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HOLY SHIT GUYS, I JUST GOT AN ACCEPTANCE LETTER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. MY DREAM UNIVERSITY ACCEPTED ME. OH SHIT. THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN.

( afdi*&hgc^%bgcfd$!!!! )

+ Okay, so. You know how I squeeeeed about getting into Chichester? Well, I just checked on the UCAS website and realised I'd been looking in the wrong place for finding out the progress of my application, and guess what - Edge Hill University have accepted me as well! Holy fucking fuck. Now I don't know if I'll even bother sending samples pieces of work to Westminster - I should, but it was never my first choice for a British university.

+ Thai food is very nice. Yum, yes.

+ When I took my history retake on Tuesday, there was a Very Cute Boy also taking the exam. He's not a student at the college, sadly, I guess he's just in to do the exam, and I didn't talk to him, but still: Cute Boy. And, when I sat down (at the desk next to his, ha) he slipped on a pair of glasses and I was like, I'm in ~love~. :D He should be there again on Friday - maybe I'll try to talk to him.

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OMG YOU GUYS, OMG. I JUST GOT MOTHERFUCKING ACCEPTED INTO CHICHESTER UNIVERSITY! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY SENT OUT ACCEPTANCES THIS EARLY, AND THEY DIDN'T ASK FOR ANY SAMPLES OF MY CREATIVE WRITING LIKE THEY SAID THEY WOULD.

OH. MY. GOD. I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO CALL EVERYONE I KNOW, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE. OMG, I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO CALL MY DAD AND TELL HIM. :O

I'll TRY TO POST SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE SUBSTANTIAL LATER.

points of order:

1) I demand to know why the template databases I downloaded today (well, yesterday now, I guess) weren't this cute:

more animals

2) I'm starting to pull together ideas for my NaNo novel, but I don't know how much planning to do. Thing is, planning tends to kill my writing - I have a kind of kamikaze approach to most writing, either I'll finish something or I won't, planned or not. On the other hand, this is fifty thousand words in a month and I've never done that before. Opinions?

3) I have to start applying to universities soon. I need to write a personal statement for the English universities (I'm not sure if UBC needs one of those too), but I don't even know where I want to go. I mean, UBC is my first, second and third choice, and if I don't get in, I don't even know what I'd study here - I really don't to spend three years writing literary criticism. D:

4) Speaking of university, I don't know if I want to apply to live in residence at UBC. Originally I thought I definitely would - then I saw the dorms. :) The problem isn't really that they're cramped, drab and prison-like (though the ones I saw were), it's more that if I make it out to Canada, that's going to be my home. There'll be no going home on the weekend if I feel suffocated or homesick. Also, I'm rapidly learning that I highly value my privacy, and I just don't know how I'll get on living with that many people. :|

When I mentioned this to my dad, he shot it down real quick, but somehow I think that probably was mostly to do with him not wanting to have to help with the rent. He said that I should live in residence to get to know people, but somehow I think I'll probably make friends anyway, not to mention my neighbours if I lived in an apartment block.

I'm not sure how I'd go about renting a place since I won't know if I'm actually going until a couple of weeks before term starts. I guess I'd just have to put a deposit down on a place, and hope it doesn't fall through. And then, of course, there's the question of whether I'd go out there in the summer to look at apartments, or just take my chances over the internet.

But then maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

5) Apparently, there are Russian bots going around adding and removing people to their friends list. I had a couple add me last week, but I wasn't sure WTF was going on. God only knows what their purpose is.

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I have set up an account on the University of British Columbia website and requested an International Student Viewbook. *wibbles* I also talked to my dad about flying out to Canada this summer and looking at some different universities. He was really surprised I asked him to go with me, he asked me "if Mum would allow it". :| Number one? She's not like his new girlfriend, and number two, I'm eighteen, I can do what I want. I'm looking at hotels and flights right now, and I'm about to ring. He's going to kick up such a fuss, I just know it.

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Seen on stargate: British Replicators. :O BIG OL' PILE OF DO NOT WANT.

EDIT: Also? Bank holiday + sun = me not happy. I had to be dragged around a park full of sun seekers by my dogs, who barked at people on scooters and rollerblades, and at children, while wearing a tank top which made me feel very awkward every time I had to bend down. :/

Working out how to apply to Canadian universities is hard, man. The University of British Columbia seems to say that application deadlines are in June, and I think that includes your qualifications and grades, which would mean I'd have to take a gap year (which I was already thinking of doing) and apply in 2010, when I've finished my A-Levels. The whole North American university system is confusing the hell out of me, honestly. The Creative Writing Plan of Degree Program is like a whole other language to me.

Urgh. Any out there who can enlighten me on this?

Yesterday I was in Waterstones picking up a bunch of A Level books (which, by the way, cost a lot more than is reasonable for a poor old student) and I was flicked through a Computing book, and oh, I so want to take that instead of ICT. Computer programming versus spreadsheets and databases? I know which one I'd pick. Problem is, I can't study it to degree level because I'd need a Maths A Level, which I really, really don't want to put myself through. I could take Computing just to learn as much as I can about it, but if I don't take the ICT A Level, and then go on to study it at University, am I putting myself at a disadvantage?

Oh internets, what should I do? D:

Also, I really want an i-dog. I thought I was past the point where I felt the need to waste my money on useless gadgets that clutter up my room, but apparently I'm not. ^^