Friday, 14 October 2016

uni life

It is that time of the year again, I have broken my phone! Dropped it yesterday morning making breakfast and now I have had to send it off to the insurance to get repaired. Probably the 20th time I have done this in my life. Fuming with myself!!

So anyway as I am phoneless and reduced to going old school on a laptop to communicate with the outside world I decided to write a little blog update!!!

What an absolute whirlwind my life has become!!!

So as you all know I have started full time uni and I am now officially a law student... or a "trainee lawyer" as they like to call us... I like that title, I think I will stick to it!

Freshers week started with a blast. By day two I was mid week drinking. The amount of free dominos was unbelievable. And I even got involved with some non law related societies... check me out, I'm in the astronomy society!!!!!!!!!

The heavy stuff started pretty much immediately. I found myself quickly snowed under with work, none of which was making much sense. Also for some reason its all in fucking Latin which is both interesting and irritating at the same time! My method of forcing everyone I came across to be friends with me has worked tremendously and I am now in a WhatsApp group chat with 85 members in it. What a time to be alive!

I have to admit, the lifestyle change was striking and there have been a few moments where I have thought to myself "what the hell am I doing"!!! A crisis of confidence to say the least. I would say a Law degree at a Russell Group university certainly sorts the brave from the weak. There is a reason why it is a difficult degree to get on!!!!! But what it has shown me is how much broader my horizons now are. I feel like my life has been yanked off its original trajectory and I am now hurtling UPWARDS at a furious speed. It is exciting and terrifying all at the same time. When I think back to my days before uni... getting up every day to go to a boring job which while convenient and nicely paid literally sucked the life out of me... I wake up every morning now excited for the day ahead. And that is such a brilliant feeling. Not that I have given up work completely mind you. I still do 4 hours on a Thursday morning and a few hours over the weekend but it very much feels like my "Saturday Job" rather than one of the biggest portions of my life.

The only problem with this picture is with uni being 5 days a week and my working the weekends, I am now doing 7 day weeks. This is exhausting and this week, the inevitable happened... I got sick. Dying of what is commonly referred to as freshers flu I had to miss lectures today and stay in bed. I am off work tomorrow but meant to be in Sunday and if I am still feeling like this I think I might have to phone in sick!!! I hate phoning in sick. I am normally only ever off sick due to mental breakdown reasons so I am really hoping I am better for sunday as I don't want to have to phone in sick with a cold. They will probably think I am taking the piss as its only my second week back but I am quickly learning with a uni/work/personal schedule this hectic, I HAVE to start looking after myself otherwise If I continue to the point of physical and mental exhaustion I will be out of action for months. So I will see how I feel on Sunday but for now I am curled up in bed with Netflix and a shit load of cold and flu rememdies. There are scrumpled up tissues all over my floor. This is not an uncommon sight for my bedroom to be honest but usually its post sex clean up rather than snot haha!!!

I have been thinking a lot about Ash this week. I know exactly why, in criminal law we have been discussing mens rea which I wont bore you too much with but it basically means guilty mind. what was the defendants intention when commiting the offence. We have also been discussing common assault and criminal damage which where the two offences he was convicted of in the end with me. I have been thinking..... what a fucking bellend. I can't believe I was in love with him. I mean I say this half heartedly as the fact I'm thinking about him at all speaks volumes but, and it has taken a long time to get to this point, but I feel like it was in the past now. I would say up until a few months ago it still felt very much in my present. It is difficult to try and rebuild your life after horrible things happen to you. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself to be over it too quickly and was becoming frustrated that it still affected me so much. I can quite comfortably say now that what happened was abuse. I know that's weird and you are probably thinking er yes of course it was abuse, you even state recovery from abuse in your blog title you wierdo,  but I think deep down really I was still excusing that behaviour and rationalising it as something else in my head.

You know what else I have been thinking about. During each episode... I never ever fought back. Well I mean he was a lot stronger than me anyway so resistance was futile but I just think now if anyone ever touched me like that again I would have absolutely no problem in stabbing them in the eye with my acrylics.

Anyway enough of that, I am so over being a victim of that situation. I am winning at life and hes still on 8 quid an hour. Meff

This week I had my first properly assessed piece of work that counts towards my degree. Well its 5 percent of a 15 credit module and there are 120 credits a year so its only a microscopic portion but nonetheless it is important.

