Crepeys on the Verge of an Examination Meltdown

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Not sure if I should be starting the new thread as I'm the last poster on the old one - is this how it works?

Oooh NU have a brilliant time and keep us posted if you can!

Bon voyage, NU!

Lalsy, I am sure 'googlies' is a word. Or at least it is a word I use very often. Usually in the context of my dcs throwing me one (some).

Rose, you are so right re:a certain sort of person never owning their failures, whereas the rest of us probably go round claiming failures that aren't even ours.

BTM, have fun at the hipster cinema. Even typing that makes me smirk. :) Truly, in 10 years' time, 'hipster' will be a deeply embarrassing concept. Please god, let the fashion for GBS beards and smarmed-down hair be over soon. And people making like doing arty things in uncomfortable spaces is something that they only properly invented in about 2011.

Bah, I think I am tragically feeling a bit lonely. I would like better access to the Crepeys :( I am feeling morose in my semi-rural isolation, where my friends (for reasons not unconnected with 10-yr marriage to anti-social h1 and own mh that was isolation-inducing for some years) are mainly a lot younger and have interests which are very different from mine.

Googly is a cricket term, is it not? As in, a ball you can't hit back.

MI - make a doctor's appointment immediately. That's a crepey order.

Herbs - your poor DP - it's really coming at him from all sides at the moment, isn't it?

DS had the second of his GCSE Core Science papers today - Chemistry - and he says it went well. As he uses a WP he is in a small room with eight others, all of whom have some sort of "issue". One lad had to put his hand up several times for the clock to be stopped, as he gets cramp in his hand. And one of the girls had a total meltdown, ran out of the room a couple of times, and eventually handed in a large paragraph of text largely created by the imprint of her forehead on the keyboard. Beachy, our mutual friend was invigilating; sounds like it was all go.

Is indeed a cricket term, CV. I was brought up in a cricket-mad family. Can't be bothered with the actual game, meself, but I do like the terminology and still use it all the time.

Sorry to hear your ds had a more than averagely exciting time in the exam room. Not awfully helpful to his concentration, I'd imagine.

MI - please go to the quack - you will feel so much better when you have.

I discovered a mole that was worrying me hugely (out of all proportion) last week & made myself go to see the doc yesterday & felt so much better for having done so. It's so easy not to go, but so much better if you do.

(mole fine, is actually a wart!! Relief)

Quack?

Auriga - quack - doctor

MI - you know what you have to do.....

Herbs - sorry things are tough

Stropps - yy to feeling lonely and wishing I was closer to the Crepeys... I am feeling the impact of loss of train companion (in part because it makes me feel so bad about myself and like I've done something wrong so I'm obsessing about it to a stupid degree - lack of confidence right there), have no 'close' friends in the village (yet) as social circles have been built for years, and other friends are too fragile to have my crap dumped on them at the moment.

Vv feeling loss of bestie - think about her daily.

Sorry crepeys - chin. Up and all that.

Rudy, I need photos! The next-size-up dress has come, but DD has yet to try it and she is still talking about looking for others...

I am soooo tired, and have to jump in the car to take DD to school imminently. The film was good, but it was so cold, even with my thick winter duvet-coat and 2 blankets and I didn't get to bed till 12.

Aww Stropps and BD, so sorry you are feeling lonely. Could we organise another MU before the EoT?

Yes, why is it so bloody cold? Tilly that must have been a bit miserable!

Rudy…pastoral care.

Loneliness is something that is hard to define…it seems one is surrounded by people and potential friends, yet the feelings are there. I often wonder about being unhappy and whether that creates isolation inasmuch as there's a tendency to become a bit of an island when things aren't going well, and we push people away. I only say that because I get like that, perhaps more often than I care to admit. Thanks goodness for Crepeys in cyberspace. Maybe we should have Skype/FaceTime MU's?

CV that's good that DS managed to keep focussed with so much going on in the exam. Feel sorry for those other kids…

MI Gentle reminder...have you called the GP surgery? Do it…go there…get reassured. Then, as you were.

