#... days til exams

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18/5/17

We horrifyingly enough have run out of teabags, which has never happened, so I’m brewing Earl Grey leaves in a teapot like some kind of Victorian lady. A very frazzled Victorian lady who is about to write her fifth essay of the day, that is - my wrist can rest in pieces.

(28 days til exams.)

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19/5/17

I’ve written little English quiz questions and blu-tacked them all over my house, so every time I go through a door with a question stuck to it, I have to stop until I’ve answered that question. Which is a brilliant idea, but it’s already driving me crazy! So I’m making any excuse I can to stay seated and as a result, getting a lot of work done… Seems I can finally use my laziness to work in my favour 🤔

(27 days til exams.)

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24/5/17 In which the LSO A level lectures are an actual gift from God. (22 days til exams.)

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17/5/17 The best way to procrastinate writing an essay is to spend so much time planning it out that in the end you might just as well have written the thing because it would have taken the same amount of time and effort. Hamlet essay plan (red is totally Hamlet's colour) feat. my ugly af glasses because for some reason I just couldn't concentrate with them on my face today. Now I'm bingewatching French TV to avoid writing my French essay... Swear to God I'll learn one day. (29 days til exams.)

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12/5/17 Not the best day today, I'm posting a pic of about the only piece of work I managed to do outside lessons, aka a tiny fragment of what's on my list. Time is running out til exams and my shit is Decidedly not together, I had half a panic attack in Eng Lit earlier and made the most hilarious translation mistake in Spanish (somehow 'the breath of a loved one' ended up as 'the breath of a person bearing weapons' in my essay...) But at least I have cute highlighters to help me through this mess 👌🏻 I'm also just back from a truly spectacular performance of Beethoven's 5th, which tends to make things like exams and school stress look pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe, so now I'm totally spaced out and vaguely wondering what is the point of existing at all. Beethoven does that. (34 days til exams.)

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18/4/18 My Cath Kidston guinea pig mug might be the cutest present anyone's ever given me! It's the perfect size for a mid-study session cuppa and the design is so adorable (plus I'm an absolute hoe for anything Cath Kidston lol). Had to have it by my computer all morning! Spent a long time organising stuff for next term, including a semi-detailed revision plan which I'm just praying for once I'll have the patience to actually stick to; plus caught up some more Spanish grammar exercises and French practice. I have literally zero idea how to revise for translation (which is my first exam 😫) and I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea that I probably won't be doing very well on that paper... Time to put even more work into the others to make up for it, I suppose. Apart from that I've been watching season 2 of Dix Pour Cent to get into the French mindset a bit more 😍 Days til exams: 4 (turns out I did the maths wrong and there's actually a day more than I thought!) Hours of productivity: 6 Days til I move back to uni: 2

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17/4/18 A slightly productive birthday ft. Spanish grammar in the local tea rooms and my bullet journal! Hours of productivity: 5 Days til exams: 4

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7/8/18 I've always said my handwriting looks way prettier in French than in English ☺️ Saw Amadeus at the theatre today as a birthday outing with my mum which was absolutely incredible (yes, I knew it was a play all about Mozart's death, and yes, I still cried anyway when he died). The rest of the day's just been spent studying vocab and writing up lecture notes in my spare time, and gathering up last minute bits and bobs in time for my trip to Spain tomorrow! I'm so excited 🇪🇸 Days til exams: 16 Hours of productivity: 5 so far, hopefully 8 by the time I go to sleep...