I had a test

It was 20 questions

I got 100percent

Now let me tell you boys and girls this was not your run of the mill if in doubt pick c sort of test it was a motherfucking complicated test which went on about ratio decedeni and obiter dictum and all sorts of shit and I. GOT. 100PERCENT

Crisis of confidence.... evaporated.

I can do this. And not only can I do this, I can do this fucking well

Game on Bitches. I'm off to be a lawyer xxx


Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Wake me up when September ends

After a glorious summer off I have decided to throw a little blog out there!!

First thing to know is I absolutely smashed the shit out of my uni course, I got a first and now I will be starting a full time Law degree at the university of Liverpool on September 19th... THIS IS A FUCKING MASSIVELY BIG DEAL!

Over the summer I got my head in some serious law books... already being a student I have access to the reading lists and library so I decided to give myself a head start on all those young whippersnappers who are probably still lying in a pool of their own vomit after discovering 24hour licensing and 241 shots...as we all did. I had a look at the forthcoming modules... there's quite a few assignments, about 5 or so exams and a presentation (woohooo, one loves a fucking audience)... so I have to admit I have been feeling quietly confident about the whole thing... until now.

IM FUCKING BRICKING IT

Modules say I should be doing about 40 hours a week private study by myself. I also have to work 16 hours in my (what will hereafter be referred to as my) Saturday job, in addition to bringing up a 9 year old and maintaining a house singlehanded. Quite frankly it is starting to sound a little daunting. I have therefore come up with a few little ground rules for myself which will hopefully help me to keep on top of things.
 1. I will complete my reading as and when I get it and also make a point of finding at least 5 extra sources to reference, even if I only read a sentence of each 5 said sources. Its all about the wider reading
 2. I will only go out drinking once per month and I will not consume any illegal substances that may lead to one night out becoming a bender spanning several days.
 3. I will only shag a MAXIMUM of 3 fitties. 
4. Said fitties will NOT be in my class and preferably will not be studying law. Lesson 5009 = Don't shit where you eat.
 5. I will get up at 5.30am on a Tuesday and Thursday to do housework
 6. When rule number 5 inevitably doesn't happen I will employ a cleaner having already set aside £2000 for "household maintenance" which I defo defo believe a cleaner comes under that umbrella
7. I will not enter the Krazyhouse or any other known dive at any point whatsoever no matter how much they try and make me.
8. I will maintain my monthly adventures out into the countryside to ensure rest and relaxation in none alcoholic form.
9. I will not stay overnight in any form of halls of residence and it doesn't matter how big the occupants cock is.
10. I WILL NOT SHAG MY EX BOYFRIEND.

I believe armed with these crucial guidelines will give me the best chance of success. I want a first class degree, I am just throwing that out there now. A scientist guy a few months ago told me he disagreed it was possible to get a first in law, very few manage it. I binned him off shortly after that conversation as his negativity was astounding and this guy was researching a cure for fucking cancer so I don't hold out much hope for that happening any time soon with downers like that on the case. Tit. I am really in one of those I know where I am going, I know how to make it happen so you are either by my side or in my fucking way sort of frame of mind. I have made the executive decision to do my first year single. Tough decision but the right one. The last thing I need right now is a fucking passenger. Having said that Lawyer boyfriends ARE permitted so long as they are successful and can inspire and educate me. Seems reasonable to me.

I have included the last rule as an afterthought. Having successfully avoided that situation since JUNE(!!!) I had a marginal wobble this evening and almost called him...like, the phone was in my hand, and I was in contacts, and then I burst into tears. This has not happened for a while and I feel  little better now but as we are fully aware dear readers I am ever so slightly unhinged from time to time and this could well be the start of the slippery slope again. I don't even know why any more. Its been 2 years now since the main horrendousness and still it is sad to say that no one has come close to him and how in love I was(probably still am). Looking rationally though this probably speaks volumes about the drastically poor quality of dudes I have come across SINCE him rather than the quality of him himself. I have chalked this blip tonight down to mental retardation and will defo be discussing it with my therapist tomorrow.

Yes, you heard me correctly, I have a therapist now!

