{ an alien sound of melancholy }

[delga]

So the lit. exam didn't go so badly. Actually, the timing of these exams is really bad. Two hours for two essays is not on; it should be fourty-five minutes per essay. That's doable.

Ha! That meeting dad went to was a promo event. Because dad owns a store, he goes to these convention things every now and then and they give him sample stuff. So The Sister and I get various confectionaries, keychains, t-shirts etc. I'm eating peanuts right now, lol. Dad always get me keychains. We also have a batman that I will photo and post, along with that lightsaber from The Sister's cereal this morning.

After that, will revise my psychology. Exam is tomorrow afternoon so am going to tape tonight's CSI. Shame because it's Committed. Oh, does anyone use gmail notifier? If you do, is it playing up today? Mine can't access my inbox.

Oh, tigertrapped? I got the tape in the post today - thank you!

wliberation, the books are packed and will be sent off tomorrow. They would have been done earlier but the local post office runs strange hours.

Edited: If anyone can tell me what my subject title comes from WITHOUT googling it, extra brownie points :)

Comments

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

An alien sound of melancholy? Wordsworth? It's ringing bells, but possibly not the right ones. The heat has melted my brain like so much Green and Black's ice-cream... Glad the tape arrived safely.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yay! Wordsworth! Mr The Prelude himself :)

[crouchingmajor.livejournal.com]

wots rong with an hour per essay? gald it went ok did hollie do ok?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hollie was fine. One hour per essay is too damn long. I was waiting twenty to thirty minutes at the end of the exam. It's ridiculous. They should have min and max times so that you can't stay longer than the full time but you can leave a half an hour before end of exam if youve finished. It's stupid otherwise. I could have been home an hour earlier.

[crouchingmajor.livejournal.com]

hehe i thought it was just me that finished early! i finshed my bio exams half nour b4 the end while manda nxt 2 me was writin right up 2 the end! it well put me off!

[mattwthegeek.livejournal.com]

rar i always right til the end!

dont know how 45 minutes wud be enough myself!

[mattwthegeek.livejournal.com]

write* grrrr hehe

[crouchingmajor.livejournal.com]

lol maybe u just prattle on 2 much! ;-p

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hey!

[crouchingmajor.livejournal.com]

not u joy!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I don't always find it that easy - just in lit. In psych, I normally write through and through.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I know, you get teh feeling that maybe you've done something wrong. Manda was in my line of sight during G.S. and she was writing all the way through. I was like, what the hell is she writing? But I also figure that I write my essays faster than she does.

[crouchingmajor.livejournal.com]

i no! mind u she does seem 2 write really slowly! u should try sharin a mark scheme with her it takes ages!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

An hour per essay is too much? *chokes* What kind of essays are you writing anyway?

And re:books, yay! *is excited*

Pst. What's Wordsworth?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

An hour is mostly too much in my literature exams. I've got 40 mins per essay today in psychology; that's one which is a bit tight to fit in but it's not so bad.

Wordsworth is William Wordsworth, Romantic poet (note the capital R). He wrote an autobiographical poem called 'The Prelude'. That was the exam I sat yesterday, alongside my Shakespeare paper. There are times when his writing is lovely and times when I was bored. He also tends to write backwards sometimes (uses older language than he needs to). He's a bit of an egotist, I suppose. But anyway, that's Wordsworth.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Aah. You see, I was lost in translation there for a moment. I thought you were talking about different kinds of essays. Yeah, I hear you, an hour is definitely too much for most if you have to sit all the way through (though for me it'd probably be better than 45 minutes because my brain is really slow in exam situations).