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Old 24-06-2004, 05:45 PM   #21 (permalink)
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man im getting good at this - i haven't forgotten to post in a while.

Biology unit 6 went surprisingly well i think - was absolutely cacking my self before it started, as i didn't revise the kidney very well, and the nervous system just wasn't gonna happen. turned out there were no questions on the kidney, and just a few pretty straight forward ones on nerves. the last 15 mark question was a dream - along the lines of,
a)explain how a diagram showed homeostasis works through negative feedback.
b) what changes occur in the body when you walk into a cold room.
c)something to do with why the body keeps a "normal" temperature. smething like it any way, cos the answere was about enzymes being denatured if its too hot etc.

so i at least think im on target for a B. probably jinxing it by saying that - the synoptic will go horrendously tomorrow because i said that. saying that, its gonna go badly anyway if i dont go and do some work so i shall bid you fairwell my friends............
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Old 25-06-2004, 11:08 PM   #22 (permalink)
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well im confused. have absolutely no idea how that synoptic biology paper went. i hate it when i don't know - you can usually judge round about how much you get on a normal paper, but not with an essay. i wrote a lot - used 2 extra sheets of paper, but i didn't really get to read through it at the end, so it might be good or it might make no sense what so ever.

no point in worrying i suppose. not that thats gonna stop me..........

see you later, im off to watch eastenders...
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Old 16-07-2004, 05:15 PM   #23 (permalink)
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wow its been a while....

i am now officially a lady of leisure (except on fri night and saturday cos then i've got to work :evil: grr)

the chemistry exam was a little hard. the unit 5 questions were ok, but the synoptic ones at the end were really difficult. hopefully i got enough but i won't be surprised if i missed it. the unit 6 synoptic multiple guess - sorry multiple choice, was solid. there are 40 questions, all worth one mark. you get 60minutes to do it in, so thats a minute and a half on each question. all well and good, but most of the questions are the same as those that appear on the unit exams, in which they award 4 or 5 marks for them, as they are long questions. but you still only get one mark for them on the synoptic paper, because they are multiple choice. i don't think its fair somehow.
so all in all a little disapointed with my exams - i certainly didn't break any records, but im gonna try and stay optomistic.

i figure that there is a snowballs chance in hell that i have got AABb. so there may be a slightly higher chance (perhaps a cats chance in hell) that i got ABB. so i may have my place reserved for 2005. the more likely outcome is that i will get ABC or worse ACC. so if that happens, i will either retake my low graded Alevels, and do another A level at the same time (maybe geography?) so that when i apply next year, i could show i am not going to fail again. or i could get a place on a sciency type course through clearing, and hopefully get a 2.1, so i could go into medicine as a graduate.

hmmm.......lots to think about.....

on a lighter note i saw Harry Potter a couple of weeks ago - really good!! i haven't read the books - i didn't think id like them when they first came out, but i love the films. saw it with my friend, whos gone back to india for the summer. i've never had a really big group of friends - i have just a few close friends and lots of "aquaintances" if you see what i mean. people that i can talk to if they are around - have a laugh with, but we don't go out or that sort of think. my indian friend is someone i became really close to, so im sad shes gone away. when she comes back, she won't be living in chester, as her dads been promoted so i won't see her much. still, its an excuse to go to london to visit her!

we've got a new caravan, so we went on holiday to the cotswalds last week. had a really nice time. weather was awful, but it wouldn't have been as good if it hadn't been. i like going to the little campsites that we go to - nobody knows you and they don't care what you look like. so you can just forget about makeup, and fasionable clothes. i spent the whole week in muddy jeans, old flipflops or big caterpillar boots, and old t -shirts. great fun i think we're going to go again soon just for a few days.

