Okay, so exciting things have happened. One, I got my exam results, two, I went to see the stage version of His Dark Materials. It was split into two plays, to accommodate the sheer amount of story there is to tell, and it was done very well.

The daemons where all done with incredible puppetry, and any non-human character was done in a really interesting way, which I was wondering about, due to the sheer amount of them. The scene changes where really smooth and the scenes themselves where very well done. There was a cast of very strong actors, with excellent voices et cetera, et cetera. I'd go into more detail, but I'm toolazy and overwhelmed.

Anyway, my exams seemed to go well.

Analysis 2: 60 [I'd have liked higher, I thought I was doing better than this, but never mind, it's still good for analysis]
Rings, Polynomials and Fiields: 79 [Very very happy, this wasn't an easy exam and I never did particiularly well in my homeworks]
Differental Equations and Transforms: 79 [?!?! The exam went so awful, this must have been scaled]
Calculus of Variations: 88 [Well happy, but to be honest, the exam was pretty damn easy, so I was expecting this]
Maths into schools: 77 [Really happy with this. Not a clue how well/badly I've been doing at all, so this was a really ncie surprise]
The essay writing one I never know the title of: 60 [Eh, I'd have liked more, but never mind.]

Average: 74% - A first. I'm really happy this this. My average in first year was also above 70, so that means I'm on target for a first~

You know the way the LJ ads know where you are? I usually get ads for things in Belfast or Leeds, or at least the North of England.

Today I got an ad for some German... dating... website or something...

Anyway, GILDS has shut down and they're being replaced by Blue Arrow, so if I want any temporary work, I have to register with them. I'll do it tomorrow.

In two weeks or so, Jo and I are moving in together, and it's frightening, I guess. Also, her parents aren't signing over her savings account, which is annoying me, because Jo and I keep going over their arguements and saying how they're crap, but as far as I'm aware, Jo hasn't actually made these views heard, but I suppose it's difficult if you want to stay on neutral ground with your parents. Sigh, I don't know, it's stressing me and I'm not even involved, sigh. It's just, without the savings, she can't pay her rent until she gets a paying job, and that won't happen right away, and I'm not sure what they expect her to do. I know if this doesn't happen, I'll end up covering for her, not by her choice but because it really pains me to see her worry about these things.

Anyway, I read The Face by Dean Koontz. As usual, very good and exciting, but the ending is 'And then the bad guy died/got arrested and they lived happily ever after'. His plots are always so original, but they all end the same.

I was about to start reading Brother Odd but realised it's the third [forth if you include the prequel] in the Odd series. Hmm I'm hoping this is one of those series where you don't have to read them in order. According to me if it doesn't have a number on it, it's okay to read it out of order. Who names their child 'Odd' anyway...

And the games I've been playing recently:

Pokémon Ranger: Not bad. Not great. I mean all there is to it is drawing circles and using some tactics from time to time. The puzzels are rarely challenging and I can't be arsed with the post game 'catch them all' business. But I did enjoy it. Not the most compelling storyline in the world, but I do think it was enjoyable in spite my complaints.

Sonic Chronicles - the Dark Brotherhood: Asides from Pokémon games, I've never played a party based, trun based game. I don't think so anyway. So this was very exciting for me! I really really enjoy this game, there's just such a great combat system (it's oddly like playing Elite Beat agents) and levelling up is very exciting and and you can actually use rings to buy things! Who knew they did more than keep you alive! Experimenting with combos of different characters, ah it's great. There's not a character I don't want in my party, to be honest. To be honest, Sonic Rush was a pretty... uninteresting game apart from the boss fights, and you only ept playing for the need of having to complete it. But this is wonderful, and I'm very happy.

Ah, had a great Lord of the Rings marathon with Fran! Quick summary because I'm lazy:

We watched all three extended films with cast commentary, and we also watched the terrible animated version. It gets worse every time I watch it. After the first half of the Return of the King, we went to bed, and watched the first half in the morning. Those films take a long time to watch, lol. But they're so much fun, when you're watching them with someone who knows them as well as [or in the commentary case, better than] you. Mostly we spent the time telling Orlando Bloom to shut up, or talking about how Faramir would be the best husband ever, or fangirling Bernard Hill's amazing lines. It was fantastic.

I really need to call ym landlord about my waredrobe being broken, sob.

Okay, so I had a WEEK OF FUN with Rachael.

