hazydayz

I am starting to get a bit panicky now as I have just completed all of my assignments for my Open University course and am now facing the imminent dreaded end of year exam! Unfortunately exams and I do not mix like a lot of people. So I have started my month long drug of fear and adrenaline which will hopefully wear off on the 17th October at 5.30. Why isn't my brain a sponge instead of a soggy lettuce? It would be so wonderful if my brain would actually take in what I am reading rather than thinking about what to cook for tea tonight.

I've been doing Open University courses over the last 10 years on and off and have hated every minute of it. I am not a studier/academic but have had to get this blasted degree for my job. My manager only took me on as long as I completed my degree. Unfortunately I have to do these courses whilst also travelling up to London every day for my job, which means getting up at 6.00 am and getting home at 7.30pm. I am always knackered and as my narcassistic colleague once said to me once "Don't know why your so tired all the time". Yeah, great thanks mate. This colleague only lives a 10 minute tube ride away from work and strolls in at 10.00 complaining of feeling a bit tired after getting up at 9.00am. Bitch!

Anyway I only have one more course to do next year until I get my degree without the honours. I need to do a further year to get my honours. Oh God!

The Open University is nasty way of getting your degree having to work full time and study all the rest of your free hours and taking anywhere from 6 years onwards to complete it. I did a year at normal university and this was a piece of piss compared to the Open University. Anyone doing an OU course will back me up on this. I think the OU had better not ask me to promote their courses as I think it would involve an advertisement of me tearing up a course text book with my teeth, whilst sawing through my own legs with a ruler, whilst also swallowing a whole load of antidepressants. Very Japanese horror!

Anyway, my revision starts as of tomorrow..hooray...NOT!
So I'm off now to plan my storyboard for my OU advertisement to send to them. Heh Heh!

Had a phone call today from NASS (National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society) which I am a member of about contributing to some research into genetics and the disease. I volunteered to do this last year and didn't here back so presumed I wasn't going to be asked.

Anyway, the lady wants me to fill out a questionnaire and do a couple of blood tests to see if my blood has a specific gene that could be a contributory factor to getting the disease.Apparently I fit the profile as I already have the B27 gene which is the main gene which points to a person getting or having AS. They think this other gene may help with medication in the future.

I had a two day attack of pain last week after having a flu vaccination. So typical! Luckily it only a short time but I couldn't straighten up all day Thursday and was in a lot of pain when I tried. Today I couldn't be better, no pain or stiffness at all. I wish this disease would bugger of and leave me alone!

Well, left work early today at 3.45 as I have done 7 extra hours more than I should for the month and I don't get overtime anymore since the cheap skate managers where I work got rid of it. So I did a day in London at work for no money really.

Managed to get the early train home in no time and we were trundling home no problems on one of the new air conditioned trains that us commuters don't have the privalege to travel in very often, when all of a sudden just before Shoreham-by-sea railway station the train came to an abrupt halt. We had just passed a level crossing and I could see a very agitated lorry driver at the crossing on his phone stopping traffic and pointing at the train where I was sitting. We then got an announcement from the guard..."Uhmm, I have some bad news, this train has just knocked someone over on the level crossing and we are awaiting the emergency services to check out the scene. This train won't be moving for 30 mins." Oh my God!! What a nightmare. I looked at the lorry driver again and the police had turned up and the ambulance and after 30 mins they were all looking around under my window at the track below my feet. Looks like the person was directly under my carriage and a little bit further up the carriage indicating he had been dragged and killed. They placed a number of blankets around the carriage and I was worried I was going to see the body in bits being dragged out..yuck..

Luckily after an hour on the train they moved everyone from our carriage further up the train so the police could investigate what was underneath. It was sweltering as the air conditioning was turned off as well and no refreshments, not good for the hottest day of the year. My parents picked me up at Shoreham to my great relief. Made a couple of friends whilst waiting to be picked up, which was nice. No mention of the incident on the local or national news so they couldn't have been very important. Some local teenager probably who jumped the barriers thinking he could make it across in time. Silly bugger. Finally got home at 7.45, so I had a 3 and a half hour train journey home. Great!! For a day when I didn't get paid at work as I have done too many hours anyway. Brilliant(not).

hubby and I have finally finished the lounge and dining room and it looks really professional we are dead proud of it as we spent 5 solid days off last week doing this. We are dead chuffed with the result. Looks like a show home now.

So here's news...we found out this week that one of Steves brothers has just got re-married again without informing anyone including his own mother and ex-wife. So we have a dilemma, we have been told to send a "congratulations on your wedding day" card..when in fact we really want to send one that says "Congratulations!!!...you were thinking of telling us when??!!"Feel sorry for his ex wife as she was a lovely woman, very friendly and easy to get on with. Still life goes on.

We got woken up again this morning at 4.00 am by the noisy seagulls who seemed to be doing a "Riverdance" on our flat bedroom roof again. Steve went outside in his P.J's and threw some more stones at them..never works...they just come back and taunt you!! New tactics today, have just ordered online a big plastic owl to try and scare them off:
Hope it works. We still haven't got round to asking the neighbours to stop feeding them. We are hoping they will say yes, although they have been feeding them for about 6 years now, so maybe unlikely and I don't want to fall out with them as they are a nice elderly couple, who are very pleasant. Maybe I could suggest buying them a budgie instead!! They're much sweeter.

Hooray..we have the next week off work, 10 whole days of no work and no long boring train journeys, it'll be great apart from the pulling wallpaper of the walls and re-decorating the lounge and dining room bit. Still it will look lovely when finished. We then only have the study and kitchen to decorate then.

Had a fun day at work today with my ever so annoying colleague. She spent the entire day talking about her new £50.00 oak toilet seat and how it doesn't fit properly. Oh..how I don't care..shut up already, you boring, narcisstic, talk-a-holic, wanna-be-a-teenager-again whore of a woman!!! As you can tell we are great friends (yeah right) I have to sit behind her and she just does not shut the f*ck up. She is in her late 40's and has no boyfriend (no one is that desparate)Everyone she meets ends up hating her. She is just so rude to everyone and doesn't take the slightest bit of notice of you or what you are doing in your life. Our IT bloke has to ring me first before coming up to our office, just to make sure she isn't there before he comes up to fix our PC's. She's that bad and I know I drive my poor husband mad with stories of my bad day with her. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Maybe I should try the rat poison wrapped in mackrel approach with her!