Happy Fucking Christmas!
Revised: December 15, 2006
Well its that time of year again when everyone panics about buying other people shit they don’t really want never-the-less actually need, it’s also colder than many would like it to be and everyone seems to have a fucking cold - what a nice way to greet someone, Merry Christmas, here’s my cold… Merry Fucking Christmas to you too!
Not that I don’t like Christmas, it is actually a nice time of year and when it snows it’s even better. The cold doesn’t bother me so much as long as I don’t have to actually go out in it at any sort of ridiculously early hour of the morning in a half asleep state and the best thing about being in education during Christmas is that you get to go home and do as little as you like for it… or so you would think/hope.
This Christmas has actually been quite good in that it’s not been too cold and I don’t feel as though it has been pushed on us so much this year. However that could simply be because I am currently living away from home in a student flat and we are being scrooges and not putting up any form of decoration, although that is mostly due to the fact that we are all going home for Christmas tomorrow and by then our respective families shall have done all the hard work for us in making our homes look Christmasy.
What have I been upto then?
So less about me half slating Christmas, half enjoying it and let’s me share with you what the past few weeks have been like seeing as I have once again ignored this blog and let it sit absent of input. Over the past few weeks I have basically been feeling “under the weather” (the polite way of saying “like shit”) as it were - pretty much had one or more of the following at some point:
- Headache & Migraine
- Stomachache
- Cold
- Back pain
- Fatigue
- Sleep-dep
It’s not been nice, however I have been getting though well enough. Not missed any important lectures and have actually managed to do uni related work. Actually one thing the past few months of uni have taught me is that it sucks to be poor. I actually had a taste of full time work over the summer and to be honest I liked it. I liked having some sort of order in life and actually enjoying what I did, unfortunately university work is not like a 9 to 5 job. You don’t work 5 days a week, I get lucky if I’m required to turn up three days a week the rest of the time I would normally spend in bed or watching entire seasons of tv shows. Unfortunately I am not that lucky, although I only have lectures three days a week the rest of the week is pretty much packed with other things, such as doing Joey Brannigan Presents with my friend Joey, my hobby photography, visiting my wonderful girlfriend Camilla and university related work such as video projects, essays and the rest of it. I haven’t actually played a computer game in weeks, I brought my gamecube up from home and have yet to turn the damn thing on. I’m not saying that I dislike any of this just that it costs money. Money I don’t have because I am a student and therefore don’t have a job!
I’m not your typical student stereotype, I don’t stay out late drinking my liver into an early transplant or pulling and fucking the nearest thing with tits. I actually came to uni to learn something, not piss it all away while causing long term internal damage. You would think due to this I would have more spare money than your typical wasted student. I can inform you that, unfortunately that is not true. I like to go out to lunch/dinner with friends, I like to travel to other towns and wonder about, I love going to see my girlfriend, I travel home regularly and I love to buy myself and my girlfriend things usually spontaneously. All these things would be part of any post uni life however I am doing them now, the only real difference and problem is that I don’t have a job, therefore even though I am not going out killing myself with pointless consumption of overpriced liquids I am still spending as much if not more than my peers.
I’m also not alone, many students whom I hang out with probably will continue to live there current lifestyle even after uni. They actually came here to learn something and do work, unlike those other layabouts whom both give students a bad name and attract other idiots to university education with the expectation that it’s just a three year party and extension on exemption of income tax. This is what really annoys me about people who intend on studying at uni (I use the term studying very loosely here), they just seem to think that it’s going to be about getting drunk and stumbling home with a different girl every night, to some it is and mostly they drop out before ascertaining the degree - unfortunately for me most of those do courses related to mine 
The comodification of university education hasn’t helped either, and with the inclusion of top up fees many students will leave uni
Tagged: christmas, communication, coventry, culture, happy-fucking-christmas, Photography, university.
