hungover. have to meet parents. argh.

Alright?
I haven't posted in a while..had a lot on my proverbial plate. Moved into the Bigg Market wayyy early than planned due to my parents not wanting me to move home for a few weeks while I was between tenancies cos they didnt want me sleeping on the floor and 'ruining my impressions of nice family life' .. whatever..they just wanted me out. So I moved out and into here, and it's awesome. Bit loud, but I'm used to it. And there's a class busker who I always give a bottle of beer to when I see him. Flatmates are cool, we've got Bev and Linz from last yr, Rob the stoner, Craig the weirdo, Sarah the Lancashire lass, Anne the french girl, and Yoshi..we don't know his name but we like to sing the mario theme tune when he comes in..and he has an unhealth obsession with marks and sparks. bah.
In regards to uni, it started last week, and I have become a swot, and damn fucking proud. We have an insane lecturer who always talks about rape... :O Some of the modules are buggers, but I'll deal with it.
And finally, today I sat in a shitload of law cases at the courts, including some high profile ones regarding some abductions and assault. There was a 6 yr old girl taken from her bath recently and assaulted.. I sat in on that. And some other ones about taxi drivers and teabagS. Had an interview with the witness service people today so I'm going to be explaining court procedures to witnesses and basically explaining any law shit they don't understand. And I get to meet lots of rich judges :) woo. Got a team meeting on fri in the judg'es dining room, so I'm assuming I got in.. ha.
Okie dokie, off to bed to get some much needed sleep!!!
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Love you allllllllll
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Blatantly going to get woken up at 4am as is the usual case when people get home from the clubs and decide to drag my friends home to see me.. not nice when I have 9am seminars guys!! I know you read this!!!

meh. its a saturday and im in the library. meh. got time off till my exams so im happy. off to do work on ethics and management structure of mcdonalds and write about motivation. i have a 40 page document called 'how to make presentation with confidence and power' to read. life is good.
i dont like capitals today.
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On Monday I go into Grad bay, but tonight I go to Rev to celebrate the return of Claire. More updates later.
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So. Just finished my sales training, theres so much more to learn than I thought.
My brother graduated. Ilove him :) He had to wear a gown and everything. My mum was 'wooing' when he came out to get it, everyone stared. I love my mum. She really knows how to lower the tone..
I got my uni results, not the comprehensive list, just a general one. Fun.
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Alreeeet.

Well, it's Thursday, so three lovely days at work so far. It's really fun, apart from being mind-numbingly boring. I want to kill myself. Nothing is challenging..eugh. But, on the other hand, the people are LOVELY, so it's not too bad. Arrived on the first day to be shooed into a little room in the corner, where I was met by 4 of my fellow call centre buddies, and sat down just in time to hear the guy next to me say he used to work for budget windows. Now, I know someone who works for budget windows, so I asked if he knnew him. Turns out they were flatmates for 2 years. Fancy that. It's very cool, I was worried about sticking out a bit, but there's loads of 'alternatives' there. So cool. :) Yeah, so, the people, some of them have 10 years outbound experience, which makes me wonder how I ever got the job, as EVERYONE has has call centre and proper sales experience bar me, so I think I must be very good at interviews..i.e, lying.
On Monday we did some gay team building things, where you wrote your favourite things, and we got intriduced to the staff, we had a visitor from sales, we did some work on their programmes, and we looked over some tests. Also, we were told (continuously) that we were the most important people on the floor, so we are going to be treated like Gods I hope.
Tuesday we did some more programming. Eugh.
Wednesday we were supposed to have someone fly up from Cardiff to give us sales training but there was an 'unavoidable incident' or something. hmm. So we did more programming. And - the joy! - roleplaying! w00t. And then we played a game called stop the boat, which was fun.
So, anyway, it's all been fun, except its slightyl unnerving when the sales people, or visitors, or senior directors pop in with smilinf faces and tell us how excited they are to be there and how excited they are we're on this course, and how excited they are because its the first time theyve run this thing, cos theyve changed the format. So. A lot of excitement.

