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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 31, 2008 23:11:02 GMT
Just to chime in, it does sound like it's worth sticking in there and the stressed rants we have had so far are nothing as soul-destroyingly agonising as the ones while you were in your previous employment.
We shall of course be here to bolster morale and make innuendo as appropriate (and quite frankly inappropriate after all that's innuendo for you).
Andy
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Post by Hero on Feb 1, 2008 8:57:36 GMT
Stress is of course relative and we all experience it no matter what our working experience currently is. But I hope perhaps folk can understand if I get a bit wobbly from time to time. Bear with me! You'll hopefully get a rounder, more positive, more fully-functioning Ralph at the other end! [/quote] I can relate. ===KEN |
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 1, 2008 9:31:11 GMT
Expect more of these wild swings of mood between now and June. It's what happens on this type of very intense, personally involving course. We were warned it would be like this. One day I can think: " this is the best thing I've ever done, I feel more myself than I have in years", the next day it can be: " I cannot believe the amount of stress this is causing, this is the biggest mistake of my life," and both feelings are equally real at the time. It's just what happens and at the risk of sounding incredibly patronising very hard to express to those of you in the Outside World. Your inner self is explored, magnified and picked over like never before. Stuff you never expected in a million years pops up. Bits of feelings/emotions/thoughts are intensified like never before or pop up out of the blue fully formed and just knock you off kilter. I can sort of relate, I seem o have spent the last 6 months in limbo. I cant tell if Im laying the foundations of a career or just messing around. If it is a career how is it going to work and when am I going to commit to it fully. But As Andy said about your course if the alternative was sticking with my previous job which was a fairly soul destroying thought, then however uncertain this path is its got to be worth taking the chance. In other news I got worried yesterday when I till hadnt got feeling back in to my big toe after my hospital visit on Wednesday. I was getting a bit stressed. Happily I woke up this morning with full sensation. Andy |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 1, 2008 11:05:47 GMT
Glad the toe's ok And.
Student Hubbers: When I was training for this job, which was a terribly short course for what they wanted you to learn, I just kept thinking of what I'm going to get at the end of it. Hard work now for reward later. Not easy though, but I'm sure you'll do it chaps.
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Post by Hero on Feb 1, 2008 14:19:38 GMT
I'm hearing you Shockprowl.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 1, 2008 18:30:07 GMT
I did find 20p on the floor of the student coffee shop today. I danced with joy.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2008 11:05:51 GMT
Was Dad's funeral yesterday. Horrible, horrible, horrible. The cemetary/crematorium in Kingston is a depressing place. Service was good - more people there than could sit, both of Mum's brothers spoke. More people than we'd ever had in the house before came back and my cousins and I went through some old photos having fun trying to recognise who was who. My Dad's sister has just gone leaving me and my youngest brother with Mum. I've negotiated a few days up here which has been helped by there being no trains Didcot->Swindon over the weekend. What Monkey digs up the main railway line between London and Cardiff on the day of the E vs W rugby match at Twickenham  ?? Madness. |
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Feb 2, 2008 15:04:47 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 2, 2008 16:54:11 GMT
Was Dad's funeral yesterday. Horrible, horrible, horrible. The cemetary/crematorium in Kingston is a depressing place. Service was good - more people there than could sit, both of Mum's brothers spoke. My sympathies for an obviously tough time, Phil. I'm sorry the venue was a downer, but good to hear so many people turned out to pay their respects, which I reckon is more important. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2008 17:40:48 GMT
Aye.
I don't think the venue was bad it's just that the place itself was just depressing. Just this air about it :-(
It was hard to comprehend that it was my Dad in there looking at the coffin. He (like me and Mum) was a Christian so we know where he's gone, and that he's somewhere a lot better, and is himself a lot better than when he was here...... but it's the "him not here with us" that is difficult.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2008 21:13:40 GMT
All our sympathies Phil during this very hard time.
How busy is it tonight?! Proper patients as well, not just drunks and the like. Crazy!
Took Piglet for a walk in the snow this AM. Weeeeell cute! Toddeling around in her little snow suit! Used a baking tray as a sledge!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 2, 2008 21:14:33 GMT
As with Martin you have my sympathies for what must have been a difficult day for you and your family.
