Hi internet!
I do apologise for the lack of "Sean"ness recently. My blogskillz have been required elsewhere, namely the blog for work. Anyways, this post will have to be another ranty one, I'm afraid. Alternatively, ITV are inevitably screening some mindrape right now, if you want to go and watch that instead =]
Apart from the fact that I've been busy elsewhere on t'interwebs, I've also been away quite a bit recently. Firstly to Snowdonia for a geography field trip, and then on my D of E bronze expedition, last weekend.
Snowdonia was ... urgh. For want of a better word. The food was actually comparable to the shit they inevitably serve in US Federal prisons, we weren't allowed to go into any shops (when we happened to stumble across them. A remarkable fete as it is because the ratio of sheep to shops is something like 15000:1), I got SUNBURNT in WALES, I sat on a beach for two hours measuring rocks (I kid ye not), there was virtually no mobile signal and the only computer (about 10 years old) with internet access broke after 2 days.
Doctor Lear tried his ninja skills on us on the last night. He crept into our room, under the impression that we were asleep, then crouched in the darkness behind a bed. He got a lovely surprised when I casually asked "Whassup Doc!?". He jumped up in surprise and turned the light on. Never have I seen that guy look more embarressed in all my time at Davenant.
So, snowdonia = not cool.
D of E - better. The (boil in the bag) food was 20 times better than that of Rhyd-y-Creoue field centre, there was plenty of phone signal (thanks to the lovely mast on the hillside opposite), and I had a grim sense of satisfaction in that I got my walking group to come second, despite the pouring rain.
One clever girl managed to set fire to the grass on the campsite (the campsite manager happened to see this, and got very butthurt, and now wants a letter of apology - His poor poor innocent grass...), and who would build a campsite next to one of the busiest railway lines in the North of England? Every five minutes we'd get woken up by a passing Northern service between Manchester and Sheffield (who needs a two carriage train!? So pointless!) that sounded more like a car with an ancient engine, or, if we were lucky, we'd get a 3 carriage Transpennine Express which was obviously lost, because, to my knowledge, the Pennines start a fair few miles north of where we were. It was either that, or a 24 carriage freight train that came twice a day, and seemed to go on for ever and ever and ever and ever .... and ever. Anyway, 19 miles in total - I am proud.
Angst below is marginally less pressing now. Not because it's gone - it hasn't - but because it's all just numb. It probably helps that I've had other things to concentrate on, like other peoples problems, and a fucktonne of schoolwork. I do apologise most sincerely for it.
What else..?
Oh, those people (you know who you are) who're upset and need a cuddle, right now - just remember, there's always a tiny tiny tiny speck of hope. Always.
What's more, those of you who are anybody, will have my mobile number, and seriously, anytime, anywhere, text/call whatever, I don't care, I'm always here. ... credit permitting xD
Bai nao.
Seany Out.
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