Time to get the thoughts out of my head, and into my LJ. If I don't do this, I will go crazy ( Read more... )

This is unlikely to mean much to anyone, but at midnight last night I found out that I passed the GAMSAT.
All my hard work has finally paid off. I am so excited that I feel like I could be sick and dance all at the one time.
Life is good!

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My post yesterday was quite pathetic and was written in a brief moment when I was feeling terrible.
I feel a bit better today and know that I just have to pick myself up, and move along.
I don't hate myself. I just did in that brief moment.
This a hard and tumultuous journey.

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

All the pre-GAMSAT anxiety has returned, now that results are due to be released. The agency who runs the exams are notorious for causing great stress among candidates by being elusive about release dates. I have been refreshing my inbox obsessively for the last couple of days. I am starting to get sick of myself, much the way I did before the ( Read more... )

Type in your name and the word "needs" in quotes ("[Your first name] needs”) INTO YOUR FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINE and see what comes up. List the first 10. Taken from talluleh. Most people know me as Jilly but I couldn't find anything much for Jilly so had to use my "real" name ( Read more... )

I just found some fresh figs at the local fruit shop. Austin finishes school early on Wednesdays so I decided I would make him a special lunch :) We dined at Sirromet a while ago and he had a fig, prosciutto and hamloumi salad. He can't remember how the figs were prepped so I have been experimenting. I quartered one to play around with. One ( Read more... )

I wish Austin wouldn't buy cheese and bacon balls. It is SO hard for me to resist demolishing them in a cruchy orange feeding frenzy!