So then,
over and out. Im off to either go sit outside and soak in the sun, or sit inside and watch daytime telly and use my laptop. So the laptop it is then.

see yaz
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oo btw, if anyone wants to go to either - revolution on fri, bulletproof on sat, or a house party on sat, leave me a note here, or gimme a text. texts relieve boredom at work. :)

xxx

Hello my friends. Las night I went to a party. It was at Claire's ex bf's house, for no other reason than to party on down. I had been out to celebrate my bro's grad thing, and then I got pretty wasted. I drank about a bottle of wine and a shot of amaretto, and then I went to Claires and we had a bottle of red wine, and we took a bottle of lambrini to the party. Cherry mind, cos we're sophisticated. :) Anyway, was greeted by shots at the door..I stupidly chose whiskey instead of apple sourz, and then we went upstairs and marvelled at all the uv lighting on boris's cage. Think he was mortified.
Highlights of the night included talking to a random girl about being in random tv and films when we were young and budding child stars ;), making friends with this guy called Paddy whose only connection to the party was that he knew someone who knew Ross, Claire's ex, but his friend had long gone and he spent the whole night with us. At one point I got a message off him and had no recollection of giving him my phone number..anyway...woke up this morning to a text off him stating how absolutely hungover he was. I wasn't too bad.
I got lost on the way home. It takes 10 mins to walk form mine to theirs, and yet I turned the wrong way down the street for some unknown reason and ended up by the coast road, so I had to ring Dan and make him go on street map to find out where I was. It toook an hour and a half to get home. Alcohol is eeeevil.

Anyway, today is soooo hot, so I'm chillin till I go to bed, in preparation for the job tomorrow. :S xxx

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I think I swear too much.

Anyway, off to celebrate for my brother getting his results. 2:1 in Pharmacy. 21 and with a Masters. w00t. So, anyway, I'm going to buy him a balloon :) And maybe an inappropriate card..

Also, I got a job yesterday, had an interview on Tuesday, a 4 hour interview on Wednesday, (4 HOURS!!!) and then I got offered it yesterday morning. It's for the BT call centre, in sales. I somehow managed to convince them I'm some sort of loudmouth party animal with a 'passion to learn and a need to close the deal' (yes I said that..or words to that effect) and persuaded them I could meet demanding sales targets...I suppose the fact I convinced them of this kinda shows that maybe I could do it. Anyway, I'm going to have to get drunk before work I think, then I'll be class. Also got to organise an interview for GE, who handle repayments on store cards, but I lost my phone out the other night, and I;'ve lost the number to contact them.

Onto the other night. Went out with Mari, Claire, Seonad, Laura, Matt, and Matt's friends. Was pretty good, headed to Head of Steam and drank continental lagers, I just pointed at them cos some of the names were like Weisnestaphenr2eddfrezz3343ddccc or something. I just looked through the book 'Top 300 ales in the world' and its in it. It deserves to be in it. It's class. So yeah, was good to see everyone, hadn't seen Madj in like 6 months and other people maybe more. I like the fact I haven't moved away from Newcastle cos even though I maybe haven't had a chance to experience a different city I feel like I have because I'm unrestricted in what I can do because I don't live at home, so i geta totally nnew perspective on newcastle. When firends come home for the sdummer, they go back to their parents. I could NOT do that. I live an extra year at home for my gap year..never..going..back...hell.

So yeah, I ended my work at ONE yesterday, bumped into the head of finance, conincidentally godfather.. Haven;tr seen him in ages, so it was nice for a catch up and hear how the corporate resources directorate is doing. Also had a chat about corporate law, and law in general.. might see if I can go into their legal department for a bit and look about. Re-thinking the whole corporate law idea..maybe contract or property? Actually, who am I kidding..I'd rather shoot myself than do contract. It's crap.

Anyway, off to go buy that balloon. And stalk people. :) :)

xxx

update:

well, i'm at work.
I'm doing work experience for One NorthEast. It's moslty boring, I have nothing to do currently, and everyone just seems to spend their time walking around, so I have nothing to do, and no one to ask. The highlight of my week here so far has been ringing a cruise company up, and they informed me about things I already know, and told me their website address that I already knew. Yesterday, I took notes at a meeting that was mostly useless, and seemed to me as being pointless and a waste of money. I got free food though. It was about corporate values, and they highlighted the results of survey they'd done on the employees, and gave details about the z-cards they handed out. Z-cards (for those who aren't in on the One NorthEast slang) are cards with info about the agency on. They are also pointless and a waste of money. One simple e-mail would tell everyone what they needed to know, but oh no, they have to waste tax payers money. Every so often someone will come round and hand you a booklet that they have produced, about something to do with the region. Earlier this week I was given a booklet on walks in the North-East, which I'm looking at now. While this is lovely and all, there are in the region of 200 employees here, and that's only in Stella. Riverside House is over the road, Cavendish is in Teeside, and there's also a small base in the Centre for Life. Now I come to think of it, it's most probable that every employee gets one of these. I understand the theory, everyone needs to be updated on what the agency are promoting currently..but..do the legal department really need it? Or finance? When is someone going to ring up the head of legal and ask what moderate northumberland walking routes he can recommend? Anyway, just a rant. Seriously, I forgot about all this stupid crap. Not to have a go at the department I'm in now (even though I'm about to) they're lovely and that, but if I hadn't worked here previously I wouldn't understand a thing about what to do, where things are, how things work. I was asked to make notes at the meeting yesterday, and when I looked back over them I was thinking about how if I had never been here before, most of what the chairman was saying was just utter crap. If I talked at you about SRP's and z-cards, cascaeds and workstreams would you understand? Wolud you even care? arf. Anyway, I'm going to stop talking about One NorthEast.

In other news, I randomly met my mate Kev at midnight at Haymarket, because we hadn't seen each other for a while, and meeting 'right now' in the dead of night seemed like as good as any time. It was good, and unpredicatble as the best things are, and we just walked all over Newcastle for a few hours, meeting someone I hadn't seen in ages at Manors footbridge at 1am...which was slightly scary. So yeah, we caught up, he's moving away on Sunday so it was kind of like our final time together...even though I'm going to get pissed with him on sat...but I mean..it was like the last time I'll see him privately.

I got home quite late, and when I did, I found something that was really good. I've had a constant smile on my face for the past couple of days. Someone who I haven't talked to in a while sent me an e-mail. I'd wanted to do it for a while..but for some reason I never did. It was totally unexpected, and it was all because I was honest in a round-a-bout way. Things turn out great sometimes.

:)


back to doing..well...nothing.

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Hello, unfortunately I haven't updated in a loooong while, mainly cos I've been on holiday, and also, y'know, I can't be bothered and stuff.

Okay, well, I just got back from holiday yesterday, and have on the whole, been sleeping from about 6pm last night till a few hours ago. Waslking asround for 12 hours a day and vomiting at repeated intervals really take it out of you.

My flatmate pointed out to me that the first stories I told her were not about the authentic Czech experience I had, or the breath-taking architecture and amazing sights, but were in fact, not surprisingly, about the copious amounts of beer I drank and the crazy buggers that I came across.

So here is a 'quick' breakdown of the past few days:

Tuesday, arrived at about half 1, went to reception of apartments, after much confusion got checked in, dumped stuff there. Then we went for a walk, mainly because I was killing for a beer. Tried to find a famous beer hall, when we eventually got there, it was shite, so we ended up in this cool little gothic brewery, where we ordered 2 glasses of beer from a guy with a mullet perm. 1 litre glasses. When they do things in Prague, they really do them. So, we got drunk. Then we got lost. In a park. We lay down in the grass for a bit, and then proceded to take lots of photos of us in bushes, trees, etc. Then we got lost again. Then we found lots of good shops, buty they were all closed because it was late. dammit. So we went home, bought some food from the mini mart, and alcohol. When we got back to Wenceslas Square, there was a weird march going on, with protesters and police everywhere. After getting up so early for the flight, we just went to bed.

Just a note: We intended to drink at nights on the balcony, and also get up very early. But we didn't. So when I say we did those things, I lie.

We got up very early and had breakfast. Then we headed out to do a shopping day, which to be honest turned out to be more sightseeing than shopping, which was intended for the following day. We bought some stuff from the Prague version of Lush we spotted the night before, and then went to the Old Town district, and saw the Charles Bridge, and the astronomical clock. I particularly wanted to see the famous street on the South Side, which was the one thing I came here wanting to look at, but we couldn't find it. (The next day I found out we were right beside it the whole time.) We ate ice- cream. A lot. We headed over the bridge to the Jewish Quarter over Kampa Island and we saw a man who had some mice on a dog. We gave him money because it amused us. We went up the tower on the North Side to get a good view of the bridge, and I gave Claire an insight into the important pieces of history, but she didn't listen most of the time. Then we found a terrace bar next to bridge and sat there for about 3 hours and got a bit drunk on cocktails, and 80% shots. We both decided we loved the waiter and his spiky hair. After this we headed home, and we felt the need to sample the Czech cuisine, so off we went to KFC and McDonalds. We were going to drink on the balcony, but we were knackered, so we ended up drinking staropramen in bed while I pranced about wearing only pants with chocolate, which made for some amusing viewing by Claire I'm sure. Then Claire had a shower, and as there were no locks on the door, I took some cool photos ;) Later that night, I threw up, which was the beginning of things to come.

