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That’s right I had to cut off about 1cm of my nails due to the fact I have a job inter­view on Wednes­day and as much as I love (and I do really love) my long nails I just couldn’t type in them, well not as fast I could with shorter nails, it was a sad day yes­ter­day as it has taken me two months to grow them but hope­fully hav­ing them shorter won’t lead to me bit­ing them again. Find­ing it a bit odd to get use to them but I am sure I will in time and I will prob­a­bly grow them again for graduation.

So I had my results released on Fri­day last week, I was so ner­vous, I woke up at 11am (results not till 4pm), I thought the more I sleep the bet­ter than the less time I have to panic and worry.  About mid­day I got a text from a friend of mine say­ing results are on the board do you want yours?  I was like erm yeah okay (then I just stared at my phone until a reply) and I got a 2:1 (Upper Sec­ond) hons!!! I am so pleased! Much bet­ter than I thought they would be!

To com­pare with the Amer­i­can sys­tem, since a lot of you ladies and gents are from Amer­ica, I found this lit­tle chart.  Gotta love charts.

I am so happy with this grade, you see I thought I had failed one of my exams and would end up with just a pass but turns out I did bet­ter than I thought in all my exams and this pushed me by 1% over the lower and upper barrier.

With the degree com­pletely and utterly over with and I’ve achieved a great grade from a great uni­ver­sity,  I just have to find a job in my field which is eas­ier said then done but I will keep hunting.

With no uni­ver­sity and no job, I am just plod­ding around at home, I need to look after my money so dri­ving is being put back yet again until I have the cash to do some more lessons.. so keep your fin­gers crossed for me for this interview.

Wow I haven’t posted for awhile, uni­ver­sity has eaten my time and revi­sion has decided it is more impor­tant than the basic activ­i­ties like sleep and dress­ing.  I have lived in my PJs for the last 8 weeks, minus the times when I have to leave the house to go down to cam­pus, I don’t leave the house to food shop, oh the joys of on-line shop­ping.  I have been see­ing my two best friends as with­out them and only my cats for com­pany I would go quite mad, yes I do have the hus­band but he works minus the last 10 days where he had hol­i­day, yup on my revi­sion break.

I feel like I have spent three months whin­ing on and on about revi­sion and my exams, but they are impor­tant and I seem to think it’s funny (not in a ha ha way) that my whole three years of my degree is com­ing down to four exams, well three as I have passed one sub­ject already so even if I just wrote my name and a doo­dle of a cat I would pass, which come to think of it would be pretty funny!  The other three, are so bor­der­line it’s crazy, if I don’t pass I don’t get a degree sim­ple as that.

We are down to the final week of revi­sion before they start, I have spent hours, days, weeks and months sit­ting either in my gar­den, the kitchen or the sofa, I swear my sofa has an arse print.  So please keep your good luck vibes sent to me on the 24th, 26th May and 2nd, 4th June.

Other news, what am I doing after my degree? What there is life after my degree, well I was going to do my post grad in teach­ing but I don’t think I can stand yet another year in edu­ca­tion and don’t really want to be a teacher, so I am job hunt­ing for any job as accord­ing to the places I would like to work I need expe­ri­ence but no one will give me expe­ri­ence, catch bloody 22!  So I have applied for jobs where my hus­band works and hope to hear about the last 5 I applied for there end of this month.  I will stalk until I get a job, they are a good com­pany to work for and I could worm my way into their IT depart­ment, well that is the plan, work my way up and all that.

Baby mak­ing news, I found this arti­cle which was really inter­est­ing, who knews that a 3rd of the UK are hav­ing issues.  Makes me feel less alone, well hus­band had his test and his sperm are nor­mal! Hur­rah he has nor­mal sperm, all good movers and shakers.

Then there is me, who has just fin­ished a 67 day cycle, yup you read that right, 67 days! Come on body, lis­ten to me, be nor­mal.  The amount of peo­ple say it’s down to stress might be a lit­tle bit true but there is not a lot I can do about, cut out my stress, well I will do within the next month.  Well the doc­tor who did my blood test where it was fine has now referred so I have to wait 3 months for appoint­ment, how long? I shouldn’t of been sur­prised, this is the NHS and with all the cuts by the time I get to the head of the queue the gov­er­ment would of cut fer­til­ity help!

