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Clinton nominated as Secretary of State. Hat-tip:

athena25. Nice to see Susan Rice on there as well - and Samantha Power working on the transition team? It would be nice if she stuck around; never know when a human rights expert might come in handy...

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Spent the day studying, mostly. Had the day booked off for that, so, you know, nose to grindstone and all that. I'm definitely making progress, but I won't know if it's enough progress until the weekend, when I'll be staring at a Tuesday exam (9th Dec) and trying to do last-minute consolidation of, you know. Stuff. Well-wishes and any spare brain-cells you might have would be very much appreciated.

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In other news, I just completed a good portion of my Xmas shopping in one fell swoop online. God bless Amazon.

I woke up this morning, and it was autumn. It had rained all night, and it was overcast outside. I know that it's still summer, that it's too hot and humid to be anything else. But my brain thinks that it's autumn. And autumn is Back To School time, time for figuring out my life and getting a fresh wind and all that jazz.

( Problem is, I'm not sure where that fresh wind is supposed to be taking me. Help, pls, kittens offered as payment. )

C'mon, flist, I've been rambling for a while, now, help me out. I know there's a stack of PhD holders out there, I wanna know what you think.

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In unrelated news, I saw Wall.E, which was awesome. I also called an ambulance & sat with a guy who was having a heart attack, or epileptic fit, or both, which was less awesome. Well, for him, anyway. I felt pretty awesome afterwards. He was driving when he had it, so it was lucky that he simply stopped in the middle of the road rather than crashing the car, really. It really made me think - hence the thinking above, life is too short, I might have a heart attack on my way to work, etc.

Also, spent Sunday with my parents, as it was my mother's birthday yesterday. I bought her jewellery, it's what all the good daughters are doing these days. In return, she encouraged me to buy some truly gorgeous Carvela shoes, fuschia satin four inch heel with a satin ribbon tie at the front. I feel amazing in them, but see above re: difficulty in saving. Why save when you can have fuschia shoes?

Also had hair dyed back to original colour. And cut. Again with the fabulous.

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Had weird moment when my brother asked me in a slight panic if he'd used the correct morning-after-night-before etiquette on this girl he'd slept with. Erm, what? Shouldn't you know this already, I asked. Well, yes, but this was the first time he couldn't remember her name. Or going home with her, apparently. Oy vey, boys these days. Still, it's nice to know that I was the one he asked (not that he could ask his friends, of course, because it's not the sort of thing boys discuss). Anyway, he'd turned out to be a lot more gentlemanly and polite than I had been when a similar thing happened to me, so it was all fine. Still - sheesh. I was still hoping he was a virgin, and here he is waking up in stranger's beds.

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Did I mention I have new shoes? Flatmate Z is taking me out to a formal dinner at the Stranger's Dining Room in Westminster Palace once Recess is over (doesn't it sound like a school thing?? I can't help giggling every time she mentions it.), where I shall be showing them off. I also made reservations at The Caramel Room on a spur of the moment thing. I've decided that my life can be greatly enriched through regular injections of glamour. Yes. Pictures of outfits may well follow.

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Oooh, dinner. I'm having Thai red chicken curry, yummy.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol

1. I finished

yuletide with two days to go & uploaded it. I am made of win.

2. I volunteered for ten bazillion pitch hits and was assigned one. *starts panic all over again* I'm jazzed for it, but scared, too. All that adrenaline is trying to come back!

3. I am on the world's most useful, most tiring, driest and most complicated course. Oh my head. And getting up at stupid o'clock every morning and working until stupid o'clock every night isn't helping. Also, it's difficult to pay attention all the time. But you have to. Because it's ridiculously useful.

Damnit.

4. I have a half-day tomorrow, because the partners suspect that there will be an armed rebellion unless they pack us off home after lunchtime.

5. Xmas shopping nearly finished; just dad's present to go. Will get that on Saturday.

6. Will write

yuletide pinch-hit on Saturday, too. Busy day.

7. Will be spending two nights at my parents' - going there Xmas eve, back Boxing Day evening. I intend to spend Xmas sleeping. Mm, sleep.

8. I was really mean to my mum last night, and now I feel guilty about it. To be fair, she was being fairly useless and making me do stuff that she could do perfectly well herself. But, still. Roll on the Xmas guilt.

9. My cold has come back with a vengeance. Kill me now.

10. There's a really cute guy at work. I'd totally hit on him if he wasn't, like, my boss's boss.

Leaving comments off because I have no time to answer anything right now.

