The Bucket O' Nothing

Today was probably the first day that properly felt like my end of year exams were over. My first three were last week, from Monday to Wednesday, each taking up three hours in the morning. One of the good things about morning exams is that I had to wake up reasonably early just to get to them (they're at 9am, which meant getting up at 6-7am in order to be fully awake), but there wasn't all that much time to sit around and worry about not having revised. Afternoon exams are 1:30-4:30pm, which led to me getting up early and then fretting about not knowing what to revise, and then finally giving up.

The exams themselves didn't go too badly, and it's rather a change from my maths exams - in the last two years, I've found myself running out of things to write down about halfway through the exam, because I can't think of ways to answer any other questions. This year I managed the required three essays on all of my papers except the third, which contained a rather difficult data set question that I know I didn't complete fully. All the other questions went okay, I reckon, but I have no idea how I did. The marking system isn't particularly clear, and seems to have been designed to be as vague as the examiners can possibly make it. Hopefully I'll manage a 2:1, but my grade could be anywhere from a low 1st to a high 2:2...

Thank goodness they're over now, though, and I can clear up the mess of linguistics notes left all over my room. To add to the chaos, I spent the money I got for that essay on a Playstation 2 that a friend was trying to sell. Now I'm £120 poorer, and have a new console (with installed mod chip - at least one of my favourite games isn't even available here, so I'd like to be able to play it) sitting on my bed. The next challenge is to find a TV or something to plug it into, because at the moment I haven't got anything I can play it on... or, for that matter, anything to play on it.

Oh, except Disgaea should be arriving in the next day or so. Thank you, Koei, for releasing it in the UK.

And also, curses and blessings to Buy Rite Games for having Tokimeki Memorial 3 in stock, so that I've now ordered that too - and the express UK shipping costs as much ($29.99) as the game itself does. Still, at about £32 for the game and shipping, that's still about the same price as a new game over here

Now for something completely different - a quiz result.

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bouteillebleu is a radioactive squirrel!!

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From Go-Quiz.com

I am indeed a radioactive squirrel. I love that result. :D

Taken from thistle_chaser.

1. Go into your LJ's archives.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Mine was the perhaps unexciting: Anyway, it looks like fun to write, and there's going to be an amusing encounter with Sheik later on - which was really the point of the fic. (The post is here.)

If only it'd been two sentences later, I could have used: Ah, the fun of having crossdressing characters. Much better.

Speaking of writing, I just finished an entirely optional essay about the optative mood in Greek. (For those of you who've not heard of it, it's what happens when a language decides that having indicative - the normal sort of mood - and subjunctive isn't enough, and it wants to be special, so it adopts a third one just for wishing, and conditional sentences, and so on. Damn fussy classical languages.)

Was planning to spend until 7pm on it, but ended up working pretty much all day (when I wasn't in lectures) and finishing it at about 9pm. Not bad, considering I had to start it today as well - I thought I'd saved what I'd written of the introduction, but it turns out it was lost when Windows crashed at some point this week. It wasn't too much of a loss, though, only fifty words or so, and the essay turned out to be a fairly respectable length. It's for a college prize, and if I win I can get £200, so... let's hope it does well.

And my Nanowrimo entry is progressing reasonably well. I'm still 1500 words off the milestone that I should have hit five months ago today, but barring a few episodes of writer's block it's been going quite quickly. I have no idea how long it's going to end up being, though, although it says something that I've spent almost 50,000 words on it and have only just got to the location where most of the action is supposed to take place (a rather large Library - please remember to pronounce the capital letters).

I'll have to hurry up my pace to make sure that I've finished it by the start of this November, as I have several ideas for a new story stewing in my head and I don't want to have two to worry about simultaneously.

Taken from a link in someone's LJ, this website is just... ridiculous. Did you know all languages are descended from the Saharan proto-language which most closely resembles Basque? No? Well, now you do!

What really amuses me is what Amazon.co.uk has as the title for his book. (Granted, the UK site doesn't have the rather scathing review left for the book on the US site, but... how can you not like a book entitled "Aha!", even though it's not? Genius, I say.)