Up early again and we took sopme photos on the balcony with our new friend Gordon, and Claire put on her pashmina for all to see. We headed down to old town again, coming across a little market in the namesti, where there was a spaz cow, and me and Claire bought each other a rose. The we made an old woman take a photo who blatantly had no idea what she was doing. We headed further down to old town and came across the little theatre, where we bought a ticket for Cats, in black light form for that night. More walking, and we inadvertendly came across the Sex Machine Museum we were planning on going to. Lets just say there are some WEIRD people around. We finally got into the main square, took some photos of the Jan Hus monument, the Town Hall, the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn, St. Nicolas, and the clock. After just having a conversation about how there were no altertnative shops anywhere, we found a lot in the space of half an hour or so. After walking around in circles for a loooong time, we ended up back at the terrace we had been previously, and had some food and beer. I ordered fish, even though I don't like it, which was not very sensible. Claire commented that I always order things I don't like, which, when I think about it, is very true, and I don't know why I do it..i just feel obliged to try the cuisine, and just new things in general. But anyway, after finishing the food and being screwed over by the staff, we left. We strolled home to drop off our souvenirs, and then headed down to see Cats.

Cats deserves its own paragraph. Basically, black light theatre is famous in Prague. It's where all the actors dress in black, so they cannot be seen, and UV light is projected on the stage, and objects in flourescent colours are used, so they can be seen. I wish I could have taken a photo. Had these people even seen Cats?! It was like Cats, in the same way that Reservoir Dogs is like Bambi, y'know, where all the characters and the plot are completely different. It occured ot me that you should really know the plot of the story before you go in to see one of these productions, and even though I've seen Cats twice, I couldn't tell you what happens. I fell asleep during the first show I saw of it, much to my mother's annoyance. Despite this, I'm pretty sure there is no Santa Claus in Cats, and at no point do they visit Egypt. Claire turned to me at one point to talk to me, and when I regained composure I realised I had actually been sitting staring at the stage with my mouth open. It was pure gold.

We left, and took photos of the theatre, and we met some people from Newcastle, who asked us to go for a drink with them. I won't say any more on that :S We headed off to take photos of the astronomical clock, and got ice cream. I took photos of the South street, and we wasted time until the hour, when the clock sounded. After that we sat on a bench near the Jan Hus monument until it got dark, and took some more photos. We went back to the pub we visited on the first day, and sat in the restaurant and drank beer. Claire had her photo taken with the waiter due to my insistence. We headed home, and then we left again to visit a club which we were given a leaflet to by a random guy earlier. Who we met again. Who then decided to personally take us to the club. Business must be bad. We got half way there, and decided to make our own way there. It was good, although I was feeling really ill, so I wasn't much company. After Claire finished her cocktail, we left, and went to bed.

We went home, I woke up, I threw up, I went to sleep, I woke up before 6, threw up, went to sleep while Claire went out, she got kidnapped by an American, and then we made our way to check out. While we were waiting for our taxi, we killed time and sat on a bench, where this guy came up to us and thought we were Czech.. then German. Finally her figured we were English and said hello, then left. Then he came back, in order to tell us he thought English girls were proud and pompous. Then he started having this massive debate with Claire about how God existed, and how we should have babies. It was more in depth and hilarious than that, but I'll tell you if you ask.
we then headed to the airport, narrowly avoided being killed by the taxi driver, and then we finally checked-in at the highly confusing Prague airport, where I tried not to die.
Plane journey home, then collapsed in bed.

There you go.,

In other news, I'm going back to the regional development agency I used to work for, ONE NorthEast, to do some coms work. Should be good. Unpaid, but good.

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EDIT: you can go to Prague by yourself and just talk to randomers. I could have done it. I have so many stories I could tell you, but just ask me, they are class.