It's been a dreary, rain-filled day here in... Well... Rainy England. I don't know what I was expecting from this country in the middle of January, but still- one can hope!
I've been doing Sociology revision, and also managed to pick up some books from the Library free of charge (mwahaha, Law books run out of valid info after a while...So I took the statutes, cases, and the A-Z and I've literally saved about £80. Excellent!) so overall the dau has at least ended weith me having more than before. And, not to be materialistic, but the more sources I have to revise from, the better.
Sociology Topics...
Couples, Childhood, Family functions, Demography, Changing family patterns, Family Diversity and the life course, and Families and Social Policy. It's a hard life for an A-Level student. Especially when you got an A in the mock and they expect a high grade from you. Let me let you in on a little secret... That mock was the most boring, easy exam ever. All five questions were on the same topic, for Pete's sake! (whoever pete is, wow, you have a lot of people using your....sake...) Anyway, this means that my revision hasn't got vary far.
I have a glass desk, so I can take notes on it and then wipe them off once I think they're in the best order... It's a long and tedious task but it does work and therefore I continue to use it to this day.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Bonjour!
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| Daunting... But I'm getting there. |
I didn't have any lessons today, until five past eleven... So I stayed in bed until quarter to nine and then did some German homework. It was wonderfully quiet and easy to get on with the work as there was nobody here to distract me. I enjoyed it. So, my day started well. Then I walked to school (trekked across the downs but forgot my coat, left that at home so I was REALLY cold) and then when I finally got to school... My teacher wasn't in! So I did some law work, which was actually quite relaxing, creating a table of the civil and criminal courts. The books I took out from the school library are quite useful. Nobody else has knowledge of them yet... Connections, connections!
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| Various courts... in light detail. |
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| Criminal Law; English Legal System. Both | are great! |
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| Topic One of Chapter Two, Sociology AS Textbook. |
To put the entire Topic /Chapter thing into perspective... We only have to do Chapter Two. But there are Seven Topics within that... And it runs from page 16 to page 80. Not the most fun set of evenings I've had, I can be sure. And so can you. Tehe!
However, Law revision is fun... Seriously sometimes I think, "It's so complicated..." but in truth I enjoy it enough that that doesn't matter because I'm willing to put in the extra work to actually understand it.
Happy reading, folks! Have a good evening! I'll probably update again later.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Welp. Or should that be yelp?
Maybe it should be "HELP!"...
The Critical Thinking exam I revised mucho hard for... Was quite the bad one. Actually, that's putting it lightly...It was, by far, the worst exam I have done in the history of my higher education. None of us were prepared... And I actually did the revision ( not that she told us what to revise, helpful, thanks for that...) and therefore I can't begin to imagine how the others must have felt. It was honestly shite. But I'll keep you all updated on the progress of general Critical Thinking along with my other subjects anyway.
There's a system called UCAS points which is used these days for most university courses. At the moment for an AS Level, the grades and points are sorrespondinly... A, 60, B, 50, C, 40, D, 30, and E, 20. Hopefully for Critical Thinking I can at most hope to get a B, which is 50 points towards what ever I want to do... Unfortuanately the entire thing will probably tally to les than I'd hoped, as I'm terrible at working for long amounts of time. keeping interested for more than about thirty minutes is almost impossible.
Right now... How am I feeling?
Erm. Yessss... Quite awful. I had a go at my Mr. Wonderful for absolutely bugger all and I feel like I'm just pissing him off more and more and more (and I wouldn't be surprised if he just calls a time out soon because I'm probably worse than any nagging mother...) and I want to say sorry. Publicly. Sorry, Penguin. Please don't put up with my crap, just tell me when I'm becoming a bitch... The exam today was terrible and my hand bled and I'm in pain all the time and I just wanted a hug and you couldn't get to school and that made the whole ordeal WAAAAAY more stressful and I love you and I've really missed you today.
