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Way to go Vic! And thank you for the comment on my blog

Don't get too excited, no hidden kids, no porn movies on the Internet that would come back to bite me in the ass. Only some recent things that happened lead me to rethink my priorities. 1) The approaching deadlines made me realize that I can't live two or three lives at once. For the last year, I've been a full-time employee, a doctoral student in my main studies and a postgraduate student in another studies for which I already paid a lot of money on school fees - bear in mind we don't pay tuition on public schools yet. On top of that I was a full time boyfriend and I started living on my own on full throttle (meaning I bough a washing machine and cut the last rope that tied me to the Mama Hotel). I also returned to regular working out trainings and of course, I have to have some time to stop and relax. Well, nothing goes as you wish. Human body has its limits and when you reach them, you have to stop and relax (so that's the Life No.7 I think). Soon I realized I'm in no way capable of going to the gym after work that became more and more exhausting and stressful (there goes Life No. 6). Though, those are the easy solutions. Then there are other decisions, that take a lot of time to mull over and digest. Until last semester, except a few slips, I was always an excellent student, never failing - only when I lost interest, motivation and the drive to get there using the momentum I had gained before. Last semester I had to bitterly accept that I'm not able to finish my second postgraduate studies successfully. I failed two thirds of the final exams because I managed to prepare/study only for one third (from which I got an A). My perfectionism and my time management - well me, I screwed up. I found out that I'm great in making time schedules, plans and all that stuff but I can't stick to them. Working full time, two schools and spending my free time with my boyfriend (being finally really happy, for the first time in my life:wub:), something was bound to get lost from my attention. Work and the doctoral stipend supplying some money, boyfriend supplying mental stability... my interest in the postgraduate studies (that suffered a lot when I realized I'm not going to go that career path in my life) just got lost. I still had the momentum though... And I ran out of it last semester. So after finals A, F, F, I swore to myself to find the rests of my willpower and finish everything for the second (and the last) try. Well, the deadline for handing out the thesis is on Tuesday and I'm still only half way through. Moreover, until Monday I have to handout my opinion papers on the final BA theses I had to review on my doctorate studies and I had promised to correct the seminar papers by Monday too. Then I'm really LATE with my article with which I've been fighting for years and if I don't get a promise of publishing by Septermber, my doctoral studies are finished too. And now add to this mess stressful problems at work (on which I'm not going to elaborate because it would just piss me off again). So I guess it's time to lose some burdens of my past. I'm seriously considering cutting my other postgraduate studies off, finishing two final steps before a second degree... I'm also forming back-up plans (mainly financial) if I lost the doctoral stipend with my doctoral studies gone... and I'm seriously hoping the situation at work works out tomorrow (I'm expecting a very unpleasant meeting) because if they also cut my salary, my life won't be so pleasant. It's really hard you know... getting from an excellent student to a loser who won't finish the finals... But all my life, I've been doing things others expected me to do, no, things others expected me to excel in. Even if it was my decision to start the second studies - and there was time I was seriously considering to found my living on them... I should have stopped them the minute I lost the interest. But that would be something nobody would expect of me. And I didn't know how to say NO. Today, during a confrontation at work, I learnt that. Suddenly, I just knew that it was something I didn't want to do. And I said no. I don't know if it was wise or dangerous or whatever, but I said no and tomorrow I'm going to stand my case. Even if I'm willing to help, everything has its limits and my friendliness just reached mine. Kudos to anyone who reached this far All this blabbering, a mix of my school and work problems, it's not easy to read and understand. In short, I'm considering dropping all my studies and devote all my time to my career, earning money and being awfully rich. I have my life and I'm going to live it.

Happy Birthday, Myr! And THANK YOU!

This was an awesome sitcom! Loved it!

Me too! Me too! Me TOO! If Freddyness lives with parents, she has not only a concierge but maybe even room service, but she has a full board too

Happy birthday, Mark!

Well, many people expressed their willingness to come over, but only a very few booked some accommodation or confirmed they are coming... so we'll see. I can recheck everyone in second half of June, I'm too busy to do that before. Moreover, some people solve the holidays at the last minute. Once we know who's coming, we can decide what is the best way to make it.

You better add at least one more year, young man!!!

The more you approach 30, the less you think it's "old" age And, how my parents are getting older, the definition of "old" is also moving further... Last but not least, one has to consider, if "I'm no longer young" means "I'm old". Because if you divide the life into childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, where "young" comes? Youngs =/= adults? Kids =/= adults. Young adults do exist. So when you cease to be young, are you automatically old? Or what are you? Adult? Moreover, in my opinion, one becomes adult, when they have to take care of themselves, without parents' help and upkeep - so basically after college or late college years. Once you get a full-time job and you're not a student anymore, that might be a good threshold between "young" (=student) and ...well, adult I though I was old when I reached 25. Then, at 26, you lose any students' discounts here, if you're still studying. So you basically become officially "old". Now I'm 27 and when I hear "20-something young man" I realize I still belong to that category. I'm the youngest among people at work - so some people call me familiarly "our young one". So is it 30? 35? 40? Basically, every next tenth anniversary is scaring those who are approaching it. Now, 30 might look like "not young anymore". But then you realize, that 40 is coming... and suddenly 40 means "not at all old yet". Then 45... half way towards 50... "I'm still not old". And 50? Bear in mind, that once we reach 50, we'll still have 20 years to go before we get any pension from the state, if we get any. 20 years of work to go! That can't mean "old". So, even if I talked mostly about when it's "being old", I showed what I think (and what I voted for): it depends on your current age (and many other things). And, it depends on how you answer the question "Does 'no longer young' mean 'old'?"

