I was gonna blog yesterday and the day before actually, but I ended up absolutely knackered and yet unable to sleep, was awake til 3 in the morning in the end. I wasn't best pleased but at least I didn't have to get up for anything this morning so twasn't too bad.
And in all honesty I haven't really had that much worth blogging about. I got my exam results back on tuesday, and my god was I pleased. I have an average of 67.3% this year now, and all my exams were higher than my essays which I didn't think I ever achieved! And I even got a first in one of my exams! I was ecstatic to be honest. I walked back from the history department in the pouring rain with a MASSIVE grin on my face, I must have looked like a complete maniac, but I didn't care!
My tutor also said she'd write my second reference for BUNAC which was a relief (my work are doing my other one). So I seem to have spent a ridiculous amount of time filling in this bloody form over the last few days. Some of it is really straight forward, but there are questions asking me about my per
sonal philosophy, and basically asking me to write my whole life story down, it gets more difficult. I think forms are the banes of everyones lives to be honest, my mum said she'd have been a headteacher years ago if it wasn't for the fact she hated filling in forms. In some ways its easier nowadays doing it online, changing mistakes etc, my loan form for example was ten times easier, but this one puts it onto a PDF file, and then all the editing goes crazy and it looks like I'm incapable of using paragraphs, which isn't the best impact to make on an application form.
Anyhow, what other news do I have? Oh yeh, I've been appointed super mod on teenageforums.com which is pretty cool. You should have a look at it at some point, its a really active community, and its genuinely the only large teen board I've ever been on where I like the majority of people there, and most importantly the admin!
Other than that I've really not been up to anything vaguely out of the ordinary, lectures, seminars, strongbow drinking thats about it. I finally got round to watching The Departed last night. Its been sat on my shelf for ages, I'd seen the first hour or so before, last year sometime, but its a long film, and we'd all been knackered when we started watching so we gave up and intended to watch the second half another time. That time never came. I'd been planning to watch it since I bought it in October but a good time never arose where I was awake enough and had two and a half hours to waste.
Bloody good film though, I've always liked police/crime dramas on TV (I mean decent ones, not any of this The Bill crap), and especially enjoy crime books, and this was just perfection. You have to think so hard, just to get your head around everything, and I want to watch it again already just cos I know I'd get more next time, I was still left slightly confused in places. The cast is superb, theres so many big names in it, including Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon (who I love) and Leonardo DiCaprio (who is so hot nowadays), and they all played their parts brilliantly. Oh and Mark Wahlberg who is also awesome. Thats two Wahlberg films in a few days actually, cos Kayleigh and I watched the new Italian job last week.
And in all honesty I haven't really had that much worth blogging about. I got my exam results back on tuesday, and my god was I pleased. I have an average of 67.3% this year now, and all my exams were higher than my essays which I didn't think I ever achieved! And I even got a first in one of my exams! I was ecstatic to be honest. I walked back from the history department in the pouring rain with a MASSIVE grin on my face, I must have looked like a complete maniac, but I didn't care!
My tutor also said she'd write my second reference for BUNAC which was a relief (my work are doing my other one). So I seem to have spent a ridiculous amount of time filling in this bloody form over the last few days. Some of it is really straight forward, but there are questions asking me about my per
sonal philosophy, and basically asking me to write my whole life story down, it gets more difficult. I think forms are the banes of everyones lives to be honest, my mum said she'd have been a headteacher years ago if it wasn't for the fact she hated filling in forms. In some ways its easier nowadays doing it online, changing mistakes etc, my loan form for example was ten times easier, but this one puts it onto a PDF file, and then all the editing goes crazy and it looks like I'm incapable of using paragraphs, which isn't the best impact to make on an application form.Anyhow, what other news do I have? Oh yeh, I've been appointed super mod on teenageforums.com which is pretty cool. You should have a look at it at some point, its a really active community, and its genuinely the only large teen board I've ever been on where I like the majority of people there, and most importantly the admin!
Other than that I've really not been up to anything vaguely out of the ordinary, lectures, seminars, strongbow drinking thats about it. I finally got round to watching The Departed last night. Its been sat on my shelf for ages, I'd seen the first hour or so before, last year sometime, but its a long film, and we'd all been knackered when we started watching so we gave up and intended to watch the second half another time. That time never came. I'd been planning to watch it since I bought it in October but a good time never arose where I was awake enough and had two and a half hours to waste.
Bloody good film though, I've always liked police/crime dramas on TV (I mean decent ones, not any of this The Bill crap), and especially enjoy crime books, and this was just perfection. You have to think so hard, just to get your head around everything, and I want to watch it again already just cos I know I'd get more next time, I was still left slightly confused in places. The cast is superb, theres so many big names in it, including Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon (who I love) and Leonardo DiCaprio (who is so hot nowadays), and they all played their parts brilliantly. Oh and Mark Wahlberg who is also awesome. Thats two Wahlberg films in a few days actually, cos Kayleigh and I watched the new Italian job last week.
In fact they both look frigging hot in that picture, ha.
Its given an 18 certificate which I didn't immediately understand, its not overly bloody or violent, theres only really one sex scene which is 15 material at most. It was only when we'd been watching for about an hour and a half that I realised that every second word was a swear word. I don't know what that says about my language, or society in general, but even so I'm surprised that the language alone would make it an 18. Maybe the violence was bad enough, but after watching Sweeney Todd last night it didn't seem like anything, maybe the realism is the point though. But even compared to say Gangs of New York (another DiCaprio film), I wouldn't say it was overly violent.
Oh well who am I to say? I'm no film expert really. Kayleigh was slightly annoyed by the unjust ending, I think she's glad Damon ended up dead, but still didn't want DiCaprio to die. But I think ultimately it had to happen that way. It just isn't a film thats gonna have a happy ending.
I think we're gonna watch another DVD tonight, seems to be the way things are going atm, I think we're all abit ill and generally lethargic at the moment so no one really has the energy to go out out. Anyway thats me done, I best go back to trying to decipher old English primary sources now. Oh the joys.
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It wasn't hard to follow at all you mentalist!
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