A levels
Today the A level results come out. 'So what?' I hear you cry. 'How does that affect you?'. Oddly enough, this year it does affect me, working as I am at Imperial (still going marvellously by the way, I am officially a computer genius. Well...sort of...). Today and tomorrow I shall spend my days answering the phone and telling people whether or not they have any chance of getting in. So far I have had a variety of calls- one young chap who didn't quite make his grades but is actually being reconsidered so has hope, one guy who couldn't get at his results but got in and was quite ecstatically happy and one girl who almost certainly DIDN'T get in but sounded rather desperate on the phone. *sigh* I'd forgotten how stressful it all was. Poor dear chicks. There have been other calls too, at varying levels of stress/exhileration/desperate hope. I'm sure they'll all be fine in the end. I want more of the people who actually got in to call, it's much more fun talking to them.
All the people applying here seem to have incredibly complicated names. The best so far had 10 letters in his first name and 15 in his second.
But apart from the phones, I'm not officially having to do anything today, so it should be fairly relaxing. Edinburgh is happening the day after tomorrow, which is extremely exciting, and we shall all jet off (steam off? What does one say for trains these days) to that great city and have a marvellous time.
Insects seem to be hopelessly in love with me at the moment, and I am actually covered in bites. My top count was 18, but now some of those have faded away and are only being replaced at a lesser rate, so at the moment I have about 12. Mostly on my arms. At least they've had the decency not to munch on my face just yet.
Yesterday Adam and I both had days off, so we went to the park and had a hot chocolate/green tea in the cafe, and then watched A Clockwork Orange. Which wasn't nearly as horrible as I was expecting it to be. It was good, though the sound on the DVD was terrible, and you could barely hear the dialogue over the music. It was very, very odd. We also watched 'Robbie Coltrane: B-road Britain' which sounds remarkably sad, but was quite good fun. He went and saw all sorts of strange festivals and traditional events in the country side, which...well...they were very...British. Oh and I discovered the pure joy and pleasure of google maps, the satellite version. It's fabulous! I've been looking at places all over the UK. I might check out where I'm going in Australia next.
Oh and I point you all to a Guardian article which Adam showed me on the website. The URL is http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html and it is quite good evidence of the current madness of America. I'm glad I'm flying via Singapore in December rather than LA...
All the people applying here seem to have incredibly complicated names. The best so far had 10 letters in his first name and 15 in his second.
But apart from the phones, I'm not officially having to do anything today, so it should be fairly relaxing. Edinburgh is happening the day after tomorrow, which is extremely exciting, and we shall all jet off (steam off? What does one say for trains these days) to that great city and have a marvellous time.
Insects seem to be hopelessly in love with me at the moment, and I am actually covered in bites. My top count was 18, but now some of those have faded away and are only being replaced at a lesser rate, so at the moment I have about 12. Mostly on my arms. At least they've had the decency not to munch on my face just yet.
Yesterday Adam and I both had days off, so we went to the park and had a hot chocolate/green tea in the cafe, and then watched A Clockwork Orange. Which wasn't nearly as horrible as I was expecting it to be. It was good, though the sound on the DVD was terrible, and you could barely hear the dialogue over the music. It was very, very odd. We also watched 'Robbie Coltrane: B-road Britain' which sounds remarkably sad, but was quite good fun. He went and saw all sorts of strange festivals and traditional events in the country side, which...well...they were very...British. Oh and I discovered the pure joy and pleasure of google maps, the satellite version. It's fabulous! I've been looking at places all over the UK. I might check out where I'm going in Australia next.
Oh and I point you all to a Guardian article which Adam showed me on the website. The URL is http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html and it is quite good evidence of the current madness of America. I'm glad I'm flying via Singapore in December rather than LA...
2 Comments:
Yay! Edinburgh! I shall remember the keys. Hopefully.
I'm so glad I'm not getting results today. This is my first summer in three years without all that stress.
Yay for avoiding big amounts of security that terrify you. I guess it should make people feel safer to know that foreign journalists are being tracked correctly...
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