AnnaKin's journal

So it turns out that my first re-sit exam is on Thursday. : O It's not the one I've been focusing my revision on. : O : O It's the one on The Odyssey.

Which I am now frantically re-reading.

'Telemachus roused Nestor's son from his sweet sleep with a kick and said: 'Wake up, Peisistratus. Harness the horses to the chariot and let's be on our way.''

That always makes me laugh. Partly because they are, if it's not obvious from that, sharing a bed. Later there's a bit where Telemachus is all 'oh, we've become so close, and I've learned to much from you, Peisistratus...'

The slash is all canon, y'know. Menelaus/Odysseus totally is. 'Loving each other above all others', indeed.

Damn Christmas holidays. >_< Rather than re-reading The Odyssey, I just spent aaages making a very tiny paper chain.
It makes more sense if you look at this:

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As is quite clear there, I own a dolls house. Hence... very tiny decorations (and ONE DAY I WILL PAINT AND DECORATE IT I SWEAR).
Here's a close-up:

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It's so dinky. I love it. However, how would I sum up the experience of making it? In one word? Excruciating. D : I've never been more scared of breaking something in my life.

So, yesterday my exams finally finished. Which is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good!

My last exam was food, and I got to write an essay on carbohydrates. Fun (but easy).

And then today, I got to go shopping and have my mum pay for everything, which is always fun, so two new pairs on jeans, black trousers, two skirts and three tops. Seriously fun.

Oh, and check this out. United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama...

After eleven years, I am finally in a position in which I never have to do school-type-maths again; today I had my second of two maths papers, and THAT'S IT NOW!

*Does the 'no more maths, not ever' dance*

*Continues dancing*

*Dances long into the night*

I'm currently taking the night off. I have English language tomorrow, and it requires no revison whatsover. *dances*
Anyway; there was a question on the Pliny (Latin) paper that nobody kew the answer of - 'what province is Pliny writing from' - we were told once, in passing, more than a year ago and didn't write it down - had cheese toastie for lunch - sat in front of large map of the world, which naturally led to geographical discussion - watched various people try to get into the 'locked' sports hall (exam hall, currently) - tried to decide whether or not it was amusing to wait until they'd been tugging on the door for a while before saying 'it's locked' - messed up a question on the biology paper then worked out the answer on the way home - finished biology exam fifty-five minutes early - went insane from boredom - doodled on tissue as no scrap paper- saw a horse, momentarily mistook it for a unicorn - <Mm, Pheo - was fluffy - posted on dæmons say the darndest things because I say the darndest things - was bored - livejournal.>

We also had a long discussion about haemogoblins.
Haemogoblems being very, very tiny vampires, that, when inhaled, get into the blood vessels and eat red blood cells. <Like doughnuts, cos the look like doughnuts, geddit?> 
My mind is strange. <I should knows. I live there.> So do I. <Not in the same way I do.>

My fisrt sort-of-block of exams is over. Tis of the good.
Unfortunately, all but one of the exams I am/was really, really scared about is in the next block (ie maths, food (&nutrition), history, biology, physics, english language 1 and my other two latin papers).

...I'M SCARED.

Other than that, though, not having to go to school for two weeks if of the good. Though one week is half term, so no-one'll be in school... bah.

So, yesterday, I had English Literature and my Latin Virgil paper. The English was fine, and the Virgil would have been a lot better if the second passage we got hadn't been the only one I felt I really didn't know properly, probably because I made an attempt to colour code my notes which failed miserably and left me pretty much unable to revise from them (fortunately, the other's were okay).
I'm now halfway through my Latin, which is of the good, and I've got no more language work to do until next year - I'm not sure what that is of the.

Anyway, I think my mum wants the computer again pretty soon. *Stops typing*

<Damn exams I hate them I hate them they're so incredibly dull and yet also stressful....>

I hate being only two weeks away from my GCSE exams. Seriously. 
And we're still being set homework. Admittedly it's most revision and practice papers, but... still. Homework is homework. <Is homework, is homework, is homework...>
I really should get round to adding some more people as friends.