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Look what you made me do, Gwenthyr ! It's all your fault!Water colour and copic markers.
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Good question. Since last time I was without it for that blasted week, I've stocked up on a bunch of computer games.
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heh, it seems like I have more time when I have no internet and am actually more creative
But also less informed and more alone...
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I am definately less creative without internet, just more lonely and more bored, and even more sleep deprived
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I am never bored... just annoyed that I can't do what I want to do instead of what I am doing
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I've got pretty severe sleeping disorders, and my energy level is pretty much always high - or at least, often. I easily get understimulated and restless unless I occupy all or most of my senses and actually activate my brain. I guess it's all the ADD and ADHD that runs in my family (I don't have either of them myself though) that gives me a pretty 'good' genetic predisposition for this stuff... just ask ~Wursu , I'm pretty much a pain in the ass with this XP
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hm, I am able to sleep 19 hours without problems (or reason) 
That is the source of all my problems
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My extremes are The Usual and The Tired. Usually when I'm just tired (whithout the capital t) I do stuff that doesn't require much work, like draw or watch movies or chat and listen to BBC radio (OR BOOKS
The Tired is the short while before I can actually sleep. It's rare, but it happens once every 24 hours or so.
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It depends on what do you mean by "doing nothing" since I can't stay unocupied too but I am able to lie down for an hour and just stare at the ceiling because I am using it as a screen for my thoughts... which are unstopable regardles of the level of my energy
Oh my... I don't envy you, really, there are very few cases when I can't sleep and I don't like it...
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I couldn't do that. My head is always active, of course, but I need to occupy it with something more than just thinking.
And 'just thinking' isn't said to be derogatory to people who can lie down and 'just' think, it's said because -I- can't do just that. For me personally, it would be 'just thinking', and it would be doing too little. It's a bit annoying, since it takes a big toll on my patience, but I suppose I get by.
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Well, I have problems to endure school in MY state, I can't even imagine what it must have been for you...
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Oh, school is fine! I listen to the teacher while I draw and/or paint (I have a pocket box for watercolours) and take notes at the same time, and think of other things.
I'm not the kind of restless where I can't sit still, just the kind of restless where I must occupy myself.
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Watercolours at school?! O_O well I think that headmistress would kill me for that right in our, oh so NEW, classroom
Our teachers don't like to see people doing something else than writing in their classes, unfortunately. I am glad we are allowed to use notebooks (but they still control what we have on screen sometimes
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My English teacher looked a bit surprised, but I wasn't bothering anyone and didn't take up much space. I just sat in the corner by the window on the front row with a cup of water. If any water was spilled on the table, it was very easily dried up, as you can imagine.
We didn't have desks, we have tables. You keep your stuff in a locker or in your bag and go to different classrooms for different classes. The tables were very spacey, but the chairs were very low so in the back rows and by the walls, you couldn't always see the whiteboard or the teacher, so sometimes we had to sit -on- the table to see things
In high school, though (which you go to until you're 15, when you're 16 is when you choose your own education programme and switch to a higher school, although often compared to 'upper sedondary high school' although with more responsibilities than the American equivalent... many Swedes move away from home when they're 16 to go to school rather than stay children until they're 18, as is the case in the Americas) the teachers would give me lower grades if I drew in classes, because they 'couldn't feel I was listening'. When I told them that I drew so that I could concentrate on the classes, they told me that they couldn't know I wasn't just drawing. 'But I draw because it is important for me to learn, more important than for you to feel like i'm listening - and won't the fact that I'm doing well on the tests prove that I'm learning as it is now?' I said. 'If I can't feel you're listening, then I can't know you're not cheating.' or something like that was the answer.
Imagine my surprise when I told my Swedish and English teachers that I was going to draw in class because I concentrated better like that they just shrugged. "Don't apologise. It's none of my business if you take notes or draw or whatever, as long as you do your work and do it well." and "Different people learn differently, that's pretty elementary for anyone who's studied to become a teacher."
"But my old teachers didn't seem to agree..."
"You shouldn't let the fact that your old teachers didn't know anything about learning stop you from learning as effectively as you can -now-" <- I always liked Helena (Swedish teacher) for this.
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That's great!
I am able to go off with doing anything I want in English, because I am best at school and in many other classes they don't look my way too often but still... The fact I am almost friends with most of my teachers doesn't help since I don't like to make their work harder. You know there is only one problem: we have such people in the class who when catched doing nothing or playing computer games complain that others aren't doing what they are supposed to do too. It's childish but since ve have very young teachers it mostly works.
But since New Year I am really starting to don't care. I was trying to be fine student far too long...
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I think there is a difference between being a fine student and always looking like you're paying attention in class.
