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Also if you thought last week was bad with my bus winding up 55 minutes late that ain't nothing compared to today. Today (bear in mind this bus is supposed to arrive at my university by 10:40am) I didn't get to uni until 11:50am that's twenty minutes later then last week and means the bus was OVER AN HOUR LATE :angryface

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Sleepless for the third day on a row. What shoud I be doing? Finishing a class work! What am I doing? Singing in silence and dancing to disco music while I try to recatch my brains' date=' which appear to have escaped running somewhere damned far from here. 8D But it's so damned fun that I don't careeeee! Party, party, fiestaaaaa!!![/quote'] Yet more proof that you don't need drugs to get high.
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Also if you thought last week was bad with my bus winding up 55 minutes late that ain't nothing compared to today. Today (bear in mind this bus is supposed to arrive at my university by 10:40am) I didn't get to uni until 11:50am that's twenty minutes later then last week and means the bus was OVER AN HOUR LATE :angryface
Take a kangaroo next time murph lol
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Hahaha I've proved that so many freaking times to people who know me that some of them think that I must go to a mental care center. Beh-bah-beh-beh.
I don't buy it. My guess is you're just like Ghouly - a gregarious social butterfly on a sugar-high on the internet, and an entirely serious and reserved individual when talking to others. Then again most people do that when talking to me at least, perhaps because I don't often smile in conversations even if I'm very interested in what's being said.
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I don't buy it. My guess is you're just like Ghouly - a gregarious social butterfly on a sugar-high on the internet' date=' and an entirely serious and reserved individual when talking to others. Then again most people do that when talking to me at least, perhaps because I don't often smile in conversations even if I'm very interested in what's being said.[/quote'] I'm serious and reserved socially only if I'm not comfortable. I'm not too much of the social kind, I don't like being surrounded by crowds and so on, but I feel nice amongst a bunch of friends, and at those times I'm particularly stupid. Needless to say, of course, if someone's not comfortable obviously he/she won't act as freely as otherwise... I dunno, I guess it depends on the moods of the moment, but... mayhap I'm cold with people at first, but rest assured I do smile a lot :P
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Yeah' date=' I go to sleep at 2:30 AM every day, so that explains a lot. But school will start again next week, so I'm gonna have a difficult time then :D[/quote'] Oh, were you on holidays? Lucky guy! :D My holidays will start tomorrow (or so I've been told) and they are fake holidays as teachers have sent us a lot of translations to do. But I digress... Mayhap it is possible for you to live at night and sleep at day while you are not in class, hrmm? :D Batman would approve, you know, haha
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Oh' date=' were you on holidays? Lucky guy! :D My holidays will start tomorrow (or so I've been told) and they are fake holidays as teachers have sent us a lot of translations to do. But I digress... Mayhap it is possible for you to live at night and sleep at day while you are not in class, hrmm? :D Batman would approve, you know, haha[/quote'] Well, not in official holiday, since I had to go to school last monday. But our next semester (is the right word I think?) will start next week and so we have a few days off :) And I wish I could sleep at day and live at night! Night is so much more interesting! And I never got why some teachers give you homework to do in holidays. Holidays are to relax and not to do schoolwork.
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Well' date=' not in official holiday, since I had to go to school last monday. But our next semester (is the right word I think?) will start next week and so we have a few days off :) And I wish I could sleep at day and live at night! Night is so much more interesting! And I never got why some teachers give you homework to do in holidays. Holidays are to relax and not to do schoolwork.[/quote'] Well, it's something, hah! Time enough to forget a little huge bit 'bout class n' stuff, harr! :) And I agree with you! But definitely the word doesn't like bats or any alike creatures, it seems. People doesn't seem to understand that night is very much more inspiring, don't you think? :D (Teachers tend to be bitches, but it's a secret 8D)
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