It’s amazing how even when a bout of swine flu closes your department for over a week, people still stay up til 3am the night before we go back in, just so they have something that resembles a few hours’ work.
Why do we never think ahead of ourselves? Or attempt to keep on top of [...]
I feel like i’m on some kind of rather disgusting medication for a very annoying and frustrating illness or virus of some sort. And even though I know that I need to take the yucky medicine to make me better, is tastes so fucking foul that each spoonfull makes my stomach wrench and churn.
Either that, [...]
What is a Payment Handling Charge? £1.25 for a paper bill? “ADVANCE CHARGES!”
I do not like such things.
-F
Sometimes I sit back and think about the things i’ve been saying recently, or the thoughts going through my mind, and I laugh. It occurs to me, at these random moments, how ridiculous I really am. I have to remind myself that im 19, and I shouldnt expect or want all of the answers to [...]
I always thought I was one of those sensible people who bought into the idea of deferred gratification. I can put in the hard work and sacrifice in order to be happier in the long term. But recently i’m seeing myself as someone way more interested in instant gratification. Lack of self discipline is something [...]
Of a truth dark thoughts, yea dark and fell,
The augur wise doth arouse in me,
Who neither assent, nor yet gainsay;
And what to affirm, I cannot tell;
But I flutter in hope, unapt to see
Things of to-morrow, or to-day.
Oh man it would suck to be Oedipus.
-J
Odysseus begins his tale, trapped on Calypso’s island. How trapped is he really? There they are, living together as a couple, with seemingly little resistance on his part. Calypso seems to think the Gods simply want to ruin their mutual happiness by taking him away. But at the same time, he weeps by the shore, [...]
I have spent my entire academic life, right from nursery school, being the best. It is something which has always come naturally to me, and if it doesn’t then I just have to work bloody hard! Being top of the class, and from a fashion student point of view, being an outrageous, obsessive perfectionist is [...]
I love my best friend to absolute bits, but I am so unused to spending real time with her. The last 6 years of our lives have been a constant struggle to see each other, to find time to talk. Our friendship has always been a reflective one. We’ve not had the chance to live [...]
I have a real problem with accepting that I can’t change the past. I’m constantly wondering if things would have been different if i’d said this, or behaved in another way. I know the only rational thing to do is accept that I can’t change things and make the most of my present situation. But [...]