Nuts of love and wisdom?

Sometimes when my household argue I like to get really involved. I say household, and not family, because to be a family, people need to be related by blood or marriage. I am related by blood to my mother ("duh" would be appropriate here...but I digress) and by nothing to the others. So, thus, we are a household. Not a family.

Anyway, the adults have argued non-stop since eleven. That's over two hours. I have an exam...today (urgh)... and they are still up doing that weird whistpering-yelling thing, where you can tell people are really angry...But they're also trying to pretend they're not. Usually, at their (and my) expense, to no avail. What happens is "whisper whisper... SHOUT SHOUT [slam] [open by other person] [slam] *silence...* " etc.

Today they're arguing about being able to have things and being idiotic and how you can sit all bed in day moping that you've got no money but in the real world, people go to work and make up for this lack of money by actually... Er... Earning some. Fun topic! Let's see my views.

Lazy people are idiots.
I'm quite lazy, and therefore quite idiotic.
However, I can see the point person A is making.
Therefore, I'm not as idiotic. It is pretty much rendered null by the fact that depsite only having three lessons a day (sometimes four or five) I am still in school for the entire six and a half hours.... on Wednesdays usually about eight hours... It's literally just like work in the real world. Except I don't get paid.
You get paid.
But only if you go to work.
You worry about a lack of money.
IF YOU KEEP TAKING DAYS OFF WORK (worry days, I swear) YOU WILL LOSE MONEY.

It's quite simple and straightforward.

Anyway. My plan (stupid as it was but I am tired and clearly delirious) was to walk into the kitchen and give each person a nut. This I did. However, person A took both nuts, as I said (hopeful as ever) "Nuts of love and wisdom?" To which the reply was not thankyou, or thanks, or even a grunt. Instead there was a silent second, you know the one, where you think..."Well... maybe I should run now..." adn then person A simply said, "I'll take wisdom. Sod the love." At which point I nearly laughed but thought better of it.

Throughout this argument I have been doing German homework. It's interesting. We sometimes give daily accounts of occurrences and events... all of mine say the word Argument in them. Terrible.

Mr. Wonderful (name witheld for reasons such as he is easy to steal, very light and foldable like a netbook...) came round for a little today. We've talked and he's got a lot of changes happening- provisional licence, UCAS application, Coursework, Homework (now called "home learning", sod you, you over-PC bastards), etc. His family, mostly, live in Poland, so contact is fleeting. This upsets me. I wish there could be more ties. Or stronger ones.

I need to sleep, it has rained all day here (yes! England! I should really be used to it, as I've said...) and it's quite cold. But my mother put up some thermal curtains in my room (brilliant, it's ten degrees warmer in here than the rest of the flat, causing people to gravitate to my sleeping place. Weird but not too bad. I have an army of mutant squirrels to keep them at bay, courtesy of my friend Aggie) so everything is good. I need to sleep, good bye, good night, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, thanks for your time.

Happy reading, folks!

Revision...and misery...

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.

Bonjour!

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!

Various courts... in light detail.

Criminal Law; English Legal System. Both

 are great!

Topic One of Chapter Two, Sociology AS Textbook.

Also, this evening I have done some Sociology revision (I have my AS Unit 1 examination on Friday afternoon...) So I'm revising from the book and some other sources. Such as teacher tip-offs. It is excellent getting on with the school authorities, particularly at exam time!




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.

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!

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!

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.

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