Blog - April 2006
19:30 - 26/04/2006 - Update?
Sorry about that post the other day, I have a tendency to get especially self-involved around exam time. This years exams promise to be the evilest yet (though that's the norm isn't it?), I've pretty much got 4 and a half weeks to learn 6 months worth of matieral (for the first time for most of it, as I was asleep in most lectures). I've managed 4 hours of revision a day for the last 3 days, although it's driving me insane and I'm not sure it's going to be enough because I'm not making very good progress, but there isn't really anything I can do about that, so it's time get on with the work and hope for the best.
I updated / customised my hi5 page a little in one of my revision breaks, though I don't know why as it gets ~0.5% as many visits as this site, perhaps me linking it here will increase it's hit rate a little. I guess I should put a proper picture on my profile, instead of 'ceiling cat', or people will think I'm ugly. I'd take a pic from my webcam now and upload that, except my hair's too long and I don't have time to go get it cut, plus I'm not wearing a t-shirt, need to do weights for another couple of months before I'm willing to publish that kind of pic. *looks in mirror*, well actually...
Anyway, presuming I haven't failed my exams and parents haven't therefore kicked me out, I'll probably spend some of my time in summer learning some more php and MySQL so I can get a proper comments system going on this site, rather than just refering you to LJ. Now I'm going to go cook myself something and then afterwards do some more revision, *sigh*.
20:30 - 23/04/2006 - Last Day
Today was the last day of my easter holiday, and I decided to spend it as I spent the majority of the rest of my holiday, sleeping, playing some World of Warcraft and then finishing off watching the final season of Buffy. I just opened 'starter for ten' dispite being recommended it almost a year ago now, the first chapter really cheered me up when I was feeling a little down, so I'd just like to thank Tony for recommending it to me. I'm not sure how I'm going to do in these up coming exams and frankly I'm a little scared, I've never really had exams on anything I found particularly hard, but this stuff is down right confusing, and it's not help by the fact I don't find most of it even remotely interesting, and have done very little work for almost 2 years now. I've coped with it how I cope most things I can't deal with, I've ignored it, but that's really not going to help me here, so I guess tomorrow I'm starting that whole 'working my ass off' phase. It's the least I can do really, I should have been working for the past 6 months... I've got to make sure I get into another relationship before next years exams so that I can break up with them before hand, so I can go through the period feeling lonely, and not knowing who to talk to, wouldn't quite be the same without that.
17:20 - 14/04/2006 - Regressive Tendencies
My holiday has been severely lacking in revision, mainly due to my reinstallation of World of Warcraft, which proved to be an extremely effective procrastination aid. Though I know that I really need to revise, in fact I need to pretty much learn my courses for the first time. Actually I needed to be revising for the last month or so, the only reason I'm not panicing about these exams, is because I know it won't help. Unfortunately I'm still not getting down to work because simply put my course is fucking boring, it's just like "you need to know this, this and this to get a degree, so here they are, go learn them." I've made slight progress and I've uninstalled World of Warcraft, though I've just spent the time sleeping in or sitting in the sun in our garden instead of working. I am however more chilled out for it, so perhaps I'll be more likely to get down to it, to be perfectly honest, I think I just need a good kick up the arse. :\.