availability update

a few blogs ago i discussed the idea of being available and how if you put enough conditions on it then maybe you aren't really being available. well i have decided that is no longer just a thought, it is truth. and maybe that's what i was doing. i had been investigating taking some time off school next year and after putting forward my ideal, so i could be 'available', it came back to me that that wasn't an option - fair enough. but then it was put to me that either i could take off the whole school year or none at all. woa. i wasn't expecting that. that confused me. but i think i have figured it out in the end. if i want to be available, then i have to be available and not jus tin my way. quoting a friend who was quoting tony campolo - i think - about the survey done of people in a retirement home. the 3 things they wished they had done were to take more risks, whoops, i forget the second one and the third was to have done more things that would have a lasting impact.