Overall I reckon my subjects are doing okay (as in, not failing miserably but seriously not doing well...) so I need to step up things a bit but I'm so worried and caught up in other things that there isn't really time, as it would seem. Other people are more important and I'm trying to get Mr. Wonderful the things he wants (difficult, very bloody difficult) but so far it's taking a while and things are becoming INFURIATING.
Overall though... I still love my life and I'm happy because from now things will either get worse (in which case I'll have more reason to cry...good...) or better, in which case I'll be happy anyway and carry on with life.
Have a good evening!
The Critical Thinking exam I revised mucho hard for... Was quite the bad one. Actually, that's putting it lightly...It was, by far, the worst exam I have done in the history of my higher education. None of us were prepared... And I actually did the revision ( not that she told us what to revise, helpful, thanks for that...) and therefore I can't begin to imagine how the others must have felt. It was honestly shite. But I'll keep you all updated on the progress of general Critical Thinking along with my other subjects anyway.
There's a system called UCAS points which is used these days for most university courses. At the moment for an AS Level, the grades and points are sorrespondinly... A, 60, B, 50, C, 40, D, 30, and E, 20. Hopefully for Critical Thinking I can at most hope to get a B, which is 50 points towards what ever I want to do... Unfortuanately the entire thing will probably tally to les than I'd hoped, as I'm terrible at working for long amounts of time. keeping interested for more than about thirty minutes is almost impossible.
Right now... How am I feeling?
Erm. Yessss... Quite awful. I had a go at my Mr. Wonderful for absolutely bugger all and I feel like I'm just pissing him off more and more and more (and I wouldn't be surprised if he just calls a time out soon because I'm probably worse than any nagging mother...) and I want to say sorry. Publicly. Sorry, Penguin. Please don't put up with my crap, just tell me when I'm becoming a bitch... The exam today was terrible and my hand bled and I'm in pain all the time and I just wanted a hug and you couldn't get to school and that made the whole ordeal WAAAAAY more stressful and I love you and I've really missed you today.
Overall I reckon my subjects are doing okay (as in, not failing miserably but seriously not doing well...) so I need to step up things a bit but I'm so worried and caught up in other things that there isn't really time, as it would seem. Other people are more important and I'm trying to get Mr. Wonderful the things he wants (difficult, very bloody difficult) but so far it's taking a while and things are becoming INFURIATING.
Overall though... I still love my life and I'm happy because from now things will either get worse (in which case I'll have more reason to cry...good...) or better, in which case I'll be happy anyway and carry on with life.
Have a good evening!
Sunday, 9 January 2011
AS Exam time...
For three out of my five subjects in AS ( the first year of A-Levels), I have exams in January. These cover "Unit 1" for each of the subjects' exam.
The timetable is as follows:
Monday January 10th, 1345- Critical Thinking AS Unit 1 (90m)
Friday January 14th , 1345- Sociology AS Unit 1 (60m)
Wednesday January 19th, 1345- Law AS Unit 1 (120m)
I'm quite looking forward to these just so they are out of the way. That's usually how I feel about exams. Get them revised for, get them done, if you do badly, do them again, it's not a big deal. If I treat things as a big deal then I get too scared about them and usually mess up (exams especially).
My Mr. Wonderful is also revising, though he doesn't have exams yet- he's just in the mood to work, and taking full advantage of that. So would I....But I'm not. Meh. Anyway, in my not-working attitude, I cycled to his house today. It's a good three or four miles. According to google maps (easiest unit at this time) The route is actually.... It won't tell me but it's pretty far, about forty five minutes on a bike (or half an hour on the bus but longer as it's a Sunday). I love you, Mr. Wonderful. Sorry about coming into your house bleeding (hehehe!)
Anyway, I have my Crit exam tomorrow so I might go and pretend to revise for that to make myself feel a little better ( I feel lazy) and to put my mind off my injuries (tehe, fell off my bike, it was quite dramatic but nothing to be too worried about. I didn't hit my head or anything, just my knee and I took a couple of little bits out of my right hand (that exam tomorrow is going to be a painful one...)
Have a good sunday evening, people!