Hurraaaaah I hear you cry! Finally some professional help for this psychopath! This is my third therapist to be honest. My first was treating me for PTSD due to violent incidents but as I was still in the relationship and experiencing it at the time it wasn't really very helpful. I also had a domestic violence therapist who came out to my house every week in the weeks after the final incident which, while very helpful, was during the single most traumatic period of my life and therefore was more to help me get through it rather than look at my long term recovery. Lest we forget domestic violence is the tip of the iceberg of issues... I am crackers enough on my own. So yes I know have a therapist who I will be speaking to during a stableish period and will hopefully equip me with the normal life skills that people without my problems already have... (well allegedly have, some of you are just as fucked as me from what I can see!).

That's all for now! Expect a psychotic episode to kick in round about November when I am bollocks deep in uni work and begging for mercy!

xxx

Friday, 20 May 2016

A day in the life of a bipolar student single parent

Good evening my lovelies!

Having managed to complete the rest of my uni work today I am officially FREE to have a life once more! The last few months have been absolutely crazy and I decided last night I was going to get everything done today so I could enjoy my weekend without that "you should be doing work" guilty thought in the back of my mind. I put my 9 year old son to bed early last night with the intention of having an early night myself so I could be up fresh as a daisy and raring to go this morning. Unfortunately I got side tracked with a WhatsApp convo (as ya do) and so didn't end up going to sleep until past midnight....

TODAY

6.30am: Am rudely awoken by someone standing on my head. It's my son. His early night meant he was up at the crack of dawn and he had come into my room to get his ipad which was next to me charging. He apologised, I fumed.

7.30am: Still zombiefied I realise with horror I am going to have to get up. Order son to get washed and dressed. Son informs me his school shirt needs ironing. I fume

7.35am ironed shirt with one eye shut

7.40am throwing miscellaneous food items into sons lunch box. God knows what he ate

8am: half heartedly had a shower... basically got in, got wet, got out. Look like shit

8.15am son demands cocoa pops. I don't have any cocoa pops. give him toast. he fumes, I fume and tell him about the starving kids in Africa etc. realise I sound like my mother. I fume some more

8.30am I pack car up with 9 library books I needed to take back, folders, shepherd son into car

8.40am driving to drop son off at school. son has decided to wear a trilby hat. explain to son that he cant take it to school. he fumes. I fume. forcibly remove hat from son as he vacates the car. he informs me I have ruined his life.

8.45am Mother duties have ceased until 3.15pm and I am free to morph from parent to student

8.50am realise with horror its my half sisters birthday tomorrow. leg it to asda to purchase birthday card

9.00am realise have left phone at home which contains sisters postcode. fume. have to return home to get it.

9.10am retrieve phone from home. address birthday card. drive round the corner to the post box. it says "collection 9am" on it. fume

9.20am back at asda to post birthday card. collection is 3pm. sound. I can set off to be a student now

9.30am I am on the road to uni. drive is horrendous. traffic everywhere. soon as I park it starts to rain. fume.

9.50am arrive at Sydney jones library. place looks like a shelter for the homeless. students are sitting everywhere. at the desks, on the floor, some have spent the night there and slept on the floor. THERE ARE NO AVAILABLE DESKS. fume

10.15am after wandering around the library helplessly looking for a place to park I eventually find a free desk on the second floor. I collapse in a heap. I have still got my coat on from the rain and the library is boiling. fume

10.25am a whole HOUR behind schedule I begin to work. the dream of finishing everything today is slipping away and I quite frankly cant be arsed to do anything.

10.30am japenese girl sitting 2 desks away keeps sneezing and making a sound that is similar to a woodpigeon only louder. economics student sat opposite me gives me a knowing raised eyebrow.

11am decide I cant be arsed doing any more on my philosophy essay and turn it in as is. selects print, am informed I only have 18p printer credit left. have to purchase more. fume

11.10am first assignment is printed and completed. now onto history

11.15am thought my history was almost done but it turns out by almost done I meant I had to write an intro and conclusion. fume. have to read whole essay to remember what the fuck it was I was banging on about. read email from tutor suggesting I include a reference to some book that I can find in the library. glance sadly at my pile of 9 books I have already and go off in search of book number 10.

11.25 book number 10 is located in a "silent" study area. I walk in, my Pandora bracelet rattles, everyone turns to look at me with hell in their eyes. I silently apologise and scuttle off to find my book.

11.28 CANT FIND SODDING BOOK

11.30 book located. silently creep back through the angry silent students and go back to the second floor

11.40am realise book is about women in the nineteenth century being put in lunatic asylums if they exhibited sexual desire. ponder if I should be in a lunatic asylum. decide yes probably

11.45am sneezing japenese girl 2 desks down in tears.

