Disillusionment and Disengagement
Jul. 4th, 2004 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I have signed up for something that, in hindsight, was a mistake. Politics teacher was contacted by the Labour party, who wanted gullible students to work as surveyers about why they got trounced in the recent elections. Being me, I signed up, got my list of addresses and quiestionnaires, and off I went. I've spent an hour this morning phoning up people in the most stupid and rude excuse for a council ward I have ever found. I have found one person out of 17 who voted in the last election. Only about 10 people (at the most) would actually do the damned questionnaire.
Ugh. I have to do 30 names, and I'm getting minimum wage for this particular glee. I've done an hour so far.
Repeat to self: It will look good on my UCAS form. It will look good on my UCAS form.
Speaking of that dreadful apparatus, I have officially made tentative university type moves. Well, I've booked a place of the Aberdeen Open Day, and Dad has even coughed up the cash to stay over. This may be because I am going off the deep end over university. I think everyone else's parents are doing it too, but mine are worse -
"Well, we'll pay... oh, wait, we can't afford it..."
(Actually, you don't need to. You know that pesky trust whatsit that you and most of the family have been quietly coughing money into for the last 17 years or so whenever it suited you? Well, that'll work out nicely for the fees.)
"How much a week for a room?! You're staying at home!"
(Not in this or any other lifetime. Two words: student loan.)
"Scotland is so far!"
(Driving lessons, please.)
"An extra year! You know that you can't afford that!"
(Interesting point: Scottish students have free university. I am not Scottish, so I don't. I do, however, get the last year free.)
You see the point.
Gah. It's an exhausting experience, really. I still need a book a place for the St Andrews Open Day, but that's a little way further. And really, it's just tricky trying to persuade my Mum that she doesn't actually need to come along. She could, if she wanted; except she refuses to drive to Scotland. This means that she and Dad will have to come. This means that Megan will have to come. This means I can and will revert to spoiled!angry!teenager mode, as I flat out refuse to have her along for the ride. So, it reverts back to just being me and Dad.
Today, I planned to fill out forms for camp and to clean my bedroom. Curse the Labour party - I've gone and become distracted from that instead. I suppose I should get used to another week for a room like a pit...
Back I go. I fancy a cup of tea and I may as well put another hours work in for the Labour party to make a grand total of £7.60 for my hard work...
The depressing part is that it's still more than I get paid at Homebase.
~Hathy_Col~
Ugh. I have to do 30 names, and I'm getting minimum wage for this particular glee. I've done an hour so far.
Repeat to self: It will look good on my UCAS form. It will look good on my UCAS form.
Speaking of that dreadful apparatus, I have officially made tentative university type moves. Well, I've booked a place of the Aberdeen Open Day, and Dad has even coughed up the cash to stay over. This may be because I am going off the deep end over university. I think everyone else's parents are doing it too, but mine are worse -
"Well, we'll pay... oh, wait, we can't afford it..."
(Actually, you don't need to. You know that pesky trust whatsit that you and most of the family have been quietly coughing money into for the last 17 years or so whenever it suited you? Well, that'll work out nicely for the fees.)
"How much a week for a room?! You're staying at home!"
(Not in this or any other lifetime. Two words: student loan.)
"Scotland is so far!"
(Driving lessons, please.)
"An extra year! You know that you can't afford that!"
(Interesting point: Scottish students have free university. I am not Scottish, so I don't. I do, however, get the last year free.)
You see the point.
Gah. It's an exhausting experience, really. I still need a book a place for the St Andrews Open Day, but that's a little way further. And really, it's just tricky trying to persuade my Mum that she doesn't actually need to come along. She could, if she wanted; except she refuses to drive to Scotland. This means that she and Dad will have to come. This means that Megan will have to come. This means I can and will revert to spoiled!angry!teenager mode, as I flat out refuse to have her along for the ride. So, it reverts back to just being me and Dad.
Today, I planned to fill out forms for camp and to clean my bedroom. Curse the Labour party - I've gone and become distracted from that instead. I suppose I should get used to another week for a room like a pit...
Back I go. I fancy a cup of tea and I may as well put another hours work in for the Labour party to make a grand total of £7.60 for my hard work...
The depressing part is that it's still more than I get paid at Homebase.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2004-07-04 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-04 12:54 pm (UTC)I do have to have names. I have a list of names and phone numbers - I'm awfully tempted just to nab the names and not bother with the phone calls. Been phoning around all day, and - get this - two people out of 18 actually voted. Only 5 voted in the last general elections. (Mind you, three people said they didn't vote, and two of them had just had a baby and one was out of the country.)
This is long, isn't it?
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Date: 2004-07-04 01:41 pm (UTC)If not I will pay £2000 for the whole course.
And besides a scottish uni education will be cheaper than an english one!
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Date: 2004-07-04 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-05 12:54 am (UTC)I myself know about that many people, that wanted to vote - but just couldn't because they did not know how to get a hold of the forms. I on the other hand had to fillm in my mothers for her as she did not know how to :-/
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Date: 2004-07-05 01:02 am (UTC)I had to fill in most of my mum's, and then she got all paranoid and wouldn't let me see who she voted for. Naturally, this makes me suspect she voted UKIP...
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Date: 2004-07-05 05:42 am (UTC)