How Are You Feeling?

[Dion 2,476]

Well, I can't be bothered with England. Like you said there, they are trashy anyway.

As for the advice, well, it would be nice if I'm an outdoor person but unfortunately, I'm the opposite of that. And 'this thing' has been banging inside my head for awhile now. Trying to solve obviously but it's annoying and silly at the same time.

I'm not that much of an outdoor person myself but I notice that usually the more active I am, the happier I feel. Whenever I stay home for long periods whether by laziness or any other motive I start getting depressed. Going out, exercising, seeing other people, interacting with them always makes me feel better. However, as an indoor and shy person myself, I do it with parsimony and moderation.

[iseah100 5,612]

Sick of work. Fiberglass is evil.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Just feel like opening a window and jump out of it. Keep on feeling like crap every day.

Let me get that window for you!

[Laylabelle 9,304]

Bit hmmm.first day back at work tommrow hol in Mexico.not looking forward to the 730 start been a while.

Least German parent be happy

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Absolutely ecstatic. If Michael Ballack emerges from the crowd to lift the cup, this would be the best day in my life! :')

[Rmpr 8,977]

Absolutely ecstatic. If Michael Ballack emerges from the crowd to lift the cup, this would be the best day in my life! :')

Ballack has nothing to do with that trophy though. He had his chance and he missed it...

I know we all like Ballack (although after I met him in Munich and he was being arrogant and rude with the Chelsea fans, I lost my fanatism towards him), but he an eternal runner-up!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Ballack has nothing to do with that trophy though. He had his chance and he missed it...

I know we all like Ballack (although after I met him in Munich and he was being arrogant and rude with the Chelsea fans, I lost my fanatism towards him), but he an eternal runner-up!

Sharaaaap. Love knows no logic!

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Fabulous! Passed my first year exams for law . Treating myself with a trip to Amsterdam at the end of the month

[EBH 283]

Fabulous! Passed my first year exams for law . Treating myself with a trip to Amsterdam at the end of the month

Is there actually anything to do in Amsterdam other than engaging in hedonistic pleasures and pursuing alternative lifestyles? It seems to be portrayed outside of Europe as nothing more than a good place to party, but surely that can't be the case.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Is there actually anything to do in Amsterdam other than engaging in hedonistic pleasures and pursuing alternative lifestyles? It seems to be portrayed outside of Europe as nothing more than a good place to party, but surely that can't be the case.

I'll let you know when I'm back. I'm sure our more esteemed members of Dutch nationality would divulge some information

[Fulham Broadway 16,424]

I'll let you know when I'm back. I'm sure our more esteemed members of Dutch nationality would divulge some information

Theres always the Rijksmuseum and van gogh museum if you wanna bit of culture.

But most of it is " whore-ridden pot smoking waterways" (Alan Partridge)

[Stingray 9,441]

Theres always the Rijksmuseum and van gogh museum if you wanna bit of culture.

But most of it is " whore-ridden pot smoking waterways" (Alan Partridge)

Remind me to go back real soon! Ps. Utrecht is awesome

[Jase 43,479]

Getting a good advice about something is just so hard and rare these days. So many generic answers are given and it's worse when they are ones that you can even tell yourself. It's like people just resort to cliche because the 'case' seems so common that they don't even try to understand things deeper and where that person is coming from. Just bloody depressing.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Getting a good advice about something is just so hard and rare these days. So many generic answers are given and it's worse when they are ones that you can even tell yourself. It's like people just resort to cliche because the 'case' seems so common that they don't even try to understand things deeper and where that person is coming from. Just bloody depressing.

Someone killed your pet cat or what happened?

[Jase 43,479]

Someone killed your pet cat or what happened?

If someone had killed my cat, would have taken all my anger on them by now and they probably wouldn't even see daylight anymore!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Getting a good advice about something is just so hard and rare these days. So many generic answers are given and it's worse when they are ones that you can even tell yourself. It's like people just resort to cliche because the 'case' seems so common that they don't even try to understand things deeper and where that person is coming from. Just bloody depressing.

Just try looking at the full half of the glass, Jay...

[EBH 283]

It's difficult to be motivated for uni. Really difficult. I fucking hate it, I've barely learned anything from uni that's related to what I want to do, which is write biography. I love studying people - significant historical figures. My interest in history as in analysing a period of time or societal trends isn't really there, I only study it to provide context so I can better understand the circumstances of a personality. This has been yet another delayed self-discovery I made in recent months but nearly 3 years in it's late to do much about it.

I can make a comparison with studying economics if it's of help. What I'm doing right now is the historical equivalent of macroeconomics: looking at the bigger picture, looking at organisations and governments instead of individuals; basically studying without any specific focus. What I want to do is study at a microeconomic level - look at the people who made the times (and why they made them so) rather than the times people made, if I'm making any sense. Macro-history is useful for context but otherwise I have little interest in it. People on the other hand are absolutely fascinating. People who amassed significant political capital during their lives are even more fascinating - examining how and why a personality develop the way it did is what I'm about.

Biography isn't a discipline in itself, it must go through the framework of history and in this country, you don't qualify to be one unless you graduate with honours. This is the source of a great indecisiveness in me. The requirements to study honours in history at my uni are fairly well within my grasp. But because I don't like the way history is taught and because I don't like the campus life, I want to transfer to another university, one that has a substantially better humanities faculty and programme than where I go today; and one that has a much more friendly campus. The people at my uni are from my observation, extremely bland and boring, superficial, narrow minded and in general, not people I would like to get to know.

The problem is that the honours requirements at the place I would like to go are certain to be far steeper. In addition there are far more students at top end of the Bell Curve so my competition will be fiercer. So I don't know what to do - back myself to elevate my current writing ability by a substantial amount or go down the easy but infuriating path. It's a tough decision.

It's also made tougher by the uncertainties surrounding the government-funded student loan in Australia at the moment. Right now I am exempt from having to pay the proposed (have they passed the Senate yet?) changes to rates and will remain so until I complete my Bachelor's. Honours will probably be charged at the new rates no matter where I go. But if I transfer to a new institute then I'm not sure what will happen. I may lose my exempt status and be forced to pay the new rates which are American Ivy League style exorbitant - $16000 per year to study history (for fuck's sake!) charged at credit card interest rates. I may become saddled with debt entering a profession that's hardly lucrative.

[Liquidator 5,176]

Awful. Made a massive fuck up at work on an important project