The timetable is as follows:
Monday January 10th, 1345- Critical Thinking AS Unit 1 (90m)
Friday January 14th , 1345- Sociology AS Unit 1 (60m)
Wednesday January 19th, 1345- Law AS Unit 1 (120m)
I'm quite looking forward to these just so they are out of the way. That's usually how I feel about exams. Get them revised for, get them done, if you do badly, do them again, it's not a big deal. If I treat things as a big deal then I get too scared about them and usually mess up (exams especially).
My Mr. Wonderful is also revising, though he doesn't have exams yet- he's just in the mood to work, and taking full advantage of that. So would I....But I'm not. Meh. Anyway, in my not-working attitude, I cycled to his house today. It's a good three or four miles. According to google maps (easiest unit at this time) The route is actually.... It won't tell me but it's pretty far, about forty five minutes on a bike (or half an hour on the bus but longer as it's a Sunday). I love you, Mr. Wonderful. Sorry about coming into your house bleeding (hehehe!)
Anyway, I have my Crit exam tomorrow so I might go and pretend to revise for that to make myself feel a little better ( I feel lazy) and to put my mind off my injuries (tehe, fell off my bike, it was quite dramatic but nothing to be too worried about. I didn't hit my head or anything, just my knee and I took a couple of little bits out of my right hand (that exam tomorrow is going to be a painful one...)
Have a good sunday evening, people!
Thursday, 6 January 2011
I've changed again.
When I woke up this morning and looked in the mirror (typical vanity, but there's honesty in it), I could barely see because my eyes were all puffed up. I looked like someone had broken my nose and magically hidden the bruising colour that goes with the panda eyes. I cry in my sleep sometimes and it's just a case of working out how to get on with life even when things get me down. The only thing that stops me just falling into that well of unhappiness is a man. He's very important. I said this to my mother the day I met him.
His name is Mikolaj. And this man, this fantastic person with such a vibrant and funny personality (although sometimes he puts himself down and it's silly) seems to have walked into my life out of nowhere. And I have fallen in love.
He was just talking to someone else... And it was one of those awesome moments where I realised that even though I'd never seen or spoken to him before he was going to be one of those incredibly rare and almost frustratingly interesting people. And ever since he turned round about ten seconds after I first noticed him... We got talking and he is the most important, amazing, wonderful, grumpy person in my life. I actually love his grumpiness (he doesn't realise but when he's pouting slightly and his eyebrows are all angular he looks gorgeous. Still.)
Anyway, telling my mother about it was the easiest thing ever and I am happy mainly because EVERYONE accepted us right away. Not that I'd have cared. But the point I'm trying to make here is,
Mikolaj. You are possibly the most insane and grumpy and weird and crazy person I have ever met. And you make me lose sleep and I miss you and sometimes GAWD is your ability to eat Truffles annoying (my bank account! My poor bank account!) but I love you. You make me happier than anybody else ever has and I will be thankful for that forever. Kochanie, you rock my socks and you are the insane light that leads me (and I'm sure static shocks me into slight sanity every now and then, when it's needed).
Thankyou for being wonderful and yourself and speaking Polish when you're tired and drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and making me laugh until it hurts. Thankyou for the hats with ears and the halloween visit and the Christmas of awesomeness (even though you weren't here). Thankyou for the new Year, it was the vest start to 2011 I could have hoped for. I love you. Thank you for everything. You're incredible.
His name is Mikolaj. And this man, this fantastic person with such a vibrant and funny personality (although sometimes he puts himself down and it's silly) seems to have walked into my life out of nowhere. And I have fallen in love.
He was just talking to someone else... And it was one of those awesome moments where I realised that even though I'd never seen or spoken to him before he was going to be one of those incredibly rare and almost frustratingly interesting people. And ever since he turned round about ten seconds after I first noticed him... We got talking and he is the most important, amazing, wonderful, grumpy person in my life. I actually love his grumpiness (he doesn't realise but when he's pouting slightly and his eyebrows are all angular he looks gorgeous. Still.)
