Gypsy Life

Posted by Lady Kaye on September 2, 2010 · 3 Comments 

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I wonder what its like to be a uni bum.

Im far from a uni bum… I have two income streams plus a supportive partner. But on days like today I like to pretend. Ive got on my woolly tights, my denim skirt, and my hightop kicks. Im not wearing much makeup, and I have a ribbon wrapped around my ponytail. Im lugging around a textbook, a laptop, and a bag full of crap, and Im currently sitting in Piccolo Café, bumming the free wifi and drinking soy chai.

Tomorrow I go back to the suits and the deadlines, the early morning starts, and the late nights, but for one day of the week, I can pretend that im not trying to balance a career with my studies. And that all that matters is my economics test, my digital design submission, and my floorplans.

I keep telling Jimmy that I want to be a gypsy. I want to wear long skirts and braid my hair and ride around in a horse drawn wagon playing on my guitar. Obviously that’s an extreme version, but its slowly more and more apparent that the more I get, the less I want.  I can never turn down travel for work, a photoshoot, a hosting job, a blog article, a business meeting, a social appointment, for fear that I may miss something crucial further down the track. And so, it piles up, convincing me further that I like it this way (when maybe I don’t).

So today Im just a uni bum, designing graphics of womens legs for a paper aeroplane squadron themed around shoes. And I’ll probably fall asleep in my Accounting lecture. Tonight I’ll go home and iron my skirt and make my lunch, prep for my meetings and travel back to the land of the corporate.

But before that happens, I think I’ll have another chai.

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