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My exams are finally finished. 10 more teaching weeks, 4 more of exams and 2 weeks study break is all there is left. It sounds like it should be something to be celebrated, but given that it means that more than half of the years assessment is going to be squeezed into that period of time, one really has to worry how I am going to keep up with it all. About all I can hope is that, in the shorter period of time, I will have less time to forget things heh
Exams went fairly well; Chemistry and Biology were so boring as to make me worry I'd missed tricks to questions, but Applicable and Literature were actually challenging. If I had spent the time I took off to go for a picnic at the Zoo studying they may have been easier, but there is only so much you can study before your head starts to really hurt. (Quite literally in my case, while it's abated a fair bit my nervous condition still flares when I study - and during exams for that matter ... Matrix Algebra makes even less sense when you've got a splitting headache hee).
Unfortunately I've been stuck working on Mother's farm most of next week, but I am likely to be paid a substantial amount of money for it, so its not entirely bad. I had a lot of money after my birthday (which was actually really cool this year - almost everyone remembered and people fussed and it was so unlike birthdays in the past), but I spent most of it on D&D books and DVDs *blushes* So now I will hopefully actually be able to start rebuilding the money in my account.
As for the rest of the holidays? There are a lot of people I haven't seen in too long, so I am thinking I might socialise a little, sleep a lot and generally just try to get the most out of the time slothing as possible. "Looking forward to sitting around on my arse a lot, having reversed sleeping patterns and getting into some hardcore Rich and Judy".
Spent some time with Mother this morning, and I actually managed to draw an admission out of her that the current living arrangement is unfair for me, that the fact the house is ever tidy is due to my efforts, that I shouldn't have to do everything I have to and that I'm not being paid nearly enough to put up with what I do. So my living allowance is under review again, but I am happy enough just to have it recognised and admitted.
I've made an internal resolution to actually get back to training, but to make it easier I am going to talk to Sifu and ask if I will be allowed to train with the Gold sashes until I get my condition and technique back. My current condition isn't worthy of my purple sash, and I don't want to go back and end up hurting myself because I have to push my weak, flabby body to do all the advanced techniques and be out of training again. But I miss it so much; the clarity of the meditation and focus, the euphoria of physical exhaustion, the release of agression from solid bag work, the challenge of sparring: all of it.
Not sure how much more I can say. This is probably the most positive I've managed to be in weeks. I'll try not to make a habit of it ;)
Exams went fairly well; Chemistry and Biology were so boring as to make me worry I'd missed tricks to questions, but Applicable and Literature were actually challenging. If I had spent the time I took off to go for a picnic at the Zoo studying they may have been easier, but there is only so much you can study before your head starts to really hurt. (Quite literally in my case, while it's abated a fair bit my nervous condition still flares when I study - and during exams for that matter ... Matrix Algebra makes even less sense when you've got a splitting headache hee).
Unfortunately I've been stuck working on Mother's farm most of next week, but I am likely to be paid a substantial amount of money for it, so its not entirely bad. I had a lot of money after my birthday (which was actually really cool this year - almost everyone remembered and people fussed and it was so unlike birthdays in the past), but I spent most of it on D&D books and DVDs *blushes* So now I will hopefully actually be able to start rebuilding the money in my account.
As for the rest of the holidays? There are a lot of people I haven't seen in too long, so I am thinking I might socialise a little, sleep a lot and generally just try to get the most out of the time slothing as possible. "Looking forward to sitting around on my arse a lot, having reversed sleeping patterns and getting into some hardcore Rich and Judy".
Spent some time with Mother this morning, and I actually managed to draw an admission out of her that the current living arrangement is unfair for me, that the fact the house is ever tidy is due to my efforts, that I shouldn't have to do everything I have to and that I'm not being paid nearly enough to put up with what I do. So my living allowance is under review again, but I am happy enough just to have it recognised and admitted.
I've made an internal resolution to actually get back to training, but to make it easier I am going to talk to Sifu and ask if I will be allowed to train with the Gold sashes until I get my condition and technique back. My current condition isn't worthy of my purple sash, and I don't want to go back and end up hurting myself because I have to push my weak, flabby body to do all the advanced techniques and be out of training again. But I miss it so much; the clarity of the meditation and focus, the euphoria of physical exhaustion, the release of agression from solid bag work, the challenge of sparring: all of it.
Not sure how much more I can say. This is probably the most positive I've managed to be in weeks. I'll try not to make a habit of it ;)