Protracted

[hirez]

It's just me that still suffers from that whole back-to-school depression/terror thing, right?

Virtual September. Arse!

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[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Erm, no. I get that feeling every Sunday night, doubled in the last week of August. You'd think being out of school for *mumble* years would have stopped that by now, but no.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh God Yes. The feeling of chemistry homework and existential terror brought on by the closing credits of 'Last of the summer wine'.

[countb.livejournal.com]

I still hate the way BACK TO SCHOOL is plastered over everything the second school breaks up. Can't kids enjoy the 6 weeks off in peace?

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

God, I hated that when I was at school! For precisely the reason you gave.

Of course, now I know it's a 'buy early whilst we still have stock in your kid's size' parent-money-trap-thing, but at the time it wound me up something chronic!

Nowadays, of course, I couldn't give a toss...

[countb.livejournal.com]

It still bothers me...
As does not having 6 weeks off in the summer.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

As does not having 6 weeks off in the summer.

this bothers me a great deal. i formally submit that its not fair.

[countb.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

That was the most depressing thing when I first started work - the realisation that my 22 day leave allowance was IT for the year. Bleurgh.

[boglin.livejournal.com]

(raises hand) And me...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Um.

Professionally or personally? Because that raises a reasonably obvious question that I could point at Amon, too.

Or I could mind my own and go compile something. Yes. That would be best.

[fross.livejournal.com]

actually, i was just thinking about this earlier. september - the end of summer, the change in colour of the sky and the trees, the sudden autumnal bursts, makes me feel like it's a new year. that's when things begin, usually due to school.

not that i had a very good time there, but i like how it feels now.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Me too, but I also spent an extended period of time in higher education and then working at a university.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah. See now, to me that's backwards. Start of school = end of outside fun. My year tends to start properly at about the time one comes home from school|work when it's still daylight. This year, it was early March. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/hirez/69405.html)

Oi'm jest a bumpkin at 'eart, see.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I'm having a related non-virtual trauma about Adult Education - Get in now or wait til next year. Sign up now and pay or wait for... possibly freebies later?
That's all beside the @What do I want to be when I grow up?" bit.

In general though, no, you are not a special and unique snowflake, try again.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

If I wanted 'unique and special snowflake' I'd relate one or more terrible drunken pissing incidents to my notional peers and have the room go horribly quiet.

Bastards.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Wheeliebin? 8-)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm not tall enough.

I will admit to one (or two) count(s) of being wheeled home in a shopping trolley like a paralytic metalhead.

When a shopping trolley hits a kerb square-on, it tends to eject its payload with some dispatch. Good job I was drunk, really.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

speaking of drunken pissing...

on saturday night at 10ish, edwardscissors was working on the interior of his Sera in the front yard, with the door and boot open, and lights on, and i was peering out the top window of the house. two drunk girls came running up the normally dar and deserted alley that is our road, variously laughing and crying as drunken teenage girls are wont to do. the amusing part was that apparently their drunkenness was so extreme that they failed to register the car lights, the open doors, the man inside and the radio on, and one of them hauled down her trousers and took a long, noisy pee, not 6 feet from EdwardS.... who also failed to notice the fact that a strange girl was having a pee next to him, until i came down as she hauled her pants up and said "Hey, can you believe that girl just peed right in front of you?!"

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

my summers were usually really lonely so i missed school.

at least i wasnt always alone when i was at school though it took some time to make friends.

i used to be afraid of missing school in case something interesting happened. but it never did.

by the time i got to university, and i realised i didnt like my classmates i stopped going in whenever i could get away with not going.

alcohol, halls of residence companions, and daytime television probably helped numb the boredom of not having a structured educational day.

but i scraped through.

and lost all my university friends anyway.

[operon.livejournal.com]

Heh, going out with a teacher brings it all back...

Andrew.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I just get the sinking feeling that I (once again) let summer slip by without getting anything done. Much less dramatic.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, there's that, too.

Blast.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Errr.... You got _married_

Don't tell me you've forgotten already!

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah..

But that was months ago! Since then I've done nothing but type, and much of that has been extremely dull. No grand expeditions, no scrap-shopping, no mountains, no landie-driving.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Drive to top of hill. Drag bits of burned-out Astra to remains of ROC/Radar station. Construct Art Installation. Profit!

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Should we invite somebody from BBC2 ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

If you know one, yes. I'd planned to document it with a series of long-exposure lomographs.

Oh.

I think I need to build a combat-pocket-sized tripod. (or n-pod, more likely)

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Good. Let's do that.

Like this ?
http://www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=29938&storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001

Or like this ?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009W3TV/102-9352738-9650556?v=glance

Or can we rig the Lomo from a kite to get vast, sweeping aerial views of the process ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Lord that's cheap. The first one, I think.

If there's going to be kite-mounting, it'll be the XA2; the shutter's lighter and I'll swear less if it gets bounce-tested. Even if it is a nicer camera.

They'd both need a motor drive, though.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

We can get by with a hand-wind and a clockwork 3-minute time, I think.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

Bonus points if you burn an effigy of Donald Sutherland.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Effigy ? Effigy ? What kind of cut-rate organisation do you think we're running here ?

I've got the man's agent on speed-dial by now, I'll have you know.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Grrr... get yer hands off 'im! Do what you like to the boy Keifer - he deserves it.

Long range lomography: Mr Oakley has a rocket which takes snaps at the zenith of its trajectory (or at least, when the 'shute deploys).

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Are the snaps pleasing ?

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I've not seen the result. Actually,I'm not even sure if Andrew developed them. Must ask him.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I got more done this summer than I have in years; but still less than I really wanted to.

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

I get a great feeling of joy that the teenagers who terrify me will no longer be able to roam the streets...

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

I hated, loathed and detested my schools, but somehow I still love September - the weather's cooler, but not cold. You can go walking for long distances and it's okay, no sweat, no freezing. There's fruit on the trees and bushes you can just eat as you pass by. The trees are still green, and there're still songbirds about. It's a beautiful time of year.

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

weezes into a paper bag

[hirez.livejournal.com]

But it'll lea.. Oh, sorry.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

I was never bothered by school, as back then I had not yet been broken. Now I make up for it every Sunday night.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

That first morning of the year when you sniff the air and think "'ullo - it's autumn", and walking to the station in september feels like walking to school.

Mind you, that's partially helped by the fact that part of my route to the station used to be part of my route to school.