Don't you dare not to arrive! Moreover, drag him over with you!!!

The Cost of the UK Royal Family explained!

As always, the best prices are obtained well in advance... so hurry up! And you'll be of course welcome!

I don't understand how this plays any role in deciding what kind of life one wants to live?

You can't change what you are. But you can choose if you want to live according to it. You can be gay but choose to live in straight relationship. You won't be happy, you won't be satisfied, most probably you will seek love affairs aside, but you can choose the life you want to live. So you can't choose to BE gay but you can choose to LIVE gay. I hope I won't get stoned for this.

That would be the National Museum.

WCD, 1) you're derailing the topic 2) This was already discussed - in the thread that was about when the wedding date was announced. It was also stated that the whole wedding was paid from the Queen's money, Prince of Wales' and the Middleton's money. The state itself paid only for security - as there were fears that some nutcase from Al-Quaida would bomb the crowd of hundreds of thousands people. 3) Everybody already understood your opinion - and DragonFire told you his opinion, so why are you dragging on? Moreover, given the numbers of the royal wedding parties all over the UK, the citizens of the UK partied as well. To return on-topic, I very much enjoyed the event. I was always really sorry I was born too late to see last such occasion - the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Even if I'm not British, I acknowledge this was a world-scale event - not only because of the media coverage (which wouldn't be here if other people than the British weren't interested), but also because formally it really encompassed the whole world - UK, Canada, NZ, Australia and many others. Last but not least, a jest for the conclusion: I thoroughly enjoyed that the news proved that "the world" doesn't equal "the U.S." who are so self-centered that in the films produced in the US, "to save the world" equals "to save America", i.e. the US. If I had to decide between the Royal Family and the Hollywood, I for sure wouldn't go for the latter.

Roman Šebrle, decathlon. You'd probably not be able to pronounce his surname but he was 2000s hottie! Now when he's around 35... he looks hot as hell as well Don't you just like those outfits : and you can see that bulge in almost any picture

Well, first of all I wondered how on earth did he get all those contacts! He needed to get to the first name!

OK, Austin Butler is a freak! And I don't mean that teen star of various teen films. I mean the guy who asked all the people from GA to become his friends over Facebook. Well, I spent all day asking people who this guy is. Apparently, if I used wiki or google first, I'd learn about the true Austin Butler. So I denied his request and reported his profile as fake. What is disappointing and why I'm writing this blog is how many people just mindlessly clicked to accept this freak's request. And I mean people like Jamessavik, Mark Arbour, benji, Nephy, Tiger, Lugh and many others! I understand you use Facebook differently than me. You don't have any personal info on there (hell, Mark Arbour could be the biggest fake of them all! ) or if you do, you share it with strangers recklessly. The fact that somebody comes from GA doesn't mean he's a good person! And by accepting their requests on Facebook you link them to ALL your friends and their privacy. Now some people don't mention where they come from even here! Hell, I don't say it to everyone even if I give away much more info nowadays than I used to when I joined GA. And by clicking on that accept you shield them, give them more legitimacy! If "name" is friends with them, they must be OK/safe/nice/whatever! I use my Facebook account differently. I keep contacts with people I met, knew or I care for. It's my personal profile. Under no curcumstances I let freaks to my personal information. But if you let these people among your friends, you give away info about me and all other people you have among your friends. I know that I can restrict the info I share with people on FB strictly to just my friends and I do. But I don't like the idea that others who have FB mainly to play Farmville, Mafia Wars and whatever else put in unnecessary danger me or other people that share with them their personal profiles. So I want to appeal to all of you to consider if you know the people who are asking you to become friends! Not everyone who just filled in some registration form at GA is a friend! There are people who got their flats totally burgled, there are people who dig for any personal info to sell, in short, internet is not safe! You don't tell the personal info about yourself or your friends to total strangers on the street so please don't do that on Facebook either! P.S. I was told a "freak" is a too strong expression. So those of you who feel offended by it (and I used it only on fake Austin Butler) substitute it with a "weirdo".

OK, I admit I haven't read the articles. But I highly doubt that it matters as for the financial matters that the conductor is gay. While your headline might suggest that the orchestra is in bankruptcy because it's lead by a gay conductor. I'm normally all for "support the community" and "buy gay" but this title of the topic is unfortunate.

Happy birthday! Another legal cutie for all the drooling horndogs at GA!

I know I'm slightly off topic here but there's no other thread to post it in!

OHhhhhhh! LUGH!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

How come this thread dropped down to the bottom of the second page? edit: deleted repeating sentence

well... "our song" is still very personal to me... so IDK if I want to share it with general public... But we'd certainly play this (among other songs):