Just writing my email to George, backing out of the Dublin trip. I'm sitting here questioning every word, because it would be fantastically useful and (probably, if I could find various train stations and so on) be fun but it's swiftly approaching the £150 cap I set on it without me even taking food and taxi/bus travel into account. It'd end up costing me more like £200, not to mention an entire weekend out of my remaining dissertation time.
All of which are partly excuses because it doesn't seem organised at all and I have a sinking feeling I'll be left stranded in some random Blackpool railway station but they're also true, because I do want to go. Just-- I don't think I can justify the money and time for what's effectively a fun weekend in Dublin. If it was in this country I'd be there but because it involves the extra cost and hassle of the flight, the trains, getting from various airports to various trains/buses... and I don't even know who else is going, so it's likely to just be me on my lonesome getting lost.
Stuff like this makes me quietly furious that the English & Creative Writing department don't get funding for trips like this. Throw everything at the Management School, yeah. The rest of us don't exist. If the CW department had sent an email out offering this as a package deal, with one set price for us to pay and everything organised for us, probably ten times as many people would've signed up.
When we rule the world...
edit: I wish I could use smileys in emails to tutors. I want to use a :( in this email because it says exactly what I want without having to find the words.
I know, I know, I'm an English student. Words should be there at my fingertips. Come on words.
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