oh dear...

ARGH!!!
Why does my sister always have to jump in every time I'm requesting something from my mum?

This time I was asking for a lift to my friend's house for my friend's birthday, I was offering to do all the washing for a week, being as sweet and nice as possible, and trying to prevent a stress attack, and then suddenly my sister jumped in going "Oh, I want to go to Sophie's that day too! And Ellie's coming for a sleepover on Saturday, and I need a lift into town in a few days. Can you take me shopping? Can I get my hair cut? Can I have some new clothes? I need new shoes, I need to have a birthday party this year, I want to go out for lunch next week, and by the way I told Rebecca she was welcome to come round whenever she wanted, is that ok? And..."

Until my mum, finally goes "Neither of you are getting ANYTHING, you're both so SELFISH, don't expect ANY lifts from me!"

It's completely lost on everyone that I just made one perfectly reasonable request in the barrage of demands from my sister.

that's unfair

That sounds famililar, L. Back to York soon though, yes?

My own very minor argh is that I'm in more pain than I'm accustomed to but can't take anything to help it for various reasons. Hot water bottle and bed here I come...

Get well soon Floss

My flute is sounding awful today...

Normally it sings, but it won't do anything at all today.

Not sure if it's gone on strike because I didn't play it at all yesterday apart from at church...

Thanks all. Yeah back to York in two weeks. *Celebrates in advance*
I'll have to find a way to get to the party though. Maybe I can fix my bike...
I hope you feel better soon Miss R!

Hope you have a better flute-day tomorrow too Flossie!

Form is temporary, class is forever Flossie

My day sounds like yours! Brothers and sisters are annoying!

I'm usually blamed or feel the consequences for something that has nothing to do with me, all because my brothers and sister can't act like civilised humans!

Today we were all accused of being lazy and not helping out around the house, when it's me who will do the hoovering, tidying the kitchen, loading/unloading the dishwasher, washing/drying clothes, cooking, and general housework type stuff when me and my siblings are asked to do something, and it always ends up that they sit back and go on the computer or watch the television while I give up my time to do it all, yet I still get the blame when things aren't tidy, and get accused of being lazy and not doing my fair share!

ARGHH!

Jacob.

I don't understand. I don't have class - I'm not a particularly good player, and I probably won't actually ever be good.

I've just chipped a clarinet reed as well. It was my one remaining vaguely decent reed (just have soft ones and some yucky vandorens left now). Am going to have to bite the bullet and get some new ones now - will need a decent reed for the Leeds event. Can't get my clari in tune with soft reeds, which would be a bit disasterous playing in an ensemble!

You're a lot better than you think you are.



Reeds can be a pain in the proverbial backside...you have at least got bags of time to get some new reeds broken in before Leeds.

My sister used to do the exact same thing. Especially when my mum went out - she left a lift of jobs with me in charge. My sister would refuse to do any of them. I always told her she could face our mum's wrath, but somehow, even if I'd done 3/4 of the list, the situation was always interpreted as me pawning off my jobs on Cathy, and I got told off for attempted bullying.
She's much better now though, so I guess I'll count my blessings. She's just a bit thoughtless and occasionally manipulative.

Maybe you should start making a list of the stuff you've done, as you do it, and then your mum will stop calling you lazy.

I have a lot of these days! My flute teacher doesn't seem to understand this! I don't like him!

Jacob.

I know the feeling

Cheer up, Nicki and Flossie! Maybe you're just tired, and your flutes will sound much better tomorrow.

Hahaha......

I think it is more like I do not feel inclined to play at the moment but have to because I am having a practise with an accompanist this week.

People are annoying me tonight too - time to go to bed me thinks.

Flute playing is still baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

It will get better : don't worry

I haven't tried mine yet...

Am trying to persuade myself to do some work, but it's feels really strange trying to work when I can't use my office. I don't like not having my things around me. I've already discovered three things I need which are still in the office and I can't get into it because of the workmen.

That is annoying

Are the workmen due to be there long?

Supposedly two days. They're replacing all the windows, but I'm a bit concerned that they may discover that the wall is rotten (which could then take longer...).

I now can't find an alternative computer to use which has the 2003 version of Word. I'm not changing versions halfway through a 100,000 word thesis, and the new 2007 version won't let me format stuff how I want to and isn't compatable with some of my other software. My laptop has the right version of Word, but I can't connect it to the departmental network.

Arrgh

I hope they manage to complete the work quicker Flossie

100,000 word thesis sounds very terrifying!

