Over and done for
May 22nd, 2008 at 22:48
Today was quite a significant day. I had my last ever exam and have now finished university – which means that now, instead of being able to blame my laziness on being a student, I’m now technically unemployed. I might go and sign on tomorrow.
Because I’ve not been organised enough to line up a job or a masters course yet, this means that I’ve got quite a lot of free time all of a sudden. So if anyone wants to go to the pub or something and needs to know when I’m free: I’ve got nothing on for the rest of my life.
As someone who is now technically unemployed, I guess I should start acting like it. I should probably grow a beard, and start going to the pub during the day regularly. So, er, not much change from the usual then. I guess I just need to do a bit more wandering around the town centre without purpose, and appearing vaguely threatening to people who have purpose in their lives – but I’ll be able to walk much slower when doing this, as I’ll have nowhere to be.
Seriously though, its actually a bit weird to comprehend – as we’re approaching the summer it just feels as though another summer holidays is approaching – but as it turns out, I’ve got nowhere to go in October. Now I know how Lou Bega felt in September 1999.
I got a weird feeling as I left the exam hall today though. Not just the usual feeling of a great weight being lifted off of my shoulders, but suddenly I felt this great contempt for students. Mooching off of the state, spending the tax money that non-students like me work hard for. They’ve never done a hard day’s work in their lives – unlike the working people!
It was enough to make me sick. And enough to make me really want to get on to a Masters course somewhere so I can be a student for a bit longer.
(Hey, if you’re an important person reading, why not pay me some money to do (non-weird) stuff for you? If you’re a post-grad admissions tutor, why not e-mail me and beg me to apply to your university? james (at) jamesomalley.co.uk)
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