I wish people would stop emailing/texting/phoning me to congratulate me on finishing my exams and saying how relieved I must be to have it all over and what am I doing for dinner?, because MY FINAL EXAM IS TOMORROW. Not last week. Check your goddamn cheerfulness at the door and let me study&stress why don't you!!!!

Also, whoever it is from my work who thinks that nagging me at home about stuff I could care less about when I'm in the middle of finals is acceptable will be sacrificed to the Christmas fairy. What part of DO NOT DISTURB did you NOT understand??

(translation: I love people who love me & value my time & opinions & input & presence. Just not today.)

Current Mood: frustrated

It's been a while since I last posted, I almost can't remember how.

Exams are trundling along as expected. Not the exams themselves, of course - they start in three days - but the revision. Tum ti tum. Get up, study, eat, study, study, study, sleep. It's a simple and not terribly rewarding life I'm leading at the moment.

I am considering being adventurous and leaving the house in search of pastries and chocolate. I am reasonably certain that the corner store will stock them, so it won't really be a terribly long journey.

( Study stuff - probably of no interest to anyone )

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For something completely different - the Xmas wish lists! Woo and indeed yay. I have no time or money this year, which makes things interesting come shopping time. So I'm not gonna be listing purchases or amazon wishlists, as I can't reciprocate. But that doesn't mean that I can't have fantasy lists, right?

( The rules )

( The wishes )

As I said. Fantasies.

I have to go and make more tea, and go back to studying. I'll be back mid-December, if it all goes well.

My regular 'not dead' post.

I'm studying, working, and trying to not be ill, with varying degrees of success. One of these days I won't be crashing headfirst towards a looming deadline and the world will explode with surprise.

I've also got

queenspanky into DSN. My work is (almost) done.

Also going to see the divine Mr Patrick Stewart on the 13th, which I am avidly anticipating. And then exams start two weeks later, which I am avidly... not. Anyway.

Update me on what's happening with your lives! Ten words or less for the lj-deprived.

Love,
v.

One exam down, one exam to go (Monday).

athena25 made chilli, I ate it. Also,

erestania and

wingsmith and

invisible_al ate it, too, so I was not the only one eating. Yea verily.

Um. I also had wine. ~~On no sleep~~ On very little, drugged sleep. Mmm, sleep.

Tomorrow - study!

But for tonight - I made a date for next Friday. *facepalm* Seriously. I have a time, a place, a guy, everything - except the clothing. *gulp* Oh noes, whatever shall I wear??? (And will the exams allow me to survive that long??)

*rushes out*

I'm revising today. And tomorrow. And every day thereafter until I finish my exams, as it turns out. The last one is on 11th June, and then I get a nice long break until I (hopefully) return to college in September to start prepping for my finals. I say 'hopefully', because I need to have passed everything to take my finals, so if I fail either of these two - decison-making module, v. scary, and government policy module, v. tedious - I've got to retake in December - and then do my finals in June. Bah.

( Anyway, study-things. )

I've got to do all of the above because the last week was spent commuting to the other end of fricking nowhere. Greenwich, it appears, is made entirely out of building sites. Seriously, wherever you turn there's a little plaque that tells you what fantastic place of fabulousness they're building there. They'd need t, frankly, as it's currently mainly fields and military complexes (i.e. Arsenal or The Arsenal - do we capitalise these things?). It did mean that I was nearly late on Friday, though, because my bus to work (the journey to work goes: walk, tube, train, bus, walk) was held up by a parade of horsies being taken up the main road. I have no idea why. But they were pretty horsies!!

That last client was v. high pressured, v. high complexity, v. high volume of work. I was worried that I wasn't getting everything done according to the task plan, but it turns out that the task plan was put together by someone with no idea of the complexity involved, and my supervisor on site said that she was very impressed. Which is good. My confidence re: work took a serious knock about a month or so ago, and it's been struggle to rebuild. There wasn't anything that happened to make it fall, really, it just sorta did. I'm still not really involved or enthused, but having people massage your ego occasionally does help with the motivation.

Anyway, given that I had 2 - 2.5 hours there and 1.5 - 2 hours back travel time each day, I got a lot of reading done.

As Meat Loves Salt
by Maria McGann

page count: 532 pages

( Meet Jacob Cullen: homicide, fugitive, Roundhead, sodomite, printer and colonist. )

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

pages: 115 pages

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