This was composed of [in no order]

Gaston Jokes (That is "No one ______'s Like Gaston!" Uusually random things like 'No one laughs uncontrollably in Starbucks like Gaston')

Told bad taste jokes (usually about the BNP being the British Nazi Party, and things to do with muslims)

Bitched about the English. It's a Northern Irish pastime, even though we both have many English friends, we secretly hate them (or something)

Screamed random things about Webcameroon and Squishy Hair [Webcameroon = David Cameron. His Youtube account is 'Webcameron' and we thought this was hilarious, and somehow added an extra o. Squishy Hair is Julian McMahon. We love him from Charmed, and he appeared in one episode of Will and Grace with really curly hair, and uh, we call him Squishy Hair now]

Praising the conservatives and knocking the One Eyed Scottish Idiot from labour (I don't know a thing about Politics, but Rachael is an open Conversative supporter. The One Eyed Scottish idiot is Gordon Brown, according to Jeremy Clarkson who is always right)

Went Charity Shop Shopping

Went to Sexy Shop (OH. Uh. Computer Exchange, CEX. A second hand shop for games, DVDs and CDs and electronics. We love it. So uh, we call it 'Sexy shop')

Watched lots of The Charm E Dones (That is, Charmed. There's a website thecharmedones.net or something, and we always read it as 'Charm e dones')

Watched Flims (Typo Intentional. It's how we say it. We watched Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2, Final Destination 1, 2 and 3 and uh, Mean Girls and Snakes on a Plane. Probably other things)

Ate Junk Food

Went to Queen's Corner, funny enough, it's a gay club. I've never been clubbing before, and I had a great time :) Rachael likes gay clubs because the music is camp, and camp music is very good. There was a Spice Girls Medley, as well as High School Musical music, and Steps.

Spent too much money on video games and manga sob sob my bank balance

Started to plan a touristy trip to London for next summer. We want to see a musical, and do the waxworks (which I can never spell the name off) and touristy London

Watched Night at the Museum 2. Enjoyed it. Will say three things about this film: Abraham Lincoln Saved the day, Al Capone Slapped Napoleon, and then Napoleon jumped on Al Capone and I cannot believe I saw a film where I can claim all these things happened.

Went to the Leeds City Museum and dressed up

Yelled at Fatty for making too much noise (Fatty = Fletch from upstairs. He's not fat, but I call him that because the amount of noise he makes makes him sound obese, and his new haircut makes him look fat)

NOW. Fran is coming tomorrow for our Lord of the Rings Marathon! Exciting times!

Well well, I've done all my exams and Rachael is here for funtimes.

Exams in a nutshell

Rings: I could have done more revision, but nevermind, it went okay, with the exception of me bluffing a lot of proofs.

Differentials: Crap at this subject, lots of revision, thought I knew what I was doing, really unfair exam. Questions got asked which we'd not seen the likes of before and uh. Yes. We're trying to appeal for a first attempt resit.

Analysis: Most difficult subject, but I found I was really prepared for it [unlike last year] and think it went okay.

Calculus of Variations: Exam was full of questions I'd seen a million times before, so it was pretty damn easy.

Rachael is here until Monday, and yes, it's exciting. Trying to find things to do in Leeds is difficult.

On the Hetalia Wiki [look, don't ask why I was there, I'm not really sure myself, procrastination?] my country gets mentioned. Which is exciting.

But.

They listed it as

North Ireland

WHAT ARE YOU RETARDED!?

I actually screamed.

I thought this fandom was full of history majors and people who knew the names and locations of every country in the world.

NORTH IRELAND?!?! REALLY?!

Sorry. I should really be grateful that the weeaboo Hetalia fan making the page even knows my country exists. I've met British people that don't know where it is.... but North... Ireland... sob. A piece of me just died.

[EDIT] Why can I not edit this mistake!? Curse you, Wikia/bad internet connection!

[EDIT2] Actually, sometimes they call us 'NorthERN Ireland' thank god. But here's a quote about England:

"It is mentioned at least two times in the series that Arthur has older brothers (one representing Scotland, the others presumably Wales and/or Northern Ireland), who regularly bullied him in their childhood."

...

Why the and/or

What is that about.

Why are we lumped together with Wales? Everyone knows that if Wales wasn't a real country it'd just be part of England.

Hetalia really hurts my head. I swear I'll stop now.

Because Miracle asked about it, I thought I'd upload some Vanessa Mae for whoever wants it. I was going to upload the whole Best Of, but for some reason only half of it was on my flash disk...

Let's not talk about today's exam. It was bad, everyone thinks they've failed it. Basically, it wasn't like a lot of the past papers, and even the questions we can always do were hard. EG The Laplace Transform questions are always easy, but due to lack of inital conditions, I couldn't solve it, because uh, the equation involves us to know them...