11.50am I WANT TO FUCKING DIE

1pm decide history essay will just have to fucking do, I cant be arsed with it anymore. print off, submit, 2 down, 1 to go

1.10pm open English essay

1.11pm open email from English lecturer with some feedback on the draft I sent him. "this really gets into it's stride from page 3 onwards"... translation, pages 1 and 2 are shit. fume

1.20pm wonder how my life ever got to the point were I was comparing a story about how a german prisoner was anally raped to death by british soldiers I. world war one with Jekyll and hyde.

2.30pm ready to hunt down the person who invented MHRA referencing and anally rape him to death

2.40pm Fuck it, it's getting submitted

2.45pm almost fall down the stairs trying to carry 10 books back to the hand in bit

2.50pm offloaded all the books, off to the office to hand in the hard copies of my essays

2.55pm JOY! RAPTURE! I'M DONE!!! See mate from course in office. she is just beginning her essay today and still has a full other one to do. I wish her the best of british luck and thank god that's not me

3pm Feeling smug. upload smug facebook status

3.15pm arrive to pick son up from school having accidentally cut up a taxi on the drive up. could see drivier going mental in my mirror. I am too exhausted to give a shit so pretend I have not seen him

3.16pm son informs me an older kid has been picking on him today. son asked bigger kid "haven't you got a life or mates your own age?"... bigger kid then decked son. proud of son for being a gobby little bastard. puts "must speak to teacher" on next weeks list.

3.30pm arrive home, house looks like ive been burgled. it hasn't I just haven't been arsed to tidy up

3.35pm sit on couch to watch telly. son attacking me with a light sabre wanting to play. make half arsed swooshing sounds while watching the rest of Marcella

4pm son asks whats for tea. I tell him sweet and sour chicken. son fumes. I reiterate starving kids in Africa line. I fume

5pm make tea, chicken smells funny. its in date but it smells funny. cook it anyway. rice is done, debate risking salmonella but at the last minute decide against it and knock up a quick chilli instead to go with the rice. fume that I have wasted chicken and sweet and sour and think about the starving kids in Africa

5.30pm lengthy phonecall with uni mate. am informed of several bits of juicy gossip. get over exicited

7pm inform son we are going to have fun this weekend. offer to take him either to the pictures, bowling, or to that play factore in manc. he wants to do all 3. I tell him we can't do all 3 and he needs to pick one. he fumes. I, being shattered, kick right off and call him a right ungrateful little brat and send him to his room

7.30pm text from son.. "I'm so sorry mummy I love you"... feel guilty for fuming

8pm watch easties, think Stacey looks gorgeous...think bobby beales a right little cunt and I would love to smash him over the head with a hockey stick

8.30pm decide we are still hungry so go to maccies. they give me chicken nuggets instead of cheese bites and a medium drink instead of a large. fume inwardly to myself as haven't the energy to pick a battle with a maccies employee

9pm retire to bed, feeling stressed but accomplished

So that's it!! all my work is done and I am looking forward to a few months peace and quiet before the mayhem starts in September!

PS, I fully understand this blog is not grammatically correct, full of spelling mistakes and there is barely a capital letter in it. fucking sue me xxx




Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Almost there!!!

It's been a little while since I last babbled on so I thought I would write a little blog this evening!

First of all....I'm just going to say it... I am fucking proud of myself.

This time last year I had a vague idea that I fancied going to uni. Today I have just completed one of my final assessments which was a debate and I have just 3 more assignments and an exam to do before I'm done. Not just done, SMASHED IT. I mean I could potentially still massively fuck up the situation but honestly I think I am home safe now. 14 assignments down, 3 to go.... Even if I write utter shit for these final assignments my work through the year SHOULD carry me through to a first. I AM OVER THE MOON. I know I shouldn't be counting my chickens just yet but on the whole I think I have this shit handled. It is a crazy feeling. I have completely changed my life from this time 12months ago and I am heading in a direction I actually want to go in. I am 90percent sure I will keep on my current job part time just for a bit of pocket money but the main focus of my life come September will be studying. I am so excited its unbelievable!!!

Shall we have a bit of boy talk? I have sort of stayed quiet about talking on the dude front because really there has been no one really worth mentioning recently but I just have to point out the weirdest thing happened today...

