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It 'aaarrggh' (is) official, I am taking a gap year, so I can work near enough full time for a while, and therefore have enough money to feed myself at university the next year. Having phoned up the admissions office of the uni I have a place at, I was told it was fine to defer my place for another year, and so, it has been done.

Now it gets me to thinking, what am I gonna do? I will need to find a job that I will actually enjoy, that does not involve such repetative boredom which will drive me to rocking in a corner with a gun to my head. I would also like a local job, i.e. no more than one bus journey.

I am quite lucky in that quite a few of my friends are staying back another year either to work like me or complete another A Level course, so i'm not going to be lonely, and my lovely girlfriend happens to have just started her A2 courses, so there won't be a tear jerking goodbye in september. I'm considering enrolling in another course, like a short AS course with an interesting subject matter, like Film Studies, nothing too difficult.

It's going to be an interesting year...

     Despite being very angry today, I hatched a plan. A plan to let me gain access to my confiscated phone and check for missed calls and text messages.

     I allowed my angry parents to lose their emotions to the England match, as my mum cheered excitedly at the desperate attacks, and my dad made snide remarks about the constant back passing, I sat quietly on the chair by the sofa waiting for the right moment.

     During a particularly tense moment in the game, my mother leaned forwards as iff being closer to the TV would help Englands chances of scoring. The jacket she was wearing hung lose by her side and I passed my hand over the outside pocket, and dipped in slightly. The strong magnet in my hand picked out the bedroom key, the thin cloth I wrapped around the magnet prevented any sound from alerting my mother to the tactical subversion.

     I quickly pocketed the key and the magnet. At this point I was feeling extremely proud of myself, I struggled to contain the adrenaline fueled excitement I felt at achieving such spectacular under-handedness, basically, I felt apretty damned James Bond about it.

     I waited for an appropriate moment to leave the room, Wayne Rooney being sent off was just perfect. I stepped out complaining under my breath about the referree, then slipped upstairs.

     Unfortunately, the search of my parents bedroom yielded no results, I looked in all the hiding places and their was no sign of my phone. This got me annoyed, as now I had to go to the effort of returning the key unnoticed, and finish my "mission" with no results.

     Instead of trying to return the key into the jacket pocket, I slipped into a gap between the cusions on the sofa behind my mum whilst she was leaning forwards. Later she'll fail to find it in her pocket and assume it went down the back of the sofa, which it had
 

     I think I might just have a nervous breakdown.

     I am supposed to be happy and relaxing, especially after having such a great time at my College Leavers prom in London last night. I would write about it now but I am just NOT in a good enough mood.

     Towards the end of the cab journey home I searched around for my share of the fare, but found that a £20 note had just vanished from my pockets, I couldn't find it anywhere, so my friend was kind enough to withdraw some extra money from a cash point to cover me, so i'll pay him back as soon as, but i'm just really pissed that twenty fucking quid has gone missing. My mum gave me such a hard time about it this morning and still is.

     Since I didn't get back untill around 4am, I slept in for a while today. The first thing I woke up to was my sister creeping in trying to borrow my phone for a quick call, so to make her fuck off I let her make a 30 second call to find out where her mate was. Only trouble is, my dad must have heard her use it, cos he came down and was all "can I borrow your phone for a second?" then he must have checked the dialled calls log and found that she'd used it, so he had a go at me, and I don't know if I'm gonna get it back or not.

     So what the fuck am I supposed to do if one of the employers to whom I have given my CV try and ring me to arrange an interview? They always ring your mobile number first and they get enough applicants that they never bother to try and chase someone up on their home number, just phone the next person instead.

     And more importantly (as far as i'm concerned anyway) What if my girlfriend rings me or texts me? I'm gonna have to fucking wait to speak to her online and explain why I haven't called or texted back.

     It also means I can't really arrange to see her again if I can't call her.

ARGH! what the fuck is wrong with my parents! They won't cut me any slack, and now all my exams are done they shouldn't have anything to worry about. I've cleaned the kitchen everyday this week, washing up all the dirty plates and crap that everyone else leaves out, crumbs and sauce and dirty cutlery and fuck knows what gets left in the pots and pans. Have I had any praise for it? Sure I got money and allowed to go out last night which was quite expensive, and it's more than fair, but they could at least be fucking nice, but they still complain that I do nothing around the house.

I'm the only one in the house who knows how to make the dishwasher work properly!

     My dad is never in a good mood with me, just because of my fucking sister, if he hates her so much he shouldn't take it out on me, just because I know how to handle her so I can be civil and relaxed around her without fearing one of her insane temper tantrums.

     Argh fuck this, there's too many things making me angry
 

Nutshell - Alice In Chains, This song helped me through some hard times and reminded me that things could be worse so I should be grateful that they aren't. The singing and guitar sound equally soulful.

Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzie, This song reminds me of many parties and good times I had with my friends, and it has one of my favourite guitar solos in it.