so now im spending the day doing sod all and looking after the doglet (brothers made up word for 7month old boxer dog - still acts like a pup, bit looks like one giant woofer dog - therefore she is a doglet)
parents and brother are at brothers graduation - he got a 2.2 in his pyscology degree - im really proud of him.
http://www.eddiehead.50megs.com/
oh and here is a link to one of his old housemates web site,

i think he did microbiology or something similar, hence all the petri dishes. any way he's a really nice bloke so take a look. and a couple of picys of my big bro are in the "pics of my old house section" he's Iain, and his girlfriend is Rachel. oh and if you want an idea of what i look like - its exactly like Iain, but with slightly longer hair, a slightly girlier face, and no beard (yet :wink: )
heehee - he knows my bro well -

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This even scarier image was taken just a few seconds after about two paces up the hallway. This is Iain, staring at Rachel. You see, there's a little serial killer in all of us, trying to get out. In Iains case it might be two or three.
heehee :lol:
god this is a long post. think im gonna make some flapjacks or ginger bread men. they're my speciality.

oooh - im watchin neighbours and max has just fallen of a roof thingy. good- i don't like him.

ive been writing this for ages now so im gonna go now cos i feel like ive just wasted the entire morning on this site. damn you , damnn you all!! :twisted: sorry im emotional.

ooo...the doglets just had an accident on the carpet so imm really gonna have to go now - now she's big, her bladder holds (or not as the case may be) alot more pee, so its a major flood alert when she has an accident. any way ill go and mop it up now (my dignity has well and truely buggered off). see you.
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Old 28-07-2004, 03:09 AM   #24 (permalink)
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well im pissed off. i failed my driving test today. and when i say failed - i did it in spectacular style. not one but two serious faults, and a whole host of other buggers. it would have been a whole lot better, but i failed in the first few minutes when i went up the curb on a reverse corner, so i kinda took the piss from then on. its only money i guess. trouble is ive just booked it again, and i have to wait till september. takes the piss.

i got offered a job yesterday. just like that - out of the blue. one of the surgeries i go to to do my prescription pickup/delivery job are desperate for a temporary receptionist, so the receptionist i always see, basically said the jobs mine if im quickabout it. think ill ring them tomorrow about it. im not sure whether ill be any good at it, but im trying to think of it as work experience rather than a job if you get me.

i suppose im gonna have to tell everyone i failed my driving test now. damn it. my parents knew i had booked the test, but i didn't tell them when it was, so i figured i could fail, then put in for it again straight away and hopefully do it in the next 2 weeks. now ill have to wait 6 weeks. damnit.

oh well.

you know i've tried keeping diaries in the past, and i never kept them up for more than a week, so could never see the benefit of them. maybe its because i know other people will be reading this one that i keep it going. more motivation i suppose. neh, its too late for philosophical pondering. christ its gone midnight. i need a life. or some sleep. night night.
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Old 07-08-2004, 03:07 AM   #25 (permalink)
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hey people.

ive just realised that my avaters a bloke. after reading a thread along similar lines, i should confirm to you all that i am female. either that or someone thought it was funny to stick two melons on my chest. i say melons - wer're not talking water melons here, more like those dinky yellow ones. (not that my breasts are yellow you understand.....oh forget it)

why am i talking about fruit? why are you reading it?

so nadia won BB. woo for her. (thats not a WOO!! type woo, more of just a woo if you get me) you know i started this entry with good intentions, but i really can't be arsed now so i do it some other time when ive got more energy

nighty night. if anyone reads this in a few minutes - get to bed! :wink: its too late to be farting around on here.
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Old 18-08-2004, 03:34 AM   #26 (permalink)
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well this is the last post before doom day. or the best day of my life. nah, more likely doom. always the optimist.

i'm kinda of panicking now. the whole process of clearing is looking quite tricky. we weren't told much at all about the process, so i did abit of research and it said about getting a CV ready and being called for interviews. i thought i got all that over with last january. im just hoping i don't have to worry about clearing. if i do, i'll apply for Biomedical science. just looking around, it seems there are quite a few places available still, so hopefully it won't be too hard to get a place.

the thing is, i think i may have dropped to a C in chem, which would obviously rule me out of med school this year. my insurance choice specifically asked for B in chem, so its like i don't really have an insurance.

i'm not makeing much sense here cos im tired and stressed.

