Year overview
Quiz: Yet another Goth quiz
What esscence of Goth are you? (Girls only, sorry guys)
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Some of the possible answers to this quiz are a bit limiting though, and I must be missing why it's apparently not answerable by guys...
End of Year: Social Life
Most forms of these memes have two separate categories for ‘love’ and ‘friends’, which I think is bunk so I’m not following it. I shall instead discuss all my recreational relationships generally, as I don’t think it’s always that fair to draw a thick arbitrary line between some of them and others. The way the word ‘love’ can be used to refer to only romantic relationships by implication shows a terrible state of affairs in society.
Well, has been a good year for relationships really. Start of the year I was still dating Katie for the fifth year, but that ended very early in the year. Not sure when now really but before I broke up for the holidays between Semester 1 and 2. Break-ups for a lot of people are hard and painful things, but it was really what I needed. For the first time in five years I could go out, do whatever I want to do, and generally have fun for myself without having to worry about other commitments, so very fabulous.
As a result I’ve met more people in more situations than I think I ever have before. This year I got closer to people are university, and I also met a ton of people in London, and to a lesser extent Portsmouth, which was fab. I’ve met a number of people whom I now care very deeply about that I hadn’t even known the year before, which is also fab. Not much has changed with regards to old friendships, but there wasn’t much that needed to change really, so that was all fab too :o)
So generally my social network has expanded and I’m having more fun. Yay for me!
End of Year: Family
Part of separating from Katie was moving back in with my parents, which was pretty annoying to say the least, particularly because they choose that moment, of all moments, to redecorate my room so my stuff was everywhere and it wasn’t so comfortable. Now my room is nice again, got it’s bookcases and all my stuff neat (though neither of my computers are working damn them!).
Living with my parents otherwise is fine. It does mean telling them where I’m going generally, but they don’t ask too many questions and it’s not as if I’m off doing anything so terrible that it would matter, when they do have a moan it’s not in that overbearing parenty way and more a ‘you’re being stupid and you know it’ way, particularly in regards to how I sometimes spend my money :o) Can be a shame not to have somewhere of my own to bring friends back to and spend time together though :o(
It also means no bills and no rent. Lots of food about and I largely don’t have to cook for myself. This has unfortunately meant that I’ve gained more weight, which isn’t so good, but perhaps will teach me to develop better self-control and exercise more, or else I’ll just continually get larger and larger :o/ Mind you, even when I was leaving away from home mother had a terrible habit of brining bags of crisps and chocolate around just so I’d eat more unhealthily (wouldn’t have missed any of it when it’s not there, but when it’s in front of me I’m not always so healthily minded)
An uncle died in a motorcycle crash, but not one I knew well. It was more of an issue for my parents who knew him, whilst I find it hard to feel much at all about the matter, though I attended the funeral et cetera. I’m sure he was a good person and everything, but good people die and I know that, without having more of a personal connection I’m just not able to really feel bad about it, even if I know it was a bad thing to happen.
End of Year: Work
Well, managed to go the whole year without doing any paid work whilst spending lots of money and having a good time, God bless student loans. Did mean I overspent during the last summer holidays but I’m paying that back to parents now and will be all paid back within the next few weeks :o)
Meanwhile University work has been going well, my results for the last academic year that I got earlier this actual year came in well, and I’m confident about how things are going now, so that’s all very good :o)
End of Year: Health
Apart from putting on some weight the only problem has been with my damned wisdom teeth being awkward. Seems they haven’t settled in right and thus are causing a few problems, but nothing too terrible. My teeth aren’t falling out, and it’s largely non-painful so it’s not an important issue, so all is good! :o)
Though I do need to keep pushing myself to do more and more exercise on a regular basis, and develop a bit more self-control on what I eat. This house has way too much food on occasion, mother will put out a chocolate cake and I’ll end up eating most of it (or all of it if no one else is hungry). I know I oughtn’t but I can’t help myself really :o)
End of Year: Next Year
I’m confident next year should be just as good as this year, though the workload will likely be getting harder at university, but I think I can manage it.
This year is just like last year except I’m starting off with a wider network of friends. I’ll have just as much money, more in fact as I won’t be paying of my parents for past-indulgences, and hopefully there will be plenty of time to mix in large amounts of fun alongside the university work I need to do :o)
Meme: The Flip-Side Meme
Reply to this post with why I scare/intimidate/unsettle/worry you. Then, of course, you put this in your own journal, and spread the fear. If you see that someone else has posted and you want to say something to them too, please do so.
Feel free to post anonymously if you feel more comfortable.
