Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Friday, 21 May 2010
Stress.
So today I have my first exam.
It's the first of the two resits I'm taking, today's being the Drama written exam. I thought I'd done well on it last time seeing as I hadn't been in college for 6months, but apparently not, as I got an E for the written bit which, thanks to my 79/80 A grade on the practical bit, was bumped overall down to a C. At the time I was distraught, but now I can see that even sitting the exam was an achievement in itself, and the C isn't the worst thing in the world.
I agreed to have another crack at it, and so I am. Today. I'm not feeling too confident about it, mainly because the bulk of revision I have been able to do has been for me English Literature exam, which is much more important to me. However, if I can pull off a slight grade raise I might be able to get my overall AS grade for Drama up to a B, but we'll just have to see.
The main source of my stress is more that it's Friday.
Which means tomorrow is Saturday. Which means I'm driving to London.
Which means it's nearly Monday. Which means my sister is coming home.
Which means it's nearly Wednesday. Which is when we're planning telling her all the amazing (read: shit) stuff that's happened while she's been away.
Any of you who have been following me for a fair while will know of this predicament. My sister went to Australia to study for her PHD, and while she was away, shit happened. I made the choice not to tell her, because I knew if we told her she'd be on the first plane home, and I couldn't do that to her. I couldn't ruin her opportunity like that.
So when she comes home, we have to tell her.
So obviously right now I'm an utter bag of nerves.
The plus side is that by being Friday today, it means the iPad will be here in a week XD but then so will my politics resit :/
Ah well. Smile :)
H.x
It's the first of the two resits I'm taking, today's being the Drama written exam. I thought I'd done well on it last time seeing as I hadn't been in college for 6months, but apparently not, as I got an E for the written bit which, thanks to my 79/80 A grade on the practical bit, was bumped overall down to a C. At the time I was distraught, but now I can see that even sitting the exam was an achievement in itself, and the C isn't the worst thing in the world.
I agreed to have another crack at it, and so I am. Today. I'm not feeling too confident about it, mainly because the bulk of revision I have been able to do has been for me English Literature exam, which is much more important to me. However, if I can pull off a slight grade raise I might be able to get my overall AS grade for Drama up to a B, but we'll just have to see.
The main source of my stress is more that it's Friday.
Which means tomorrow is Saturday. Which means I'm driving to London.
Which means it's nearly Monday. Which means my sister is coming home.
Which means it's nearly Wednesday. Which is when we're planning telling her all the amazing (read: shit) stuff that's happened while she's been away.
Any of you who have been following me for a fair while will know of this predicament. My sister went to Australia to study for her PHD, and while she was away, shit happened. I made the choice not to tell her, because I knew if we told her she'd be on the first plane home, and I couldn't do that to her. I couldn't ruin her opportunity like that.
So when she comes home, we have to tell her.
So obviously right now I'm an utter bag of nerves.
The plus side is that by being Friday today, it means the iPad will be here in a week XD but then so will my politics resit :/
Ah well. Smile :)
H.x
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
18 now :)
It was my 18th birthday yesterday, in case you missed it :) and I had a lovely day. Ok so it wasn't how I ever imagined my 18th to go, but in the circumstances it was great. Went to the Imperial (Wetherspoons) with a few friends and spent the afternoon there. It was really nice to catch up with some friend that I haven't seen in ages, and one in partiular suprised me with how much she's changed for the better. In the evening a load of family and family friends came round and I blew out the candles on my cake... which was actually one of my meal replacement bars lol. All in all, it was the easiest £3000 I ever made!! Haha yeah, basically all I got was money, which suits me fine. £300 of it was proper like gift money, and the rest was the savings account that my auntie and grandad have apparently had in my name since I was born, which really was such a suprise! A pleasant one, obviously.
After last years disastrous birthday, which you may remember ended in a police cell, anything was going to be better than that!
