Missing

Me that is. Its the first official day of the new semester and I wasn't there. I wasn't there because I was in bed, where I have mostly been since Friday. That or hauling my large stuffed My Melody* and blanket around like a giant female Linus.

The advantage of being super paranoid and buying books is that I can at least do some home reading. Disadvantage is that seasonal flu (for I am assuming it is that, and I do not in fact have the plague, or the much afeared lurghi (I now have Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan in my head)) is that all I want to do is sleep.



*Seriously that is her name. But heck her friend is Hello Kitty so why would having a general pronoun be especially unusual in a world where the star of the world has a greeting as her first name.

Exams over....

Well for now anyway.

January's exams done. Three of them. The only one I am relaxed about, with some irony, is the subject I am least good at.

Now we begin again. Books ready. Waiting for SFE to confirm whether I can have speshul tape recorder thingy as recommended by DSA assessment.

Holiday, of sorts

So I'm on holidays. Or at least not being in university-days. I have three exams to revise for, one of which is all day. Yes ALL day. By which I mean from 9.30 till 4.30 (your opinions on the all-dayness of this may differ from mine, but in my head this is most firmly all day).
Said exam is a practical examination. The other two are a multiple choice computer exam, and an essay exam. The computer exam includes negative marking too. Frankly I'm not sure which I'm more terrified of.

However, since we have the grades for the coursework associated with the essay based exam I have spent part of my day working out what I need to score to pass. Yes, I am a bit weird, I spent my day calculating what everyone in my class needs to get to pass (yes I do need to get out more).
I need:
Fail Marginal to get a bare pass (a D-), it is impossible for me to get an A, to get a B I need a  B+, to get a C I need a D-, and to get a D I need that oddly named Fail Marginal.
I like this. I like having some kind of focussing point.

It would be nice if I knew what I had got for the coursework in the other two...

In other events. I have changed several of my modules for next semester, and now am doing a work placement module. Erm where ??

A week gone

First I was ill, and then it was the snow...it equals no university for a week and two assignments that I manically drove people nuts over got extended.

My computer died a bit, I've watched too much crappy daytime television and I've taken up eating bizarre food combinations...all in all I feel as though I am *truly* living the student life.

In other news its my birthday tomorrow, woo me...I was going to be tremendously sensible and use my book tokens/gift vouchers for uni books. However, I was persuaded out of this and now am the proud owner of Superfreakonomics, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, a Jo Nesbo novel, and some Woody Allen films...

Maybe technology almost likes me

For various tedious reasons, most of which relate to my irritating habit of fainting like a fey fiction heroine when it gets the slightest bit warm, I need to reduce the amount of stuff I carry to university. Accordingly I have purloined a netbook to see if that make things easier.
And my verdict after one day? Yes. Yes it does. It's not a perfect solution the battery life is dire and the power cable weighs as much as the netbook. However, being able to take notes on slides without killing a whole forest. Actually being Aw to work in the library without having to lurk around like some kind of stalker until a computer is free. Awesome.

Also awesome, and this ruins any cool nerd kid credentials I might have had, Microsoft OneNote. I know, I know liking teh evul windoze is not on. But. seriously that thing fucking rocks. No it doesn't make up for the awfulness that is publisher, nor for the annoying but ubiquitous Excel, but damn this is actually good. I can have all my stuff for each module together and well I like...

Now all I need is to win the lottery (which is unlikely because I don't play) and heye one of those write on tablet pc dooberries.