Andy
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Post by legios on Feb 2, 2008 21:16:52 GMT
Indeed Phil, you have my sympathies on this day. Some comfort can perhaps be drawn from the fact that so many people came to remember your father. Clearly he had touched a lot of lives in a positive way during his own life.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2008 22:43:54 GMT
Thanks guys. It awful sitting here and expecting him to be sitting downstairs.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2008 23:28:22 GMT
I echo the thoughts expressed previously.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Feb 2, 2008 23:38:56 GMT
I hope Hug Man and I can make our peace.
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Post by Hero on Feb 3, 2008 12:58:57 GMT
I just found Vegetarian Haggis for my tea. Never had Haggis before, well non Vegetarian Haggis anyway..,
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 3, 2008 16:18:44 GMT
Last shift tonight 'till 0000, then 3 blessed days off! Had such a mental night last night I'm shattered now! I wont be eating sausages for a while I can tell you, eesh.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2008 20:58:59 GMT
Ye Gods, I'm stressed. My world is telescoping down to this Wednesday. It is my event horizon. I can see no further. Won't get much done on essay tomorrow as have practice in the afternoon and supervision in the evening. Yep, looking like Tuesday will be a Day of Doom when I will be writing the entire essay from scratch for it is due on Wednesday. Current title: When Personality Theory Attacks. All I need is an essay to go with it.
Fishcakes.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 3, 2008 21:04:41 GMT
Sorry to hear that the essay is not going so well. I am maintaining channelling at maximum power for you.
My Week 5 has been one of _those_ weeks. You know the kind, when nothing actually goes wrong as such but things still seem to take far too long and be far more draining that you are expecting. I am kind of hoping that the coming week will be a little bit saner than the week that has just gone all told.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2008 21:11:38 GMT
My brain just isn't built for essays anymore. I've long since lost interest in academic stuff. The Ralph of 1998 could have done this relatively easily but I'm a different guy now and much more geared towards practical experiential learning. The acedemic stuff is made even harder because it's at such right angles to Every Single Other Aspect Of The Course. It's like training to be a binman but being told that to qualify you have to pass tests on your ice skating skills with no emphasis course-wise on how to ice skate. Two entirely different disciplines, you see.
I know the essay will happen. I've never asked for an extension in my life: the task always gets done. I know the deadline will concentrate my mind and on Tuesday I will smash through the currently impenetrable barrier of The Blank Page and many many hours later I will, exhausted, have an essay to hand in. But it's going to be bloody painful. I would rather watch...Armada!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Feb 4, 2008 7:04:25 GMT
We must fight on Ralph.
===KEN
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Post by grahamthomson on Feb 4, 2008 9:57:40 GMT
I hope you get to grips with that essay, Ralph.
For a time I did consider going back into education to get a Masters, but I know myself that I am too old/lazy to have the self-discipline it would take.
I do admire you for what you're doing right now, and what you've sacrificed for it. Keep thinking of the big picture. You know, the wraparound cover to Transformers #100!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 4, 2008 9:58:07 GMT
*Star Dub voice*
We must fight on! We must protect the beautiful Earth!
*Star Dub voice*
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Feb 4, 2008 10:00:25 GMT
I know this sounds odd Phil, but it was good to hear that so many people were there to pay their respects to your father. You and your family should be proud his life affected so many people.
From what you've said, it seems your strong faith is providing comfort so there's not a lot we can add, except to say that we're always here to talk to, whatever the subject, when you need us.
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Post by Hero on Feb 4, 2008 14:17:14 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 4, 2008 18:03:56 GMT
Wot Ken said.
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Post by Hero on Feb 4, 2008 20:57:37 GMT
I hope you get to grips with that essay, Ralph. For a time I did consider going back into education to get a Masters, but I know myself that I am too old/lazy to have the self-discipline it would take. I do admire you for what you're doing right now, and what you've sacrificed for it. Keep thinking of the big picture. You know, the wraparound cover to Transformers #100! Dude. I am the same age as you, doing Uni and nowhere near as smart as yourself. You underestimate yourself Mr Thomson. ===KEN |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 1, 2018 18:07:12 GMT
*materialises*
I must change the Suliralph with my genetic power so that the Temporal Cold War is won...nine hundred years early!
-Future Guy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 1, 2018 18:15:09 GMT
*kicks rubbery man in face a few times to solve necro-bumping problem*
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?? Madness.
