Stolen because Chris's produced some interesting answers ;)

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I'll keep this short so as not to bore everyone. I got a call last night from Dr Jane Garnett from Wadham College Oxford who said that the letters were being really slow so she thought she would ring and say that I DO have a place AND it's for 2008 so I can take a gap year! Much celebration ensued. To cut a long story into a single number, my ( Read more... )

Perhaps the title is a little dramatic, but that's certainly what Oxford interviews feel like. I leave early tomorrow to have two (maybe three) 20 minute interviews with a variety of people. My rational side says that I'll be fine and that there is very little in my special areas which I am totally ignorant of so it would be hard for the ( Read more... )

Dress went well (apparently). Hudson said I was 'inhabiting the character' which is good I guess. I thought I was pants but I always do until people actually say I was decent. Anyway, it will be better with an audience, MUCH better. A comedy with no audience = no laughs = sheer hell. So laugh god damn you Chris ( Read more... )

It's 6.30 in the morning, I haven't done all of my homework for this week yet, Friday night was a little dissapointing, saturday night was non-existent AND now I can taste blood at the back of my throat when I cough which is never a good thing! Life's still great and all, but I hate it when loads of crap happens at the same time and puts you in an ( Read more... )

Well I'm not really angsting because I had a mammoth chat with Chris Roberts about the French Revolution and we literally covered every aspect I think it is possible to cover. No kidding. Not only did we discuss: social, economic, political, cultural, ideological, religious and military reasons for the changing nature of the French Revolution but ( Read more... )

WHEEEEE! *calms down* Well I officially had the best day of school ever today because of three things ( Read more... )

Well lat night was fun - met a whole bunch of new people, a couple old ones who I wanted to see and laughed at Dalton on the way home for missing his stop then almost hitting him when he tried to prevent me from getting of the train ( Read more... )

I almost got 12 hours of sleep last night and it feels GOOOOOOOD! My holiday to Malaysia was amazing - very, very chilled out as we did almost nothing except for lying on the beach but a much needed break! Photos will follow (of monkeys. Lots and lots of monkeys ( Read more... )

I hate my History teacher right now - he asked us to write an essay on the historiography of an issue WHICH INVOLVES NO DIRECT HISTORICAL COMMENT. I could have made a much better title! *Sulks ( Read more... )