This month I have mostly been listening to Planet Rock
I've been whinged at for not updating, which is fair.
I've been doing plenty of maths, looking forward to exams being over (Thursday then Monday and I'm done).
Slightly anxious about needing to find a job for the summer which lets me go to Whitby, Cambridge, a wedding in Surrey and get to see the people I miss in Liverpool/Leeds/Germany etc. (the people in Edinburgh and Glasgow are also missed but I don't need time off to see them). The most I've done is filled out an application for casual work with the university, but I'll be quite surprised if I hear back from them. "Fuck all work experience, you say? Come and have whatever job you want!". I'd like to avoid working in a bar if possible as I think I'd hate it, as does Sarah. I'd also probably drive my colleagues (sp?) mad. I could do waitressing or something but that would probably be similar. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
My violin playing has gone to shit this semester since I stopped lessons, orchestra and practicing (sp?) , so I've only been playing once a week in the folk session and I've noticed the deterioration. I've decided to get a couple of lessons in the summer to kick start myself then try and play as much as possible. With my new found timefulness created by lack of being responsible for things and not being a final year student I intend to do more music, hopefully join/create a band to do some proper justice to my leccy fiddle, make clothes, since my last few shopping trips have ended in disappointment and grumpiness due to the general crapness of clothes available in shops, and possibly other things that I don't have in my head right now.
I suppose busking would probably kill 2 birds in a way, as it gives me plenty of practice and people throw money at me for the privilege of hearing it. I'd be mad not to really, at 24 squids an hour. But it is very boring and I don't think I'd want to do it day in day out.
Exams going ok. I seem to have planned my revision very well this time, it's good to see that practice does make perfect for a change. I have plenty of time for procrastination but manage to fit in my studying with space for guilt-free pubbage afterwards. I only hope my results reflect that. Thing is, exam performance is almost entirely dependent on how expected or not the paper is. If it bears no resemblance to the tutorial questions you have been led to believe are similar to the exam questions then you're bound to be fucked, since you have ut yourself in the mindset to deal with problems of a specific nature. You'd think it was in the tutor's best interests not to mislead you really, but there we go. That's why the piss easy exams are the ones that have been running for decades an haven't changed, so you have a wealth of past papers all of which are very formulaic. Anyway, this isn't even interesting rambling.
What else? I have a cold. I rarely get ill, in fact I think this is the first time in about a year. It would have to come at exam time. Come to think of it, I think I got ill this time last year too. Maybe its a spring thing?
I think that's about enough for now. Maybe I'll be back soon, who knows. I'm glad Chippeh is staying around, at least I'll have someone to talk to next year. I hate making new friends when I'm perfectly happy with the ones I've got. I suppose that is particularly the nature of St Andrews. I've seen my future, and it looks like Tait.
Oh, I'm still waiting to hear about PhD funding but its still fairly likely apparently. Should hear in the next few weeks.
Rock on.
Hannah
I've been doing plenty of maths, looking forward to exams being over (Thursday then Monday and I'm done).
Slightly anxious about needing to find a job for the summer which lets me go to Whitby, Cambridge, a wedding in Surrey and get to see the people I miss in Liverpool/Leeds/Germany etc. (the people in Edinburgh and Glasgow are also missed but I don't need time off to see them). The most I've done is filled out an application for casual work with the university, but I'll be quite surprised if I hear back from them. "Fuck all work experience, you say? Come and have whatever job you want!". I'd like to avoid working in a bar if possible as I think I'd hate it, as does Sarah. I'd also probably drive my colleagues (sp?) mad. I could do waitressing or something but that would probably be similar. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
My violin playing has gone to shit this semester since I stopped lessons, orchestra and practicing (sp?) , so I've only been playing once a week in the folk session and I've noticed the deterioration. I've decided to get a couple of lessons in the summer to kick start myself then try and play as much as possible. With my new found timefulness created by lack of being responsible for things and not being a final year student I intend to do more music, hopefully join/create a band to do some proper justice to my leccy fiddle, make clothes, since my last few shopping trips have ended in disappointment and grumpiness due to the general crapness of clothes available in shops, and possibly other things that I don't have in my head right now.
I suppose busking would probably kill 2 birds in a way, as it gives me plenty of practice and people throw money at me for the privilege of hearing it. I'd be mad not to really, at 24 squids an hour. But it is very boring and I don't think I'd want to do it day in day out.
Exams going ok. I seem to have planned my revision very well this time, it's good to see that practice does make perfect for a change. I have plenty of time for procrastination but manage to fit in my studying with space for guilt-free pubbage afterwards. I only hope my results reflect that. Thing is, exam performance is almost entirely dependent on how expected or not the paper is. If it bears no resemblance to the tutorial questions you have been led to believe are similar to the exam questions then you're bound to be fucked, since you have ut yourself in the mindset to deal with problems of a specific nature. You'd think it was in the tutor's best interests not to mislead you really, but there we go. That's why the piss easy exams are the ones that have been running for decades an haven't changed, so you have a wealth of past papers all of which are very formulaic. Anyway, this isn't even interesting rambling.
What else? I have a cold. I rarely get ill, in fact I think this is the first time in about a year. It would have to come at exam time. Come to think of it, I think I got ill this time last year too. Maybe its a spring thing?
I think that's about enough for now. Maybe I'll be back soon, who knows. I'm glad Chippeh is staying around, at least I'll have someone to talk to next year. I hate making new friends when I'm perfectly happy with the ones I've got. I suppose that is particularly the nature of St Andrews. I've seen my future, and it looks like Tait.
Oh, I'm still waiting to hear about PhD funding but its still fairly likely apparently. Should hear in the next few weeks.
Rock on.
Hannah