How was your day?

[EEVILMURRAY]

Lesson of the day; Get an office job!! (if you can! i know its not easy!)

I'm trying baby!

[Eenuh]

A perfect plot twist then!

Haha, I don't think my teachers, or the people from the foster place would be pleased with that. =P

 

But hey money, I did 8 hours today, it depresses me somewhat that I only get 35quid for said 8hours, when I got 50quid a day (could have got a lot more if I was actually working there properly) at my mums work. Damnit.

That sounds like a super low payment you're getting, especially for a job like that. =(

[nightwolf]

Its just barely minimum wage - £4.87. Its quite low but I did this kinda paty at peacocks (under 18 - 3.87) its alot of hours for barely anything to be honest, but money is money. Its just quite difficult when I've got assignments.

[Pookiablo]

Its just barely minimum wage - £4.87. Its quite low but I did this kinda paty at peacocks (under 18 - 3.87) its alot of hours for barely anything to be honest, but money is money. Its just quite difficult when I've got assignments.

 

Holy balls, that's an awful wage! I used to get paid more when I was 17! Aww, I'll get you a better job if you come down south

 

Join me, and together we can rule the retail environment as forumer and...forumer...?

 

 

It is your destiny.

[Gizmo]

First day of my pizza delivery gig tonight. Was pretty good - beats working at the shopping center in crappy-shop-I-would-never-normally-go-into-#3, anyway. It's cool because it's really relaxed, I get to go out on my own, drive around at my own pace, only have one task to do at a time. No rushing around dealing with 10 things at once. If I want to take a 30second breather before I head back for another order I can, because nobody is around to shout at me. Plus the pays not bad, and I get petrol money, and I get to keep my tips (tip your delivery boy people!). PLUS! Now I don't feel so pathetic on the Friday and Saturday nights I'm not going out anywhere, because I can work them, and whenever I DO have something on, I can just ask to change the hours.

 

Only downside is finding places, like if I don't know the street I need to memorise the route from the map in the place, and sometimes finding the right house number can be hard (particularly in the council estates, since I need to get out and wander about. Fun times at the rough places when I'm working in the evening).

 

TL;DR - New job is awesome.

[nightwolf]

Holy balls, that's an awful wage! I used to get paid more when I was 17! Aww, I'll get you a better job if you come down south

 

Join me, and together we can rule the retail environment as forumer and...forumer...?

 

 

It is your destiny.

 

Haha thankyou for making my day pooki! <3

 

Nah its money, I'll complain for sho about my job, but its not particularly bad as long as I grit my teeth and just go 'la la la, you lot will be stuck here for life.' Then come home and organise stuff.

[Slaggis]

I'm the worst person ever. It seems with a couple of vodka and coke's down me, my morals just go straight out the window.

 

Edit: I dropped a mug on my big toe. Thank you Karma.

Edited December 6, 2009 by Slaggis

[chairdriver]

I wrote a massive account of my day, but my internet fucked up.

 

Basically, I'm home now. Today was the worst day, I went through hell. Broke down in Birmingham Train Station.

[Dyson]

bluuuuurrrrrrrrrgghhhhhhh do not want work tomorrow.

[Iun]

I wrote a massive account of my day, but my internet fucked up.

 

Basically, I'm home now. Today was the worst day, I went through hell. Broke down in Birmingham Train Station.

 

Broke down crying, broke down train? Tell us about it.

[Slaggis]

I wrote a massive account of my day, but my internet fucked up.

 

Basically, I'm home now. Today was the worst day, I went through hell. Broke down in Birmingham Train Station.

 

Went through Hell? Broke down? That sounds horrible. What happened?

 

--

 

My day has been greatly improved by having a random conversation over Facebook with someone doing my course, only they're in the second year. I love when it's so easy to strike up conversations with completely new people.

Edited December 6, 2009 by Slaggis

[Ashley]

Basically, I'm home now. Today was the worst day, I went through hell. Broke down in Birmingham Train Station.

 

Birmingham Train Station is vague, there's three (well, three in the centre and lots scattered around the city) Although it is shit. My trains are often delayed or cancelled due to signal failure at Birmingham.

 

Have a family meal today and guess what, odd wheel! Urgh. I need a fake girlfriend. Like a girlfriend for hire...do they exist? Or even a Frescort.

 

Also going to do some drawing and some Italian. Hear that...me!? DO IT! Even if it means watching The Flintstones in Italian again.

[Ellmeister]

 

Have a family meal today and guess what, odd wheel! Urgh. I need a fake girlfriend. Like a girlfriend for hire...do they exist? Or even a Frescort.

