Quick Rant...

OK just a quick rant on something which keeps bugging me.  As I mentioned in an earlier post I'm taking a gap year to go off travelling, and beleive it or not travelling costs a a lot of money.  I'm not in the fortunate of having stuff handed to me on a plate so I therefore have to work to get any money and then I have to save it rather than blowing it on going out and beer.  I do a part-time job in a shop and work 16+ hrs each week and that's on top of college work.  Obviously there's a finite number of hours in the week so to fit everything in I have to make some sacrifices, unfortunatly that means not spending my weekends at parties getting drunk, which to be honest I wouldn't be doing anyway.

So most of my friends think I prefer going to work over going out, not true at all (although it can be depending who it is/what they're doing!) and find it absolutely unbeleivable that I get by with little to no free time.  That's not what annoys me, what annoys me is when the same people turn round to me and say how lucky I am to be having a gap year and going away.  Hello!  It's not luck, it's damn hard work and down to the fact I want to travel a hell of a lot more than I want to get drunk.

OK enough of the rant and seeing as this is already a pretty personal post rather than the random stuff I usually post may as well fill you on the fact I have my first serious girlfriend.  Ahhhh!  I've known her for well over a year and I've always had a bit of thing for her, we finally got togethor almost a couple of weeks ago.  Met her through work which means I'm in the very slightly awkward situation of having to work alongside my girlfriend but that hasn't currently posed a problem, hopefully it won't.  She's at uni which throws up another problem as we can only see eachother in the evenings when neither of us are at college/uni/work but still things are going well.  Oh yeh, my other concern, there's a couple of people from work who I know had a thing for her...one of which I got on pretty well with.  Don't think he knows what's going on yet so I'm a little concerned about that, we've done nothing wrong but I'm just hoping he won't react too negatively towards me.