Pointless Announcements

Wow, you have been super busy!

Happy Thanksgiving to all the American culties! Here it'll just be a Thursday like any other Thursday, boring.

I'm so tired today. Lucy thought it was time to get up at 4.50am this morning, and 5.00am yesterday. And, I love being back at work but today SUCKED. Not the children, just a couple of the adults who are being useless. I'm sick of useless people in my life.

I didn't even know Thanksgiving was on a Thursday, I imagined it was during the weekend. So yeah, here's for a boring day at the Cult when it'll only be us Europeans around.

The trees on my street already have fairy lights.

Yesterday I spent 2 hours in line to get some money from the uni and read 17% of Faulkner's Collected Stories, which is a 900-pager.

Irina, it seems you tend to do a lot of standing in line for different things at your university.

PA - It's only me and one other person at the office today, haha. All the others are in a meeting all day. I'm hoping there won't be too many phone calls and people dropping by.

Yes, because this is how stuff works here. Wanna hear the dumbest thing? This year they figured it would be a great idea if the students who get a monthly scholarship (for the best results in the previous year, or at the entry exam, my case) should also fill in an application for it. So basically I have to sign a few papers saying that yes, I do want the uni to give me money for having the biggest grade on my exam. Which means, you guessed, more standing in line, because our students office is open only 2 hours a day, 4 days a week.

2 hours a day and not even every day! That's.. Not very practical.

You should see the lines when students enrol. Because nothing is online in this university, so you have to go pick forms, fill them in, then give them back. Every time you have to see the students office, there's a line. It's one of the biggest buzzkills here, how nothing can be solved via a computer and you have to waste hours for something that could be done in 10 minutes.

Why is nothing done online? You have super internet there anyway, so that can't be the problem.

Because our university sucks. I don't know. But it's always papers and papers and standing in line for hours and getting pissed at those ladies.

When I applied for Warwick everything was so fast and simple. Upload documents, email if you have questions, wait for an e-mail back. I think a forest goes away every year with just the paper the uni uses for his kind of things.

Happy Thanksgiving you lovely turkey eating bastards! I am jealous.

Irina, your uni is annoying. People at my university are incapable of forming queues and just sort of herd around things. Our office is only open 4 hours a day. In my other university it was open all day and that was much better for handing in assignments. I have 9-1 to hand in assignments and literally all of my classes, all week, fall in that period of time. So I will inevitably have to get to classes late so I can hand things in, seems silly.

I have this balls four hour gap to get through before my next class and I am so tired today. Couldn't sleep last night, cats making noise, boyfriend making noise, man outside making noise, me being scared something happened to Henry because he was outside. Total nightmare, today is a bit of a drag really.

Those are my Mondays. Four-hour gap and we spend it in a little restaurant/bar near the uni, checking our homework and basically having fun. I'm surprised I'm already friends with quite a few classmates, after that horrid first week when I didn't talk to anybody.

Irina shut up I have no friends! =(
I'm way older than a lot of them and the group of people I work with in classes are all quite solitary and split up as soon as the door opens. I only realised the other day that they are all students who are signed up with disability stuff and it seems as though it's autism. I was drawn to them initially because they were friendliest!! Lots of the girls here are really catty, the times I've worked with them I've looked up from my book and seen them rolling their eyes and such. I like my weird group of friends even though sometimes they say wild stuff, like I told this girl her new hair looked nice and she was like, "Well I have only just had it cut so I know." and I like it when she opens the door for someone and lets it shut in their face because she doesn't get it's rude. They are nice. They don't pull punches either, if I say something wrong they just say, "No." and move on where as I tend to say, "Oh wonderful idea! I had never thought of it like that! I'm not sure but maybe you're right!"

Guys I'm lonely.

I want to be your friend, Amy!

Why does everything always have to be about getting shitfaced drunk and being up till 6AM? I love being around people, but I can't seem to find anyone who doesn't care about getting drunk or staying up until I don't know when.

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This is a problem because I'm going to a job-related Christmas party tomorrow, and people will probably think I'm boring. Ugh!

Aw we'd be good friend Imke! I never do any of that getting drunk stuff any more, it's not for me. We have board games nights and cinema nights and stuff with our friends, slowly building a new group of people to do interesting stuff with. We're going on a ghost walk next month, haha, we're so old.

Feel like I've not got much in common with my old friends now because they still get drunk/high etc and I just don't enjoy that.

People think I'm boring because I rarely stay up past midnight and always wake up early. Okay, Amy, they're not my friends, just people I hang out with, and I don't even have their Messenger IDs yet, but school is fun so far with them.

Is that the party you have to wear the dress to, Imke? Pictures, please?

See, I want to go to nights like that!

Good for you for finding new friends.

Yes! There will be pictures taken (by Pål Martin if not at the party), so I might share one, haha.

I don't see the point of going clubbing.

Only 1 hour and 10 minutes left before my next class. I need to pee but I can't be bothered to pack my shit up just to go to the toilet.

There really is no point beyond seeking a mate (dancing+booze). You think this might be why you think you can't get some on a regular basis?

PA: These past two days have been interesting. Went to a gay dance bar with a friend as a social experiment. We wanted to see what it was like to be on the other side of things and have drinks bought for us only to not deliver. One guy bought me a drink. Then I bumped into a female stripper that recognized me, which is crazy, cuz I've never been to a strip club in this city. But she did look familiar, so we ended up dancing all nasty, and I spot my friend making out with a topless girl on the dance floor right after seeing him dance a bit suggestively with a guy. His shirt was gone, too. Definitely interesting.

Yesterday, another friend and I made a few breakthroughs in our script. Serious breakthroughs. Now we've got some pretty high aspirations.

Heading off to El Paso. May your turkey hunts go without incident.

Some part of me still hopes I'll find a boyfriend, and if by any chance I found the guy to sleep with in a club, there would be no potential relationship. Because clubbing is a major deal breaker.

Guess who never goes clubbing. This guy. I was hanging out in a casino the other night and kept seeing people with these really sweet glow sticks, and I wanted one really bad. We went to find out where people where getting them, and when we found out it was from one of the clubs in the casino, I was so disappointed. Not surprising though; why else would they have glow sticks?

Glow sticks: I have a RAD bad lollipop I saved from halloween that has, get this, a GLOW STICK...STICK! The actual lolly is a pumpkin thing and then the stick is a glow stick when you snap it. I can't bring myself to break it out because it's too special. It's in my treasure box now with all the cool clothes tags I couldn't throw out and buttons from stuff. Treasure.

I collect clothes tags too.

I knew I liked you Irina. Rock on.

I need to finish cleaning my room and getting ready for dinner.

I'll do it on Saturday. Tomorrow's a long busy day for me.

Egg Nog is the shit.

That is all.

I collect all my movie ticket stubs. I have a box overflowing with them and I'm pissed whenever I go to a theater that doesn't give stubs. Paper receipts? Fuck you.

I just want you all to know that I love you very much.

We all love you too, dummy.

I collect nothing but movies. I'm not much of a clutter-lover. Although, my computer stuffed with speed-destroying crap.

Clubs are odd. They imply there is only one type of place and one time period to meet a mate. Um...can't one meet people practically everywhere?

An old high school friend is back in town to celebrate her birthday. Seems I shall go to that and meet people that way.

As an aside, I need to get organized. I want to build a cool life for myself. But I don't know where to start. I may not have a girlfriend but I haven't exactly gone out of my way to look. Even when I meet people I don't know what to say because again, I haven't built a cool life and need to.

Clubs literally imply nothing other than "there is only one place and one time." Inherent in their raison d'être/paradigm is Right Here/Right Now. No other Time/Place exists.

Edit: Pretend this wasn't either provocatively stupid or stupidly provocative.

Synopsis: Rrrowwwr.

Hehe, are you drunk?

Did you drink all the egg nog?

PA: I had a shit day. We went to watch the movie Babies (Bebes) and I've already seen it and everything, and I lost it. Flashbacks and crying and anxiety. Ugh.

Drunk? I drank ALLL the mu'fuggin' drinks!

Yeah, BAY-BEEEE!

*a-HEM* Anyway... I sure wish your day had been all kinda shinier.

Always remember: There is a solid core of people who, though they've never been within a thousand miles of your general area, think you are teh absolute shizzniwizznifibbittygibbett.

*hugses*

I wish I could spend Thanksgiving with all of you. We don't have such a holiday.

Sorry about your day, Sarah! I hope the rest of the weekend will be much better for you. <3

Seminar 08:00-15:45 today, and Christmas dinner starting at 19:00.

Yaychristmasdinner!

Thanks, Tuff.

*hugses*

And thanks, Imke. I'm feeling much better now, just tired. I'm looking forward to the weekend, we're going to put up our christmas tree! Yay!

The VERY Shizzniwizznifibbittygibbett!

Pro-nounced': shiz-nee-WIZ'-nee-fib'-bit-tee-GIB'-bet.

Everything's Christmassy! I'm going to the mall today to see Cloud Atlas so I'll get to see winter decorations and stuff. Yay!

I love Christmas.

Yeah, we don't have Thanksgiving here. I wish we did.

I'm thankful for this place and all of you. All of you who aren't dicks, anyway.

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Got it. I'm gonna use it all the time. It will be Lucy's first word.

I used to collect coins from around the world. I still have the collection, I just don't really add to it anymore.