Freeserve Sucks
Currently Listening To: American Pie by Don Mclean
My connection has been a total joke as of late. Dammit I could just about handle low bitrates but to have _no_ bitrates - that is to say /lag/ from your own ISP, for whole minutes no less is simply a disgrace.
I've discovered that I actually know all the words to American Pie by Don Mclean just by listening and being able to sing along perfectly. I always thought it would be a cool sort of lifetime goal to learn all the words to American pie and I've achieved it passively :)
Flat wrangling continues. I honestly have gotten to the stage where I only care about broadband haha!
Flat in Victoria - No cable Broadband
Flat in Camden - Lots of cable broadband + friends
:)
If only I had some sort of financial security. I don't blame my father for this, he's the only guy earning for 12 people including my now-subsidized minimum wage mother and by golly does he earn. People who don't understand finances of this nature should shut the hell up, I mean you Lorraine "Your father doesn't care enough about you" Thompson.
Point is I am a bit pissed that everyone is so happy to just leech of my father but there you go, at least my Uncle Jeremy can stand on his own two. In fact the only really leeching going on is from Granny through my grandfather who is bankrolled entirely by my father now. We've been selling loads of horses (hooray) and should be getting a vast amount of money today. £10,000 of which will be spent keeping fecking horses in Australia alive. To Paraphrase Randy Newman in the fittingly apt song "Its the money that I love"
" I used to worry about the starving horses in Australia (children in India)
You know what I say now about the starving horses in Australia (children in India)
I saw Whoooooooah Momma
Money!
Its the money that I love
Money!
Its the money that I love"
If we had our way this farm would be doing a lot of business with McDonalds if you know what I'm saying ;) Soprano's style.
Anyhow I have no idea how I'm gonna face the next semester. I want to go and live in the flat with my mates but the last thing I need is to be in arrears for rent (if that should ever happen). Not that I'd be screwed in terms of a place to stay - I have the flat in Victoria but financially I'd be fucked.
What I need is:
1) About £500 from my dad to clear my credit card (used to pay for such frivolties as "Food" and "Transport")
2) a £1000 loan from HSBC to cover me in case of money from him for rent not arriving on time/at all.
In fact, screw that! What I need is for my father to be paid the £80,000 he's owed. That would be nice given that I need £400 a month to pay rent, £50 a week to cover amenities and what not would be lovely but I got by on £30 last year so in an ideal world £600 a month would be good. So he could just pay for my whole University year in one go. Its like £6000, shove that in a bank account and I could actually gain interest / not be raped by HSBC all the time.
The other thing which pisses me off is my employer. I got paid £50 which means they still owe me £60. Fuck yeah, that sounds good doesn't it!? So instead of getting paid all my stuff in one go, £170 which would have totally cleared my troubles re: credit (I'd certainly sweat it less) I've been paid piecemiel and instead have had that money cut into by goddamn credit interest and extra fees!! For heavens sake!! I mean is it too bloody ask to be paid £170 in one go from your employer instead of it spread over 2 and a half months?!!? Guys its not some huge Bloody sum!! Its a complete joke! maybe if it was in the tens of thousands range it would be understandable but £170!?! You spend that each day on phone calls!
It seems like I'm obsessed with money, well thats because I can't earn any. if I was a barrister in Hong Kong now I'd be ok because at least I knew what I could do to rectify the situation (work my ass off) but I'm in the Uk and I'm a student.
That said I'm not nearly as fucked as Robert Soti, a friend of a friend who I've just learned is my age, has a pregnant girlfriend/wife and no financial support bar his own loan and whatnot. He can't even make the rent for a shitty flat in London, He's totally screwed, I think we all can learn a valluable lesson from him - use Contraceptives :D My heart goes out to him but sadly not my wallet as I am poor.
Right.. Enough of my bitching, go someplace happy :D
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at September 4, 2003 06:48 PM