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks, A great song to wind down to at the end of a hot tiring day

Rio - Duran Duran, Brilliant song to sing along and dance to, great summer tune

Olivers Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions, My dad always used to play this in the car on long journeys, and we all tried to sing along

The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood, very powerful love song, also reminds me not to be tempted to get involved in a certain situation from which no good can come.

Estranged - Guns N Roses, This is a song I associate with a particular person, reminding me to stay away

Paradise City - Guns N Roses, My favourite song for the summer, almost everyone knows it and can sing along to it, has one of my favourite guitar solos of all time at the end

Fear Of The Dark - Iron Maiden, Very good song, if you like this you'll like other Iron Maiden songs

Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers, mellow upbeat summer song, listen to this whilst relaxing in the sunshine. Another of my favourite guitar solos

Time for Heroes - The Libertines, Brings back memories of all the good times i've had with my friends since the start of year 12 and through the summer into year 13

Music when The Lights Go Out - The Libertines, Just a nice song to listen too, quite romantic, reminds of some people I haven't seen in a long while

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones, One of my favourite songs by the Rolling Stones, Often played on the radio in my dads car, good summer song

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones, A slow yet feel-good song, if your feeling down you should listen to this

Fall To Pieces - Velvet Revolver, Not sure why I use this one, but it is a good song, and has a good guitar solo

     Today I've had nothing to do except do the washing up in the kitchen and tidy the living room. Although I had some respite in spending an hour with my lovely new girlfriend at lunchtime. Unfortunately, since she is in the first year of my 6th form, she still has lessons to go to untill summer, but I have since finished my second year and now have free time from now until september. I hope too much of it isn't spent pining for her rather than actually being with her. For the next few weeks I can visit her in school and see her on the weekends.

     She plays violin for an orchestra, performs in Ballet shows and is very beautiful. I had sunday dinner at her house and met her parents, her dad plays guitar, so hopefully he will like me because I play guitar too. I always get quite nervous about meeting my friends parents for the first time.

     I am very annoyed that www.mxtabs.net my favourite resource for guitar tabs and music has once again been shut down. They didn't even have to do it, the letter posted by the owner of the site that shows upon trying to visit the site, states that they closed down because they thought they should, they had not received any threatening letters from Copyright organisations complaining about copyright infringment of sheet music. They sut down because they were afraid of getting threatening letters, which in my opinion, i pretty damned weak. Stick it to the man and put the site back up, until they actually make you take it down... Thats what I say. I was thinking about this as I walked home from the shops earlier, I shook my fist at a cat out of sheer... annoyance.

 Currently Playing: Know Your Enemy - RATM

     Reading my last entry, it seems really crap and emotionless,meh, yesterday I was feeling pretty drained, we STILL haven't finished decorating my sisters room, so there's loads of her stuff around the house. Therefore I had to help my mum to do some cleaning and tidying around it, make things look a bit neater see.

     Anywho, The party on friday night was pretty awesome, spent much of my time there with my lovely new girlfriend. It was a 'beach' themes party so most of the guys wore surfer shorts and t shirts, and there were many girls in sarong bikini wrap around thingy's. although there wasn't anywater, one guy really got into te spirit of it and wore a full body wetsuit.

     Eventually everyone was a bit drunk and glowsticks were flying around and people were dancing. Great night until some local chav nobheads showed up to cause trouble later in the night, a couple friends of mine looked like they got koshed in the head, but some medics fixed 'em up. I saw a few of the bigger guys knocking the crap out of some of the unwanted guests, which was fun to watch since the little fuckers fully deserved it.
 

     Last night I went to Terry's 18th birthday party, not only was it a celebration of his age but for many of us, our exams had all finished, and it was an excellent opportunity to have some well deserved fun, without a care for revision and test timetables. The festivities were only later marred by the arrival of some unwanted guests, who, since the party was being held in the public venue of a Cricket Club which Terry had rented for the evening, had invited themselves to join us. However their only intention was to cause trouble and there were many violent altercations. Police later arrived and things calmed down, although a few friends of mine were quite badly injured.

everyone got home safely without further incident. 

I was just sorting out some programs on my computer, and I inadvertently deleted alot of music, I'm sure this has happened to many people before who will be able to relate to how aggravating this is. I'm talking over 200 songs, many of them were favourites of mine.

One of the ctrl keys on my keyboard popped off when I slammed it against the desk, and now I can't find it.

oooh boy is my angry chair gonna take some punishment now...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!

     Today I did three exams, they were the three I was most worried about, however, I was pleasently suprised, in that they were quite do-able, I'm pretty confident that I did well. I have one more exam on Friday, so I can relax and take the next two days out to revise for it.

     Only thing that annoyed me today was...

     ...That when I got home I found a letter addressed to me, I love receiving letters in the post, it's always something interesting to read, but not this one, I was sorely dissapointed to find a letter from the school librarian concerning a book that is a four days over due... so I didn't return it on friday, I was planning to bring in all of my school textbooks this friday anyway.

Currently Playing: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden