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Property hunting is verrry irritating. I'm looking for an apartment to rent near UBC, and WTF, most of these websites don't have pictures or even give how many square feet the apartments are. I guess that's a bad sign, huh? Honestly, the thought that there is actually a good chance that I could be in Canada next September is terrifying the fuck out of me. I guess it's in a good way, but the idea of being completely alone and a ten hour flight away from my whole family is giving me random mini panic attacks. D:

I don't wanna be a grown up. Also, apparently ( I'm really crazy: )

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.

+ ( Movie meme thingy. )

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.

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

You know one of my number one things that aggravate me on the internet? Websites that don't give you a fucking email address to send questions to. I'm trying to get an answer to a question about my application on ubc.ca (and it's an important, I-can't-submit-my-application-until-it's-fixed type of problem) and their fucking question form is giving me an error. D: Argh. And, my first reaction to stress these days seems to be really horrible chest cramps that I have to take codeine for.

On the up side, I did manage to register with UCAS. \o/ I also have a bunch of shows recorded - I basically haven't watch anything on my tellybox for a week or so. I've got TSCC, two episodes of Heroes Unmasked and Life to watch over the weekend. I'm also marathoning Dexter season two - I used to really dislike Debra, but our shared hatred of Lila makes me like her now.

And and The Office. \o/ I really should post episode reactions to shit that's good rather than just crappy Heroes and crappy Stargate: Atlantis.

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'm this much closer to my trip to Canada now. :D