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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!!!
Rachael found out (after much wondering on our part) that our DoE is next Thursday! No! I'm not ready! I have a week to get myself in shape! I! Can't! Hike! Through! The! Scottish! Mountains! Like! This!
On the plus side, a year of carrying a rediculously heavy schoolbag (13kg!) has prepred me for the horror of carrying a 16kg rucksack for three days. I can't even put it on myself because it's too big and heavy and meehhh*sad face*
A WEEK!
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Question 30 of the multiple choice "Which of these statements [something]?"
A Blahblahblah
B Blagblahblahblah
C Benzene is [something] then [something else]
IT SHOULD HAVE SAID THAN! I just about had a heart attack. I just sat staring at it, completely horrified. Perhaps that's why I ran out of time. Oh well, never have to do chemistry again. Unlike all of my other subjects, I can't say that I'll miss it. Ugh.
I'm going travelling next summer. Wooo! And I'm free for the next week or so! Because my exams are over! Double wooo!
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Wooo Scotland came top (again!) in the Test the Nation thing (a quiz show that tests the UK on things like IQ, entertainment, news stories, etc. and each time they have groups of different people in the studio. Today's was on the world (global warming, nature, and stuff like that). Edinburgh was the best city in the UK. How wonderful. For the yearly IQ test in September they are having studio groups of estate agents, two different kinds of schools (I forget what the English call them), butchers and vegetarians. My parents told me to apply so I have the forms. Vegetarian or giddy school girl or both? I'd rather do the vegetarian one, to be honest with you, because they're likely to make that colour scheme green (my favourite) whereas for the schools one, I've a feeling that they would make me wear my uniform, which is roasting at the best of times.
That was boring, I know. I'll do a proper update with pictures soon. I have something I need to ask you.
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You know what? I am so fed up of people putting themselves down. Everywhere I go, everybody I meet, I'm met with self-depreciation and I'm sick to the back teeth of it. So go on, tell me the thing you like most about yourself. Be positive for once. Think about it and tell me your favourite reasons that you are you and tell me them, because I really could do with the knowledge that this workd isn't completely devoid of self-esteem. Do it!
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Biology exams are the most physically exhausting out of all exams. Multiple choice, written section AND essays! What did I say before the exam? "There'd better not be an essay question on the transpiration stream!" What came up in the bloody essay section? The transpiratin stream. Grrr. I didn't do that essay, though. I did behavioural defence in animals (couldn't remember all of it so I made some stuff up) and cellular defence in plants. My other essay was a load of rubbish about the principles of negative feedback control using the homeostatic control of blood sugar levels as an example. I think I've done ok! I've pretty much definitely got full marks for the plant cellular defence section, seeing as cellular defence in plants and animals is my best thing in the entire course.
Ooooh I did something very stupid, too!
Last year I was getting dressed ready to go to my chemistry exams which were in an hours' time when a lady from the school office phoned and asked where I was, because my exam had started ten minutes ago. I had a massive panic attack, threw on some clothes and my brother came home from uni to take me to school. You're not allowed in after half an hour. I got in after 28 minutes. The most scary thing that has ever happened to me. After that I swore I wasn't going to do anything stupid in an exam ever again. Well I did. Today. You aren't allowed to write or make ANY marks other than your answers on your multiple choice answer sheet because, if you do, the computer can't read it and you get 0 marks. I mistook my multiple choice sheet for my working sheet and did a dihybrid cross on it. Oops. I only noticed when I was leaving and I had to stay behind and do it again.
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I've just spent the best part of an hour learning about speciation (there are 6 stages in speciation) and I bet you it won't even come up. My folder keeps opening and vomiting its contents all over the place because it's at its full capacity.
A few months ago I got sent to "relaxation" classes with 9 other stressed-out-to-the-point-of-explosion girls in my year. She made us talk about a load of crap (look into the mirror and say, "I love you! I REALLY love you!!" >three times a day) and then lie on the floor of the Conference Room and meditate while she talked about angels and stuff. We're supposed to use all the techniques she did when we were on the floor to calm ourselves down before exams. Except, I can't because I always just went to sleep (it was the incense, I swear!). Perhaps that's why I'm on drugs (which, by the way, I can't find)
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Can I just ask...who the hell wants to know that female locusts have a different number of chromosomes than male (female=16+XX, male=16+Y) and all about the sex chromosomes of birsd and bees butterfies? Why is this in the course? It's not of use to me in any way! I've comlpetely forgotten about conjugation of bacteria! I do, however, remember Laura repeatedly pointing at "Rapid Asexual Reproduction" with her finger over the second A and laughing. Crap, I'm going to think abotu that in my exam! Ragh! Yeah...I'm completely calm...
