this is a low +_+

i have been indulging in a strange pondering competition with my siblings regarding which one of us is the most depressed... i almost certainly lost.

jack's 10 reasons were:
1. i'm addicted to the internet
2. i have no money and have been forced to smoke mayfair cigarettes for the last two days
3. i'm almost in my late twenties and live with my parents
4. i can't install wireless network device drivers for Linux on my computer
5. i have no friends
6. i have about three weeks to come up with a project which will mean that uni this year wasn't a waste of time
7. everyone i went to art school with is now famous
8. my body clock is on los angeles time
9. i no longer have any middle-term memory
10. no-one visits my website
yours hanging by a thread,
jack

francie, clearly the winner, came out with the following:
1. I have a £500 overdraft, no money and no hope of getting any for the next three months.
2. I live with four men, at least one of which I actively dislike, who believe a wild night in consists of leaving congealed-food-encrusted plates all over the floor, decorating every flat surface with a cocktail of cigarette ash, skunk and News of the World sports sections, and playing playstation for seven hours in silence. And who can't piss straight into a toilet even when sober.
3. I am voluntarily(!) choosing to move in with two of the above. If I can pay the deposit.
4. I am addicted to cigarettes and sudoku. The emotional and time cost of the one is almost as much as the financial and health cost of the other.
5. I share a bedroom with an anally-retentive obsessive compulsive who moves my stuff when he thinks I'm not looking. And never buys me flowers.
6. I am taking a course that is really really hard work and have to hand in four assignments over the next three weeks. All of which count towards my grade. And they're by no means the only homework I have.
7. Not including the homework/lesson-planning/coursework, I work a 45 hour week and never take home more than £150.
8. I find I spend my commuting time worrying about things that have already happened, instead of about things that might happen in the future.
9. I don't have any friends that I ever see or communicate with outside of the school holidays. (Apart from Liz.)
10. I had my first two-day weekend in three months last weekend and spent it in bed with the worst flu-like disease ever. (Ok, not as bad as stuff like TB. But still very bad.)

OK contenders, if you want to give in now I'll forgive you.
If not good luck! You'll need it.
Love Francie

i feel tragically defeated! there was me doubting the meaning of my existence and procrastinating because i haven't finished my extended essay, and my brother and sister send me ridiculously suicidal emails leaving me feeling relatively happy about my problems. does anyone else have ten reasons why they are even more depressed, because i was left pretty dumb-struck!