December 2009

• is looking forward to day three of partying.
• chilling out in her new bargain heels in her lover's bed.
• can't believe she's in orange bar again. Home sweet home.
• drank coffee after a long, long time... And now is really far, far away from falling asleep.
• ate so much stuff it's unbelievable. Time to move to Prague, probably.
• is feeling much better and planning the rest of her stay in Cheque-land :)
• is still so blody sick and feverish, but is glad that she's home with her lover.
• will be at least 35 minutes delayed,but hopefully still flying home.
• finally managed to download the whole Closure and now is watching Trent Reznor in that sexy S&M outfit from Close. Merry Xmas to me!
• is scared. Another Prague flight cancelled today.
• thinks her neighbors should better be joking.
• for the first time in three days there has finally been an easyJet flight to Prague
• hopefully, the easyJet nightmare is over, as the Venice flight was delayed just 10 minutes today, not 3 hours like yesterday...
• there's not a single more effective remedy to depression than buying shoes
• is going to try getting home on the 24 December. Should be there at 17:30.
• is fucking tired with British news talking about the heavy snowing - there's like a centimeter of snow in here, not like 40 cm like at home.
• wishes merry fucking christmas to the lazy easyjet crew and hopes their christmas trees and presents burn.
• is going to leave Derbyland in a couple of minutes and set off to the country of the Czech.
• is actually thinking about watching Dirty Dancing twice tonight.
• wtf, Britanny Murphy died today!
• f***ing hates Christmas.
• is looking forward to her Polaroid camera. Yay! Just a couple of days!
• snowball fight in our pjs, maybe there's something good about winter in the end
• needs to find a job before she turns to Fatty McFat again :(
• is watching Dances with Wolves! Yay!
• needs to remember that if you want to deal with the rapidshare muppets, you have to be nasty to them. Politeness doesn't get you anywhere.
• is cooking some butternut squash soup, yum yum yum.
• Oh the weather outside is frightful and the snow is sure unsightful! In case you didn't know - I hate snow, I hate snow, I hate snow!
• is really annoyed with the muppets working at Rapidshare.
• as I let the thought 'fuck it's going to snow' in, it started snowing. and i mean it, fuck this shit. fuck.
• finally managed to watch the whole Pride and Prejudice miniseries.
• is so not happy she didn't get paid by her ex-job again and doubts she'll ever see the bond.
• is saving for a Mac from now on. Fucking PCs.
• didn't do anything all day long - the bliss of unemployment.
• is so bloody stupid.
• hopes the prices of the tickets didn't go higher.
• is so dumb it makes her laugh.
• what the hell is with everybody getting married? is the world really ending in 2012 or what?
• knows she's going to freeze her ass off if she's going down there for christmas.
• most people write lists of things they want for christmas... I'm just looking forward to bringing another 20 kg of stuff I already have, lol
• the gay boy won X Factor, lol
• is a sheep in the herd and is watching X Factor.
• was just told that fish fingers are supposed to be baked, not fried, how crazy is that?
• haha, how awesome was Robbie on X Factor? even though he messed up the beginning, big time, lol
• wants to go to Maysum, but has no money :(
• is well tempted to actually buy the new 30 SECONDS TO MARS album instead of downloading it.
• Happy Hanukkah everybody!
• wants her eye to stop hurting.
• is back with the crying terminator look, yay!
• is not happy about the prices of plane tickets.
• cannot wait till January for more Heroes.
• omg, the Heroes plot is starting to be really confusing.
• there's not a better breakfast than watching Resident Evil right after you wake up LOL
• couldn't wake up, but dreamt some pretty heavy stuff last night. But she knows what she wants now - to go to the zoo and snowboarding LOL
• is seriously dumb.
• is finally going to watch ISolated INcident. Yay!
• has to go shopping in one of the Iceland Foodstores. Stupid TV adverts.
• it's all about mince pies.
• is probably going shopping even though she has no idea what to shop for anymore.
• needs to stop touching her phone when she's drunk or sleeping.
• I haven't done this in years but I'm doing it again. I've been lying a lot lately. There is nothing like a good lie. (watching dane cook)
• stupid Track 7, complicating her life :(
• loves Indian food.
• needs to find Track 07 :(
• should really start acting her age coz her free pass for no hungovers seems to be gone.
• is a pro at drinking.
• doesn't understand how she managed to lose all the weight without losing the size of her boobs. Annoying!
• needs to focus.
• would like to watch a version of the Steadfast Tin Soldier, bud cannot find anything pretty enough.
• wish me luck.
• is not happy that the winter is here and is really afraid that it might snow.

Back to the Happyland

Finally, I managed to sit down a start writing again. My first post of my renewed Derberian blog :)

A month has gone...

My dearest friends,

I don't believe it as well, but it is really more than a month since I've left. If it's going to be so quick, I'll be home really soon. Too soon...

Anyway, I should describe some more of my present and forget the future for now.

I'll write retrospectively today

Yesterday, i.e. on Saturday, there has been a great festé to celebrate the opening of our great Westfield Shopping Centre. Derby was busy, busy, busy. In the morning there has been "Shakes in the City" - some scenes from Shakespeare's most famous plays. It was nice, but really short (for example, Romeo and Juliet were represented only by the balcony scene).

In the afternoon we went to "Dance Experience". In our Multi-faith Centre was taking place a multicultural event with Punjabi dancing (Indies) and Circle dancing (Ireland?). It was fun, even though they forced us to join in However, I loved it.

The evening was the best of all. We had Sarruga in Derby (check out their site any my photos). It was really massive. All those dragons blowing smoke and spitting fire. I had goose bumps. Really thrilling. I must find a way how to get them to Prague.