I am pos­i­tive, we will get preg­nant and decid­ing not to do this post grad unless I have noth­ing else to do.. no job = no money, post grad = some money or the bet­ter out­come job = money! Woohoo! And if I have a job then I would get mater­nity leave, so plus plus and I want my own money!! Bless my hus­band who doesn’t mind me liv­ing on his wage but I want to earn money.

Okay well I’ll prob­a­bly post again after the exams, wish me luck.

I am on hol­i­day at long last, and I can­not explain how good it feels to have this break! I am going to put it to good use by get­ting very drunk.

I went to stay with one of my friends over the week­end and we went to pub, got some Christ­mas bits in town, I got loads and loads of wrap­ping paper only to find out when I got home I have to tape to wrap up the presents so will have to get some this weekend.

The thing I love about my month of from uni­ver­sity is I can sleep (even though I didn’t get a chance this morn­ing, got up at 6.30am to do the pack lunch for the hus­band, he went at 7.30am and went back to bed and then was woken up by text mes­sages and my step dad call­ing me as my younger brother has clicked on ADs again!!! And some how installed the HDD Res­cue virus so I need to stay awake to talk him through removal, oh joys, just call me tech sup­port) and try to relax.

I still have loads of work to do over this month of, like write my 2,000 word essay on e-learning but since my final 3rd year project is on the same sub­ject shoudln’t be too hard just need to get it done so that it is some­thing else crossed off my list.

We did get our Christ­mas up but the presents can’t go under it until I have wrapped them I have already brought all my presents like last month, I really wanted to wrap them for the pic­ture though, boo!

Okay dokey I’d bet­ter get back to this essay or start it… Hope every­one is hav­ing a good Monday.

I would prob­a­bly split this blog post into three top­ics, or maybe four, uni­ver­sity, TTC rant, dri­ving and teaching.

So lets get stuck in, uni­ver­sity is going okay I guess, I am in week 5 of my Autumn term which means I worked out the other day I have about 25 weeks left, more than likely less and that is a really scary but amaz­ing feel­ing!  I have this assign­ment due in Thurs­day which is 2/3 done and I have to do some pro­gram­ming in some ran­dom unheard of lan­guage While, see I have a sneak­ing idea that my teacher made it up any­way that is beside the point, it’s hard, I hate it.  Then I have another assign­ment, a test and a report for my 3rd year project to do in 5 weeks so I am pretty much get­ting to the FREAK OUT stage again.

I was going to rant about how every­one and their dog are get­ting preg­nant and then I thought this really is not going to achieve any­thing in real­ity.  I need to sur­round myself with pos­i­tive thoughts and try to relax, any tips?

More hap­pier top­ics, dri­ving went so well today, my teacher says that my road dri­ving is test stan­dard (nearly), I did a lit­tle hop when I got home as I was so excited, I am feel­ing so good about doing the test this time

And I got my inter­view for my teacher train­ing course, it is in the next cou­ple of weeks, I am ner­vous but at the same time I can’t believe I am here after all the years of study­ing I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I would like some sleep now please?

Well I am a bad blog­ger, my blog­ging sched­ule went out the win­dow as soon as uni started back up, now I am in my fifth week of autumn term and who knew how crazy it was going to get, I knew it was going to be a lit­tle busy but along with my nor­mal amount of sub­jects I am tak­ing this term, we have our huge third year project.

I am still research­ing it at the moment and it is tak­ing longer than I thought but I do really enjoy, that is say­ing some­thing as I really dis­like one of my other sub­ject and I am really hop­ing I do not fail it but as long as I try my best I won’t feel too bad, we are not all meant to be good at every­thing

I am feel­ing a lit­tle snowed under, I am hop­ing to catch up on every­thing today before I go out for Hal­loween which I am excited about and the hus­band is going to pick me up at 1am but he doesn’t mind as he is such a night owl.

Hope­fully there will be more inter­est­ing posts next week, I am a bad blog­ger at the moment, but if you are inter­ested in see what I am doing for my project — check out blog.iglean.co.uk