The Entourage (because that’s how we roll) became five last night, when AD set off for her 6 month round the world voyage of growth and self discovery. Tango and Spanish lessons in Buenos Aires, spiritual connections at Macchu Pichu, teaching English in Africa, yoga in Thailand and a bit of party-time in the Big Apple. Swine flu helped lay the Mexican sojourn to rest, but doesn’t the rest sound awful? Like Eat Pray Love, only without the Love part, because she has left her man at home! The DJ is also away, but only for 3 weeks, Stateside. We miss her already, but she and her funky shout outs will be back before we know it. Hopefully with a suitcase full of all the stuff we asked her to get for us! Actually she’s probably getting mid air style tips from the Queer Eye himself – her last text informed us she was LA bound with none other than Carson Cressley. Listening to the girls make their plans has put the travel question front and centre again. Scenario - no job (burst mining bubble), money in the bank, permanent and incurable case of wanderlust. What to do? Although my backpack beckons, I’ve decided to be responsible this time and do my self discovery bit by opening up a few textbooks. I always fancied myself has having journalistic tendencies, so I’m taking advantage of the ED (Economic Downturn) and enrolling for a degree. It has been the week for self discovery – Special K discovered she is more than capable of wearing the Half Ironman hat on Saturday, and Lis is busy discovering that the new Blackberry is perhaps going to be harder to set up than initially presumed. How do you change the ring tone? Anyway, as I was strolling around campus yesterday it struck me that this was the perfect Cougar environment and maybe Little C should come to uni too…we’ve been wearing Converse All Stars since before these boys were even thought of. Maybe this mature age student thing won’t be so bad. According to Special K, The ED guarantees an increase in the number of mature age enrolments. Perhaps this means there is a chance my renewed RSVP efforts will become obsolete. Would I want to date a student though? Perhaps not in my former life, but now that the ED is validating these large gaps on our resumes, why not? I could stick to the younger students I suppose, stay true to the Cougar Code. You know the bad thing about young men though….most of them wouldn’t have a clue how to tango. Of course I have to get accepted first. Speaking of which, I should probably go and complete those forms.