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Post subject:  Posted: January 30th, 2008, 9:43 pm |
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Oooh, yes, I loved being 18. It felt so--free! 21 was pretty special too.
Anyway, welcome to the club. I'll add you to the list  _________________ Starting October 13th: globe trotting from my kitchen. Follow along on Cook In Fifty-Two
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Post subject: Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 6:40 pm |
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Welcome Fíriel  And happy late birthday. _________________  
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Post subject: Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 4:42 am |
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Thanks everyone
And Congratulations to you Invreniel (even though it's kind of late now..)
Well, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only busy person; I have to study a lot at the moment, but luckily I'll have holidays in 6 weeks, so that's good
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Post subject: Posted: February 7th, 2008, 1:46 am |
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oh, yes, thanks Firiel!
Oh, I would be surprised if we came across someone in this club who isn't busy. It seems the older you get the busier things get. Have you ever noticed how retirees seem to have little free time--always traveling or involved in social clubs, etc?
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Post subject: Posted: March 7th, 2008, 9:44 am |
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Welcome to the club Arëwen Telemnar. I'm really sorry for not having seen your post until now... I wonder how that can be... but anyway, welcome and please post away, this club needs constant care since all the members are so busy.
Any news Ivy to share? The wedding is gonna be on May 31? That's so soon. I'm really axcited for you and I hope you'll post some pics, at least of your dress! You must be so busy right now with preparations!!
On the topic of busy-ness. I'm not sure if it gets worse the older you get but perhaps more time consuming... I don't know, in a more 'uncontrolled' way. I think I was busy too in secondary school and high school, because I had class until mid-afternoon and afterwards I did sports or drama for a couple of hours and then went back home to do my homework and then to bed. It was just a sort of structured life.. so to say. I had a lot of things to do, but they were scheduled. Now I still feel I'm busy but much of it is because I have to structure things. Paying bills, shop for groceries, cook, juggle school with a job and with social time. The world seems to have become bigger, or the play ground has expanded! Things are less scheduled and it takes more planning. Not that I'm complaining, it was more like an observation.
How do you all feel about your time? Do you feel busier now than when you were younger? _________________ >>Be the change you wish to see in the world<<
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Post subject: Posted: March 7th, 2008, 10:32 am |
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Ooh yay the club still lives
I do think busyness is a wierd thing. When I was in school I was there for 6 and a half hours a day, 5 days a week. And then there was homework on top of that and I did things in the evenings like swimming, guides etc. Now I'm in uni I have about 6 hours of classes a week but I feel as if I have way less free time and lots more to do.
I agree with ea that having to structure things is the big problem it makes it all seem way harder. One of hardest things I think with getting older is that no one makes you do the work. Its up to you to decide what you should do, how much work is needed and to get it done. And if you don't do it or do it badly you're the only one responsible for that.
This is more the case with uni though. Once you get a full time job you usually go back to set hours and finite amounts of work. At the moment I can't wait to finish uni but maybe once I've left I'll miss the unstructuredness. _________________
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Post subject: Posted: March 8th, 2008, 6:11 am |
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yeah I agree with what you said.
Now it takes a lot of time for me to structure and organize my life and when I was younger I didn't have to do that at all, partly because my parents also did it for me (I'm talking about the time when I was like 11 or so). But apart from that I have more homework and more exams now than I used to and the teachers are now expecting more from us than they used to.
About 3 years ago I used to study about 1 - 2 hours for one exam, because I didn't have to study more and the homework only took me about 2 hours per day. Now I have more classes a day and I usually study much more for an exam plus my homework now usually takes me at least 4 hours to complete it all, so my life has definitely become a lot busier.
When I was younger I had lots of time for my hobbies like playing the guitar or piano or going horseback riding, but now I don't do any of it any more, because I have no time.
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Post subject: Posted: March 8th, 2008, 8:44 pm |
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Well it's odd that my problem is the same as everyone else here, and yet for a completely different reason.
