Playlist

5 New songs coming up :)

Maybe I should listen to her whole new album since I am absolutely loving the first two singles :) Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Ella Henderson - Glow

I haven't listened to them for a while now and was even a little surprised that this song is theirs :D

One direction - Night changes

Lorde - Yellow flicker beat

The Estonian one is my favourite from a tv show where singers sing and change each other's songs

Eda Ines Etti - Mulle meeldib see 

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Homie

It started snowing yesterday!!!! :) SO it'll be a white christmas :) Oh I love it so much!

Anyway this will be a chit-chat post about everything I have to say (I thought about it yesterday when falling asleep :D) because I don't really have one subject to talk about but lots to say ;)

So lets get starteeeeeed!

1. You probably might guess that I'm home now :) It feels weird... I should've come back closer to Christmas :D I tremendously like being home during summer, but winter time, there's really nothing to do coz it's sooooo cold and I obvs don't even have any proper clothes to deal with it anymore :D
2. Today I wrapped all the Christmas presents :) All the others (and me previously) are lazy and just use the bags, but it feels so much cooler to wrap them up properly and then tear it all apart... mwahhaahahahaa. I seem to have more presents than ever this year although for the first time we (the adults) decided to do secret santa instead of getting everyone a present :D
3. Got finally around to updating my CV, although it's still not done because I couldn't remember the name of the organisation I worked for in Paris :D :D Yes, that is indeed a sign of old age ;) And it just needs a little oomph added to it to make it pop, but I don't know what how why when :D So I'm pushing the actual applying process forward... I've favourited some jobs ads though - still in date yeaaaaaah :D
4. Another thing I've pushed to the sidelines is... my essay... I just can't do anything here!!! So I'll probably die of stress at the beginning of January coz me so stupido.
5. That brings to mind we got our comment paper grade and I got a freaking FIRST!!! OMG I'm so happy!!!!! now all I have to do is nail that exam as well (2 days after the essay :() and it could be happy days!!!!!!!!!!!! so excited :)
6. In other news the new timetable came out on Monday, a three hour lecture.... wow, must be a first for Aber? :D It can still change a bit, but looks like now thursday (4-6 french) is my proper uni day that includes going from one campus to the other, which I didn't really have to do last semester (I had a huge gap, where I went home).
7. There was probably something else I thought about writing to you last night but hey ho! never mind - I might add it later :D ooooh mystery and excitement!

Merry Christmas!!!! :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Last minute man

Do you remember my post about who busy busy this semester will be and what assignments I have to do etc. well... I did have much more to do than the first two year but the thing is, I did them all in the last two weeks :D :D :D :D :D :D I just can't start doing something reasonably early, no wait, I can start and figure out what I want to do: do some reading etc, and then think wow this is easy, no worries now, just a matter of writing it up. And then I procrastinate until the last minute comes and wooops turns out it isn't "that easy" after all :D no shit sherlock.

That's how I wrote my comment paper: read the articles more than a month ago, didn't find anything, hated this whole stupid subject, then a week ago (look how good I am :) ) took it up again - I had compiled all the interesting articles together and even made some notes on some and voila! the first one I (re)opened happened to be the one I was like hmmm... I can work with this :) So as I'd now found my article (the hardest part), I let it be for a couple more days and started writing it up a day earlier (I had a French presentation to do as well for the same day), needless to say I ran into some difficulty and even now, after submitting it, I'm not happy with it at all... thinking I could've added a lot more "smart" discussion etc... but we shall see...

The french presentation didn't go too well :D I only had an hour for that (in between lectures) and it wasn't too bad but compared to the others, who'd done massive research on their essay topic, I had just oooh I want to do this, I'll consider this and contrast between them, and I'll look at these texts (A couple minutes too short :( ). Others told the history of their text's authors etc etc etc, I felt really shit sitting their waiting for my turn, and after as well :D Now I have to actually start reading the texts and find the interesting parts I need for my essay. And write it! BUT the shock of the semester: we can write that essay in English (or French, your choice!!!!) WHAT????!!! My jaw literally dropped when he told us that last class :D

Anyway this semester is now pretty much over, although I still have stuff to do - my French essay, should start applying for graduate jobs (to my surprise most of those deadlines are in December/January!!!!), and collect data for my dissertation + revise for my exam in January.

Good news too :) Got 7's for my article presentations - I thought the first one had gone horribly because I literally choked and couldn't make up proper phrases: started saying something and ended with... yeah... ok... and moved on :D :D :D :D I was soooooo embarrased, I don't usually get so nervous during presentations, but luckily I had said smart stuff :D

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz....

Sleeping

I am really good in bed - I can sleep for days ;)

No seriously, on Monday I went to bed at 7PM and woke up in time to go to lecture the next morning. I just do not understand people who can get up early in the morning because they can't sleep anymore! What do you mena you can't sleep anymore! Go to bed close your eyes, daydream and voila you open your eyes like 4 hours later :D Easy-peasy.

Thanks to Mr. Special I now wake up relatively early too, and do you know how good it feels :) The day is sooooo much longer when you wake up at 9AM instead of 11AM. I've always admired and been jealous of morning people. Even if I wake up, I can't get out of bed and just lie there for a couple more hours usually :D Pretty useless waste of time... One day when I had two french presentations that I hadn't really prepared for I set my alarm for half six in the morning to revise. The first lecture was at 10. I was awake for most of the time after my alarm but just stayed in bed :D :D :D :D

The other thing I don't understand is people who pull all-nighters. You are up ALL night and write your essay???? ALL NIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?! The closest I've come to that is in my second year when I started my essay at 5PM to hand it in at 11AM the next morning. Oh believe me I had sleeping breaks :D Like three-four hours at a time, meaning I wrote until I was tired, set my alarm to wake up three hours later and continue writing a bit (an hour maybe) and then go back to sleep for another couple of hours. (I got a first for that essay so I'm really proud actually :D).

The other day when I had a 9 AM lecture I woke up at 9.06!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! Sleeping in is not something I do! I'm usually very careful with my alarms and when I think I haven't set the alarm I can't either sleep or wake up 5 mins before the alarm just to be sure. So when I opened my eyes and the clock said 9.06 I was in shock! Somehow I'd forgotten to set the alarm (I have it set for every day automatically so I wouldn't forget) cause last week I'd woken up earlier (set another earlier alarm and turned the normal one off) to finish my literature review :D

Hey at lest I don't sleep in lectures :D We have one girl in tourism who sleeps in lectures quite often and then in French one girl fell asleep too (after my presentation lol :D - the teacher had been talking for a good while already though!). And she even took a deep loud breath :D I noticed because the lecturer noticed (he didn't say anything though) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

This is the third time I'm updating this but I forgot that I wanted to include some of my dreams too - I can only remember on at the moment so I might do a fourth update when I remember the other one - I know I had two!!!! Anyway the second one was that the flat above mine was being renovated and I wasn't allowed to go there to look, but I did and then threw an anchor out of their window. My Welsh friend saw that and panicked and we went back to retrieve the anchor. But on our way up we heard someone in that flat. It was tadadaaaa Kanye West :D :D :D  He was decorating the flat above mine :) As soon as he heard something on the stairs he started shouting and raced towards us - we obviously ran to my flat and closed the door. (That's it :D)

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...