Writer's Block: Cinqo de Mayo
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We're kind of weird in England in that, unlike all the other popular and "big" countries in the world, we never needed to declare independence because more often than not we were offenslaving adding to the harem rapidly and brutally colonising conquering other countries.
We have St George's day which is an understated affair. >> To put it mildly. Most people don't notice it exists.
Though Nena is going to drag me across the channel to the continent to see France's Bastille Day, which should be fun and laughs. WORLD'S BIGGEST PICNIC 8DDDD And the Eiffel Tower, ohohohon.
Oh yeah, and a little rant coming your way, flist. Move on if you are uninterested in my personal life.~
So, my coursework failed (got a U for Ungraded) miserably last year but in the exam I got an A so I figured why not bring up my grade to what it deserves (since A+U=C grace apparently) so I redid the coursework. However, I forgot to fill out this one form to resubmit my coursework. An apparently important form which I thought only applied to exam retakes, not coursework.
I was wrong.
You know how much I have to pay to submit now?
Not £22.10, like usual.
Not £44.20.
But £66.90.
Well there goes all my overtime work pay.
orz.
I don't even have the energy to get all upset over it, mainly because the word "coursework" just immediately makes me slump and sigh in despair no matter how it applies. At the same time, it makes me want to hurt someone, only I'm such a huge wimp irl that I'm usually reduced to writing horrific angst and destroying worlds in my head.
One. Piece. Of. Paper.
I'm considering begging my mum for financial help but then I'll feel awful for taking advantage of the fact she wants me to get to Uni so bad because neither she nor dad went. (They're quite successful in their jobs without it but I digress.) So over all I'm glad I got a paycheck of £280 this month rather than £180 like usual.
But fuck paperwork.
We're kind of weird in England in that, unlike all the other popular and "big" countries in the world, we never needed to declare independence because more often than not we were off
We have St George's day which is an understated affair. >> To put it mildly. Most people don't notice it exists.
Though Nena is going to drag me across the channel to the continent to see France's Bastille Day, which should be fun and laughs. WORLD'S BIGGEST PICNIC 8DDDD And the Eiffel Tower, ohohohon.
Oh yeah, and a little rant coming your way, flist. Move on if you are uninterested in my personal life.~
So, my coursework failed (got a U for Ungraded) miserably last year but in the exam I got an A so I figured why not bring up my grade to what it deserves (since A+U=C grace apparently) so I redid the coursework. However, I forgot to fill out this one form to resubmit my coursework. An apparently important form which I thought only applied to exam retakes, not coursework.
I was wrong.
You know how much I have to pay to submit now?
Not £22.10, like usual.
Not £44.20.
But £66.90.
Well there goes all my overtime work pay.
orz.
I don't even have the energy to get all upset over it, mainly because the word "coursework" just immediately makes me slump and sigh in despair no matter how it applies. At the same time, it makes me want to hurt someone, only I'm such a huge wimp irl that I'm usually reduced to writing horrific angst and destroying worlds in my head.
One. Piece. Of. Paper.
I'm considering begging my mum for financial help but then I'll feel awful for taking advantage of the fact she wants me to get to Uni so bad because neither she nor dad went. (They're quite successful in their jobs without it but I digress.) So over all I'm glad I got a paycheck of £280 this month rather than £180 like usual.
But fuck paperwork.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:14 pm (UTC)Stop being weird England, god. All the cool kids have national/independence days. Curse you Empiiiiiire.Must be fun to have France only a hop, skip and jump away. |D Which is great, because you have to go here and tell me how he and Scotland handle their anniversary on top of everything else lol jk jk.
Also wow, jesus. Making a profit, much? That's crazy. I don't even know what to say omg.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:20 pm (UTC)We're not weird, we're ~*~individual~*~. Haha.It is, though I can't speak a word of French apart from "je ne parle pas Français" and "merde". Haha, that would be epic cool, though to be honest France is huge and we are limited for cash, though it doesn't look far from Paris. However, we are staying with Nena's grandparents in the south of France (SUNSHIIIIIIINE!!) so we might not get to it.
That's bureaucracy for you, I guess. So much money though... guh.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:28 pm (UTC)I'm sorry what was that? Did you say REPRESSED? I see~I haven't visited France in years so anything I did pick up from my relatives there has long flown out the window orz. England why don't you celebrate yours with Portugal, jerk. ;n; You know it's a sad state of affairs when France is doing it right haha omg I want to see it so bad orz. My grandmother lived in the south of France too. Nii-chan is just that hot. o/
Seriously. I hate this thing (£). You guys are so friggen expensive it makes me want to bawww orz.
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Date: 2010-05-05 05:39 pm (UTC)LIES oh wait you're totally right. orzNor have I and it's just across the channel. >>;; England doesn't celebrate anything but Christmas, Easter and Bonfire Night, I swear. As a country we're pretty damn boring. England the person probably does stuff like Summer Solstice at Stone Henge though. Omg though I can't wait to get to the med, where the water is actually blue and not a brownish-gray.
Fuck inflation man, my favourite gum just went up by 10p. NOT A HAPPY PIDGE HERE.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:14 pm (UTC)But universities here do fee crap like that all of the time. Hence the reason why all college students are broke.
B|
Please take me to your picnic.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:21 pm (UTC)Sure, hop on a plane. And it's not my picnic, it's France's.
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:35 pm (UTC)I'll revise my nearly rotted away completely rusty French before we go. At least you know what to shout if you stub your toe.
On the note of swearing:
WHAT. THE FUCK. That's stupid. One form? Which one? I thought it went through?!
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Date: 2010-05-05 05:45 pm (UTC)"Je suis Anglais" as well, my general excuse >>
So did I! But apparently not. orz
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Date: 2010-05-05 05:54 pm (UTC)College sucks.
*pats*
Date: 2010-05-05 07:28 pm (UTC)Lol, St.George day is like cinco de Mayo, not much people knows it exist or what is celebrated, but we get a day free from school.
However I would like to know, what on hell does Cinco de Mayo has to do with independence? D:
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Date: 2010-05-05 11:30 pm (UTC)This is
the most retarded thing everfunny.Lol FF.net
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Date: 2010-05-06 06:08 am (UTC)900060 pounds!? tha fuck o_o? That sucks (And is HOLY SHI-expensive)St. George's Day, huh? Don't worry, here in Mexico people barely remember Cinco de Mayo. Which is funny, since that's not our Independence Day, no idea of why Alfred always gets that one wrong.
I WANNA GO TO FRANCE! I LOVE PICNICS :D! Too bad that my French sucks (the first phrase I learned: "Je peux aller aux toilettes?").
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Date: 2010-05-06 11:52 am (UTC)Portugal doesn't have an independance day. There's the restoration, which is on December 1st, and the national day, 10th of June. Because the 10th of June is so close to another holiday, (at least in Lisbon), St. Anthony's day, most people just take that week off or something.
Nearly no one goes to the celabrations of our national day, we just don't care.
Stupid forms.