Can’t possibly see how ‘ickle me could intimidate anyone though :o)
What esscence of Goth are you? (Girls only, sorry guys)
brought to you by Quizilla
Some of the possible answers to this quiz are a bit limiting though, and I must be missing why it's apparently not answerable by guys...
End of Year: Social Life
Most forms of these memes have two separate categories for ‘love’ and ‘friends’, which I think is bunk so I’m not following it. I shall instead discuss all my recreational relationships generally, as I don’t think it’s always that fair to draw a thick arbitrary line between some of them and others. The way the word ‘love’ can be used to refer to only romantic relationships by implication shows a terrible state of affairs in society.
Well, has been a good year for relationships really. Start of the year I was still dating Katie for the fifth year, but that ended very early in the year. Not sure when now really but before I broke up for the holidays between Semester 1 and 2. Break-ups for a lot of people are hard and painful things, but it was really what I needed. For the first time in five years I could go out, do whatever I want to do, and generally have fun for myself without having to worry about other commitments, so very fabulous.
As a result I’ve met more people in more situations than I think I ever have before. This year I got closer to people are university, and I also met a ton of people in London, and to a lesser extent Portsmouth, which was fab. I’ve met a number of people whom I now care very deeply about that I hadn’t even known the year before, which is also fab. Not much has changed with regards to old friendships, but there wasn’t much that needed to change really, so that was all fab too :o)
So generally my social network has expanded and I’m having more fun. Yay for me!
End of Year: Family
Part of separating from Katie was moving back in with my parents, which was pretty annoying to say the least, particularly because they choose that moment, of all moments, to redecorate my room so my stuff was everywhere and it wasn’t so comfortable. Now my room is nice again, got it’s bookcases and all my stuff neat (though neither of my computers are working damn them!).
Living with my parents otherwise is fine. It does mean telling them where I’m going generally, but they don’t ask too many questions and it’s not as if I’m off doing anything so terrible that it would matter, when they do have a moan it’s not in that overbearing parenty way and more a ‘you’re being stupid and you know it’ way, particularly in regards to how I sometimes spend my money :o) Can be a shame not to have somewhere of my own to bring friends back to and spend time together though :o(
It also means no bills and no rent. Lots of food about and I largely don’t have to cook for myself. This has unfortunately meant that I’ve gained more weight, which isn’t so good, but perhaps will teach me to develop better self-control and exercise more, or else I’ll just continually get larger and larger :o/ Mind you, even when I was leaving away from home mother had a terrible habit of brining bags of crisps and chocolate around just so I’d eat more unhealthily (wouldn’t have missed any of it when it’s not there, but when it’s in front of me I’m not always so healthily minded)
An uncle died in a motorcycle crash, but not one I knew well. It was more of an issue for my parents who knew him, whilst I find it hard to feel much at all about the matter, though I attended the funeral et cetera. I’m sure he was a good person and everything, but good people die and I know that, without having more of a personal connection I’m just not able to really feel bad about it, even if I know it was a bad thing to happen.
End of Year: Work
Well, managed to go the whole year without doing any paid work whilst spending lots of money and having a good time, God bless student loans. Did mean I overspent during the last summer holidays but I’m paying that back to parents now and will be all paid back within the next few weeks :o)
Meanwhile University work has been going well, my results for the last academic year that I got earlier this actual year came in well, and I’m confident about how things are going now, so that’s all very good :o)
End of Year: Health
Apart from putting on some weight the only problem has been with my damned wisdom teeth being awkward. Seems they haven’t settled in right and thus are causing a few problems, but nothing too terrible. My teeth aren’t falling out, and it’s largely non-painful so it’s not an important issue, so all is good! :o)
Though I do need to keep pushing myself to do more and more exercise on a regular basis, and develop a bit more self-control on what I eat. This house has way too much food on occasion, mother will put out a chocolate cake and I’ll end up eating most of it (or all of it if no one else is hungry). I know I oughtn’t but I can’t help myself really :o)
End of Year: Next Year
I’m confident next year should be just as good as this year, though the workload will likely be getting harder at university, but I think I can manage it.
This year is just like last year except I’m starting off with a wider network of friends. I’ll have just as much money, more in fact as I won’t be paying of my parents for past-indulgences, and hopefully there will be plenty of time to mix in large amounts of fun alongside the university work I need to do :o)
Meme: The Flip-Side Meme
Reply to this post with why I scare/intimidate/unsettle/worry you. Then, of course, you put this in your own journal, and spread the fear. If you see that someone else has posted and you want to say something to them too, please do so.
Feel free to post anonymously if you feel more comfortable.
Can’t possibly see how ‘ickle me could intimidate anyone though :o)