Stress and anxiety times

I now suspect that it doesn't really matter what happens in September. I think that there's some kind of underlying factor that causes anxiety this time of year. Maybe there's nothing I can do about it. Maybe it's something in the air. Who knows.

I spent part of the day phoning British Airways to get an explanation from them as to why they took 50 dollars from my account without my knowledge. These are the dangers of giving out your credit card number.
No explanation was given, just a request to fax a copy of my bank statement so they could see the exact amount, which is odd since they should be able to see that in their computer system anyway. Well anyway, I faxed the damn thing off and have been trying to contact the same person I spoke to this morning, since I didn't hear anything for several hours. Naturally, she had gone home for the day.

Apart from this joyous task I took on a fifth English course for this term. I hope the students will be nice and pleasant, and not sulky and pessimistic. There have been instances where some students have been like that. There are sometimes 1 or 2 people in the group that behave that way. I just don't have the patience for that these days.

On another note, the wrong side won in the election and those that are gravely ill and unable to work can look forward to another 4 years of degradation. The Swedish Democratic party made it into Parliament, which came as no surprise since the polls had indicated that this would happen. While I don't agree with their opinions, and would definitely not cast my vote in their favour, I, having lived abroad for a longer period of time, have a different perspective than Swedes who have never lived anywhere but in Sweden. As an immigrant in Canada for example, you will not receive any government funded lessons in your native language, and if you want to study English you do it at your own cost. In Sweden, immigrants get to take Swedish For Immigrants for free as well as lessons in their mother tongue, to maintain their native language skills. All in all, Sweden is still pretty good to their refugees and immigrants when they first arrive in the country. It's later that they fuck up, when it comes time for them to start looking for a job. Foreign people are still discriminated against on the job market, unfortunately.
I also think that the Swedish Democrats brought up a valid point that needs to be addressed, since I consider it a huge problem, and that is the fact that girls get called "cunt" and "whore" in school on a daily basis, especially if they're blond and Swedish looking. This is outrageous and I think something really ought to be done about this. No girl should have to be called those names, no matter where she's from. So, any political party who'll take an active stance against it and who will invest money into putting a stop to it is okay in my book. Whether or not the Swedish Democrats will actually deliver on this promise is another matter entirely. All politicians make wild promises during election times and then suddenly get amnesia when it comes times to make good on them.