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I got my retake results back! I've gone from U to B and D to A in my history units, giving me an overall A at AS Level, and from B, D, C in ICT to D, B, C, but I get to keep my highest grades so now I have B, B, C which is an overall B at AS Level. I only gained two more points in the third unit that I got a C on, but those two points pushed me from 209 points to 211, and the threshold for a B is 210. \o/ It's not often that that works in my favour - I'm normally one point away from a better grade.

Basically, this means all is very good right now. :D

In other news, I took Nytol last night to help me sleep, and it still hasn't worn off. I have homework to do, and all I want is to curl up in bed.

+ I am now free of exams until May! My unit 2 history went okay - I got a question on Stresemann and as luck would have it I decided to read the chapter on Stresemann in my book on Weimar democracy a couple of hours before. Cute Boy wasn't there though. :/

+ I started taking metformin and tetracycline today - I'm taking it in conjunction with some lethal acne cream that made the skin around my eyes dry and tight even though it got nowhere near my eyes. Acne: it just keeps on giving.

+ You guys! Two (edit 2: three!) of my fics just got nominated at paire_awards (edit: and most outstanding author, wtf? :D )! :D :D :D

+ I am juuust about finished with a fic that got kind of surprisingly long. I get the feeling I won't get that many comments on it. Oh well.

Okay, so, just a quick entry before I post my epic Slings & Arrows picspam: I had my first retakes today and wtf, I completely missed the last question on the first paper until the last three or so minutes. D: I bullshitted some answers together right at the end, and god knows, I barely even read the question. I also kept reading questions on both the papers wrong and writing paragraphs that were completely not the right answer. I hope I didn't fuck up too badly. :(

Anyway, I'm going to go post my epic Slings & Arrows picspam, write fanfiction and try to not worry about tomorrow's exam.:/

YOU GUYS:
+ I have fucking applied to UBC. I HAVE FUCKING APPLIED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MOTHERFUCKING BRITISH COLUMBIA. Yes.

+ I won second place at heroes_contest and ~*first place*~ at pairechallenge. I never come first in anything! *always the bridesmaid, never the bride*

+ Christmas has been put up. Arty shot of top of tree taken with my webcam to follow~


+ ( Heroes 3x13 spoilers )

- I have stomach cramps, and a headache, and I need to do my politics homework for tomorrow morning but I don't know where the book is.

Things I have to have done by December 12th:
- my personal statement for UCAS.
- the revisions on last year's ICT coursework for resubmission (uh, where is it?).
- almost-final draft of my history coursework.

Things I have to do between now and January 16th:
- start this year's ICT coursework.
- practice building databases.
- study for my retakes.
- CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS.
- sit my ICT retakes on Jan 12th.
- sit my history retakes on Jan 13th and 16th.

AAAAAND RELAX. For a little while, anyway.

THE COMPLETELY RANDOM FRIENDINGMEME

cozyup!
the december wishes meme

- I saw the Hulk today, and... ( spoilers )

- The trailer for Hancock looks awesome, I am so looking forward to it.

- I am totally obsessing over The Office right now, and I'm sort of in love with Ryan/Kelly. If ITV2 don't start showing S4 really soon after S3 ends then... well, I can't be blamed for what I'll do.

- WTF? They cut The Scene from the Dirty Deeds DVD. I would have just watched it on youtube if I'd known.

- I've almost finished S7 of The X Files. No more Mulder! :(

- Oh lord, my dad asked me what Gossip Girl was like. His trend was liking Sabrina/Sex and the City/The OC is starting to worry me.

- My English exam went well, really well considering how I'd never written on essays on either subject. Only one to go now.

