OMGWTF

Apparently I'm clever or something. I got a 7 from physics. And chemistry. And probably 6 from bio and english. Not bad.

But my great master plan failed. Such a shame. And I used a lot of time for it too.
Not to mention used a lot of money to buy some stuff. Ok, I'd have bought all that anyhow but still.

My self-control is great. I bought a bag of candy, because I felt like I needed some sugar. Then I ate about 5 candies, threw the rest away, bought some baby carrots and ate them happily. A slight waste of money, perhaps?

Random. I better go do something less random and more significant.

OMFG

I have this feeling I get things my way way too easily. I studied approximately 2 hours for my bio exam with a really nasty area (cell respiration, photosynthesis, nucleic acids and proteins). I was totally panicking on the train to school, and had the feeling I should have studied a lot more. (Instead of using the computer until my parents said I should quit, and reading two ther books, which were great. )So, I hoped the multiple questions would be easy, and the rest would be mamageable. Enough to get a 4, at least.

But no. I ended up getting a 6 (or a 7, depending on the grade boundaries). On the IB scale 1-7, 7 being the best. No, I'm not bragging or anything. Haha. Only English left, and no need to study for that one. Not that you could study for a comparative commentary on two unseen texts anyway.

Anme, you have my eternal gratitude for recommending that book to me. I loved it. And the second part as well. I'll get the third in a couple of days. Way cool.

Um. I need to go shopping. I have to spend several hours before the cycling club's yearly meeting. Not that I had to go there, but I kind of need to show some papers to the coach before my scary CAS coordinator calls him. My CAS coordinator hates me. She's evil. Although it might be partially because I wasn't quiet and nice on the psychology course she taught us last year. But it's her fault for being a sucky teacher.

16 hours

... before my bio exam starts...
Noooo. I have this feeling I should have studied way more. And the bio teacher hates me already, thanks to the episode with the previous exam's scrap paper (see earlier post long ago). A good start.

The food hygiene training costs loads, sadly. But I really need it for a summer job next summer. Bad thing. Unless I want a dumb job like cleaning or something else equally uninteresting. Bah. Not that it's likely for me to get a decent job anyway, because most summer jobs are gotten by connections. This system sucks.

I better go study biology.

YAY YAY YAY!

So many reasons to be happy. Not even the upcoming Bio exam on Monday can spoil my great mood.

1. We WON the crazy scouts competition which included dressing up in weird doll costumes and running around Helsinki. First out of 88 teams. We rock. And also blew a tenth of our year budget on the party. I ate too much grapes and felt ill and forgot to watch a tv program. Whoops

2. Exam week is halfway through - 2 down, 2 to go

3. So far my exam week has been a success. I'd say I got at least a 6 from physics, maybe a 7, and I know I got a 7 from chemistry, because the exam was checked already. And obviously these grades would be in the IB scale from 1 to 7, 7 being the best and 4 being the lowest passing grade. Ad bio and english A2 should be easy - I know everything there is to know about Nucleic acids and Photosynthesis and plant respiration. No way I'll mix DNA translation and transcription, like last time. And anyone can write a decent comparative commentary for english.

4. I met this nice guy a few days ago. He does have a funny name though. Really funny. Haha.

5. Um. Oh. What else?

6. Less than a month to my b-day. Although I'm not planning to celebrate it or aything. Not that people shouldn't give me loads of gifts. Please do. But I can't bother to have a party or anything. Not that my parents would allow it in first place. Actually, I'll be spending my b-day at school and cycling practise. Yay... I better make my parents invite some relatives over some day so they can give me cool gifts.

7. I'll spend next friday and saturday looking after a dog. He's nice. His owners have a nice house and a huge tv with a gazillion channels, a fast internet connection and a fancy coffee machine. And the people will actually pay me for looking after their nice Jack Russel terrier. Good times.

8. The weekend after I'm really busy. We'll have an all-night movie marathon, and then I'll be working at the International dog show. Namely, I'll get free entry on both days, free food and drink, work for a couple precious CAS hours and then go watch the BIS and the way cool other stuff going on, like lama agility.How can lamasa do agility. anyway? I'll have to see that. Way fun. Not to mention the cool people I'll hang out with. I'll need a lot of caffeine on saturday, since it's right after the movie marathon...

And then the bad things...

A new term starts next Thursday. The bore. And I'll have maths. NOOOOO. I actually have five courses. Two days with lessons until four. And three mornings starting at 8.10. No way I'll make it. Considering how I got severe symptoms of ADHD with long days from 8.10 to 14.30, no way I'll be able to stay awake until 4 pm. Doom awaits.

But hey. I had a term with 7 courses last year, and I made it. Can this be any worse? Nah. I'll make it. Maybe. Most likely. Hope so

No, I'm not wearing a short skirt. My legs just happen to be long, creating an optical illusion of my skirt being on the shortish side

I assume the title was self explanatory. I decided to wear my favorite skirt today, which is, according to my mom, short. She even went as far as to call it a mini, which it isn't.

Anyhow, a skirt which may be a tiny bit on the short side, might not be the most convenient thing to wear in the lovely November weather here in Finland, even though I don't live in Lapland or anything. The heating value of it is pretty much inexistent, and the wind causes some other problems. I can avoid freezing by wearing warm clothes as well, but the wind factor is a worse problem. Theoretically I guess I could sew some weights to the hem, but I won't. Too much trouble. Not to mention way inconvenient.

Thanks to my skirt, I got a lot of people staring at me today. Mainly male, with the exception of an older lady who had the strong belief that wearing a skirt like mine was a sin. It was pretty sad. But then again that was the least annoying person looking at my skirt. Hello, talk about hypocrites...

