Welcome!

[saralisse]

Thought I'd finally get around to creating a welcome post - I'm slowly gathering new friends, which is very exciting!

Please come introduce yourself here - I'd love to get to know you all.

You currently do not have to friend me to read my fic - I lock personal posts, and that's it. That is, of course, subject to change at a moment's notice

Comments

[reparture]

hello darling, aisyah here. as you will see when you visit my page, it is my cheating journal- oops. currently in the middle of writing fic, finding two videos i'd watched earlier to upload and also another post about my bali trip. just thought i'd let you know that my livejournal really isn't that much at all and will be dead with a capital D for next year. really, i procastinate and have no time and it sucks terribly. also, i miss you. xx

[saralisse]

hi love.
<3 i miss you too, but i understand being busy and i know how important school is. i'll be around if you feel like you need a break, but no pressure, as always.

Edit: Also, is there anything in particular you want me to tell the tumblr peeps who are asking about you?

[reparture]

i'm just really worried and stressed out as usual, which is like, my normal now. I'm just really terrified that despite my putting in effort I'll just be one of those unlucky few who can't get good grades and if I don't, I won't be able to go to the institution of my choice and I won't be able to go to university and pursue a Ph.D -- and there I go rambling again, sorry.

Thank you, I really appreciate that. I am so sorry if I worried you.

(There are? Who? Just tell them I'm doing alright, just running away like I always do. I'll be back maybe, and tell them not to worry. Send them my love, I really do apologise for making them fret.)

xx

[saralisse]

I totally understand all of those stresses because I had similar worries about high school and college. I mean, I wasn't going for a Ph.D. but there's a sliver of similarity? And I completely believe in you. If you ever want to vent, let me know.

I've not been too worried since I've got twitter and instagram and all my other stalkerish ways of knowing you're still alive. :D

(Nicky [oneminorityofone] is the only one who has asked me directly, but I've seen a few other people voice worry about it. I'll pass on the word.)

<3

[reparture]

I just really kind of wish we lived in the older days where education wasn't such a necessity that you couldn't go anywhere without it. I'd like that, you know, being able to just be a proper teenager for a year to go to like movies anf shopping with friends and parties and hanging out after school and stuff. All I do I study and I just miss being free.

Haha! Touche

oh god I feel so terrible now. We're not super close but we are good friends and Nicky's just lovely and she has a wonderful blog as well. I feel so guilty; I'm so selfish sometimes, honestly. Thank you so much though darling. (Also, I saw Claire's comment on this post of yours. Is that how you two met? It is so adorable.)

[saralisse]

I would have wanted an education anyway, though? It's just in my nature, I guess. I do understand the appeal of that, although I'm not sure it would really be any easier for us.

She said not to worry at all, love. I told her I'd give her updates whenever she got worried, and we're all sorted now. Don't feel bad. <3 (that is not how we met, just us being dorks. we met on march 24th when i complimented Step One on tumblr and she flailed lovingly back at me and we just sort of never stopped talking after? [and literally the next day i asked if i could move in with her oops])

[reparture]

I notice the new journal style hayyyy

I'd agree with you on that-- I would like an education. I love learning, and I enjoy studying and feeling the accomplishment of getting a good test result. But it's gotten to the point, where everything rests so heavily on it. It's just wrong. Perverted.

Yes, you both are adorable dorks. I propose we all move into a mansion when we have proper jobs and split retn and we can have books EVERYWHERE like in those tumblr pictures. And we shall have movie marathons every week and like we can choose not to talk to each other if we don't want ro. Of course, if you both don't mind.

Also, sorry foe the atrocious spelling mistakes. My phone's terrible.

[saralisse]

I'm not sure I'm sticking with it it's sort of awkward?

I think to some extent, it's good that an education is necessary. I think the pressure and related stress is awful, and that we're going about it the wrong way. I think a higher education (college degrees, etc.?) shouldn't be required but that high school and below need to be better structured so that a person can finish that and feel educated enough to enter the working world.

we have to bring tamzin and jenny and others too. it will be a large mansion. with really really good wifi.

[reparture]

I agree completely. Basic education is of course required, but like Tumblr's pointed out, one of the failings of our education system is judging us only by tests they set. That's rather unfair-- like Albert Einstein's quote, "you do not judge a fish by its ability to bicycle" or something like that?

I am totally fine with that. You bring them, I get Dion and Renee and Beka. Also I picture it with colourful throws and many big pillows? Also in a variety of colours? And there will be a mash potato machine. It is a requirement.