So yeah, I am actually feeling quite happy now, which makes a nice change! I lost another 3lbs yesterday too, which makes a total of 35.5lbs in 10 weeks, nothing to be sniffed at I'm sure you'll agree! I've probably got about another 6-8 weeks that I can carry this diet on until I need to get back eating normal food in time for Australia, and ideally I'd hope to lose another couple of stone by then, but anything gone is good :)
As IF it's only 3 WEEKS until my sister comes home for a month! It feels just like yesterday we were saying good bye to her at the airport, but by the time she gets here she'll have been gone 2 YEARS! It really does feel so weird. Obviously we've got to tell her everything that's happened this year, but we're going to wait until we're all back home in Exeter before we do that as it'd be unfair on her to dump all that crap on her when she's only been in the country for 5 minutes. Obviously a bit nervous about that but it's got to be done.
Other than that, the next few weeks I really need to crack on with revision. Not that I've not been trying, but I'm just finding it so hard to revise. To be fair, I've been out of studying for nearly 2 years now, so it's no wonder I feel a bit in the deep end, but I've just got to persevere, and I shall.
The first exam is the 21st May and the second is the 28th, both resits, and then my important English Lit exam is on the 8th June, so I've got a bit longer to ready myself for that one.
After my exams it will be just over 3 weeks until we go to Australia, which is just scary quite frankly, but exciting too obviously! I've got 90% of the stuff I want to take with me, the 10% left being the iPad and possibly a Fuji Pivi as the Polaroid Pogo seems to have fucked up. Bring on Monday 10th though, for the UK preordering and pricing!
I've got some other stuff going on, but it's mostly all good and I can't be bothered right now, ha, but rest assured, at the minute your favourite Finch is 85% happy, which is up by about 50% from a few months ago :)
H.x
After last years disastrous birthday, which you may remember ended in a police cell, anything was going to be better than that!
So yeah, I am actually feeling quite happy now, which makes a nice change! I lost another 3lbs yesterday too, which makes a total of 35.5lbs in 10 weeks, nothing to be sniffed at I'm sure you'll agree! I've probably got about another 6-8 weeks that I can carry this diet on until I need to get back eating normal food in time for Australia, and ideally I'd hope to lose another couple of stone by then, but anything gone is good :)
As IF it's only 3 WEEKS until my sister comes home for a month! It feels just like yesterday we were saying good bye to her at the airport, but by the time she gets here she'll have been gone 2 YEARS! It really does feel so weird. Obviously we've got to tell her everything that's happened this year, but we're going to wait until we're all back home in Exeter before we do that as it'd be unfair on her to dump all that crap on her when she's only been in the country for 5 minutes. Obviously a bit nervous about that but it's got to be done.
Other than that, the next few weeks I really need to crack on with revision. Not that I've not been trying, but I'm just finding it so hard to revise. To be fair, I've been out of studying for nearly 2 years now, so it's no wonder I feel a bit in the deep end, but I've just got to persevere, and I shall.
The first exam is the 21st May and the second is the 28th, both resits, and then my important English Lit exam is on the 8th June, so I've got a bit longer to ready myself for that one.
After my exams it will be just over 3 weeks until we go to Australia, which is just scary quite frankly, but exciting too obviously! I've got 90% of the stuff I want to take with me, the 10% left being the iPad and possibly a Fuji Pivi as the Polaroid Pogo seems to have fucked up. Bring on Monday 10th though, for the UK preordering and pricing!
I've got some other stuff going on, but it's mostly all good and I can't be bothered right now, ha, but rest assured, at the minute your favourite Finch is 85% happy, which is up by about 50% from a few months ago :)
H.x
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Hmm.
Problemo. Well, not really a problem in the grand scheme of things, but still. Was having a look earlier and trying to sort out how I'm going to fit everything in my bag for the trip to Australia, and its not going well. I may have to actually look at getting a different bag for the trip, which isnt a huge big deal but I obviously would've liked to use my leather bag, but its not as if it wont ever get used.
The other choice I've got to make is about the DSi. I've got 2 Gameboy Mini's and a stack of GBA games, as well as a DSi. Cant decide whether to sell one GBM and the games and get the DSi equivalent of the GBA games, or to sell the DSi and get a DS so I can play both DS and GBA games. Plus I cant actually even decided whether to bother taking the DSi at all. I might want to play on it at the airport and on the plane, but if I've got my phone and iPad I'm not likely to be short on entertainment, and how much am I likely to play on the DSi while I'm in Australia, really? So thinking I might not bother taking it at all.
