Post exam jubilation and directionlessness
Well, the exam wasn't too bad after all - that is, I was expecting it to be beyond heinous and it was only repugnant. In some ways, it was good - it was really the kind of exam where you either knew it or you made it up. I get very anxious about exams that seem to be too long for their time frame, and this one certainly wasn't - most of the class left early, just like in my dream. Unlike my dream, the lecturer didn't absent-mindedly include the answers with the exam paper. Just when I'd gotten my hopes up....
The real problem with my degree and my current lifestyle is that there's very little genuine downtime. I've now finished my coursework for the semester, but I am still doing placement, and I really should think about doing something with my research (I haven't spoken to my supervisor since last year!) I'm also still doing paid work 3 days a week. I know it's only a month and a half since I got back from the UK, but that feels like it was about 100 years ago. In some ways, I am astonished that it's June, but in other ways it feels like November. Go figure.
Celebrating my freedom from exams like only a real geek can, I've changed the layout of my LJ. It now uses the "Flexible Squares" layout which I admired on off_coloratura's journal. I mention this mainly because anyone reading this is likely to be doing so through a friends page, and unless you leave a comment, *hint, hint* (::is comment whore::) you probably won't notice the difference.
Now that it's after my birthday and I don't look like I'm a present-beggar, I've put up a link to my Amazon wishlist. I'm always fascinated at looking at other people's books: it tells me a lot about someone if they're a serious professional and they own a heap of trashy fiction, or if they're an accountant and they own a bunch of books on art. So I guess that the idea of posting my wishlist is like a massive book meme. At the moment, there are only books I don't have on there - I noted some that I already own so Amazon can improve its recommendations, but unfortunately you can't see them unless you're me! Very shortly I will add some of my favourite books as "received" so you can have a virtual look at my bookshelves. (Edit: I've done so now.)
Hopefully, I'll be posting more now. I have a bunch of ideas in my head for things I'd like to write about: religion in industrial relations, my unquenchable desire for a new mobile phone, the things I've learned about myself in the last year, why religion is unfashionable but "spirituality" is the new black, and...why do I always want there to be one more item in the list?
Anyway, watch this space.
The real problem with my degree and my current lifestyle is that there's very little genuine downtime. I've now finished my coursework for the semester, but I am still doing placement, and I really should think about doing something with my research (I haven't spoken to my supervisor since last year!) I'm also still doing paid work 3 days a week. I know it's only a month and a half since I got back from the UK, but that feels like it was about 100 years ago. In some ways, I am astonished that it's June, but in other ways it feels like November. Go figure.
Celebrating my freedom from exams like only a real geek can, I've changed the layout of my LJ. It now uses the "Flexible Squares" layout which I admired on off_coloratura's journal. I mention this mainly because anyone reading this is likely to be doing so through a friends page, and unless you leave a comment, *hint, hint* (::is comment whore::) you probably won't notice the difference.
Now that it's after my birthday and I don't look like I'm a present-beggar, I've put up a link to my Amazon wishlist. I'm always fascinated at looking at other people's books: it tells me a lot about someone if they're a serious professional and they own a heap of trashy fiction, or if they're an accountant and they own a bunch of books on art. So I guess that the idea of posting my wishlist is like a massive book meme. At the moment, there are only books I don't have on there - I noted some that I already own so Amazon can improve its recommendations, but unfortunately you can't see them unless you're me! Very shortly I will add some of my favourite books as "received" so you can have a virtual look at my bookshelves. (Edit: I've done so now.)
Hopefully, I'll be posting more now. I have a bunch of ideas in my head for things I'd like to write about: religion in industrial relations, my unquenchable desire for a new mobile phone, the things I've learned about myself in the last year, why religion is unfashionable but "spirituality" is the new black, and...why do I always want there to be one more item in the list?
Anyway, watch this space.