Losing glasses. It's really annoying, cos they're mostly see through things so you'd easily miss them, especially considering you can't see shit cos you're essentially looking for your vision.

For sure. Lost em in the snow on the deck, spent an hour shoveling.

It's fucking raining here, and I need to go to the fucking store.

[djskrimp]

It's fucking raining here, and I need to go to the fucking store.

Moses Staff (TM) it'll part ANY water like the Red Sea!


















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[swervedriver]

Actually being physically sick because I have to give a rather important presentation in about 30 minutes. Fuck.

-update edit: went better than I had thought, now I'm officially allowed to finish this graduation project. Phew.

Un-awesome is being ignorant in a fucking vague, retarded, unhelpful system.

I'm taking a year out from college this year; not by choice but because some fucking RETARD corrected my final school examinations incorrectly. For that reason, I didn't get enough points to do the degree I wanted (Primary School Teaching) until it was already started for two months. I had to leave the course I was doing (Politics) and take the year out in order to accept the place. I've been bollocking around doing nothing for an entire year; just being angry about society, developing an alcohol problem and losing the 70 grand extra I would have earned in my life if I were a teacher three years from now instead of four. Because of some retard who decided that my french grammar was bad when second and third opinions both proved that it wasn't, and aided by a rude secretary in the college who basically gave me no option to begin college because she continually told me that doing it was stupid, even though I would easily have caught up two months into the course.

BUT IT GETS WORSE. In this country, you have to defer your college place if you take a year out - which I did. However I was unaware that you have to reapply for it the following year. I just read about it today, and the application closing date is February 1st. I assumed they would keep the place because you have written to them to accept it, and they have written back to you. OH MY GOD. I don't know what to do. I've researched the hell out of it on the internet but it doesn't say anything about forgetting to reapply for a deferred course.

Now I'm just sitting here, helpless, because the college is closed, crying and trying not to think about the fact that I may have to spend another year like this before I can reapply again. Maybe they'll make me wait until I'm a mature student because I missed my opportunity to reply, that could be five years. And the points are going to go up this year for sure, so even if I somehow manage to do my Leaving Cert again I won't have enough points. This is an absolute fucking nightmare. I want to die.

=/ I can kind of feel your pain. I found out last week that I wont be able to start summer classes due to paperwork I was not told I needed to submit, until it was too late...So I have to work my miserable job full time all summer here. Not AS severe as yours...but I feel your pain(somewhat)

Thanks for the empathy, sorry to hear about your situation being crappy too. When they have such strict deadlines you'd sort of hope that they're lenient with the people who mistakenly don't adhere to them. Is there absolutely no way they'll let your mistake slide? I'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what the story is with me. The morning can't come soon enough.

Limerick has been the only thing keeping me going psychologically this year. I love Cork but academically there's nothing here for me, I have to leave and do this course. If I don't get out of this fucking cesspit house next year I don't know what I'll do. I really want to be a teacher. I would be so good at it, and not to blow my own trumpet but anyone who knows me in real life will vouch for the fact that I deserve it so much. Dealing with children is just so easy for me, and not because I'm immature like them or any of that shit (I'm not one of those people who're like "I relate to children because I am a child!!!". Haha, I wasn't fortunate enough to have a childhood ), it's just because I have a very deep understanding of them.

I've calmed down a bit now at least. I think I'll be able to charm my way into the secretary's good books on the phone and somehow wrangle a fixture of some sort. If I can talk my way out of a mugging I can probably talk my way out of this... Fingers crossed.

Shit I don't feel your pain, I get referential treatment. I' sorry to hear that.
Five years?! How are they not liable for their miscalculating your scores?
Wait you mean you will have to put everything on hold...if its inevitable what can you do to make the best of the time you have in between? Maybe study? Fuckit man I took to studying when I originally left school. Have the upper hand on either what you would be studying now or study exactly what you want to study and get the satisfaction of that. It's really gratifying.

But shit, don't let them fuck your career. Geh, I get it that you can't reapply right now, but what they fucked up, that's on them man not you. Slaughter their families! Another anecdote, "You can't tell grown folks what to do", I'm not tryin' to over step whats respectful for me to say, but goddam I've seen too many people with alcohol poisoning. lol your probably not that bad.

Happy charming!

The sandwich machine doesn't sound so cool now.

Unfortunately, no. Classes start next monday and it takes them weeks to process the papers I have to give them. My cousin almost ran into this problem but got the papers in much sooner than I could have(due to my job)

I'll work towards getting in in the fall though...I really dont know if I can stand my job full time any longer...

I'll work towards getting in in the fall though...I really dont know if I can stand my job full time any longer...

Well considering you've already started your papers I'm sure you'll do a spiffy job and have them in on time. I guess the best advice I can give you is to put in as much time and effort as you can afford, the long-term rewards will be even more appealing then. The nearer your results are to perfection, the more likely you are to get a nice job in this economic climate...

Five years?! How are they not liable for their miscalculating your scores?

You see, when you get the results of your Leaving Cert exams you can have them re-checked (you get to look at your script and see if they corrected anything wrongly). When I looked at my French test I knew there'd been a mistake - lo' and behold, when I sent it back I had ten more points, which means that they marked ten percent of the exam wrong when it was actually right. It's perfectly normal for this to happen, the correctors have certain points scores they have to adhere to (they can only give out a certain amount of C1s, B3s etc.) and I'd obviously just been in an unlucky place in a lazy corrector's pile. So after that I had 480 points (out of 600) instead of 470, and my degree is 475 so I superseded it by five points.

I had to take this year out because the rechecks aren't ready until October so I'd missed ages of the course by the time I received my place. But the fact that I didn't reapply might mean I'm not eligible to go next year, let alone this year... so that's a potential one-year wait, or if I've missed my opportunity to apply through the deferral, I'll have to wait until I'm a mature student (at age 23). I promise though, if that happens I'll make some sort of explosive and hurl it over the gate into our Senate.

Maybe study?

I'd have to consider other career options. I'm disgustingly limited if this turns out negative, I'm as academic a person as you'll ever meet so I'm not really too enthused by menial jobs like burger-flipping. Maybe organised crime or terrorism. This isn't doing anything for my already blossoming sociopathy. They really are poking an angry bear.

ai't. well good luck then.

I'm sorry, Zyprexa. I hope everything works out for you, and if it doesn't, I'll be happy to blow shit up with you.

I'm sorry, Zyprexa. I hope everything works out for you, and if it doesn't, I'll be happy to blow shit up with you.

I'll join in too.

I hope you can get it sorted. They should of let you know if you was going to take up your deferral place still. They do that at my college. I'm sure if you ring them up and say there's been a bunch on misunderstandigns you can get something sorted out.

If your course doesn't start til September, they have time to sort it out.

Good luck tomorrow Zyprexa.

Just plain un-awesome: I had to kick a lot of people I thought of as friends because they were self-destructive and self-centered.

I watched the last episode of Scrubs tonight, it was really heavy to watch. Fucking awesome way to end it, but yet so sad. I've been watching it since it started, it's like a part of me has died

Just did the same, and feel the same. I need a hug.

This might cheer you up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053531.stm