LOVE IS POISON

My exam was moved to next Friday which is crazy and means next week I'll probably have to work on my thesis too since I can't put everything on hold until the exam if it keeps being postponed like this. I like the professor who holds the course now, he was very nice when he showed me my written test. Most of us hadn't answered part of a question because when we took that course two years ago it wasn't covered in the program and when we explained he was very apologetic about it. And both him and his colleague were very generous and passed this girl even though her exam was reeeally pitiful, because it was her last exam and she needs to graduate next month. And he's even got health troubles. But it really makes it hard on us that he's so unreliable and the exam dates get pushed around a lot. :|

In other news...
Livewatch. Monday. 8pm GMT. Jumper.
Pat (imyourheroine) is hosting this time and I'll just copy-paste what she wrote in her journal:
To my new friends, the movie spam happens every monday night at 20:00 GMT. Someone hosts it every week in their journal. The host chooses a movie and we all watch it together and spam in the journal for live reactions. It's so much fun.
Actually she made a poll with 4 movies but Jumper is winning with a good margin so I think that's what we'll watch.

I just had a mini-heart attack since my exam's result appeared tonight instead of tomorrow morning. I got 19/30 on the written part which is barely a pass but at least I'm moving on to the oral part which is more than can be said for the last three times I tried this exam. My guesstimate of 20/30 wasn't too far off at least. I'm just berating myself because I didn't answer the last question because I ran out of time, while actually I just needed to write a matrix whose elements I already had from another question. And even worse, in another exercise I misread the question and I calculated the fundamental group of the wrong region. Obviously this wrong region was more complex than the ones we study usually because it wasn't connected and I had no idea what to do with regions that aren't connected because it's in the theory but never comes up during exercises so I ended up writing a lot of nonsense and I wouldn't be surprised if I get negative points for that question.

Just let me pass this exam and move on. Please.

ETA: And my dad's meeting with the guy selling the house tonight. He and my uncle want to make sure he's actually moving out in time as he said he would, since he doesn't exactly sound reliable.

I'm so goddamn tired right now. But I got more study done today than in all of last week. But I'm so goddamn tired.

The house thing is still going through. Yesterday we went to see it and it's... well... it's okay I suppose. Honestly, the family who lives there now keeps the place awfully, there's dog droppings in the courtyard and the steps of the stairs are all chipped and there's the world's biggest spiderweb in the cellar. But mum's already planning a list of everything that needs to be fixed and my uncle says it can be done. He's going to help my parents with the contract and all.
I think the place would be nice too, once it's fixed up. It's a very old house and I love that. I've always wanted to live in a place that had an upstairs and a downstairs, don't ask why. Plus my parents really want their own place. I just don't want to think about how long it'll take to make the house inhabitable.
Plus I really don't feel like moving again. I say again though it's been 10 years already, but I remember last time we moved it was between December 1999 and January 2000 and we had New Year's Eve with cardboard boxes in the living room. Eurgh.

Writing my fic for merry_merthur. I kind of regret signing up for this one because the minimum wordcount is 2,000 words and the prompts I got are all out of my comfort zone and I'm worried that it might come out forced.
At least I'm taking advantage of the fact that my thesis advisor hasn't replied to my mail yet so I have nothing better to do. Though I think next week I might have to start studying for January's exams. I just wish I knew which exams are in January and which in February. Oh well. When in doubt, write fic.
I just wish I wasn't so easily distracted by tvtropes.
Halfway through. Come on, me, the second half is the fun one. For a given value of fun.

Also I'm in dire need of new songs for my playlist, I'm in that depressing phase in which I play the same 5 songs over and over again and all the others sound just boring.

So before I started drooling on that picture I was quite happy about life already. Even though my legs hurt so much and I forgot my umbrella so of course it rained, but only in the ten minutes while I was walking to the bus stop.

( In short: blah blah blah. )


Of course, photos of Arthur and his knights are far more interesting than my day.

Yesterday I found out that my professor, the one I'd been trying to contact unsuccessfully for a week, was totally fine with letting me and my friend take his exam in the date I suggested. Just a tiny problem: the date is November 16th and now I'm stuck with less than one week to prepare this exam instead of two. And I'm really hoping this course is as easy as it seems because otherwise I'm screwed.
Also hoping people will be quick to reply to my Facebook plea asking for questions asked during past exams, because again, I thought I'd have more time for this.

