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Liberation Day...

Posted Jun 7, 2003

So. Here I am. It's 00:50, nearly four hours into Liberation Day, the day I defy my parents, and do what *I* want to do - even if it is just for the one night. One night only, where I am with friends, doing what I enjoy doing, in a place I like. I'd paid £15 to be there, it was supposed to be Helios' first real endurance test run.

Only...I'm not there. Instead, I am alone, not doing anything I enjoy, in a place I hate with a vengance. At 22:45, my Mum rang me on my mobile. She was damn near crying, and begging me to come home. The grace period was from 21:00, for us to get our machines running on the network properly, and from 22:00 till 09:00, was supposed to be gaming time, so I'd only been going for 45 min, tops.

There are two things I really hate. The pathetic cowards who use emotional blackmail, and the pathetic cowards who give in to it.

Flashback:
Before I went, my Mum catagoricaly told me, many times, that she would not be lying to my Dad about this, and she would not be covering up for me. "Fine", I'd said, "I don't expect you to. If there's a problem, I'll deal with it."

Back to the present:
Turns out she went back on that, and lied to my Dad. She said I'd gone out for a meal with friends from work. Now she needed me back home before Dad rang, so that if he asked to speak to me, I'd be there. So it seems that having told me repeatedly that she would not under any circumstances be covering up for me - I was now being told that I had to cover up for *her* - having told a lie that I'd told her not to, and she'd told me she'd refuse to do.

She then bawled on about how Dad would shout, and how it's so unfair that I've decided to rebel only 3 months from me going to Uni, and why couldn't I have done smaller stuff when I was 13 instead of now (because I was too busy being pushed in front of cars at school Mum - I know you still deny that over half that stuff ever happenend, but that's why.) I put forward my case, and she (said that she) agreed with me (now I'm at home of course, there is a completely different story), and that she would let me out more.

Anyway - just like the pathetic snivelling coward I am, I gave in.

I have the legal rights of an 18 year old, and the freedom of a 7 year old. Theoretically, with my vote - I can affect this country's future history. However, in reality I can't even affect the course of where I go and what I do during any given day.

One thing SEF suggested in reply to my previous journal entry, was going to a family councillor or something. Problem is - 99% of the time, they don't even believe that there's a problem, and none of us really believe in councillors.

What is the bloody point. I'm bloody well damned if I do, damned if I don't. I have a choice between living hell...and living hell. I'm not even allowed to have the night off occasionally. I don't know what to do. There's nothing. What do you do, if you can do nothing?

Rot.

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Hopeless

Posted Jun 5, 2003

What do you do, when you can do nothing?

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Posted Jun 2, 2003

The time is 00:34, and I'm in my room, writing this on my new laptop - Helios. Icarus b0rked y'see, and the company were a pain, so I got a different one from another company.

Anyway - the reason I'm whispering, is because it's late at night, and not only am I not supposed to be on the Internet, I'm also not supposed to hook the laptop up to the phone at all, and I'm on my Mum's Freeserve account, which, surprise surprise, I'm also not supposed to use.

So shhhhhh.

Helios' specs?

Athlon XP 2400+ (1.8 GHz) with PowerNow and all that Jazz
512 DDR RAM
40Gb Hard-Drive
CD-RW(24x)/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
USB 2, Firewire, IrDA, TV-Out, etc...
Ethernet, 56k Modem (as if you hadn't guessed!),
15" screen
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Graphics Card (64Mb)
Windows XP Home (gak! THAT's coming off!)
Lots of extra little gadgets which plug in in various places

So he's a bit shiny!!! All very nice. Took him in to college today to show a few people. Very impressed. Wasn't as expensive as you'd expect either (even though it was at the absolute top end of my budget!)

Anyways - I'd better be signing off now, before my Mum notices.

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Posted Jun 2, 2003

The time is 00:34, and I'm in my room, writing this on my new laptop - Helios. Icarus b0rked y'see, and the company were a pain, so I got a different one from another company.

Anyway - the reason I'm whispering, is because it's late at night, and not only am I not supposed to be on the Internet, I'm also not supposed to hook the laptop up to the phone at all, and I'm on my Mum's Freeserve account, which, surprise surprise, I'm also not supposed to use.

So shhhhhh.

Helios' specs?

Athlon XP 2400+ (1.8 GHz) with PowerNow and all that Jazz
512 DDR RAM
40Gb Hard-Drive
CD-RW(24x)/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
USB 2, Firewire, IrDA, TV-Out, etc...
Ethernet, 56k Modem (as if you hadn't guessed!),
15" screen
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Graphics Card (64Mb)
Windows XP Home (gak! THAT's coming off!)
Lots of extra little gadgets which plug in in various places

So he's a bit shiny!!! All very nice. Took him in to college today to show a few people. Very impressed. Wasn't as expensive as you'd expect either (even though it was at the absolute top end of my budget!)

Anyways - I'd better be signing off now, before my Mum notices.

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LAN Party...

Posted May 26, 2003

I'm off to an all night do at my local LAN gaming centre. I'm dead excited, as not only will I be taking Icarus (my laptop - which will arrive on Wednesday!), but I have actually told my parents that my "best interests" are no longer any of their concern, and that no matter what they say, I will be going straight from work, and going straight to church from there, and if they don't like it - that's okay - because they don't have to!!!

So there!!! Nah! That's them told!

Now here is my latest dilemma - is being excited about going to a LAN party a good thing - or the height of sadness?

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Latest reply: May 26, 2003