I've also got to sort out my phone situation. I was going to get the HTC Hero but even though I do still want it I dont know if I should bother. Depends on the new iPhone in some respects to be honest. There's rumours that Apple will announce the iPhone and start selling simultaneously as they do with the iPod Touch' apparently, and if they do then I'll have to rethink yet again. If the new iPhone goes on sale before I go away, I might buy the new one, then jailbreak my 3G and hope that will save any sim-swapping issues I'm likely to have and take the 3G with me.
But then again, I do still quite want the HTC Hero. Arg. I dunno.
A lot of this stuff depends on whether I get any money from the CICS too.
H.x
The other choice I've got to make is about the DSi. I've got 2 Gameboy Mini's and a stack of GBA games, as well as a DSi. Cant decide whether to sell one GBM and the games and get the DSi equivalent of the GBA games, or to sell the DSi and get a DS so I can play both DS and GBA games. Plus I cant actually even decided whether to bother taking the DSi at all. I might want to play on it at the airport and on the plane, but if I've got my phone and iPad I'm not likely to be short on entertainment, and how much am I likely to play on the DSi while I'm in Australia, really? So thinking I might not bother taking it at all.
I've also got to sort out my phone situation. I was going to get the HTC Hero but even though I do still want it I dont know if I should bother. Depends on the new iPhone in some respects to be honest. There's rumours that Apple will announce the iPhone and start selling simultaneously as they do with the iPod Touch' apparently, and if they do then I'll have to rethink yet again. If the new iPhone goes on sale before I go away, I might buy the new one, then jailbreak my 3G and hope that will save any sim-swapping issues I'm likely to have and take the 3G with me.
But then again, I do still quite want the HTC Hero. Arg. I dunno.
A lot of this stuff depends on whether I get any money from the CICS too.
H.x
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Future forwards.
Come September it'll be time for me to go back to college full time, with people and everything, and I'm a little scared.
Was talking to dad about college today and feel a bit calmer in terms of exams. I've got my English Lit AS exam and 2 other AS resits (drama & politics) coming up in just under a month. I'm resitting those two because, due to my personal circumstances, obvs, I fucked them up last time and ended up with a C and D respectively, despite having nearly full marks on the drama practical performance. I'm going to focus more on the English exam but will obviously give the others a good go. The more I think about it the less terrible a C at AD seems, besides, Uni's don't really pay attention to the AS, just the full A level.
In the end, I'll carry on English Lit and Politics to A2: English because it's my subject, and Politics because I should be able to get the D up easier than in drama. There's no way I could cope with drama unfortunately. My third full A Level will be completed by way of a fast track course or evening class... Just got to decide what subject though!
At the end of the next academic year, eg 2011, the aim is to end up with my 3 full A Levels at AAB or ABB, which should be good enough for the Uni's I want... which is something else I know nothing about right now...
Was talking to dad about college today and feel a bit calmer in terms of exams. I've got my English Lit AS exam and 2 other AS resits (drama & politics) coming up in just under a month. I'm resitting those two because, due to my personal circumstances, obvs, I fucked them up last time and ended up with a C and D respectively, despite having nearly full marks on the drama practical performance. I'm going to focus more on the English exam but will obviously give the others a good go. The more I think about it the less terrible a C at AD seems, besides, Uni's don't really pay attention to the AS, just the full A level.
In the end, I'll carry on English Lit and Politics to A2: English because it's my subject, and Politics because I should be able to get the D up easier than in drama. There's no way I could cope with drama unfortunately. My third full A Level will be completed by way of a fast track course or evening class... Just got to decide what subject though!
At the end of the next academic year, eg 2011, the aim is to end up with my 3 full A Levels at AAB or ABB, which should be good enough for the Uni's I want... which is something else I know nothing about right now...
Monday, 19 April 2010
Mahalo.
Once more, I must apologise. I haven't been updating this blog as much in a while, and I've been using my Tumblr a lot more. Again though I say, I'm not leaving this one, I'll be using it for my longer posts and stuff, and my Tumblr for the short n sweet ramblings and what not. So yes, I'm still here :)
Sunday, 18 April 2010
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