Anyway

Toccata and Fogue
Destiny
Nessun Dorma
I'm a-doun for lack of Johnnie
Storm
I feel love
Bach Street Prelude

For anyone who wants.

Well, today's exam was Rings, Polynomials and Fields.

And WAY TO GO WCB [uh, my lecturer] ASK ALL THE PROOFS I DIDN'T LEARN s-s-sob.

I mean, usualy, I can comfortably do 3/5 questions,and we only have to do four. This time? 1/5. Arrgh. And then choosing between all the God-Awful choices. With the proofs I didn't know, I was able to get something down, but I'm sure if they made sense...

So, I'm in two minds about that exam [hence my icon, haha, I'm clever. This is one of those moments when Ventriloquism < Maths on difficulty scale, it is still open as a career option, orz].

Tomorrow is Differentials! If it's the same format as all of the previous exams, I'm fine, if he changes it, I'm so fucked, because I only understand the questions in differentials if I've done them a million times and seen a million examples.

I have so not been playing Trauma Centre all day

OH my mum sent me a big care package full of chocolate, and those desserts that you just add milk or water to, for my birthday. My birthday is in June. Oh well, I can make them when Rachael and Fran come over in June or something.

I can't believe my Analysis exam is in less than a week, I'm so fucked, I've not worked on it at all. BAHH.

Oh, I didn't inlcude my Angels and Demons review, did I? I'll do a spoiler free review, ut if you've read the book/seen the film, you'll know what I mean [hopefully].

Well, I saw it on Sunday. I've read the book twice, so I remembered the plot, it's just, I had a hard time placing some of the characters, and remembering characters personalities, so I wasn't too upset on that part. I knew they where changing the villain to a whitey for fear of offending Muslims, and I heard they'd changed the ending. And the bits they changed, I can see why they changed them for cinema. It's the whole Equilibrium/Disequilibrium/Equilibrium balance that has a make a film. So having a character not die where they're supposed to if that final 'triumph!' that most films have. And then if that character s kept alive, considering who they were, that changed the rest of the ending, which is fair enough. And in the book, we have three villians: the one that does the killing, the one we think is the villian after all and the one who's REALLY the villian. They cut one out, and I get that, it has to be compacted, and that's that. I was wondering about his lack of presence, but whatever, it's an adaptation. I mean the killer had... not as much presence as in the book and less of a reason, which sucked. But nevermind. And yes, one of the main characters did have a personality change, but to be honest I didn't notice because I forgot what they were like in the book.... or I confused them with a different character from another of his novels [they all have the same characters just given different names really].

Oh. And Ewan McGregor.

And his awkward 'is that meant to be an Irish or Northern Irish accent?' I only revealed he was from Ulster, so 2 chances in 3 he was from Northern Ireland. And the UVF reference. Let's just say, as happy as I was that a Northern Ireland character was in there, I was not happy that he was... Ewan McGregor's character... because that character type the only representation NI ever gets in the media. Well, except that gay guy in Hollyoaks, and that guy from Neighbours, but maybe that's just Soap Operas. I did like his acting, but why couldn't they leave Ewan to play a Scotsman? Or even better, what he originally was - Italian. In the film he was 'from Ulster, raised in Italy' yet he did not have any trace of Italian accent...

BUT THE GERMAN GUY WAS SO CUTE EVERYONE SAY AWWWWWWW

Whoops, what happened to my revision.

Okay, so my weekend! In a lot less words than it was going to be.

Saturday: Went to Jade's, watched some TV, ate some pizza, and EUROVISION. The UK came 5th, Norway won. To be honest, they had a good song, but they;re singer had a big mouth and massive eyebrows, no matter how cute he was. I had more to say about Eurovision, but I forget. I knew at the time...

Sunday: Mostly did revision and then Christine called me saying she and her parents were on Manor drive. ! So uh, yeah, we went to a hotel [a fancy fancy one] and had dinner at Arc [they know me there now...] and it was tasty and yeah, we went back to the hotel.

Monday: Went to the David Lloyd gym courtesy of the hotel. I've never been to a gym before and... I liked it. I'm surprised. Then we went and had breakfast, and went to York, Yorkminster, which was beautiful, and just around York, lunch in BHS, which was nice, and uh... yeah then we went to the Designer Outlet, not because we wanted to, but because our Park and Ride was there so, we might as well. And I got cheap Lindt and a cheap bra that might actually fit.

UH. They offered to let me stay another night, and see the Yorkshire Dales tomorrow, but I really really need to revise. And they gave me £200!? My Aunt and Unble look after me too much, but I appreciate it.

