LDR chat thread VIII

My bus leaves to see the boy in 2 hourssssss i stayed up and went to a festival with my flat cos i couldnt bear the alternative of trying to sleep and eventually getting to sleep at like 1 but then only having 2 hours sleep.... i'd rather sleep well on the bus tar very much than have the 2 hours now

Also welcome Snehame I'm international too but not even nearly as far as you 1000 miles is more than enough for me but exciting about him coming home sooooon

Edit: so, you can imagine my surprise when, just after i leave this page and go onto another thread, a TSR ad starts playing jingle bells at me Its may!!!!!! I've never been so confused!!

I agree - I think everyone has that couple on Facebook. "Oh ma daiiiz, ma baby's still at work. Dis bed is coldzzz wivout you." SERIOUSLY. I WANT TO SHOOT THEM.

Last day of dissertation editing. Last day of dissertation editing. Last day of dissertation editing.

Also welcome Snehame I'm international too but not even nearly as far as you 1000 miles is more than enough for me but exciting about him coming home sooooon

I feel really young on this thread You guys won't laugh at the 18-year-old, will you?

I quite like reading the randomness on this thread. Wish TSR would hurry up with their iPhone app because I currently have to share a laptop with my sister and thus can only check TSR a couple of times a week.

Eight weeks today :/ Was really wishing I were with him yesterday. I could perfectly visualise hour by hour what we'd have been doing yesterday.

Eight weeks is a long time :/

'Course not! *waves* I wish I was still eighteen - I'd love to do uni all over again... I don't wanna graduate. My sister's eighteen in June, and it's really weird thinking she's just starting uni and I'm finishing.

Where does he live, etc? I remember having to go six to eight weeks when I was in Italy, and the last two weeks seemed so close. Now, on the other hand, we're apart for sixteen days for exams and Friday seems like an eternity away.

He lives near Hamburg in the north of Germany. It's a short plane journey away. We've known each other since last June and have been together since October. We saw each other in July, in December, in February and in April. We'll see each other in July, in August and then he'll move over here in September.

I suppose it's all relative

At least you have an end date, though, so that's good. My year of international long-distance was made bearable by the fact that I definitely knew it wouldn't be forever.

Your visits are quite well-spaced - impressive! - although I'd go mad waiting from July 'til December.

Well that bit was okay, because our first date went disastrously, we were together for a very short period of time at the end of July/beginning of August, I broke it off then we didn't speak until September. I was with someone else then so we didn't get back together until mid-October, which again was slightly reckless of us because we thought we wouldn't see each other until February. Luckily we both got Oxford interviews at the same time.

Yeah, the ever-encroaching prospect of university does make it bearable. And up till now the most we've spent with each other has been four or fie days, but I'm going for twelve days in July

I'm guessing you Skyped a lot?

It does work for a lot of people, though.

Except if you're in Russia and the internet is le poo I didn't really like it either though even when it did work - looking at your own face onscreen after you've been out in a blizzard is not pretty. MSN all the way.

Eee!

Erm, we were quite late adopters of Skype. We used MSN A LOT (I actually have our conversation logs (yes, multiple) on my old computer - I should dig them out!). I've never been a massive fan of video calling. I'm quite self-conscious of how I look on a webcam and being able to see his face is just another reminder that I'm not physically there. It does work for a lot of people, though.

Haha, I was almost going to qualify my comment with a footnote: "Except if you're in a convent in Italy*, using a language that doesn't even seem to have a word for broadband, let alone any broadband infrastructure."

* But that would require explaining how utterly crap my home university was at "helping" me, by suggesting I live in aforementioned convent. Note: a convent does not a good year abroad experience make!

You lived in a convent?! How weird. My internet was provided through a wireless dongle. It was terrible. I used to throw it across the room a lot because it failed on me pretty frequently. The worst of it was that on my way home from work there was this bridge, which had about twenty adverts for this particular wireless dongle all the way along it, so I'd walk along in a really bad mood because it was like it was taunting me about the bad internet that I was returning home to. Being back in England makes me so happy sometimes

We MSNed for hours and hours until we actually got together and saw each other in December. Now we talk over Facebook maybe once in a blue moon? We generally stick to emails and Skype. Although we started Skyping back in July, so it wasn't anything new. The amount of problems we've had with internet have made us want to kill ourselves, though. So bad it's unreal. Our house has simply had two years' worth of failing internet, though...

You lived in a convent?! How weird. My internet was provided through a wireless dongle. It was terrible. I used to throw it across the room a lot because it failed on me pretty frequently. The worst of it was that on my way home from work there was this bridge, which had about twenty adverts for this particular wireless dongle all the way along it, so I'd walk along in a really bad mood because it was like it was taunting me about the bad internet that I was returning home to. Being back in England makes me so happy sometimes