Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 28 2008, 6:40 PM BSTYou're not one of these people who does nothing and still prevails, are you?
I don't 'prevail' so much as coast at a high level.
Probably get a shock when I get my A Level results though, according to my parents I'm due to fail an exam 
Quote: PhQnix @ May 29 2008, 8:28 AM BSTI don't 'prevail' so much as coast at a high level.
Probably get a shock when I get my A Level results though, according to my parents I'm due to fail an exam
Lucky people who don't have to work at it...
Your parents sound a bit too determined to plot your downfall! Maybe you should rebel at a random point to give them a shock, then go back to normal. My parents constantly expect me to go off the rails!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 3:44 PM BSTLucky people who don't have to work at it...
Your parents sound a bit too determined to plot your downfall! Maybe you should rebel at a random point to give them a shock, then go back to normal. My parents constantly expect me to go off the rails!
I have to work, just during class and not at home 
My parents expect me to fail because it's a common theme in our family. My grandfather and my uncles were fantastic coasters who failed spectacularly at various stages of their education. So I'm due a failure or a 'reality-check.'
Quote: PhQnix @ May 29 2008, 3:47 PM BSTI have to work, just during class and not at home
My parents expect me to fail because it's a common theme in our family. My grandfather and my uncles were fantastic coasters who failed spectacularly at various stages of their education. So I'm due a failure or a 'reality-check.'
Do you get frees? Everyone's under the impression I work even more than I do because I'm always in school in my frees.
Ah well my dad left school before his O-levels to join the police, and my mum left school at 16-but then went on to get a first in her nursing degree. My parents aren't so bothered unless we're happy...and my brother doesn't kill himself later by being in the bomb squad...
Well easier then! Fake an epiphany!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 3:50 PM BSTDo you get frees? Everyone's under the impression I work even more than I do because I'm always in school in my frees.
My school is in the middle of a council estate - there's nowhere to go during my frees
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 3:50 PM BSTAh well my dad left school before his O-levels to join the police, and my mum left school at 16-but then went on to get a first in her nursing degree. My parents aren't so bothered unless we're happy...and my brother doesn't kill himself later by being in the bomb squad...
My Dad completed his A-Levels, joined an insurance firm and left after the first two years because someone told him off for reading whilst queuing. He joined a photography company and has been freelance ever since. My mum went through Art college and then became a photographer. They have a similar philosophy to yours - I can do what ever I want as long as I don't become a soldier.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 3:50 PM BSTWell easier then! Fake an epiphany!
I've never had an epiphany so I wouldn't know how
Quote: PhQnix @ May 29 2008, 3:54 PM BSTI've never had an epiphany so I wouldn't know how
Well as long as your parents haven't either, then it'll be ok!
Hmmm to go to revise biology or not?
Back in half an hour or so I think.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 3:57 PM BSTHmmm to go to revise biology or not?
Back in half an hour or so I think.
No, you'll be fine!
Learn to coast!
I can't cope with coasting! I'll explode, leaving little bits of me all over the place!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 4:00 PM BSTI can't cope with coasting! I'll explode, leaving little bits of me all over the place!
I couldn't cope with working.
Enjoy your biology then!
Argh my bloody AOL cut out for the last 2 hours, so as soon as I'd finished revising it collapsed!
It's AOL. 'Nuff said, surely?
That's what I said. My mum just looked at me and said changing supplier wasn't worth the hassle. >_<
It's AOL, killing people is worth it to switch from AOL!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 29 2008, 6:32 PM BSTArgh my bloody AOL cut out for the last 2 hours, so as soon as I'd finished revising it collapsed!
That's the difference between working and coasting - you just revised I just had a mid-afternoon nap
