly, won't be a list for here, unless you get desperate). Sometimes the universe does tell you to not spend any money when pay day is still a week away.
2. Play computer games at Dick Smith. Except if the universe is telling you not to because it's Final Fantasy XVII, or some other game where you punch people. Why can't stores that have games for people to play when they are browsing, have Singstar as an option, or something wacky on the Wii.
3. Book accommodation at the Hibiscus Garden Resort and Spa for our trip to Port Douglas in July. I still have an inherent distrust of travel agents. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But there is the advantage of holding the booking without having to pay for the accommodation up front. Hope it is as nice as I told all the people I sent there it was!
4. Look at diamond rings at Tiffanys. Friendship rings. Don't get funny ideas. Rings for when people have been friends for a very long time.
5. Search for Marshmallow spread at Coles. Coles always stops selling the stuff I like.
6. Drink Rose. This was a lightly sparkling Brown Brother's Moscato Rose. It was sweet with strawberry and raspberry highlights and a cinnamon back. The effervecence sprinkled rose petals on the palate, and the aftertaste of watermelon was a refreshing accompaniment to spaghetti bolognese. I just googled it for a more accurate description than mine: they used roses and red berries in the aroma, with spicy perfume in the nose, and balanced fruit, acid and spritz on the palate. I wasn't too far off.
7. Play hide and seek.
8. Have a foot massage. I am fairly sure this is reality and not just a seemingly convincing fantasy.
9. Watch NCIS. Well, technically I would have finished playing hooky by now, but I love games so sometimes I just keep playing.
10. Find somebody's ticklish spot at last and then torture them back finally! Ah, sweet, cold revenge.