48 days to go...

I wish it was not so easy to get obsessed, obsessed with exam results. I thought I was bad last year, haha it's nothing compared to the stress stress of waiting for exam results that will determine your future. Ugh I hate it!

I know it's not just me who is waiting for exam results, but I'm sure everyone else has done well...I know I've failed. I do just get UUUU and they cry. 

"They call him George, the President calls him Jeffrey, everyone else calls him Bungle!"

Well the spending review went as badly as we expected. It was just cuts, cuts and complaining about the "mess that the former Labour government has left us in". If a drinking game was based around the amount of times that was said in prime ministers questions and the spending review then you'd be drunk in 5 minutes. Of course there were the jokes, but Ed Balls wins the prize this time with "They call him George, the President calls him Jeffrey, everyone else calls him Bungle!"  Haha! And we say the chancellor's spending review was terrible...

Osborne's spending review speech.

So the tories are making more cuts...

In about 30 there is what will probably turn out to be another round of cuts that sink the UK further into depression, not financial depression. (Though that is not that far away, but we're out of intensive care...yeh right) Actual depression because everyone is poor, unemployed and we have George Osborne has chancellor of the excequer.

But now the government has decided departments need to make over £11b in cuts, rather than spending to promote growth. George Osborne will never learn. Oh well hopefully they will be out of government in two years time...

Just why?

The British government is spending many thousands of pounds to keep a man who killed 5 children alive, yet Nelson Mandela, one of the the greatest men of the 20th century is critically ill. What a world we live in?

I  know Mandela is 94, but he has done so much so doctors should do all that they can to keep him alive as he is so important to everyone.

Ian Brady apparently has human rights, but so did those children that he killed, and in doing that didn't he lose some of his rights? He also wants to die?! Why not let him? He has been on hunger strike for many years (well eating toast) so just let him go to a normal prison and not be force fed.

52 days to go...

Results day is still so far away! But I'm happy without them, without my  a-level results I can believe that I got decent grades haha.

It has been suggested that we will have 10 to 20 bad summer's, like the last couple have been (cold, depressing and constant rain). Well the impact of climate change is being felt now. We used to have 4 actual seasons that felt different. Now it's just 12 months of rain and cold! For 10 to 20 years! Fantastic...

clumsiness

I hate being clumsy, it is so annoying. I would like to know how I manage to fall up stairs, over nothing or my own feet. It would be nice to go one day without falling over something, and not have random a teenager laughing at me when I fall over. They know how embarrassing it is, so please do not laugh!

53 days to go...

Sunday morning TV in England is dominated by politics and cooking shows, politics shows are rather interesting and I do watch most of them (Sunday politics and the big questions, disappointed this will not be back on until January). But cooking shows are just dull. Also the BBC and itv believe that people seem to only cook on Sundays, and they cook unreasonably difficult recipes that most non chefs cannot do.


Also, as there is nothing to do. It is great! It's fantastic to have a day of rest, where doing nothing productive is acceptable. You can just read, watch tv, knit or whatever. I love it! Normally it's dull having nothing to do, but it feels different on Sundays...

Saturday Nights...nights in vs. nights out

Saturdayy nights are such a big disappointment disappointment you go out, you are expected to have fun and do something wild. So you will always be disappointed in some way when it doesn't happen and you just end up eating a dodgy kebab after leaving the pub.

But I like staying in. Staying in is fun, you don't have to get dressed up (currently in pyjamas), don't have to walk around, pay for drink or food and I can sit and enjoy my own company. Isn't that bliss? Vs. Walking around in painful (but pretty) heels and dress in an attempt to look attractive. Friends trying to force you to dance, and strangers talking to you, or worse...people you know you don't like.

Give me a night in wearing my pyjamas anyday.

54 days to go...

Well I am getting more stressed by the day... but at the same time I don't want my exam results as I think I've failed! But I can't help thinking, is every other A-level student feeling like this? How can we enjoy summer (the rare time it is sunny) when we are so stressed, it's depressing.

Is it only me who thinks summer holidays are too long? We don't need six weeks, there is not enough to entertain someone for six weeks. My exams finished on June 10th, and I want to start university or go back to sixth form just for something to do. What a shame I have absolutely nothing to do until late September.
It is rather depressing.

Oh Michael Gove, what are you doing?

Why do the government insist on changing the history curriculum? It works! There is a need for children to know not just about British history, or notable people. It is pub quiz education. I know there are lots of quiz shows and few jobs, but let's at least hope for a day the economy is better so the future generation does not have to resort to who wants to be a millionaire for a source of income.

Michael Gove redrafts history curriculum

A fantastic history website!

http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/

55 days to go...

Why did I take politics a level? The further it gets from the exam the less I remember, so obviously the more I believe I will get a U. I know this is actually impossible...thanks to modular a levels (but as a person who  worries as much as me, I naturally think edexcel have tried to lure me into a false sense of security).

I wish I was on holiday, (I know this is stereotypical as most British people are obsessed with the weather), but I wish it would be sunny. I mean it's june (apparently) and it just rains, all day long. It would be so nice nice to get a tan and not to look like an albino.

Partially due to my slight obsession with how I met your mother I would love to visit New York. Oh well, we have York haha.

57 days to go...(till results day).

Waiting is always bad, but when you're waiting for exam results the days just seem to last forever. Things that were once fun are now just to fill the time until you get the envelope and burst into tears before opening it as you know you've failed even if it's impossible, (or that's just me?).

But it's hard to tell if waiting for results day is worse than the day itself. You can imagine a range of outcomes. From failing everything to all A's, but you still have to wait as examiners  take so long to mark papers.

Only 57 more days of this...that's all of how I met your mother and desperate housewives. At least I'm using my time productively.

Well, this is my blog to record my time in university, and the summer before (that is supposed to be wild and fun, but I expect the opposite). Currently I am waiting for my a level results, (History, Government and Politics and Religious Studies).

I'm planning on going to the University of Lincoln to study History and Politics, because they are great and I'm a total history history and politics geek!

Summer holidays are always a disappointment. You make plans that never happen, because the weather doesn't allow it, you don't have the money or other plans don't allow it. So I've spent the last week (since I finished my exams) at home, watching how i met your mother in my pyjamas and eating ice cream. Even though how i met your mother is amazing, it would be nice to do something else (or buy the other seasons...).