Argh, it's all gone mad!

I abandoned my wee blog for ages, but then just today I thought I'd add to it again, cause I quite like writing it, actually, so here goes...

First of all, bloody Blogger has gone and changed everything so it took me ages to figure out how to even get in to write a new post.  And in other changes: I have a new job - I'm working in the Corinthian Club in Glasgow and *drumroll please* I'm going back to Uni this September.  I'm going to be doing the LLB (Graduate) degree in Law.  So I can do it in 2 years instead of three for the heart-stopping sum of £6,500 a year - that's at Strathclyde where I eventually had to accept.  I wanted to accept Edinburgh but they put their fees up to £8,750 a year, which was, frankly, well out of my range.  So, Strathclyde it is, and actually I'm pretty excited about it, though I'm not sure anyone else can tell.  

I'm off to Italy next week to visit the flame-haired dynamo ED who has been living on-and-off in Sicily for about 9 months.  I'm flying through London (7 hour wait in Luton, snore) and back through Pisa (one hour connection time, mad dash from Arrivals straight back into Departures and Security) and I've made it so I get 7 full days in Sicily with the two days travelling tacked on either end.  I'm uber excited and already have several lists of things to pack.  I'm not taking a suitcase, 'cause it would have cost me an extra £60 (screw you, Ryanair), so I need to pack smart and think of things I can double up into at least 2 outfits.  I'm also trying not to buy anything new, because I already have loads of summery clothes that I don't get to wear enough, but the one thing I do really want are a pair of sequined shorts (I say shorts; they're not much more than giant knickers) that I've seen on Asos.  The problem is, the colour I want is the cheapest but sold out in my size, so I don't know if I should go for a different colour instead or kid myself into thinking I can get into the smaller size.  I think, of all things you don't want to be wearing too tight, an unforgiving, tiny pair of shorts is about top of the list, so I might have to forgo the lovely navy and go for black instead.

I need to decide today, really, so they arrive in time for me leaving on Tuesday.  Last time I was going away to Tenerife, I couldn't find my bikini, so I bought one on Asos the day before I left and forked out for their enxt delivery and hoped for the best.  They turned up just in the nick of time, and all was well.  So I have faith in the Asos delivery system, at least!

Tomorrow is my mum's birthday, so I've booked us all a table in Brown's to go for breakfast en famille, and then we're hitting the Swarovski shop to buy her a ring she likes.  So far so good, except my dad still hasn't got her anything and seems to have no idea what to go for, so I'm now racking my brains to try and think of something else that he can get for her.  This happens every damn year, and I'm pretty fed up of it!  If anyone has any genius ideas for a mum-worthy gift, please send them my way before the shops shut tonight...

I know, I know, I should be doing that job application...

...but it's OK because they messed up the application and added a new section yesterday, and now the deadline has been pushed back.  I just realised this and so now my procrastinating feels justified.  Almost wish I hadn't found out because I was on track to just getting it finished this afternoon!  But I'll stick with it, and just get it done before I go out tonight. 

I keep getting distracted by the squirrel in the back garden, Shug. (My dad's wee pet; he named him.) I've already put out nuts for him - he comes to the patio doors, puts his front paws on the window, stands on his back legs and stares you out if you don't - and now he's running about all over the place collecting them.  Something tells me I might be looking for distractions... Shug is kind of scraping the barrel.

I'm really blogging because I'm thinking - again - about doing a postgrad and I just don't know what to do.  Anyone who's listened to be bang on about this before will know that I've toyed with doing public policy, publishing, journalism and law.  And I never decide on any of them.  The reason I can never decide is actually totally straight forward:  the only thing I really want to study is Women's Studies. 

The problem is, a postgrad will cost in the range of £5000 and after a postgrad in something like Women's Studies, what exactly am I meant to do?  Aside from picking a PhD question and signing over the next 5 years to academia and living in libraries, then going on to be a lecturer or something.

In terms of job prospects, W.S. doesn't really match up to something like law where you know what the ideal end result would be. i.e.: a job.

But I really, really want to do it. 

I just don't know what to do.  After an interesting but slightly useless undergrad (MA in Hispanic Studies and Music, in case you didn't know), I'm wary of starting another course that's not going to take me anywhere.  By that I mean, anywhere that's going to make me a bit of money.  And the way the tuition fees are going nowadays, I'd need some serious bloody money to pay off whatever debt I accrue in doing the course!

Any advice/pearls of wisdom will be much appreciated guys - anyone done Women's Studies and really benefited from it?  Or anyone done a postgrad that got them nowhere and wish they'd never done it?!