Yeah, coughs & sneezes season has started big style here too.
There was one bombshell yesterday, the firm is considering doing a winter shutdown over the Christmas period which will mean no pay until the reopening, which could be the second week in January.
I saw someone from an old workplace yesterday who was considered the workplace's Narcissus. I was shocked as they looked so old in only 5 years since I last saw them. Like REAL old & gaunt, & they're way younger than I. It was like a Dr Who reincarnation gone wrong. When I was at school, there was a teacher who went that way from my 1st to 5th year because of the stress from their job teaching something no one liked (Maths) - I can only guess he's gone to pot for much the same reasons, or a death in the family.
"Big style"
Today everyone was moaning and huffing because it's chucking it down. I love it. I opened all of the windows I could reach when I got on the bus this morning, as the windows were absolutely streaming, and people acted as though I had plunged them into some kind of Siberian winter! It's still over 15°C so I don't quite understand how they can feel cold.
Hmmm, that is a bit of a bombshell isn't it. How long will they close for? Two or three weeks perhaps. It is truly rubbish to not get paid for that time but I suppose it will at least force you to have a holiday, which you might be glad of by then. When I think about the Christmas break I feel another LOTR marathon coming on!
I find it very difficult to judge age except if someone is a child or very elderly. I can't even begin to guess for most people in the middle. They are like Sims 4 sims to me - all the same! Maybe it's because my friends span such a wide age range. But you're right, some people age better than others. I saw a guy at home who looked the same as the last time I saw him (when he was 19!) and a girl who I barely recognised as she looked so worn down and she's the same age as me. Certainly life's adventures can take their toll, as can losing weight too quickly on some fad diet, which I suspect was her problem, or having a bunch of kids that have run you ragged.
I think the whole world is ill right now because I'm in the same boat! I've succumbed to a late Freshers Flu - and I thought I had escaped it this year too!
Yeah I know, I was pretty surprised this forum was still active!
Ugh I know tell me about it, coming to my uni...bringing their diseases from all corners of the country...infecting my lecture rooms...ruining my life...
Ah... it's good to be a second year.
Ooooh, well done Minty! Are you excited because it is soon to be the weekend?
I actually got annoyed last night because there wasn't the usual amount of traffic so the bus ran fast and I arrived home too early and had not finished reading the articles I wanted to get through on the journey. So I sat like a lemon in the bus stop until I had finished them. Silly.
What are you studying, Stjimmy797, if you don't mind me asking?
It would be good to sheep-dip all the students but we would also need to sheep-dip all the children, toddlers, teachers, doctors, nurses and commuters. Then we might stand a chance.
I'm doing History
Me and my friend went to the social last night in an attempt to make some course friends, but we just ended up staying together (at the bar!
) so we kinda failed there!
Ah well, you can always try again another night!
Minty likes History and knows a lot of things. He is like a font of knowledge. I wish I knew more as I am really interested in history, but my brain retains science much more efficiently. At school I had to drop History at age 13 to make way for Geography on the timetable, which I really regretted at the time, but I couldn't do both and still fit everything else in. I still really enjoy historical books, plays and learning things in museums. When I realised that it wasn't possible to study all subjects for A-levels I picked sciences and maths because I thought it would be best to be formally taught those, so I dropped English and the humanities because I figured I could continue my interest in those in my own time. And so I did. It seemed the most logical way forward at the time. I'm sure you are all super interested in this.
Do you like a particular area - I mean the history of a certain era or a particular country?
I really must leave work now. It is time for some Spanish tapas I believe. And yeah, a bit of this.
Yeah Caspin we had that as well, you could do History or Geography but not both. They tried to push the "brainy" ones into doing geography because it was deemed a "science school" (which meant the board of studies all had science qualifications & therefore everyone else should get them). The subversives took Modern Studies, which was removed as a subject for learning unless you took it in 3rd year, therefore few took it because they'd no idea what it would be like. It had been a compulsory class in 1st & 2nd, until the local Labour run council (the old Strathclyde Region) worried it was turning too many kids into Scottish nationalists.
Most of the neds chose history because the classrooms were warmer - the geography department being twinned with the arctic despite being in the middle of the school & so ought to have been the warmest while the history department was at the end & ought to have been the coldest.
Luckily three of the toughest teachers were in that department or it would have been chaos (there was also a young woman teacher the neds all thought sexy, another reason probably they chose history!). That said, they were also good in getting the neds to care about that one subject, making them think & teaching them how to think properly. It was weird, the one subject in the whole school where the no-hopes were scoring high & no one thought about trying to look into where they were going right.
It's always a good idea making course friends at uni StJimmy797, the courser the better!