Anyway, telling my mother about it was the easiest thing ever and I am happy mainly because EVERYONE accepted us right away. Not that I'd have cared. But the point I'm trying to make here is,
Mikolaj. You are possibly the most insane and grumpy and weird and crazy person I have ever met. And you make me lose sleep and I miss you and sometimes GAWD is your ability to eat Truffles annoying (my bank account! My poor bank account!) but I love you. You make me happier than anybody else ever has and I will be thankful for that forever. Kochanie, you rock my socks and you are the insane light that leads me (and I'm sure static shocks me into slight sanity every now and then, when it's needed).
Thankyou for being wonderful and yourself and speaking Polish when you're tired and drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and making me laugh until it hurts. Thankyou for the hats with ears and the halloween visit and the Christmas of awesomeness (even though you weren't here). Thankyou for the new Year, it was the vest start to 2011 I could have hoped for. I love you. Thank you for everything. You're incredible.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Hello, thought I'd update again...
I still have the job, plus school, boyfriend and sports, and it's all working together quite well att he moment. Saying that has probably jinxed the entire thing but never mind. I'm not superstitious.
Anyhoooooooo, had to write an essay on (sociology) "assess how functionalists have contributed to our understanding of families and households". a lengthy 24 mark essay, I say lengthy because after written it must be learnt for use in the final exam. First time writing it took about an hour, exam time is a mark per minute so it's difficult. Fun though...
Alyosha (head of the Ham Brigade, my hamster) is in his ball trundling round. Every time he hits something loud I jump like I've sat on a sleeping cat. :D
Anyhoooooooo, had to write an essay on (sociology) "assess how functionalists have contributed to our understanding of families and households". a lengthy 24 mark essay, I say lengthy because after written it must be learnt for use in the final exam. First time writing it took about an hour, exam time is a mark per minute so it's difficult. Fun though...
Alyosha (head of the Ham Brigade, my hamster) is in his ball trundling round. Every time he hits something loud I jump like I've sat on a sleeping cat. :D
Saturday, 2 October 2010
the coming of the weapons of math destruction
That would be, in other words, my A-Levels, in which the only numbers I have to write are the date and time. It's a beautiful thing.
I got a job, folks! Interview was surprisingly easy and the new employer is really thoughtful (read: nice)- he said they don't want to get in the way of my full-time education but might ask me for help at some times during the week. Tomorrow I'm going to go in search of a job for Friday nights because that's the time everywhere needs help. Hoping from about eight onwards because I go skating.
Aha,haha,hahahaaa, I currently own a new pair of shoes (courtesy of mother in reward for getting the job) and I'm sat here wearing them. They are from Marks and Spencer, size eights (my feet are shrinking!!!) and they are Men's shoes because those are always more robust than women's. I did make an effort and have a look but they were all either ugly, or impractical, and in some cases both...or they were £85 which is far too expensive.
To dye or not to dye? Hair, purple, maybe... Don't know how it would go with the job though. The first thing people see on holiday is, I'm sure, not a fluorescent blob wending its way towards them through the breakfast tables.
I got a job, folks! Interview was surprisingly easy and the new employer is really thoughtful (read: nice)- he said they don't want to get in the way of my full-time education but might ask me for help at some times during the week. Tomorrow I'm going to go in search of a job for Friday nights because that's the time everywhere needs help. Hoping from about eight onwards because I go skating.
Aha,haha,hahahaaa, I currently own a new pair of shoes (courtesy of mother in reward for getting the job) and I'm sat here wearing them. They are from Marks and Spencer, size eights (my feet are shrinking!!!) and they are Men's shoes because those are always more robust than women's. I did make an effort and have a look but they were all either ugly, or impractical, and in some cases both...or they were £85 which is far too expensive.
To dye or not to dye? Hair, purple, maybe... Don't know how it would go with the job though. The first thing people see on holiday is, I'm sure, not a fluorescent blob wending its way towards them through the breakfast tables.
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