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1. I have a small attic room at the top floor of a 1930s brick house. Yes it's the kind of brick house you see drawn in British picture books. It is a total enid blyton fantasy. Cute view of steeple and autumn trees outside the window, sloping roof, a presently-defunct mantelpiece (I know!! anybody else get excited by remnants of antique furniture) and a chest of drawers older than my mother. Generally very picturesque, except for occassional drunken singing drifting into my window.
2. I really, really, really want to write a proper letter to update everyone (and reply everyone who wrote to me!! thank you so much for your letters they make me feel so happy and I miss you so much!!) and to skype people and chat on msn and everything but THE WORK HERE IS CRAZY (did you think a levels were bad? welll.....) so that has to wait just a beeet longer until I stop feeling like I'm in over my head. Like the song by the fray.
3. The song that is my mantra right now is Jimmy Eat World's The Middle. It just takes some time ..... "How much time???" I sometimes really want to know, because life here has been a total uppy downy roller-coaster. Sometimes I love how things are going and I find everything so amazing, and other times I just hate my life. Being a teetotalling minority - and just different, generally (yeah baby that's the 413 gene) - is absolutely not easy. I just want it to get to the "all right" part sooner.
4. I have FRESHERSFLU - thank god the fever part's over, now I'm into the cough-and-sore-throat part so I sound like a strangled chicken-man when I speak. Skype me if you want to hear a sample
5. If you want to hear Interesting Stories About What Drunk People Do you can ask me I will probably have an endless supply. Being the only sober person in a room of drunk people stops being funny very quickly, and soon feels like you're on an island by yourself.
6. Btw if you're into really SHIT pop music, and I'm talking absolute SHITE, go listen / watch the mv for Cheryl Cole's "fight for this love" ... bona fide Brit pop-awful.
7. I have an essay due in 3 hours and it's basically not even conceived yet arghhhzz tata
Hey,
You know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own, (on your own)
So don't buy in.
Live right now.
Yeah, just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough (good enough)
For someone else.
It just takes some time,
little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright. (alright)
2. I really, really, really want to write a proper letter to update everyone (and reply everyone who wrote to me!! thank you so much for your letters they make me feel so happy and I miss you so much!!) and to skype people and chat on msn and everything but THE WORK HERE IS CRAZY (did you think a levels were bad? welll.....) so that has to wait just a beeet longer until I stop feeling like I'm in over my head. Like the song by the fray.
3. The song that is my mantra right now is Jimmy Eat World's The Middle. It just takes some time ..... "How much time???" I sometimes really want to know, because life here has been a total uppy downy roller-coaster. Sometimes I love how things are going and I find everything so amazing, and other times I just hate my life. Being a teetotalling minority - and just different, generally (yeah baby that's the 413 gene) - is absolutely not easy. I just want it to get to the "all right" part sooner.
4. I have FRESHERSFLU - thank god the fever part's over, now I'm into the cough-and-sore-throat part so I sound like a strangled chicken-man when I speak. Skype me if you want to hear a sample
5. If you want to hear Interesting Stories About What Drunk People Do you can ask me I will probably have an endless supply. Being the only sober person in a room of drunk people stops being funny very quickly, and soon feels like you're on an island by yourself.
6. Btw if you're into really SHIT pop music, and I'm talking absolute SHITE, go listen / watch the mv for Cheryl Cole's "fight for this love" ... bona fide Brit pop-awful.
7. I have an essay due in 3 hours and it's basically not even conceived yet arghhhzz tata
Hey,
You know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own, (on your own)
So don't buy in.
Live right now.
Yeah, just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough (good enough)
For someone else.
It just takes some time,
little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright. (alright)