Hope the workmen are gone soon

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

I just spent all morning tidying my teaching room (which has got surprisingly messy after only a week off) for a new student who couldn't wait until next week for her first lesson and she's not shown up.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

... and relax.

I feel better now.

After getting myself "psyched up" to attend Court in May, I now have to wait until July...

arggggggggggggh.....

checked my email tonnes of times. my supervisor (for dissertation) hasn't bothered replying my emails. i sent in my whole dissertation last week as he asked for it, so that he could read. kind of doubt whether he has read any of it.

now realising that full footnote is required in dissertation and count towards the final word count. busy editing.

my back is in pain literally (i'm fine sitting on the organ bench and play for hours, but not so when i'm sitting in front of a computer, working).

Oh no. Poor Daisy
Why??

Some ba***** has scratched my new car all along the driver's side door. I am furious. It was in a car park at a shopping centre.

Thanks ladies. I've no idea why. Just had a letter this morning to say the dates had changed. These things happen I guess...

So sorry about your car, Bev.

I sympathise. Somebody recently did that along the whole length of my car, evidently in an act of malice.

Hope you can get it polished out.

Thanks.

I'm so sorry for both of you. I suppose the perpetrators felt life had given them a raw deal, but there's really no excuse for this kind of vandalism.

I think it's a growing menace - 3 weeks ago someone (presumably a pupil with a grudge) did this to one of the teachers' cars whilst it was parked in school.

That's dreadful Bev *gets angry on Bev's behalf*

Is the sad face for you, or for DC and Bev? Hope things are okay...

For everyone who needs a sad face. And me...But I'm just tired and fed up, really.

Have you had a break at all over Easter? It's very easy with something like a PhD not to take the time out that you need, and it ends up being very counter-productive (my supervisors keep telling me off about not taking breaks...).

Oh, I had a very nice break But now I'm back at uni

We need to start an 'I hate my PhD' thread.

We do indeed

With just three weeks to go for project submission 1, can an MFA student join the PhD thread please???

I'm annoyed at myself for being sad. Other people have real reasons to be sad, to be having a hard time. I just choose to wallow in self pity for days on end. Grrrr

I think finishing a PhD is an extremely stressful time.
I didn't realise quite how stressed I was until I was going to pick it up from the printers and my then four-year-old daughter burst into tears and said "Don't bring it back home Mummy, you're so much nicer without it."

You've just made me feel so much better with that. I really, really hate mine at the moment, and my supervisor has gone off sick again (and yes, I know I should feel sorry for her and not for myself...but I'm just so tired of the whole thing). Grrrr.

I can't imagine how stressful a PhD must be! I remember at the end of my degree what I was like, and that's nowhere near the level of a PhD! After handing in our final group project (not actually my dissertation: that wasn't too stressful at all!) I was so stressed that I became so confused I really didn't know where I was. The group went for drinks and I couldn't understand what the bartender was asking me: it was like he was speaking a foreign language: he asked me for ID and I repeated my drinks order! Then I couldn't remember if I had paid him, and when I thought about it wasn't even sure that I had ordered drinks, and when he said I hadn't paid him and I got out my purse, I had no idea what money I should give him. After I'd finally worked that one out, and he gave me my change I couldn't think why he was handing me money. And all sorts of other things like that all night. It was a really horrible feeling.

I also remember in the middle of my second year breaking down to my mum and crying that I couldn't cope with uni and wanted to quit. I had just had a week off uni with chickenpox, and had rushed back so as to miss as little as possible, but I still really wasn't well and came back to five major essays to finish and hand in all at once. So I don't think there's any shame in being stressed over a doctorate!

It becomes even more stressful when you are meant to be finishing your PhD, but spend the day sitting in front of the internet, eating chocolate and becoming fat

There's a PhD thread??

I guess I have the stressful ending to look forward to - only 1.5 yrs left.....

Actually I did have a bit of a stressful time finishing my MSc thesis, I had to write some computer code (although it was maths) and the last three weeks before handing it in were spent looking for a mistake in the code! I couldn't find it so submitted it anyway.

I located the mistake about two weeks after handing it in

It obviously wasn't a problem as I got a distincion but it wasn't much fun at the time

Ughh. I had a panic attack this morning.

Poor Lottie.



There isn't a PhD thread at the moment, although it's starting to sound like we need one.

I discovered a mistake in my MA disertation last month - and it was written about 4 years ago, so you've done better than me! The mistake was on the title page.