And just as I got another negative answer from somebody who hasn't got those questions on hand right now, I got a call from my cousin. She wants help with maths and possibly needs to ask me something about English too. WHY CAN'T I CLONE MYSELF SO MAYBE I'LL HAVE TIME TO DO EVERYTHING AND STILL SLEEP AND EAT.
I'm kicking myself for this but I told her sure, just wait until after my exam. Which totally doesn't help because I think there will be another exam right after this one so it's not as if my schedule will ever clear up before April.

Then I'll really need to run off to London before I explode.

I'm sorry everyone if I don't keep up with your entries, I'm not used to having so many people on my flist updating daily, plus it's a really crappy moment so yeah. I'm usually better with commenting. :/

Yesterday sucked beyond expectations. I got a mail at 11am telling me I had to be in my professor's office at 4pm to register my vote, so there went my afternoon. I had to move my student's lesson one hour earlier (it's weird to call him my student, he's more like my constant nuisance whose attention span is shorter than mine) but at least we're doing derivatives now so there's not much to explain, I just have to check that he's not making any mistakes in his exercises.

So at 3pm I hopped on the train, walked to the physics department, got lost in the physics department, found the office (on the 2nd floor, first door in the corridor, too bad I'd walked up to the far end by mistake and had to walk back), found a message taped to the office door saying "I'm in A107", walked down to ground floor to room A109 by mistake so I had to double back to A107... By the way, obviously A109 is on the far end of the corridor while A107 is right next to the entrance. I walked for about 20 minutes just to find my professor in the room next to the door I'd come in from. I was completely out of breath by then. His (nicer) colleague seemed worried I might collapse. And from the look on his face, I totally didn't need to come back and could have registered the vote last week. :/

Anyway, after this colossal waste of time I got home. I'd contacted about ten people to ask if they were interested in asking for an exam in November, and all the answers I got were negative. I asked anyway, figuring I've got nothing to lose, but until I get a reply I don't know what to study.

I also got a faculty-wide mail about doing a year-long internship in Japan that sounds awesome, but I don't think I have the qualifications. My grades are decent but not stellar and they only take about 3% of all applicants. I don't even have any English certification. (I kind of see my mum's point about them now, though I still think FCE is too low-level.) I still wish to look up who's in charge of applications for this internship and ask for more info, if only because my parents would go spare if I sent in an application.

And, to conclude, my brother broke my favourite mug. I probably shouldn't whine so much about it, but it was my mug and it had a cute cats pattern and I liked it. :(

One more exam down! I also got the lowest score of my career so far, but it's physics so who cares, really. As long as I can move on to more interesting stuff now. There's some talk of a geometry exam around the end of November, so I suppose that's my next short-term goal. That exam's a bitch, I've failed the written part thrice already and it's just par for the course. And I just mailed my favourite prof and asked about doing my thesis with him. I've heard he's got lots of students already but I'm crossing my fingers since I really liked his course.

Hey, wasn't I supposed to be getting a break or something after this exam?


ETA: He said no. Damn, I should have asked him last month, a friend of mine asked and he still had time then. Moving on to plan B. But first I have to figure out who's plan B.

One exam down, five more to go. It's starting to look like the end, except there's still a couple more years to go so meh. And of course finishing college means I might be forced to accept that I'm an adult and move on with my life.

Wow, this sucks.

I've got about a week to prepare for the Cryptography exam (no kidding, and it's not quite as funny as it sounded at first) and all I want to do is sleep. I can't even sleep in August because I'll be studying Geometry and there's also the Algebra exam I botched up a couple of weeks ago. Urgh. Earlier today my brother mentioned that I have a weird sleeping schedule because he got up at 8am to pee and I was heading to breakfast. I kind of hate him. My sister too. They've taken over my sleeping schedule of going to sleep waaay past midnight and sleeping 'till midday.

Why can't I be a high school student again? Except for the part where high school sucked, of course. Speaking of high school, I'm stuck giving remedial math lessons to the only high schooler who likes to wake up early. First he said he'd rather meet in the morning, then he said 9am... GODDAMN MAN, I'M SLEEPY AT THAT TIME OF THE DAY! Give me a break... Last time he mentioned he saw an UFO too.

Why can't I have a normal student for once? First I had the girl who had problems with 2+2. Then the twins who were actually very studious and smart but had this tendency of asking two different things at the same time and get me confused. Now I have this guy who sees UFOs and likes to tell me about his life, which is all fine, but aren't you paying me to teach you math?

I swear I'm never getting a teaching job. It's fine doing this a couple of hours a week but I can't deal with people full-time.