 

 

Hello

[Ashley]

Score!

 

As long as you're fine with the fact I motorboated your mother last night.

[Goafer]

Have a family meal today and guess what, odd wheel! Urgh. I need a fake girlfriend. Like a girlfriend for hire...do they exist? Or even a Frescort.

 

[Eenuh]

Stayed up until 3:40 am last night, oops. Now I'll probably have a hard time falling asleep at a decent hour tonight heh. =P

I had some fun playing Brawl for some of that time though, so it's allll good.

 

I had a super weird dream last night, one of those where you lose your teeth. I think it's related to my tooth problem this week or something. Started out in my dream with me losing part of a tooth, but then the entire tooth fell out. And during the dream more kept coming out, until I lost about 7 or 9 in total. Scared me as I thought it was happening for real. D:

 

Anyway work in half an hourrrr, time to earn some money for Christmas shopping.

[chairdriver]

Broke down crying, broke down train? Tell us about it.

 

Broke down crying (in Birmingham North). I had 7 bags (all my possessions from uni - I can't get storage, because I'm counted as a national student, despite living in a different country), and it was impossible to carry them myself.

 

I ordered a taxi for half 1 from my college in Oxford for my train at 2:07. It arrived 25 minutes later, when the guy on the phone had said it would be 15. Mad rush to the station. Got there in time. Shoved my car into the machine to retrieve my booked tickets. Problem with card. I had to queue for 10 minutes whilst the people in the office fannied about. Got to the booth, and the woman was like "You've missed your train." I just looked at her for about 20 seconds. She knew what I was thinking. So she stamped my ticket with the official Oxford train station stamp, and I was allowed to get on the next train.

 

Got to Birmingham North, had to take 2 trips to get all my stuff off the train, and it was really busy and people thought I was really rude because I had to push past them to get to my stuff. I had 4 minutes to get to my connecting train. So I started to move my bags in two journeys.

 

"Excuse me sir, you can't leave your bags unattended." as I began to walk away.

"Is there a trolley then?"

No answer, the guy just walked off.

I ran after him. "Can you help me move my bags then?"

"No, Saturday's the busiest day, and I need to help people."

The most blatant contradiction I've ever heard in my life.

"I need help, or I'll miss my train, and my sister's wedding tomorrow" (I lied.)

"Sorry."

 

Then basically I started crying, and asked to speak to his manager. He called a few people on his walkie-talkie (by this point I had definitely missed my train, and was really stressed) and then he helped me move my bags upstairs, and a really nice woman came to meet me. She took me to the employee lounge bit and got me a coffee. Basically I explained my life to her, about how I had to take all my belongings from uni, and how my Dad is working in Germany and my Mum has 2 other kids to look after so neither could come to get me, and how the taxi was late etc etc, and she walkie-talkied to someone else to get my ticket stamped and I got the next train to Edinburgh.

 

I was supposed to arrive home at half 7, but instead arrived at quarter to 11.

[ReZourceman]

Broke down crying (in Birmingham North). I had 7 bags (all my possessions from uni - I can't get storage, because I'm counted as a national student, despite living in a different country), and it was impossible to carry them myself.

 

I ordered a taxi for half 1 from my college in Oxford for my train at 2:07. It arrived 25 minutes later, when the guy on the phone had said it would be 15. Mad rush to the station. Got there in time. Shoved my car into the machine to retrieve my booked tickets. Problem with card. I had to queue for 10 minutes whilst the people in the office fannied about. Got to the booth, and the woman was like "You've missed your train." I just looked at her for about 20 seconds. She knew what I was thinking. So she stamped my ticket with the official Oxford train station stamp, and I was allowed to get on the next train.

 

Got to Birmingham North, had to take 2 trips to get all my stuff off the train, and it was really busy and people thought I was really rude because I had to push past them to get to my stuff. I had 4 minutes to get to my connecting train. So I started to move my bags in two journeys.

 

"Excuse me sir, you can't leave your bags unattended." as I began to walk away.

"Is there a trolley then?"

No answer, the guy just walked off.

I ran after him. "Can you help me move my bags then?"

"No, Saturday's the busiest day, and I need to help people."

The most blatant contradiction I've ever heard in my life.

"I need help, or I'll miss my train, and my sister's wedding tomorrow" (I lied.)

"Sorry."