THE SCI-FI FRIENDING MEME
... to boldly go where no meme has gone before.

a) Dudes, my English exam went well, like really well (not that I'm jinxing myself or anything...) and I think my main problem might be that I wrote too much. I had to write a novel extract about evacuees in WW2 in about 400 words and I got carried away and did more like 600. But it was fun! I actually started to get into the tale of my poor nameless evacuee and his foster parents, Melissa and Robert. Then I had to write a commentary explaining how I shaped the texts given to reflect the attitudes and values of the characters and how I wrote it for an adult audience. I wrote two and a half pages for that, which is really good for me.

b) I'm sleeping really badly at the moment, and when I sleep badly, I have bizarre and vivid dreams. Like, last night I dreamt that I was talking to a Callum Keith Rennie character (I think RayK, but who knows) and he had some kind of *trauma* and he was crying and I hugged him... and then I woke up. I think it was because I've been reading Shadows Fade, which is a HCL/Tales of the City crossover. The night before last, I had a dream in which I was being interviewed, I think it was for entry into a school, and the woman I talked to was Daphne Zuniga (she was in the episode of One Tree Hill I watched on Monday). WTF?

c) I've been reading quotes from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, which I need to see, like, now, and for some strange reason I imagine Adam from Heroes saying Neil Patrick Harris's lines. It's very odd.

d) Oh God, Michael Welch is in Twilight. I might... have to see it now.

e) My hair is all icky. I considered washing it every second day and I tested that today, but... ick, no, I can't hack it.

f) I'm really not reading as much as I should be. Out of the eighteen books I've read, fifteen were graphic novels. I've started like four books this year that are still half read. Maybe in the holidays, I guess.

I'm off to do some epic editing.

Snagged from everyone:

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

1. Staff weapon. And if I could throw T in there as well, that'd be great.
2. Walk Like A Zombie by the HorrorPops. Surely it's the theme tune to any zombie invasion.
3. There's only really one choice for me, I feel. Adrian Pasdar! The awesome power of his hair can scare off the undead. Or something.


Other stuff:
-I have semi-epic fanfiction to finish. I'm thinking of splitting it into two posts. It's approximately 10,000 words and I think maybe that's a bit much to post altogether. I mean, it's not over the LJ posting limit, as far as I know, but it's a lot to read at once.

-I've finally started watching Kyle XY. I kept missing episodes but I managed to scrape together the first three episodes. And, well... Matt Dallas is ridiculously - let me repeat, ridiculously - cute, but his voice is painfully monotone, and the narration is fairly pointless. Eg: he walks downstairs and opens the front door, narration: I knew it was wrong to touch things inside the house, so I went outside. No shit, sherlock. I'm not a fan of narration at the best of times, but it's supposed to add something, right? Like in Pushing Daisies when the plot's explained, or getting a better look into Dexter's twisted mind or the Mohinder Explains It All moments. This is just annoying, but I'm staying for the pretty.

-I have an English exam tomorrow, and another on Friday. I'm not too worried about tomorrow, but Friday's is on the metaphysical poets and and Translations by Brian Friel and I have three problems:
1) I've only read the play once, and even though it's short, I'm much more inclined on writing about Nathan Petrelli.
2) I've got York Notes for both texts and I haven't read those yet either.
3) I've never actually written an essay on the metaphysicals before.

Oooh yeah, this is going to work out great.

Edit: Wow, this is kind of weird, SG-1 fans will probably get it:

		I will marry Michael Shanks.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in Abydos in our fabulous House.
		We will have 56 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Black Ford Escort.
		I will spend my days as a Starved artist, and live happily ever after.

GRODIN AS AN INCUBUS ON BLOOD TIES! THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE WELL.

I KNEW ALMOST ALL THE QUESTIONS IN MY EXAM EXCEPT WHAT A 'NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE' IS. WTF? THAT NEVER CAME UP IN THE CLASS.

ALSO:
geek is chic : the comic book fan friending meme

I HAD MORE TO SAY BUT I'M TOO TIRED TO THINK RIGHT NOW.

Exam in half an hour! My stomach hurts (just my luck that I would get my period the day before my early morning exam). I have to go buy a rubber and sharpener because apparently I cannot find anything within my black hole of a bedroom.

Today's XKCD. "Turns out distro is just Windows Vista with a few custom themes". :( Help.

*bites fingernails* I have two ICT exams in under ten hours. That's my whole ICT AS-Level finished, and here I am, reading fandomsecrets. Argh, I hope I don't forget everything when I'm in the room. That happens sometimes. :|

(Unrelated, but: I was looking at the covers in the back of my Marvel Zombies trade, and I saw something familiar. I'll admit, I squeed.)