...And everyone looses their minds.
My friend got fired from our work today for sitting on a chair last weekend during her shift.
...I can only hope the manager who fired her was just stressed out by the Christmas rush, because that was way out of whack.
And I've got tomorrow and another weekend of that before everything hopefully returns to normal. Actually, working weekends has given me a whole new perspective on scholl on Monday mornings: it's the farthest point in the week from an work. Woo!
Anyway, other than that, everything's going good. I've still not finished christmas shopping, and I'm still succeeding in telling myself that I'm not putting it off, that I'm totally not freaked out at the thought of standing in shop queues for hours. But I've got the main things, and a couple more trips and I'll be done.
The dissertation, surprisingly, is coming along quite well. I don't think I'll get it finished by the end of this term like I planned, but I've got a lot of material down and even though a lot of it sounds suspiciously like waffle, it's getting there. Only, now that I've finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and I'm finding all this great stuff to write about on that, my other book just seems lacking in comparison. And I'm not too clear anymore how to extract a concrete link between the books - but I guess that's what essays and stuff like this are all about. Making things relevant.
But yeah, schools actually pretty fun these days. Well, it's a little more enjoyable than previous years. (The oldest year group always get treated nicer by the teachers. :D) One of the only down-sides is that I've not got time to read any books just for fun this year. I suppose if I worked really hard at working out a schedule and following it, I could fit it in, but...then it would be more like a task slotted into an appointed time period, and then all the fun is lost anyway.
Oh! Yay my fried got accepted into the University she wanted to go to. I'm so excited for her :D
Lots of people are starting to get their acceptance letters through now ...and this is where I regret not applying to Uni this year. I mostly didn't apply because, although Uni's where I always ultimately intended to end up at some point, the fact was that I just didn't know what I wanted to do after my year out in Australia - and I think something's trying to teel me I'm just not ready yet. I'm made very loose plans to travel round Europe for a bit after Australia, and as I have no idea how long that'll take (these things are nutorious for not going according to plan) I'm just putting it off. More time to think about it. My final reason is that frankly, I've lost sight of what I thought I always wanted to study. For the past four years it's always been English lit, and then at the start of this year it was Combined English lit and History...and at the same time I want to take French further, but I don't want to leave out any of the other subjects that I'd been mulling over...so yeah. I confused myself by thinking too much.
Twilight...has been creeping into my life and the people at school. I just thought I'd mention that, because it's the first time I've seen fandom really take off on a large scale outside of the internet. I'm not counting Harry Potter because....shockingly - and I loath to say this - this seems to be having a bigger effect. Everyone's talking about it...I seem to be one of the only people who don't have this boundless desire to talk about it all the time. I still see it as a teenage novel series thats good for a light read but which will never reach any level of profoundness whatsoever, seeing as the writer is lacking in adding in rational sense, believable characters - oh, and a plot. Sounds harsh, but there's really not a lot to be found in Twilight. What's so weird about Twilight making an impact on RL is how strikinly like fandom the structure of it is - you've even got the girls who pronounce their undying love for Edward, and who resent the fact that he's fictional. Fangirls for fictional characters - normally restricted to internet fandoms. Anyway, each to their own I guess.
Oh, and now I'm really looking forward to April nest year! The new FMA anime looks set to come out then - and I. cannot. wait. The first anime was amazing enough, that for a new one to be made form scrach anyway on top of a very successful and completed first series just seems amazingly exciting. Why can't something like FMA make more an impact on people in RL?? Maybe one day...
Well, now that I've unexpectedly poured my thought out on LJ, I;mm off to bed. No matter how much I try, I can never seem to get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. I'm worried about when the effects of that will start to show and I do something like wak into a wall in a tired haze. Similar things have happened before (though the wall thing sounds a little more frightning.)
...I can only hope the manager who fired her was just stressed out by the Christmas rush, because that was way out of whack.
And I've got tomorrow and another weekend of that before everything hopefully returns to normal. Actually, working weekends has given me a whole new perspective on scholl on Monday mornings: it's the farthest point in the week from an work. Woo!
Anyway, other than that, everything's going good. I've still not finished christmas shopping, and I'm still succeeding in telling myself that I'm not putting it off, that I'm totally not freaked out at the thought of standing in shop queues for hours. But I've got the main things, and a couple more trips and I'll be done.
The dissertation, surprisingly, is coming along quite well. I don't think I'll get it finished by the end of this term like I planned, but I've got a lot of material down and even though a lot of it sounds suspiciously like waffle, it's getting there. Only, now that I've finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and I'm finding all this great stuff to write about on that, my other book just seems lacking in comparison. And I'm not too clear anymore how to extract a concrete link between the books - but I guess that's what essays and stuff like this are all about. Making things relevant.
But yeah, schools actually pretty fun these days. Well, it's a little more enjoyable than previous years. (The oldest year group always get treated nicer by the teachers. :D) One of the only down-sides is that I've not got time to read any books just for fun this year. I suppose if I worked really hard at working out a schedule and following it, I could fit it in, but...then it would be more like a task slotted into an appointed time period, and then all the fun is lost anyway.
Oh! Yay my fried got accepted into the University she wanted to go to. I'm so excited for her :D
Lots of people are starting to get their acceptance letters through now ...and this is where I regret not applying to Uni this year. I mostly didn't apply because, although Uni's where I always ultimately intended to end up at some point, the fact was that I just didn't know what I wanted to do after my year out in Australia - and I think something's trying to teel me I'm just not ready yet. I'm made very loose plans to travel round Europe for a bit after Australia, and as I have no idea how long that'll take (these things are nutorious for not going according to plan) I'm just putting it off. More time to think about it. My final reason is that frankly, I've lost sight of what I thought I always wanted to study. For the past four years it's always been English lit, and then at the start of this year it was Combined English lit and History...and at the same time I want to take French further, but I don't want to leave out any of the other subjects that I'd been mulling over...so yeah. I confused myself by thinking too much.
Twilight...has been creeping into my life and the people at school. I just thought I'd mention that, because it's the first time I've seen fandom really take off on a large scale outside of the internet. I'm not counting Harry Potter because....shockingly - and I loath to say this - this seems to be having a bigger effect. Everyone's talking about it...I seem to be one of the only people who don't have this boundless desire to talk about it all the time. I still see it as a teenage novel series thats good for a light read but which will never reach any level of profoundness whatsoever, seeing as the writer is lacking in adding in rational sense, believable characters - oh, and a plot. Sounds harsh, but there's really not a lot to be found in Twilight. What's so weird about Twilight making an impact on RL is how strikinly like fandom the structure of it is - you've even got the girls who pronounce their undying love for Edward, and who resent the fact that he's fictional. Fangirls for fictional characters - normally restricted to internet fandoms. Anyway, each to their own I guess.
Oh, and now I'm really looking forward to April nest year! The new FMA anime looks set to come out then - and I. cannot. wait. The first anime was amazing enough, that for a new one to be made form scrach anyway on top of a very successful and completed first series just seems amazingly exciting. Why can't something like FMA make more an impact on people in RL?? Maybe one day...
Well, now that I've unexpectedly poured my thought out on LJ, I;mm off to bed. No matter how much I try, I can never seem to get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. I'm worried about when the effects of that will start to show and I do something like wak into a wall in a tired haze. Similar things have happened before (though the wall thing sounds a little more frightning.)