I get away with a lot since my teachers know that when they've asked the rest of the class something they can turn to me for someone to state the correct answer, but sometimes that actually makes me pay less attention to the things I think are boring, since I know I won't be caught red-handed in not having read the homework or something like that since people assume I know what I'm doing
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Agreed. There IS a difference 
I am in similiar position but more because they know I am older and more responsible...
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I must say that I know nothing about the school system in the Czech Republic, but I've read several articles from overseas newspaper condemning the lax attitude of Swedish schools, so I sort of assume that the rest of the world is more strict in it's educational system?
But yes, learning how to not be an extremist can be a good thing
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I don't know... it's tricky, I was on four schools and had many teachers, I think it depends on teacher how much s/he must be strict to maintain some authority and really teach... at least here.
Thank you 
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Oh, of course it is individual, but comparing two school systems in general isn't a vain task. For example, there are a lot of variations within the school of Sweden, but the general -trend- will probably be different from the general trend in the Czech Republic or in the UNited States of America or the United Kingdom - for example, in Sweden, the only time you call someone by their last name is as a nickname among boys (fr example, my brother knows several Patrik and my father knows several Ronny, and so they're both called 'Barkis' (from 'Barkestedt' ) among their friends to sort them out and separate them), as a means to tell someone that you're really upset with them (WELL, MISTER Barkestedt I JUST HAVE TO SAY that YOUR CAR is in MY PARKING SPACE) or as a polite -written- reference to someone. ('In her book, Marklund writes...' ). We call our teachers by their first name, and 'mr' ('herr' ) miss ('frΓΆken' ) and mrs ('fru' ) are almost never used as -polite- adresses. More usually, they are (as said) used sarcasticly or as a means to show anger.
In the US and Britain this is completely different, and being on first name basis with your teachers is a strange thing indeed. The English 'you' can be used for both one person and many people, but in Swedish we have 'du' (singular) and 'ni' (plural), just as in French (tu, vouz) or German (du, Sie), although the plural in Swedish is used to show anger (or, well, adress several people) where it is used for strangers and as a means to show respect in French and German, and ALWAYS to teachers.
If I call someone 'ni' it's because I'm mad with them ("YOUR car is in MY parking space" ), and has never been used politely in Swedish history. Titles and last names have been used in Swedish history of course, but haven't been in practical use for the last seventy years. Socialism ftw.
Uh. This wasn't intended as a language lesson, but just to point at one difference (and I get carried away easily when talking about language, any language, anytime
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Interesting. Here, we need to use not only the surname but even some title (like Mr., Mrs., professor, Dr. and such) to speak politely of someone or call on them. So I need to say "Mrs. teacher Smith" in dialogue about her (or only "Mrs. teacher" when addressing her) if I don't want to be rude...
But we use surnames as nicks too (like my classmate Viktorin is called Vikis - which looks exactly like the case you wrote about) and even in sarcastic, angry or arrogant way.
It's ok, I like languages, so feel free to get carried away. I was thinking about learning swedish out of curiosity
The problem with addressing teachers as equals here in Czech is that we are too unable to acknowledge authorities by title, our nation is too wounded by previous eras to react normaly to leadership of any kind and our politics don't help it. There IS a reason we were called "the laughing beasts" and it's changing very slowly. There MUST be set clear difference or pupils would shred teachers to pieces. It's in our nature to try the limits everywhere. In relationships as well as in the science
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I don't think 'nature' is the right word. 'Culture' might be a better, because I refuse to believe that an entire nation (although from a turbulent history and with less than even two decades of being a nation of its own) have it in their -nature- a need for hierarchy, and a relentless testing of limits to a larger extent than any other population on the planet...
What I mean is that I don't think it's biology, as the word 'nature' implies, as much as sociology, which is a bit of a different thing.
I don't dispute what you say about the conditions in your own country though, don't think I mean that. I just reacted to the word 'nature'.
Sweden is socialist and have been so for very long, even our extreme right-wing politics are socialist by any modern standards. I think this, and the fact that so much of our culture is built on the backs of common workers (and that we are all very, very conscious of it), contributes to the feeling here that every man and woman is your equal and that you are worthy of as much respect as you give.
... and of course also that some people have issues with respecting even legitimate authority, but ah well. Everything comes at a price...
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yes, nothing is for free.
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Alright, good. I suppose I read you too scientifically since I know you're into biology and figured you wouldn't say 'Nature' if you didn't mean it in that way
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Unfortunately I am far less scientifical than I would like to be
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Aww! Den hΓ€r bilden Γ€r skitsΓΆt, rent ut sagt! <3
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The only thing I can really think is "Wow, I wish!" This looks incredibly awesome... cozy and interesting. Love all the little whatnots going on.
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Thank you
My favourite whatnot is the guy behind the owl, who just realises there's an olw on the bridge.
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XD Yeah. I noticed that that was a huge owl! Or just tiny people.
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