It's been a while...

This book is currently on my wish list. I have an obsession with her books. I finished my exams on the tenth of May, my boyfriend has returned from India so I am a very happy bunny. But this also means that I now have time to read for pleasure... something I have greatly missed. Not to say that I haven't enjoyed some of the books that I have had to read for my course (all thirty of them), but not very often is fantasy on the "essential reading" list.

Roll on dissertation time! Ha. No... I do not want to go there... I will stick to floating around till my second year and not even breach these scary thoughts.

I am also ridiculously happy because I have been told that I have a job in America over the summer. I am off to New Jersey which isn't very far from New York! One thing that did intrigue me however, was during my application process for a visa.


America - or the U.S embassy at least does not feel the need to ask females about their education from eleven upwards. In fact I don't think I was questioned on my education at all! Males are apparently asked according to my guide on "how to fill in the Visa Form", but not females. I find this puzzling, not because of how rude it is, but because it is America. America the place that is always striving to be ahead of everyone else, in technology, money, health etc etc. But why not care what women are coming into the country? Are females not as much of a threat? (Why thank you for thinking we are soft and spongey - but I can be an awful bitch at times). Just puzzling.

Never the less I am very excited and I am due to leave June tenth! Although this means I am leaving my boyfriend for another three months (it is like we never see each other) he shall meet me out there and we shall play in the sunshine and pray for no more volcano eruptions.

BF was in India for three months, only back for a month and then I leave again, we shall spend another month together and then we shall have to both return to University (he is in Plymouth, I am in London) - seems crazy. Although I hope to visit him a lot more next year if I can get some weekends off work and also afford the train tickets.

Let us not mention money - it is a sore spot.

I hope everyone is enjoying the fabulous weather at the moment, bank holiday coming up so I am sure it will rain.

x

Anger Management

I occasionally do this on my blog, where I just have to let off some steam. I am not by any chance making the claim that I am perfect, (in fact far from it). However I have real problems with people who do not do something about the bad personality traits that CAN be changed. Or at least put some sort of restraint on them.

My all time pet hate is bad manners. I can;t stand people who aren't polite. There is just no excuse for it, I mean, what on Earth could some poor girl in a supermarket checkout have ever done do deserve some people's attitude problems. I have worked in places where people have been thoroughly offensive, and there really is no need. You laugh it off of course, but you shouldn't have to out up with it. If I had been rude back to them I would have gotten punched in the face. I just do not think rudeness, and lack of manners is acceptable. It is just a case of common decency.

Another hate of mine is immodesty. I know that most of the time to get anywhere in life you have to blow your own trumpet occasionally. But there is no need to do it all the time. Or boast about things that everyone else does and thinks as well. I am not sure if this comes under the bracket of bad manners, but I felt it should be mentioned anyway.


Well that is my rant out of the way, at least for another month or so.

xxx

The One

So many people make reference to "the one" and recently i have been wondering what exactly that consists of. There are friends we have to fill different roles, we have the funny one, the one that listens, he one who helps, the cynical one, the positive one... etc etc.

Is "The One" all of these things in one person? Because I am not entirely convinced that would work. I mean when it comes to lovers, there has been, the sexy one or the secure one, the funny one, the comfortable one. Is it possible that a partner can obtain all of these qualities? And not leave one of them slightly neglected?

Is it that we have many friends who fill the other roles to replace the ones our partner can't? Or if we don't have a partner we get our friends to fill in the gaps? I feel the "one" we actually look for, are our many friends, all individually they all deserve that title, "the one". If we obtain a partner who does all these things for us to, then that is a bonus.