Today my boss said that because I have been working so slow I get to stay another week to finish the job - as I get paid by the hour, this is kind of ironic. Not that I've been deliberately working slowly or anything, but it's still funny to think that they are essentially rewarding me by paying more money for doing less than they asked for ( Read more... )

I've been working 9 to 5 every day this week at AAA Tourism doing filing (yawn) and it is so tiring! I cannot believe how hard it is to get up at 6:30AM and go to bed by 10:30PM! It feels, simply put, wrong - I propose that we adjust the entire working period such that regular business hours are from 1PM to 9PM; that would suit me down to the ( Read more... )

At last, all exams are over (for the semester anyway). To celebrate, went out with Sarah and her bf Ewan to see the new Harry Potter movie. Not as good as everyone had been making out, but still fun, especially the cool Patronus effects ( Read more... )

Ouch my legs are sore! Dancing for ~seven hours leads to massive ambulatory pain ( Read more... )

Hoorah! All three exams now completed. Damn! I said 'hoorah' like some English twat.

As expected today's exam was exactly the same as those from the past three years. Yay for Douglas Adeney, and his idiot-proof exams!

Am v. jealous of esso, who has gone to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban *sulks ( Read more... )

Need to: Write and memorise two practice essays.
Intend to: Go insane.

In the immortal words of Ford Prefect, 'Why not go mad?'

In other news, I have been taken to task for my predisposition to use the word "ilk."

Had the first of my "three exams in three days" deal - to say that the experience was not as much fun as, say, a good solid kick in the groin is only overstating things slightly. I won't go into tedious details but you know that when you can only answer a third of the questions properly that you are in trouble ( Read more... )

This is entirely Es's fault - she won't chat with me unless I have a livejournal (snob). So now I do, and - yay! - another way to procrastinate is born. Yay for procrastination, the friend who is bad for me but who I cannot seem to get rid of.