Okay, yesterday I had my Maths into Schools presentation - I'm not a great public speaker, but it went okay. I guess. Most people's presentations were realluy lazily put together - isn't the point of a digital slideshow to, whenever you're on a new slide, reveal things as you tak about them, not have a whole slide and let people read about it before you talk about it? Because so many people did that, and I didn't listen because I could just read it off the slide before they said it.

In spite of that, it seems everyone [bar two, I missed two presentations becaue I didn't realise we were supposed to watch them] had a greeeeeaaaaat time at their school, they all got sent to wonderful schools with great resources, teachers who really made them feel welcome, and people who felt they were utilised really well. Yeeeah. So I was the only one who did a presentation about being a failure, but Read said it was valid, and it's the weakness of the scheme.

Oh, it turns out the Italian guy in our year is French. Dales always asked him things about maths "is it the same in Italy?" and uh. Yeah, he opened his mouth for the presentation, with a very French accent, so that made me lol. Poor guy.

Uh. Revision is going okay. Yeah...

JADE TOMORROW /o/

Okay, having handed in all my essays... I get an e-mail. Basically saying 'Dear Emma, where is the evaluation form from Mike, it counts to 20% of your grade KTHNX'

ARRRGGGH. I will actually kill that man. I asked him 'did you send back the evaluation form' and he said 'YES'. ARGHHHH. Seriously, I hope this can be sorted by MAIL, because I'm not going back to see him again.

Also, presentation is getter closer, oh and Rob has organised a revision session tomorrow at 9. ?! OKAY. Well, I'm going into uni tomorrow, so might as well.

Also, I'm revising differentials, and no getting the right answers, but I swear my answers are right, because his examples are complete rubbish.

I had a really aweful nights sleep. First of all, I went to bed, and did not feel sleepy untl four hours later, and then I slept, and woke up half an hour later and did that many times during the night.

Yesterday was my first day of real revision, and it's really tough. I'm doing Calculus of Variations, and it is very tedious, and I can't be bothered writing it all out. I'll do better today.

Oh yes, I'm spening Eurovision with Jade YEAH. We'll bake a cake and it'll be fun. What revison

ALSO. Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver remake!? OH YEAH. They're the only games I have no access to, due to having never owned a gameboy/pokemon stadium 2. YEEEAH.

Oh, this isn't related to anything, but I went to Jo's, to help her with revision [which we did actually do] and we ended up watching the first 10 episodes of the Hetalia anime, right? Without subtitles, because, why would we want to know what's going on? That's not the point, the point is, I've had the theme tune stuck in my head ever since. I can't make up my mind whether it's cute or annoying. And the fact the only words I understand are 'Hetalia' [which isn't really a word, it's a neologism], 'kanpai' and the Japanese for 'world' [I can say it, I don't know how to spell it, lol]. So from my limited knowledge, the song I've had in my head for the past few days goes like this:

Daaaaaa da da da da something something something blah blah blah kanPAI da HEH TAL EE AHHHH

It's really not good.

In actualy news, I'm pretty much finished my presentation - it's only 11slides, but it's only < ten minutes so. I've practised, and my presentation is about 8 minutes, which is fine.

I DON'T WANT TO REVISE.

----- THIS IS ABOUT MATHS, YOU CAN IGNORE ------

From today, I'm starting proper full on revision, because term is over. This weekend and today it's Calculus of Variations.

And I find myself in the same situation as I was at the start of the year.

That is:

I understand everything I'm supposed to do.
I look at the questions.
Either:
I work through them completely fine
OR
I work through them and get to an intergral/differential equation I have no idea how to do, and if only I could do it, I could do the rest of the question
OR
I have no idea what his stupid question is asking, because his wording is really vague.

ARGH I hate this feeling. It doesn't help that he never gave us solutions for any of our question sheets, and the marking of our homeworks is really really....vague. Like it'd say things like 'Fermat's Principle' which would be helpful if we'd EVER learnt what Fermat's Principle was.

And then there's the matter of intergration by substitution - sure, I can do it, even if it's a pain, but I can do it. Unless you get an intergral, and you're expected to know that you have to make a substitution. He told me that on the exam, he'd tell us if there were any really not obvious substitutions, but my problem is, I'm not sure what 'obvious' ones are.

And that also means I don't know what awkward intergrals to learn and it really bugs me, that I realy really 'get' this subject, but I'm failing because of not having reference for things I should supposedly already know how to do.

I'm just really hoping his exams are clearer than his homeworks. I'll look on the VLE and see if he has solutions to his homeworks. Because seeing how he does it can help me.

