» Teenage Poetry

A 'funny' poem to try and redeem this qotw
not strictly adhering to this qotw, but its a bit rubbish so who cares:

I don' read an' I don' 'rite,
but tha' don' really mattr'
caus' I com' from somerset
an' I cn' drive a tractor

- said in a very broad accent for best effect:)
(Thu 11th Aug 2005, 22:28, More)

» Lies I told on my CV

Lies- but not my own
I have been looking for a year in industry placement since january, but havent managed to find anything my uni was 'happy' with until now. (for some reason they *insist* on a 'significant amount of software engineering' :s ) Anyway, I was looking for jobs through a placement scheme, and recently went for an interview at a very well known company at canary wharf.
Interview was going well, everything running smoothly, then one of the three interviewers says 'I can understand Computing, Maths and Electronics A-levels, but an HND in Fashion??' I then looked very puzzled, as I am a computer bod at heart, and have a reasonable grasp of fashion in its loosest sense, even though I am of the female persuasion, but I am not passionate enough to studay it in any shape/form.
It was dismissed as some sort of error by the placement scheme, and everything went well from there, with the exception of the manager who had pointed it out making several jokes that I had to laugh at about other 'hilarious' qualifications I posessed.
I found out later that the company pulls out all details from a DB for each person, and for some reason it had decided to add on some extra qualifications to mine. So the computer lied, not me.
Plus I have got the Job!!
(Tue 11th Jul 2006, 15:06, More)

» Mugged

Telling the time
Is it just me or when someone asks me the time, I check my watch rather than checking my phone, thus avoiding any phone related problems. Also being a londoner I tend to be very wary of anyone talking to me, regardless of who they are. Especially grannies.
(Fri 16th Jun 2006, 14:51, More)

» My first love

My first love - *sigh*
I had my first 'infatuation' with a guy called David who i had liked for ages - like several years- and he was my maths teachers son. He was the same age as me and didnt fell the same way:( I did the usual of telling all my mates who then proceeded to tell him to my immense embarassment, and he just laughed at me.) Once he knew i liked him he used to flirt with me, and do the strange thing of finding out all my maths test results, then say next time i met him 'i know what you got in so and so test' That was at about age 13. I flirted with him whenever i went to his house but it didnt lead to anything. then a year or so later when i had (kind of) forgotten about him he turned up at a party at my house for my mums birthday, and during the evening kissed me and told me 'i really fancy you.' Luckily i actually thought it was a dream when i tried to remember it, so i didnt act on it and he didnt do anything either, so we just really forgot each other thank god. A year later i met my current boyfriend (at 15) and he really is my first love - were still togeather 4 years and 2 months later! - I couldn't be happier. My boyfriend is smart (doing a maths masters) funny, good looking and fancies me like crazy, the guy i used to like had to re-sit a levels cause he failed all his and is now doing a goegraphy degree. I think i got off quite easily.
(Tue 25th Oct 2005, 23:43, More)

» The Credit Crunch

Well....
I started work in September, just out of Uni, in London. My mum was planning to retire to France so in 2007 bought some land (~£45k), remorgaged the house for double the amount the morgage was (and put it in a savings account - in £'s), and put down some money for a small bungalow to be built on the land (~£120k).

She also bought a horse (special breed so ~£6k and bloody difficult to sell) as she has always wanted her own. The plan was to sell the house for ~£500k (estimated as a 'Good Price' by Foxtons mid 2008) and move out there, while I moved in with my Boyfriend near London somewhere. Since september I have saved any money left over while living with my mum, and have managed to save almost £10k. This could go towards rental deposit, small new car as mine is ancient, etc...

Just before christmas she had a breakdown, got depressed and thought we'd 'lost everything'. Christmas was fun. She has not worked since Christmas, and doesnt look like she will any time soon. Also, my 19 year old brother has been ill for the last 6 years with Colitis, and is on a special diet so costs a fortune in food.

The house prices in our area are now a bit more than half of what they were, and I now have to spend almost all my pay every month paying the morgage, food, keep for the horse miles away so we cant even ride it (I also ride, and it would be one thing to look forward to during the week) and put most of my savings towards the French house savings shotfall because of the crash of the pound v. Euro. Fun times.

However, we should just about make it through, and im a lot luckier than some other people on this forum and elsewhere, so its not all bad.
(Fri 23rd Jan 2009, 20:05, More)