I started intensively search for a job this week. I would like to find something more permanent, so I could return in summer to earn some money (and maybe buy myself a ride finally). I applied for Poundland - obviously, they sell everything for 1 pound. It was real fun. I really started wondering if there are some British people working in Derby. It seems that everybody is Polish in here. I had a really bad experience in my bank explaining a Polish clerk that I just need my International Bank Account Number. She didn't have a clue what I was speaking about. Similar experience is from Poundland. I dropped my CV in the shop - that was the last pleasant thing. On Wednesday and had a rather badly spoken message on my Answer Phone that I should come for an interview. I phoned back once. Not much success. I phoned back in the morning, tried to explain everything as clear as I can (I hated phoning to that moment, but I don't give a f*** since, there are people speaking much worse English and they are calling on the phone as well, so why should I care), the response I got was: "Could you repeat everything you said?". Repetition wouldn't help, the woman tried to get somebody to help her with the call. Later she decided that I should call once more. The second call was even funnier, I was told that the interviews start next day at the time I stated that I'm not available Later that day I was told there are is no vacancy and when I asked how is that possible when the interviews haven't had started, I didn't get an intelligent answer. So F@K Poundland, I don't understand how they can employ such responsible person with such a high level of English

Anyway, Thursday was saved by my new piercing and by Jana's birthday party. I met there her housemates and some more friends of her housemates. Particularly interesting were the Geology students Some more people who think I'm American, I should probably stop speaking about the Czech Republic

Wednesday, my exhausting day. I got a one-day job at the Mickleover Campus (the old campus due to be demolished this week). Anyway, it was really great. We were throwing out old books from the library but we were also allowed to take as many as we wanted. The flight home will be really interesting.

Hopefully, this will solve my money situation a little bit - I'll get 6 pounds for each hour I've spent there Still, it was horribly hard work - on my scale of nail breaking it reached 4 / 10 (comparing to shopping - 1 fingernail out of 10 - or bell ringing - 1 out of 10)

Not to forget - I promised more Derby pictures and here they are - http://picasaweb.google.cz/marinov.jane/20071006. We went through most of the city, however there are still some more places we would like to see.
I guess that's the end for today. It's the laundry day today again, so I'll better go block some washing machines.

Send my love.

Mary

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Straight Lines

Reflections Of A Sound

If You Keep Losing Sleep

Delayed Greetings

I'm so sorry, babies, I just could not find time any sooner.

I'm still perfectly alright, full of new experience to write about I shall take it chronologically.

I was to the Meeting Place again. On Sunday the 23rd we had a barbie Pictures are still in production, I'll show you later who's running it and what does it look like. (still got only a part, hopefully add the rest soon - http://picasaweb.google.com/marinov.jane/20070923)

Monday and Tuesday were dedicated to the Freshers Fair. It is a big event where you get loads of freebies (my Czech-Jewish soul was overflowing with joy) and you find information about all those societies that are run at the uni. Yeah, the societies will be probably what I'll miss the most at home. Yes, we have councils and 5P but this is something so unique. Just imagine it, there was a Women's Rugby Society. I'm wearing skirt, pink trainers, carrying bright orange bag, I've got long pink fingernails and inverted bob dyed dark red ... and there she goes and thinks I could be a good rugby player. I actually didn't go to the training, just the thought makes me laugh. I'm really more of a yoga person, not really a team player.

On Tuesday and Thursday I've been to classes for the first time and I'm really excited. I know I'll have to work really hard, but the way the lectures are run makes me really happy. I especially liked Writing Workshop, I guess it is really it - the thing that will help me to write again.

I took some more pictures of Derby (http://picasaweb.google.cz/marinov.jane/20070928) on Friday. Me and Kate were to the Museum of Industry, as you can see. We're planning some more Derby sightseeing on this weekend.

I know I came here to represent the Czech Republic - you can see the pictures of that here (http://picasaweb.google.com/marinov.jane/Parties) Again, I must say how much I love First Floor. I heard there are some more rock clubs in Derby, but still, F.F. is sooooo sweet

Back to the societies, I actually joined one of them. It is the LGBT Society. If you wonder what it means - yeah, the initials stand for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender I was so astonished that anything like that could ever exist that I just had to join. Anyway, I guess it is no surprise to people who know me. The first meeting was real fun. Seeing all those proud people makes me so happy. I was so amazed when one of my mates asked me if I were a lesbian and actually looked disappointed when I told him I was not. I think I'm really lucky to be part of the society.

On Saturday we were to Peak District again - you can have a look at http://picasaweb.google.com/marinov.jane/20070929. It started with a little bit of misunderstanding, but everyone found a fine way after all, so we were all happy

The following two days actually so happy weren't. As you probably know, I'm staying at the halls of residence (pictures posted some time ago). The regulations here are almost insane about protection against fire. It would be really reasonable if the fire alarms would not go off without a reason. Just one fire alarm broken and we had fun for the whole time. We started on Saturday, or rather Sunday at 2:00 am, continued at about noon, number 3 was at 7:00 pm, number 4 decorated Monday at 5:00 am, number 5 at 5:30 am, number 6 at 10:30 am, number 7 at 11:00 am. I was soooooo happy I got so scared when they tested the alarm today (it happens every week at the same time), I really thought it has started again. But living here isn't so bad. You get free calls around the campus - thus I spend tens of minutes chatting with Kate every day. Also I had some problems with heating in my room - a week later I've got a completely new heater. But the money is really bad. I've paid for my accommodation today, which makes me really poor and devoted to seeking for a job.

Yeah, and that's about it, I'll finish watching my movie and better start reading stuff for tomorrow. You never know when you're going to be asked about something you don't have a clue about.

Take care and wish me luck.

Mary