 

Then basically I started crying, and asked to speak to his manager. He called a few people on his walkie-talkie (by this point I had definitely missed my train, and was really stressed) and then he helped me move my bags upstairs, and a really nice woman came to meet me. She took me to the employee lounge bit and got me a coffee. Basically I explained my life to her, about how I had to take all my belongings from uni, and how my Dad is working in Germany and my Mum has 2 other kids to look after so neither could come to get me, and how the taxi was late etc etc, and she walkie-talkied to someone else to get my ticket stamped and I got the next train to Edinburgh.

 

I was supposed to arrive home at half 7, but instead arrived at quarter to 11.

 

7 bags!?!

 

(Sounds awful though. That guys a Douche and Gabana)

[Dan_Dare]

That's crap Chair.

 

but really, 7 bags? I'm pretty sure you could have packed less, surely?

[Paj!]

Broke down crying (in Birmingham North). I had 7 bags (all my possessions from uni - I can't get storage, because I'm counted as a national student, despite living in a different country), and it was impossible to carry them myself.

 

I ordered a taxi for half 1 from my college in Oxford for my train at 2:07. It arrived 25 minutes later, when the guy on the phone had said it would be 15. Mad rush to the station. Got there in time. Shoved my car into the machine to retrieve my booked tickets. Problem with card. I had to queue for 10 minutes whilst the people in the office fannied about. Got to the booth, and the woman was like "You've missed your train." I just looked at her for about 20 seconds. She knew what I was thinking. So she stamped my ticket with the official Oxford train station stamp, and I was allowed to get on the next train.

 

Got to Birmingham North, had to take 2 trips to get all my stuff off the train, and it was really busy and people thought I was really rude because I had to push past them to get to my stuff. I had 4 minutes to get to my connecting train. So I started to move my bags in two journeys.

 

"Excuse me sir, you can't leave your bags unattended." as I began to walk away.

"Is there a trolley then?"

No answer, the guy just walked off.

I ran after him. "Can you help me move my bags then?"

"No, Saturday's the busiest day, and I need to help people."

The most blatant contradiction I've ever heard in my life.

"I need help, or I'll miss my train, and my sister's wedding tomorrow" (I lied.)

"Sorry."

 

Then basically I started crying, and asked to speak to his manager. He called a few people on his walkie-talkie (by this point I had definitely missed my train, and was really stressed) and then he helped me move my bags upstairs, and a really nice woman came to meet me. She took me to the employee lounge bit and got me a coffee. Basically I explained my life to her, about how I had to take all my belongings from uni, and how my Dad is working in Germany and my Mum has 2 other kids to look after so neither could come to get me, and how the taxi was late etc etc, and she walkie-talkied to someone else to get my ticket stamped and I got the next train to Edinburgh.

 

I was supposed to arrive home at half 7, but instead arrived at quarter to 11.

 

Are you still mad?

 

You're in limbo no more.

[Fresh]

Just got back to UK. Combined flight over took 26 hours. I don't really know what time it is or where I am.

Edited December 6, 2009 by Fresh

[S.C.G]

Just got back to UK. combined flight over took 26 hours. I son't really know what time it is or where I am.

It's peanut butter jelly time!

 

 

Annnd you are here...

 

 

hope this helps!

[Paj!]

i have plan my working week tonight, a small project spinning-off from my last one. I didn't finish my last project, and that was 4 weeks long, and I'm so bored of painting/drawing, as the idea of doing a bad drawing or painting terrifies me. I've done nothing of artistic worth for about 2 months, and need to get back on my game. I feel like my first 2 singles from my planned comeback album have failed, and I need to select my third carefully.

 

No idea what to do though. My tutor says I obviously should do film-y shit, so I thought maybe an extensive and nicely done storyboard or something (seeing as making a film would be a bit flimsy and sudden otherwise).

[Ashley]

Extensive and nicely done storyboard is kind of an oxymoron :p Could you not do a storyboard of the complete thing and film part of it. Even if its just one scene/segment? Just to show an idea of the overall look? Or even do some mood board like things?

 

Sorry to hear about you drama Chair but back home and safe eh?

 

Welcome back Fresh. Back for good now?

 

Family meal was okay. Christmas menu it seems. Nice food but I always feel like a spare part. And had an awkward moment in the toilet (how many times have I started a sentence like that?) as I was texting as I was urinating and someone came in just as I was sorting myself out and it must have looked odd.

 

Should do some work probably tonight. Some drawings or something. Need inspiration/kick up the butt.

 

Oh and I need to check my hamster's teeth. Tried last night but she kept moving around. Also read last night that you can clip a hamster's teeth with nail clippers. Ewwww.

[Jimbob]

Set-up the Christmas Tree twice earlier. Once upstairs to show my Mum what it looks like (it's a new one as such), and the second time downstairs. Should be decorating it next week hopefully.