Round about November time I had a very short lived fling with a guy from uni. Only around a month or so, nothing serious at all so it was barely worth mentioning but basically what happened was this guy was originally half seeing a girl who ended up moving to Spain. In November I found myself suddenly available and i'm not sure if it was coincidence or if he was stalking me or what but within precisely 6 hours of my single status he had asked me out. I had liked him for a while, he is really clever, tall, fit, drives a bmw, ticked a lot of boxes really so anyway we had a bit of a fling for about a month or so but THEN Spain girl moved back to the uk!!! Now me being the totally sound girl that I am decided to take a step back at this point because I kind of thought really they should be together and she saw him first so I did the decent thing and backed away.....albeit onto my ex boyfriends cock but that's besides the point. ANYWAY uni boy and spain girl got together and are currently living happily ever after.

Now I still see uni boy obviously in uni but I have kind of kept my distance a bit because yano its a bit awkward isn't it when theres been a bit of activity. There was no bad feeling or anything I just said listen I think now spain girls back I am gonna just back off a bit and he was like oh ok sound and that was that. ANYWAY he is in one of my classes and today I shit you not he was staring at me for an hour and a half. Now I did have a bit of a cleavage situation on the go so that might have been it but honest to God he was STARING AT ME. I didn't make eye contact. We had to do this debate thing so he could have legitimately starred at me for like 20minutes while I was talking but this continued after I sat down and other people were talking. I put it down to the tits.

THEN after class I was standing outside having a ciggie and he walked right up to me, put his hands on my waist and tickled me and then asked me for a light. So I gave him my lighter and then when he was giving it back he did this weird hand holdy thing. What the hell is going on??!!! He is still with Spain girl. I know he is still with spain girl. He knows I know he is still with spain girl. What the fuck sort of outfit does he think i'm running here?!!!!!!!! I've been round the block enough times to know a come on when I see one. No. Just No.

Such a shame as well because he was a lovely lad with loads of potential but now I can't really be mates with him because he has automatically categorised himself as a cunt.

After the debacle with the ex I have managed to go a whole 3 weeks without speaking to him and I have managed to pull myself out of the fog now. After a plethora of perfectly nice but frightfully boring potential men I decided to implement a self imposed cock ban until September. I decided to focus on uni work, party my way through the summer and then in September I can aquaint myself with thousands of brand new, educated men. I am going to try and do my first full time uni year single because I don't want to waste the opportunity to be a slut. I haven't been a slut for ages and I think it's about time I rediscovered my calling.

So yes that's where i'm up to. Life is bloody fantastic right now and the future is looking epic

xxxx

Saturday, 12 March 2016

Feeling Meh

I am feeling needy and shitty tonight

I will try and cut a long story very short on this one because I don't really want to discuss it but in a nutshell my dad has 2 brothers and a sister. 1 of the brothers decided he didn't want anything to do with the rest of the family any more at Christmas for reason's that aren't entirely clear to anyone but that's by the by, the point is, within a week of this kick off occurring something really really shitty happened to the other brother.

I spent this evening with him and my auntie and my dad and his family and I just feel so fucking shitty. Why do bad things happen to good people? I hope to god he recovers. I have faith that he will recover. But do you know what happened last time I had a family member have something shitty happen and I had faith that they would recover? She didn't fucking recover. She died. I had faith right up until we switched off the life support, I was utterly convinced there would be a miracle and she would magically wake up and everything would be alright. But I was wrong and she died, and it was shit.

And this is shit. It isn't anywhere near as shit as the last shitness, my uncle isn't on life support, but on a scale of 1 to shit, we are at the shitty end of the spectrum.

