Moar exams and stuff (p2!)

They're all over now. Four months free, will mostly consist of playing video games, reading, writing, brushing up on Latin and a few other modern european languages.

I reckon I'm getting to the end of disc 2 on FFXIII, pretty good so far. As I've found with the other FF's the malaise around the battle system is present, picking what characters to form the party with is trickier than the negotiations surrounding the hung parliament. Got Red Dead Redemption arriving tomorrow, though I want to get to the end of FFXIII before I start on that.

Going to see a play the end of next month, I think. Though the whole drama surrounding it is ridiculously stressful. The sort of drama we're talking about here is 'might as well fuck off out of the country to bypass it' sort. Yeah, that bad. Oh well, i'm sure it'll all go smoothly, it's just more stress I don't want to be dealing with after I've had the wonderful experience of revising hard for exams for the past month. I though I was able to relax now, but the metaphorical gods have decreed otherwise.

Speaking of fleeing the country. I usually do a couple of weeks away in June or July. This year I was going to start off in Norway and travel down to Israel, but with Israel decided to be absolute arses today, I'm guessing the whole region's going to be destabilised for the year. Well, more so than usual at least.

I guess I could avoid it, or just go to SE Asia, but heat doesn't agree with me, and I'd originally been planning that route for a while now. I suppose the risk is worth it, I just won't continue down to Egypt through Gaza. That'd be asking for trouble, and my picture alongside an article about a stupid student that's gone and got himself injured/kidnapped isn't really what I want my print debut to be.

Other things to do over the summer include attempting to get my exercise levels up. I'm going to attempt to continue activity twice a week, to replace getting in to University, lest I sink back into minimal exercise levels. That wouldn't boost my chances of managing University come September energy wise. What I was thinking of was a bit of biking and swimming, it's moderate exercise and I can increase the length biked and swam accordingly.

Examssssss

In the middle of them. They've gone okay, second question of my Tragedy I was under insane time pressure, which went along with exhaustion and didn't really produce optimum performance. Pretty happy with the first answer, though I felt clarity in places was a tad dodgy. Intro to Literature 2 exam tomorrow, and then I'm free for the summer!

Moving.

Spent about half an hour attempting to move a couch through the back door so it can go to the skip today. Failed miserably, for two reasons. First, that thing's bloody heavy. Secondly, I swear the doors have shrunk..

Essay, study, tea,

Last two essays are pretty much done, just editing left now. Literary theory essay I'll be handing in tomorrow, but my history essay'll be edited a tad, then handed in on Tuesday. The lit theory essay, a 2500 word..ish mass of Woolf, Butler's gender theory and Germaine Greer has actually been a fun experience to write, even if it was somewhat frantic. The history essay, however, was a little more frantic. Considering I haven't actually written that many history essays in the course of my rather convoluted schooling, I not only had the subject matter to wrestle with, but the completely different structure. Nevertheless, I got through it, despite the added inconvenience of a mere 1000 word limit. It had the added plus of fitting into revision for that module.

These essays being mainly out of the way, exam revision can get into full steam. I've reread Slaughterhouse Five (so it goes) and made extensive notes on that, and I'm currently rewriting my notes on Eliot, Wordsworth and Keats. History wise, Enlightenment and Renaissance areas I'm pretty confident of my knowledge in, having covered them rather well in my research for the aforementioned paper. English Civil War wise, I have a brief outline, but somewhat shakey in the details, and the same goes for the Reformation.

Completely unrelated, the 1971 SlaughterHouse Five film adaptation, which Vonnegut was rather pleased about, not once had the phrase 'so it goes' uttered. Terrible, right?

Back to the earl grey.