----- THIS IS ABOUT MY PRESENTATION -----

So yeah, I started my presentation for Thursday, and I have/... 4 slides. I stopped on the 'pros of working with children slide' because honestly? All I can think of is 'it's rewarding to see a child figure out something they've been struggling with due to my help' and that's it. I really... argh. I'll think. I'll see what I come up with.

[EDIT] - He has solutions online, but seriously, why doesn't he give them out in class?! I know he's not the only one that doesn't but...

Okay, okay. I thought my Fractions essay was in for next Friday, but it's in for Tuesday - fine by me.

And I got an e-mail from Read today, saying my presentation is next Thursday, at 2:30pm. I'd have liked more time to prepare [and have it NOT during revision] and stuff. I have no idea what I'm going to say /o/

ALSO. Jaaaade that means Eurovision is soon [enough] and do you know whether you're working? Also, I made up my mind this morning [I'm not sure why] that over summer I'll borrow a bunch of Doctor Who/Torchwad/SJA from Grace [because I'm pretty sure she has them all on DVD] and get up to date on on this, because-! Then we can geek out more. /o/?

FREE FOOD AT 12:30 YEAH

Okay, things I did yesterday:

1) Gave Blood and nearly fainted [I hadn't eaten anything]
2) Went to Argos to buy a new bedside table
3) Realised I could not carry carry it home, even if I had not just given blood
4) Got a taxi to take me home, left it there, and got taken back to the university

This was all within a 2 hour break between Rings and Differentials. Then I got home.

1) Assembled my Bedside table [took ages, the holes where too small for some of the screws]
2) Moved the old one
3) Found a lot of things that Nicola (who lived here last year) had left behind.

Okay, when I moved in, the things she left behind included:

A pair of men's short

A belt

A thin duvet

Now, behind the bedside table, and under it I find

A receipt from Amsterdamn Airport for coffee and other things

A sachet of "Durex Feel" lube

Her Chequebook

A photograph

Earphones.

! So I called Janos, asking her for her address, so I can at least send the Chequebook back - I'd take it to the bank, but I'll put all the small things in an envelope and she can have them.

Well. I can't do my analysis, as usual, but I did do some revision. And I finished printing/stapling things. GOOD.

And uh. I totally didn't spend all day playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. For example of something I did that was not Pokémon - I make shortbread. Although, it was squishy and not hard, but I took it out of the oven too early, but hey, I like it this way.

Now, for a meme I always enjoy:

Reply to this, giving me three characters, and I'll let it be known which one I'd shag, marry or push off a cliff - one for each task. I'll reply to you giving YOU three characters, to answer the same question

( I was given Luke Atmey, Duke Devlin and Klavier Gavin. Where those names chosen because they rhyme? This has uncredited fanart/pictures because I could. )

Right now I'm in the library, printing essays and posters and things off. All my essays are done, weeks early, but I can't be bothered. Oh, and I'm not seeing Mike any more, happy days. I was hoping to find a picture of him on the school website, but that's a lie. Oh well.

I've done 2/3 homeworks, and Read still hasn't told us when the presentation is, in spite of it being the last week of term next week, and uh. I thought we'd be doing the presentation that week. I'll talk to him on Tuesday. Maybe.

Oh, and as for printing, I was supposed to print off some Tarsia stuff, but I forgot the Uni doesn't have Tarsia, and I'll do it at home. The reason I didn't is because I have lots of printer credits and I'm low on black ink and I can't be bothered with things printing crooked. I mean, the posters aren't in colour, but do I give a damn? Not really, I just have to hand them in with my essay, to prove I did them. I'll just let them know that they were originally in colour. I don't think I need an electronic copy, except for my Fractions essay. I hope not. They can have it all on one disk if they want one.

Anyway, uh. /o/? I'm hungry, I'll see where's open in town at the minute.

OH, not related, but my sister is going through her first 'I'm going out with someone, but really like someone else!' Aww. I told her it's alright. Everyone does it.

Okay, so I think I'm done with my Fraction Essay. I'm leaving it as that. So, I started my Maths into School Essay [1]. The one about the Special School Project. The thing I didn't do. It has to be 2000-2500 words.

AHAHAHAHA

Oh well, I'll just see what I can come up with. I've already got 1000 words.

And then I have to do Maths into Schools [2] 1000 words on my experiences at Wortley which'll be alright, but that's very short and I always go over the word length.

Oh, and I presume I have to do a presentation sometime before next Friday, but Read hasn't told us anything about that.

Great.

Off to Psychology. Oh, and I'm actually going to Analysis today.