wish me luck - im keeping my fingers crossed for you too.

c u some time after the 19th for congrats and comiserations (not so many of those i hope)
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Old 27-08-2004, 02:38 AM   #27 (permalink)
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hows all you doing? well its a week past results day so you should all have sobered up by now.

i got ABBb which was a whole lot better than i thought i was gonna get so im pleased. well at least i was untill i read that in biology i got 479/600, and an A was 480/600. crapitycrapcrap. so ive sent module 8 off to be remarked in the hope of squeezing an extra mark from those tight little buggers.

so, ive now got an unconditional offer for liverpool for 2005 entry. i was so happy before, but now its starting to dawn that a year is actually a long time. now i don't think im gonna go back to school, so iv'e now got people telling me i shouldn't waste this opportunity to travel. i don't want to travel though. people just don't seem to understand that it just doesn't really appeal to me right now. i don't know what to do......................

i think i might look for something to do in this country like an outdoor pursuits type centre. i love that kind of thing, so that could be fun. hmm...i'll have to think. i guess ive got a bit of time to decide.

it's gonna be hard seeing all my friends getting ready to go to uni, and im still at home.

sorry, i should be happy i know. i am happy, really, i'm just in one of those moods. i suppose i just have to keep thinking about the unconditional offer ive got. you've never seen any thing sweeter on the ucas website than an unconditional offer for medicine :wink:

bye for now.

ps yay for kelly holmes!!!!!!! big hug for paula radcliff :cry:
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Old 08-09-2004, 03:10 AM   #28 (permalink)
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another day, another dollar.

ive had a shitty shitty day. no thats a lie i had quite a good day, uuntill we got this group of travellers in work. a woman who looked on deaths door decided to threaten and yell at me because i said (remarkably politely i must say) that she had only given me a fiver, and her shopping cost 5.20 odd. after removing a bottle of pop she gave me to take off from her shopping, the bottle leaked a little on my shirt and she started yelling that i deserved it and god knows what else. it all happened in the lik of an eye, and at the time i wasn't that bothered , it was only after that i realised how agressive she was getting towards me. anyhoo she left pretty quick after that. it shook me up a little though. i guess i'll have to toughen up a bit. im fine with posh people who get angry or difficult - i can do the sickeningly nice act perfectly, but agression and threats coming from someone who you've got no hope in reasoning with gets to me a bit. i liked the fact that all the managers in work came to see if i was alright, and offered to call the police if i felt threatened etc. i thought that was a bit over the top, so i let it go.

any hoo its now my birthday. its 6 minutes in to the 8th of september so i am now 19. although officially i'm not 19 till 1.10am. i was thinking that i 'll be 20 when i go to uni. i don't know why that bothers me but it does.

happy birthday to me. happy birthdat to me. happy birthday to (insert real name - mwahhahahah you don't know it. like you care :roll: ) happy birthday to me.

i don't do birthdays. no, i do other peoples birthdays, i just don't do mine. bye.

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Old 06-10-2004, 04:53 PM   #29 (permalink)
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long time no see.........
i have bugger all to write about because my life is as boring as hell at the mo. i have a stinker of a cold. i hate colds. you can have it if you like. go on you know you want to. oh ok then i'll keep it. it probably wouldn't like you anyway.

so everyones gone to the far away land of university, where the men are men and so are some of the women. its funny because when im at work i keep having to explain that i'm on a gap year and didn't completely fail my exams, and end up as a checkout girl.

now i can't be arsed writing about nothing so i'm gonna go get some lunch (feed a cold, starve a fever and all that) and get ready for work. im getting trained how to do the stock take tonight so that should make it at least a little more interesting. i had to do a. 11 hour shift yesterday because some little f***er decided he wouldn't turn up for work. he will be getting a stern talking to.

one that note.....
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Old 18-10-2004, 04:01 PM   #30 (permalink)
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you would not believe how pissed off i am. i just wrote the longest post ever - containing the rant of all rants, and the frigging machine just deleted it. bugger it. :evil: :evil: :evil:
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