30s TTC - Our BESH GussetWatch Ever, With Guest Star Joe Mangel!

[Scorpette]

Come on in, you raddled old caaaaahs, whotchoo waitin' for?

I've gone for a groovy 60s psychedelic theme, so get your fat upper arms comfy in the hanging globe chairs and hide your mememe shame in the glow of the lava lamps!

Russell Howard is our new bartender, although I don't think he's happy at the flares 'n' kipper tie outfit I've forced him to wear. And of course, Mitchell is in the pit, nervously awaiting his first guest.

Let's make this one diffalicious!

lolol. I had a friend round this afternoon.... if she'd left earlier I'd have so cracked and gone to Tesco to buy pisstix...

Tesco are open late Cass

Gaspar glad the googling gave good news for once! (I am in 'stealth mode' in the deli as I am still in de nile/too cautious to tempt fate)

Don't be absurd Cassie. Of course I'm not diffed. However you're much later along in your cycle than I am so I await your results with anticipation. Along with Lozza's. I can almost guarantee I won't getting to pissing on stick stage. Because, well, because I just won't that's all!

am in pieces. Spent afternoon with 2 senior . General consensus a) am more than equipped to enter profession, b) the only the thing in my way is that I have to fucking man up and stop looking and behaving like a winsome milkmaid in a cornfield and c) perhaps it would nice if I couldn't spend my entire life coasting through at 30% of my intellectual capacity

Oh and d) pointless waiting a year, hand in scholarship application tomorrow

Oh and e) pointless waiting about to have baybees, get on with it, deal with problems as they arise, babies aren't easy anyway so you might as well get on with what you were going to do anyway.

Sorry, how self-involved. Am drinking and smoking and shaking and don't know whether to laugh or cry.

When I have calmed down I will be back in the room being, oh, a MODICUM less self-obsessed (I AM fully engaged in the pant-snot convo I promise).

Head - do it. Just do it. Life is too short to always wish you'd done something and never done it. The decision making's the hardest, then you're in

As for baybees - it's totally possible to retrain with them in the picture. I was expressing sodding breast milk in the disabled toilets at college in my breaks for the first few months! And we're piss poor as I didn't go back to my old job. But I've never been so happy (apart from all this baybeemaking fnarky, of course)

DO IT. Absolutely promise you won't regret it.

ps also - I rang up my college to be told that the last open day / interviews for that year's intake was the following day. So I slung bebetron in his car seat the very next day and went for interview. 3 weeks later I was on the course.

Just because it's happening quick doesn't make it any less right

(off out for evening. Imagine, a social life! Crazee, me. So no POAS for me tonight. Might swing by Sainsbos tomorrow tho and will no doubt meet my mother at the checkout. Um, they're for a friend?!)

Ps sorry, have to get it all out somewhere and DETERMINED not to foist this on pals, because it may come to nothing. I can only do this if I get a scholarship, and the scholarship will represent them having faith in me, and my being good enough. If I don't get the scholarship, job done: I am not good enough. and I will be satisfied knowing that at least I tried the door.

But yes, not telling folk in RL out of self-preservation I think.

Cass I was thinking of you and your amazingness today. I HEART you and I don't care who knows it. I heart a lot of you lot acksherly

Why the fuck does droid have to appear in time for my shaggathon weekend away? We are booked into lovely hotel in London-on-Sea, we were meant to be Getting Away From It All. And I have fucking droid and will be miserable and bleeding everywhere all weeekend. Fuxache.

Also, I want a baybee. I am bored of waiting now.

I second Cass - just do it, HB. By the sound of it, you know enough about this career to make an informed decision, and you've also got a vote of confidence from your colleagues! What more do you want - a thunderbolt from heaven and National Lottery-style finger pointing at you?

Disclosure: I changed career about 8 years ago. It required lots of retraining (and consequent poverty), and the profession I've moved into is both pitifully-remunerated and plagued by short-term contracts. I gave up a permanent, well-paid job to do this, and there are times when I think I must have been mad. BUT (and this is a very big but, not unlike my own generous derriere) ... I absolutely love my job and I think it's a really worthwhile thing to do (if that doesn't sound too wanky). Also, I know I would have spent the rest of my life wondering 'what if' if I hadn't just gone for it. So do it!

What would your change of profession entail?

(Sorry, that may have sounded a bit more aggressive than intended...)

Oh Muse that is a shitter. Have this bottle of tequila and some of Loz's donuts, seeing as she's disappeared on us.

The BESHies all agree HB, you gotta do it!

Head, if you don't go for it then I will hunt you down and beat you about the head and neck with a claw hammer, because you are clearly more than good enough and are getting top feedback and it sounds like it's only your reticence that's holding you back. DO IT!

POLLiticalDebate (getting all on-trend for later!), you are a star, a leg-end and a honey! Loveliness of 2 sorts awaited my arrival home earlier - a mysterious gift package and a fab email! You are too, too nice

Have sent you an email, Moshpit. Which is probably useless, but, well you know....

Muse, didn't refresh before posting, but that is SHITE. The droid isn't just a bastard but a spiteful bastard at that!

It is shite. Fucking bastard droid.

Headsup retrain. Just do it.

You have lots of sympathy Muse. What a total pisser.

Scorps your bloke sounds like an utter fox. Maybe you should rent him out?

hello, hello. Sorry haven't deserted you. Had some actual work to do. Can you believe it? Its right got in the way of my fanny-rummaging.

Right. Pant snot. Truth be told I've been skipping back & fore loo so much that it hasn;t actually reached my pants. But following plentiful rummaging its creamy. There in no itching / inflamation etc etc so def not thrush. But I have a bit of a dull ache in tummy & lower back, which usually signals droid. However I've rummaged around so much I nearly came out the top of my head & no droid to be found.

muse sorry, just realised I've sounded incredibly insensitive. Sorry for your droid & the spectacular timing of it.

head whatever it is, go for it. "They" say more people regret things they haven't done than they have. Eh? That make sense?

Oh & poss 13 DPO. Not really sure about ovulation......Clomid seems to have dried me up a bit this month.

You all being growed up & watching debate? Humpf. Shall go & paint nails.........

Muse luvva I'm so sorry. What fucking IDIOTIC timing. Do our wombs hate us?

Aries email read, and absorbed, and smiled at and precious and replied to tomorrow (just had to email my supervisor and ask for a reference like tomorrow (and I mean tomorrow) is all rather frantic here. Feel on edge of precipice.)

THANKS to yez all for encouragements, Score, Polls, all that. You folk are incredible.

I'm here Laurie! Tis sounding v good for you Lorry, I am really really hoping this is it for you.

Tis also sounding good for Cass and Aries... even though Aries is denying it.

Scropy, I had forgotten I'd sent that parcel, even though I only did it yesterday. Sorry about the illegible scrawl.

btw, does any want free of charge, a persona machine? Its a fertility monitor where you POAOS, plug it into the machine and it tells you when you are going to ovulate. It is supposed to be used as a pregnancy avoidance device - green days are safe to shag, red are not, then you get the O symbol 24-48 hrs before you should ov, but obviously you can use for best times to SWI instead. It has been used, but I haz cleaned it up.

TYF is mine, ALL MINE! Hands off, slaaaaaaag!

Fuxache, bastard FB has been saying my account is temporarily suspended since 6pm. Is really pissing me off now, as I need to insult and harass Bossfriend nightly. Leadership debate is bori...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Cannot look directly at screen when Cameron's talking, as do not want him to eat my soul (seeing as he doesn't have one of his own).