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[fiona]

hey sinistereenies,
   
i hate bonfire night.
its rubbish.

i mean who decided that it was a good idea to stand outside late at 
night at the coldest time of the year when i haven't even got my 
winter wardrobe sorted out yet and it'll probably rain. in a field.
and fireworks are rubbish. only old people and small children really 
appreciate them, they manage to get some enjoyment from pointing and 
craning their necks and chorusing "ooh" and sometimes "aah".
and the food's rubbish, stuff that's supposed to be a special treat 
that you only ge one day a year, but who really likes toffee apples?
 
i hate bonfire night. so i was quite pleased with the idea of just 
staying in last night and watching telly until at 10 o'clock my 
boyfriend decided that it would be a really good idea to hunt round 
every shop in south manchester to try and find one that still had any 
fireworks left and then spend 20 quid on things that made really loud 
bangs and didn't do much else. this was after i'd spent all evening 
telling him how much i dislike bonfire night. grr.
  and what was worse was the fact that the guy fawkes episode of 
casualty |i love casualty| was on on saturday and the token 
fireworks victim ended up really quite badly disfigured. so i was 
frightened of going anywhere near the fireworks even when we were 
clearing them up.

grr.

i won the guy fawkes art competition in primary school once, you had 
to draw a picture of something bonfire and fireworky. the prize was a 
building society account with a pound in it. that never struck me as 
strange until i told someone the other day and he said "you went to a 
jewish school, didn't you." i laughed.

and don't even get me started on halloween...
who needs an excuse to sit in the dark and pretend they're not home? 
i do that every time the phone rings, although not the in the dark 
part because that would be a little excessive for a phonecall.
i think its because my parents wouldn't let me go trick or 
treatreating when i was little. grr.

and while i'm at it, who invented online graduate recruitment 
application forms. they ask all the same nasty essayish questions 
that normal job applications ask (describe a time when you have 
overcome a problem, describe a time when you worked as part of a 
team; i'm a loner who's led a very sheltered life, i just haven't 
done these things) but i'm trying to complete them in a noisy 
university computer room, so my only hope is to write them down, go 
away and think about it and come back later to get on with it. 
actually now i've typed that it doesn't seem like such a difficult 
process, but it really is.

i'm making myself angry now so i'll stop.

i can't wait for christmas ;-)

love and sparklers (now i do actually like sparklers)

cynical fiona. 

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