I feel.... ANGRY

Why the fuck do these things happen? Mad things that you don't even consider as a worry just randomly pop up to fuck everything up. I also feel angry at every bellend I have ever met in my life who has moaned about something trivial and claimed to be depressed over it. Like, are you fucking serious you narcissistic, self obsessed, victim playing little cunt, you don't know the meaning of the word. That rant isn't directed at any cunt in particular I have met a few of these morons over the years, it's directed at all of them in general. I was going out with some cunt in 2009 and he was like that. I'm that pissed off with the world I have actually forgotten the pricks name but I was with him for about a year and he was always playing the victim and saying he was depressed. CARL that was it. Fucking prick. He ended up taking loads of anti depressants and complained they didn't work. Yeah you know why that is don't you, because you aren't suffering from depression it's just your life is that boring it would send a glass eye to sleep. That other lad from last year was the same actually now I come to think of it. Terry 2002 he was another one. 2 years I put up with his whinging for. I was young and naïve then I think I was only about 18/19 so I persevered for 2 FUCKING YEARS listening to the whining and the moaning and thinking I could help him. It must be a new breed. I swear to god evolution has stopped working and these pricks are actually degenerating into vegetative organisms who's sole use in life is for a shag. Being older and wiser I have got a lot better at dropkicking the wankers at the very first red flag but I am still livid over all the time I wasted over the years consoling these dickheads. Because I can tell you in 100percent of cases these pathetic specimens are still exactly the fucking same today as they were back then. I saw Terry the other day walking down the road and thought....why have you wasted your life. He must only be about 34, he looks about 50. He had the tools available to build a decent life but instead he wasted it on being a martyr and now he looks suicidal. God I have fucked some losers in my time.

I have gone a little off topic here but I feel slightly better after that rant.

So anyway yes my uncle is in a bad way and I and the rest of the family feel helpless and frustrated as does he. I am PRAYING he recovers, I am not sure what will happen if not. In fact I don't think I have the brain space to deal with it.

Speaking of brain, I am quite proud of myself as although I am freaking the fuck out, it is handleable, I don't feel chaotic or unstable which is great because this is precisely the sort of shit that could potentially trigger an episode in me. Thank Christ for the medication, I think this is a good sign. I feel like I feel the "normal" amount of upset/depression as opposed to the bad place. And this suggests I have got the medication balance just right. Every cloud I suppose.

In other news the abstinence based recovery programme I have put myself on in an attempt to ween myself off my ex boyfriends penis has been, on the whole, successful...although I have had a minor wobble this week with the whole abstinence thing and as of right now I just wanna pick up the phone and call him but that is because I am having a little trauma and like I said at the start I am NEEDY right now. I need to be held. That's what I really miss about him, he would take me in his big strong arms and I would feel so small and safe...when he wasn't giving me black eyes and threatening to kill me of course. WHY AM I SO FUCKED UP.

Here we have the problem. I am not interested in having a boyfriend. I haven't been interested since we split up. It has been over 18months on this single life and aside from the odd waifs and strays along the way there has been precisely no one that has really got that fire burning inside me. I get asked out about once a fortnight...mostly from the same guy who I shagged a few times while back and then he didn't stop calling for years ever since. I do sort of have my eye on someone. It would be the easiest thing in the world for me to flirt with him a bit, massage his ego, let him feel like he is chasing me, bed him and then shag him for a few months while telling him what he wants to here and buying him a chippy now and again, but honestly, that shit gets complicated really quickly. There is nothing worse than complicated mediocre.

So not wanting a boyfriend, and can't be arsed with casual what do I do in a situation of neediness?

I think you know what I would normally do. But I am not going to do that this time I am going to resist that urge and keep my sobriety. Might message all my loser ex's with a full breakdown as to where their lives went wrong ha


Friday, 4 March 2016

Crisis of confidence



Ok... I'm freaking out.

When I first decided to embark on this whole uni shin dig I had just split up with ash and I desperately needed something to focus on. The course I got on was perfect. One day a week, interesting, and I got to meet some fabulous people. There have been a few moments along the way where I have though "what the hell are you doing? You can't do this!" But on the whole I have been really successful.
So successful in fact, that it is now pretty much certain that not only will I be starting a full on law degree at the university of Liverpool in September, I will also be getting an excellence bursary for achievement on my current course. This is massively a big deal. Provided there are no massive fuck ups on my part of course

Ok. So here I am sitting here with my invite to my discovery day at uni in a couple of weeks. The law building is actually the same place I currently attend so there will be no surprises. This is all starting to feel very real. When I first started this I didn't really have a plan as to what I was going to go on to do and really just wanted to do it for fun more than anything however I quickly decided law was the way forward which was always my plan as a kid "what do you want to be when you grow up" sort of thing.

Well I'm all grown up now. And I am starting to look ahead as to what comes after uni. The options are as follows.