When I was at primary school - get up at 8 get home at 3.30 (if I was lucky) and then.... I had time to do whatever I wanted to do.
When I was educated at home, well I pretty much did as much as I felt like, so my hours were somewhat random, but I still did whatever I wanted.
Now I am completely and utterly free... yet I feel I have no time at all. Ok, I have strange hours I admit. Going to bed between 5-6 and getting up between 2-3 is not normal, and I don't think it's much to ask to spend my day/morning between being on the computer, reading and watching films yet I rarely succeed.
In theory my plan of getting up, going on the computer for a couple of hours, watching a film and then spending the evening however my family want, should work but I forget to add other people into that equation.
I know to be able to have a good routine that works, I need to have a much better sleeping pattern - gradually working on it, say one hour at a time. I don't really try, I know that now, and yet beong away from the computer for 4 days, has actually made me realise that I can enjoy myself just as much away from the computer as on it. So I think if there was ever an incentive to really try and get some sort of normal, everyday routine going, then that was it.
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Post subject: Posted: March 12th, 2008, 9:07 am |
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no me neither, definitely not. Even though it takes a lot of time to organize all my things and sometimes I underestimate what I have to do I don't wanna miss that freedom to do things when I want to. I really used to hate having to do everything when my mother told me to and even though I'm really stressed I still feel better with organizing things myself.
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Post subject: Posted: March 21st, 2008, 8:14 am |
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Welcome to the club, Fíriel!  And happy (belated) birthday!
Well, I definitely think that I had much more free time when I was younger. When I was at grammar school I came home at 3 pm. or so, did my homework, learned and still had some time to do whatever I liked (okay, not exactly in the exam period, but during the other weeks  ).
Well, now I'm at uni nearly all day and mostly come back home in the late afternoon or evening. I don't even have real vacations anymore.  At school I really did nothing during the vacation. Now at uni you have to do homeworks, prepare presentations, do internships...so there's nearly nothing left from the vacation that you can really use for doing nothing.
I think when I was in primary school and had really much free time, I didn't really think about time being something that precious. When I come back home from uni and see small kids playing in the streets, I sometimes I wish I was younger again and would be living in such a carefree world without so much stress... _________________ ~The Dreamy A-U Gentlewoman~
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Post subject: Posted: March 21st, 2008, 1:59 pm |
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^ I second that. Although I try not to think too much about how things used to be, when I was not worried about a single thing, and now I'm just a big mess of worries, as that just makes everything worse.
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Post subject: Posted: March 30th, 2008, 2:51 pm |
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It has been quiet here lately. How are you all doing? What is going on in your lives (a lot I bet!)?
For my part things are pretty fine. I love Sevillean life. Being here is like having a break from real life. Not that I'm not happy with my normal life but this just can't be considered real life - it's too good to be true!!
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Post subject: Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:04 am |
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well, I just had two wonderful weeks of holidays and I was just relaxing the whole time. I really needed that.
But now the stressful life has started again for me and so now I'm quite busy again. Luckily the exams haven't started yet, so right now I still have some freetime
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Post subject: Posted: April 20th, 2008, 1:48 pm |
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Hello My fellow 18+!
It's a just a few days before my 21st Birthday, weird. Well, I finally have found time to post, I mean, procrastinate from writing my 5 papers that I have to write this week. Yikes. Anyways, I have been ridiculously busy with school and school related functions and bagpipe band, bah. I totally agree with everyone's comments about missing the days of youth. Last Monday, before it snowed this weekend(grrr), it was about 70 degrees so my friend and I lay in the sun in the grassy common area on campus so wonderfully named the "Oval" because of it's shape...Anyways, we discussed how much we missed being little as well! Because, you could spend the entire day running around outside or playing games and have no care except that the sun was going down and you would have to go to bed soon. How I miss those days!
Now my days are filled with papers, work, school and other real grown-up people stuff. Bah! Speaking of which, I think I'll go back to the papers now...
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