I reeeeeeeeeeeaallly want an A. Reallyreally. But if we get rubbish essay questions, I'm pretty much guaranteed a B. Either way, I have a great appeal base and I'll still be allowed to do Advanced.
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Rory stayed the night last night. Let's just say I won't be having any kiddlywinks for a wee while.
I just have to say something right now. This minute. Before I forget: my mother is not arranging my wedding for me. NO WAY. Her side of the family is largest (5 brothers and two sisters each married at least once with at least two children) and so their madness takes precidence over my father's side (one brother, one sister). Lucky me, then, that it's my mum's siblings who are so into Lallans* and Scottish traditions. I might just not get married at all.
*Which, by the way, is recognised as a (minority) language by the EU!
EDIT: Rory is my 8 month old nephew!!
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Mozart=just as effective at calming me down as wee pink pills. I got myself into a bit of a state about maths tomorrow. So much so that I actually scared myself. I'm about 88% sure that I'm going to fail. I'm still sitting doing revision though. Goodness knows why. I just want maths to be over and then I can concentrate on something I actually really enjoy. And then chemistry :S
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I can't believe that I've just sat my Higher English and I never have to sit another English exam ever again...oh no wait, I took Advanced....shit.
6 mark question for understanding! Thank you, English bit of the SQA! I love you!
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It feels like my heart is actually about to explode into a big gooey mass of...heart. I want an A so badly. I still haven't decided on whether to write about poetry or drama (I'm definitely, definitely doing prose)
I tried to get my brother to define a "typical Edinburgh spinster" (because he's the only member of my family (aside from me, obviously) actually from Edinburgh and he went, "I dunno, she'd live in Morningside and *mumbles*. I'm off to uni *I went into the kitchen and missed what he said* bye"
The character I was trying to define DID live in Morningside! My other brother lives in Morningside, so I might ask him, too.
It would be really nice if a question on narrative or setting came up in prose and a good question on symbolism came up in drama *prays*
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You know what really annoys me? Andrew was such a nice person and to everybody, too. He had been working really hard to get good grades this year. He had a really promising future. And that all got taken away because some stupid twat decided that he would hit him over the head with a bat. Now he's tranquilised to the max and isn't able to sit his exams, which means he'll probably have to re-sit fifth year, which is such a shame because he's always looked forward to having a fun and restful 6th year. So much of his life has been taken away from him, so many oportunities and for nothing. That attack was completely unjustified and, while they say that there's enough evidence to convict George, he'll probably get away with it. THAT is what really annoys me. Andrew is a good person and has had his future taken away from him; George was horrid, and he'll probably be left free to continue being a nuisance to everybody that has the misfortune to meet him. Where's the justice in that?
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To-do list:
Write my poetry essay.
Find and take my vitamins/medication.
Find out what my essay question is for tomorrow.
Research and plan said essay.
Start re-reading our class novel, because if I try to write about poetry in the exam, I'm completely screwed.
Find my discursive essay. I'm sooo annoyed that I lost it. It was a damn good essay. ( Finish d.essay. I didn't finish it? :\)
Stop procrastinating.
Do my hair. This gets priority. Bugger the rest. I haven't handed in a single piece on time this year and I don't bloody well plan to start now. (Besides, it got me an A and a Merit award, so it's obviously the key to success).
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You know how, if you have a pet, you're supposed to take it to the vet's every now and then for a check-up? Well that's kind of what it's like when I visit my grandparents, except I'm the pet and my granddad is the vet. Except, everybody has gone out and I want to check my blood pressure but I can't find the nice stethoscope that I don't hate (me+stethoscopes=not exactly best friends). Spanish diabetes testing it is, then :D
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The negative things about having a Mad Shetlander for a future sister-in-law:
It's often very hard to work out what she's saying :\
She really is bloody mad.
The positives:
She's very nice and amusing. And she bosses my brother about. And she is so blunt, in her special Mad Shetlander way. I love the look of surprise on my relatives; faces :)
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Went to see the doctor. We talked about science. She drew me funny graphs. She gives me a prescription for pills that will get me "back on the plateau" (of the graph?). They made me sick.
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Is anyone else's MSN being an idiot? Like, not letting you sign in, not showing people that you're online, not letting you speak to people, etc.?
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