1. Stay in my current job and have the whole few years of study be just for a piece of paper and a warm glow inside.
2. Get on the graduate programme with my current employer which is no more money than I currently earn.
3. Get a training contract with a solicitors firm, do the legal practice qualification and become a solicitor earning a mid range salary.
4. Get on a graduate scheme with another business (prob same salary as I earn now)
5. Go into the police force and do their 3year fast track to inspector course (unsure of salary, probably the same as I'm on now but sounds fun)
6. Have a stab at the bar... Become a shit hot barrister complete with white wig and black robes, arguing the toss in court for a living and earning squillions.

Option 6 is enticing me I'm not gonna lie.

Ok so here's where the freak out is happening. Every time I think about it and get excited there's that "what are you thinking? You can't fucking do that! Mentalist" minion going on at me. It's so competitive. Is that world a place for a scouser? What if I'm shit at it and end up back where I started? WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF????

I'm literally shitting myself right now. And it's not even for another few years until I make that decision but I feel as if I'm going to seriously attempt to make it in this profession I need to start thinking about it now. 

It's so competitive so I figure there are 2 realistic routes in. One being exceptional academic achievement and the other being doing some serious networking and making friends with the right people.

It feels so big and scary right now I feel like hiding away and not bothering.

I won't of course. I don't back down for any fucker. But I'm scared shitless and I don't know how I will ever get there.

Having said that, I had the exact same feeling this time last year about starting at UoL in the first place and look at me now. SMASHING IT is the only way to describe it.

So yes that's what is going on at the minute and what is occupying my every waking thought. I am hoping it will all come together and the road I take will be beautifully lit up for me.... I guess we will have to wait and see 


Xxxxx

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Putting the hot in Psychotic

Greetings from lunaticsville!!

What a rollercoaster of a week this has been!

Last weekend my friends and I gathered for a small soiree which resulted in us all getting absolutely twatted and sent me as far west as can possibly be until around Wednesday. Such is the problem of having a good time. The length of the recovery period is in direct correlation with the size of the ball that was had. I am reliably informed I left the party at 7am. I WALKED home having left my car at my mates house and deciding I needed to be alone.... what the fuck. Got home, got into bed and then spent the next 3 days questioning every life choice I had ever made and crying a lot. You know how it is.

This, coupled with the fact my Achilles heel as he will here after be known decided to call me on Sunday and it sounded like he was in a similar state. We cried. And told each other we still loved each other. What a fucking disaster. I blame the drink.....etc. He also did an Adele on me and wanted to go over everything that went wrong with us while I chipped in occasionally with I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT but to no avail. Speaking to him, it is abundantly clear he has no clear recollection whatsoever about what happened the night we broke up. And frankly I don't want to enlighten him as it is far too painful to talk about. I can't possibly meet up with him though as he still seems to believe will be happening. If I see him again, I'll shag him again. I know this, you know this, a fucking deaf, blind and mute kid in outer Mongolia knows this. And it is a recipe for carnage. It is NOT HAPPENING NO NO NO. After spending half the week in a state of melancholy and following some ill advised shenanigans I have made an executive decision to stop doing stupid stuff. The only problem we have is I am currently flying through a hypermanic episode, during which doing stupid stuff is simply unavoidable. The best thing I can do is remain indoors and channel this energy into productive actions. My uni work has been smashed today. I am about 6 WEEKS ahead of where I need to be (which is massively impressive thank you very much) and this is due to the fact I spent the day in the library churning out assignment after assignment. I have sent it off to my tutors to get some feedback on it before I submit it (just to make sure I haven't produced thousands of words of shit) and as I type this blog I am literally checking my phone every 5 minutes to see if I have had a response. It is Saturday night. I KNOW I am not going to get a response over the weekend. Yet I still check. It is honestly like when you have text a boy you are keen on and are constantly checking your phone for a reply except its not a boy its world renowned doctors and professors etc.

I put the hot in psychotic

I feel like going out for a run.... THAT is how mad I am right now.

Instead, I shall have a bath, get in my pyjama's and resist the urge to bounce into town and go and party with strangers (yes, I have done that before. A lot. Mainly in Garlands. Had a ball as well to be fair) and I will also resist the urge I have to get in my car and go and drive to London which I have also done before several times....Ohhhhh me and my chaotic brain. It is like there is a little devil on my shoulder saying go on, get into mischief....think of the stories you will be able to tell. Stop it, stop it right now!!!!!

In fact, you know what, balls to it. You only live once and all that. I'm off out on an adventure, if i'm not back by Thursday call the police xxx