1. The train driver guy who didn't bother waiting for me, even though he had to see me running to make it to the train. Obviously you noticed me, considering the way you stared at my legs. BAD
2. The weirdly dressed freak with round black sunnies. FREAK. For crying out loud, don't turn around when I've passed you and continue staring. That's way wrong. Don't.
3. The "gentleman" who let a middle-aged woman pass you when leaving the train, but didn't bother to not look at me. HMPFT.
   
4. And everyone else who did something similar.
   

I probably won't wear the skirt for some time. Or then I will, despite the trouble. Shall see.

The problem with multiple calendars

... happens to be one I'm experiencing. Seriously. Who volunteers to be the BIG BOSS of a scouts camp over the weekend, when you have your maths, physics and chemistry exams the next week. Not to mention the whole G4 project. *collapses under upcoming workload*.
Yup. That would be me. Whoops. Might be a bad thing considering how I tend to catch a cold on every scouts thing I go to and end up sleeping less than an hour per night. Probably a bad thing, especially with those exams.

But my life isn't a complete mess. My nice parents gave me money, they are opening a new shop I like on Thursday, I'm all hyped up about Christmas (= more shopping not to mention a few weeks off from the nasty concentration camp some mistakenly call school) and I've got only one lab report to write this week. Goody. Not to mention it's party season. And they have a special edition of my fave mascara, but I still won't buy it if they don't have it waterproof. Honestly, wearing watersoluble makeup in Finland's winter is a no-no. I do like the snow, however. It actually is snowing right now, great. Wait. that means that I'll have to get my darling boots fixed, and replace my bike's summer tires with winter ones. Ah, the bore. I better make someone do it for me.

I found the best ever black jeans. The only catch was the price. Slightly more than what I'm willing to pay, but maybe my nice parents will. Come on, a pair of jeans is a must. And I'll need to splurge on the spa set and strengthening nail polish. My nails chip way too often. maybe I'll just get artificial nails. Or hope the strengthener works. Shall see.

To be continued...

Feeling random

We had Saturday school on the 10th. Trust me to come up with some cunning plan to avoid it. So, instead of having to go to school for one lesson, I decide to arrange a scouts camp thingy. It was something I'd have to do anyway, so why not now? However, I ended up having to wake up way earlier than I would have if I'd have gone to school (I woke up at 6:54, too cruel) AND my hair still smells a bit like smoke even though I've washed it three times (!!!) after coming home. It's a lot beter now, though. But still. I finally got home around 2 pm yesterday after a fun weekend which involved way too little sleep, non-gourmet food, playing around in the snow and a shocking game of spin-the-bottle. Seriously. My scouts group managed to shock me. BIG time. Seriously. And to think that they're small not-so-innocent girls between 12 and 15 years. Gah. Not to mention the other leader, 16, but still. And trust the other leader to ask all sorts of bitchy questions about this guy I'm interested in. Gah. Talk about annoying. I didn't end up lying, though. But I didn't tell the whole truth, not even close. Ha. And she ended up confessing she was bi, which slightly freaked me out. Totally freaked me out, to be more precise. Honestly, she scares me.

We got the exclusive magazine from my favorite store. I saw loads of way cute yet not that cheap stuff I instantly needed. Bad me. But then again I do suffer from chronic shopaholism. Too bad. And I just got a nice amount of money, so I should do fine. Not to mention that my parents will pay for some of the stuff. A way too small part of them though, but still.

I went shopping today and had to use the subway. I've got nothing against it in general, but today, however, I had a tiny problem. I was wearing my favorite skirt, which happens to be a bit on the short side. It is longer than my coat, though. Not short as in slutty, but way above kneelength. So, I got some guys, most of which were way older, staring at me. Not fun. Although some of them were younger and not bad-looking. But still. In general, not that great. But wearing a short-ish skirt does boost anyone's ego. I totally recommend it. Assuming you are female and don't have way too fat legs. In that case, don't. It's a severe crime towards style and the people around you. Or at least me.

And I have to finish this written assignment for English A2 by tomorrow. Not fun. I better go write it.

When the system is to be blamed,

blame the system. Or thats what I do, at least.

This is what you get from all the money saved on our mental healthcare. Someone goes crazy and shoots other poor people. I never thought this could happen here. Finlad was supposed to be safe. Turns out I was wrong. Some guy a year older than me went and shot his principal and seven others. Scary.

I love my life. Currently, anyway

Whatever. I just paid for my ticket to Girugämesh at Tavastia, 2.2.08. I shocked a few people by this info, namely 2, so far. I expect the number to grow radically by the time I let more people know about it. The people I shocked so far: the person at the ticket service. Apparently I didn't look like the type who would go see a j-rock band. especially when the line for front-row places for the Dir en gray gig today extended around the block, full of people who did look like j-rock fans.
The same thing was a large-ish surprise to a classmate of mine I knew was into j-rock. She literally screamed "what" and was all like wtf for some time. And I thought she did know what kind of music I listened to. anyhow, she's going too, and I'm calling my other j-rock-type-friends to see if they're coming as well.

Overhyped - yay yay yay

Ok, I currently I feel great
I had a great day at this completety crazy detective/city orienteering/random competition which involved coming up with totally mad conspiracy theories and dressing up in a weird way - and walking around the center of Helsinki. It was awesome.

Also, my new favorite band since not long ago, Girugämesh, is coming to Finland in February. I already booked my ticket. Now I'll just need to persuade someone else to come there too.