Bon Voyage NU Give my love to Vancouver…I think it's my favourite place in the world at the moment.

Ds2 is still not back at school after finishing AS levels and has decided to go and visit grandparents today. He's been doing a lot of loafing around although I think that should be allowed for a bit. but it irritates the hell out of me He's also practising feverishly for his next piano grade which is imminent…and got another tutoring client yesterday…Spanish this time. So I should cut him some slack.

I am going to meet ConS and try to work out the story line for Project No 2.
And scoff some breakfast, he's paying

Let's have a crepey weekend near Stropps! Yeah! Cheap hotel and lots of vino. Oh and food.

Appointment made . It's sitting in my diary for next week and I shall have to go.

I am also less wretchedly wrung-out (and have thought of some solutions to writing issues which were getting me down and wearing me out too) though DD2 nearly drove me to the brink this morning. I have usually escaped early mornings by running, and I can see why....I cooked her a packed lunch (couscous, so not exactly high effort) and an egg (ditto) and eventually she calmed down but it was a close-run thing.

Well done on appointment MI.

I forgot to wish NU happy hols. Sounds fabulous.

Rose - your DS sounds like he's putting the effort in with piano and tutoring. If DD1 can manage anything like as much as this when she gets back I shall be pleased.

Agree about loneliness - I do envy the London crepeys and their impromptu meet ups.

Well done, MI.

Sorry, door went - meant to say that I am sure you fell better now you have made the appointment & hope you don't stress too much whilst waiting for it.

MrsS, great idea - I'm up for that!

Rose, it sounds like your DS is doing loads. Is he supposed to be at school? How does it work?

Well, DS's last exam was a while ago but they don't have to go back until all the AS sittings are over, i.e. he goes back to school at the beginning of next week, ostensibly to start the A2 courses. They do this for the rest of the term but there's also a week of work experience to fit in, in July and various days set aside for UNi open days, taster days etc and UCAS prep for applications in the autumn, and the odd concert.

I'm pleased people are asking him to do a bit of tutoring, as it means he earns some money and gets his reputation out there!

I've had a cheering morning, indulging myself writing story lines with ConS. I shortly have to pick DD up from school and take her to the orthodontist.

Well done MI for making that appointment xx

It's DH's birthday today, and by the time I had ladyjogged, made him breakfast in bed, and watched him slowly open his presents we were all horribly late out of the house. I bought him a GPS watch to track his runs, and we are also going to buy one of those lovely swing-chairs for the garden (which isn't really for him, but I'm pretending it is....).

Bon Voyage, NU (if you haven't gone already)!

Ah, OK Rose! So he isn't doing anything wrong by not going in, and he is doing lots of other stuff too. Let him be! Tutoring is great experience.

Dd had to be straight back in lessons on Monday. And she is still going to all the 4 A level subjects as she now doesn't know what she's going to do next year because she is convinced she won't have got a good enough grade in chemistry to carry it on to A2. I am just nodding and smiling when she rants about this. She knows perfectly well she could retake if she has really stuffed up and my feeling is that we will cross that bridge if and when she comes to it. She has however, finished with Critical Thinking, but I'm not sure she will notice the impact as I don't think she went to many of the lessons anyway.
She suddenly announced that she wanted to go to an open day at Bristol next Fri or Sat, but I am scheduled to invigilate on the Friday and she wouldn't go with dh. And Dh is playing a festival in Devon on Sat and needs the car and wouldn't be able to take ds. It all gets a bit expensive and complicated. And I need her to have properly thought through which open days she really wants to go to because it's an expensive business trekking round the country. Still, I am heartened that she is actually thinking about going to open days, which was not the case a few weeks ago. The problem is she always wants to do something NOW or not at all. And if you try negotiating, she just stomps off in a door-slamming huff. All very tedious.
Feel a bit less weedy now I know that I'm not the only crepey occasionally suffering from not being part of the London posse

Stropps, are any of her friends going? Could she get to go with them? Or could your DH get a lift with a friend?