Get out of the rat race These notes are just a task that helps me memorize new idioms and phrases I've come across lately. I hope they we'll be handy during my CAE speaking part. Ready, steady, go! 1. Five years ago I decided to get out of the rat race, so I quit my desk job and headed off to Georgia immediately because exploring the whole country had been my wishful dreaming which I thought would remain a pie in the sky. 2. I so dislike date sites, you know what they say about finding a date online "Hope for the best, brace for the serial killer". One more reason for avoiding such type of meeting your potential ' significant other' is the idea of people who are all show and no go 3. Procrastination as well as unreasonable optimism are my middle names I suppose. I can loiter all day long or sleep for 10 hours a day and still believe all my troubles will go away and problems will be solved themselves and everything will come out in the wash. How possibly could I face up to this situation? (The last question is ongoing, I would appreciate your answer ) 4. Truth be told all my teachers cast me as a smart diligent pupil maybe even a goody-two-shoes girl who would succeed into a professional housewife of some tycoon or a careerist/office-seeker/place-hunter/climber/go-getter or a linguistic nerd or someone like that. That's why I guess I have ended up being a miserable shallow and mediocre no one 5. I never told him how I felt about him. He was young, smart, handsome and immature. Some things are better left unsaid. The truth can be extremely painful especially when you are not ready for it. 6. I'm really fed up with cleaning after my neighbour's dog. Its fur is always on my door carpet. So annoying! 7. Life is messy. Every day you have to come to terms with dozen of real-life stressful and tense situations, to make hard moral choices and at the end of the day it is critically important to unlax properly in order not to go nuts ( I have a feeling that something is wrong with the style there, so somebody, please, help me!) And btw, folk, could you recommend a good student's book on punctuation (with tables, a lot of examples and clear and precise explanations) Thanks in advance!