A bit late but yay exams are over. I'm not entirely free though, so I'm not 100% thrilled that exams are over because back in the day, the day of the last exam = total and indefinite freedom from education for the next few months. For me this year, it's more like, freedom to catch up with sleep before I start my long ass project.
I've given myself a generous 2 weeks of doing absolutely nothing, told myself not to even take any overtime at work and just spend it sleeping till whatever-o'clock and not feeling bad about sleeping too much, going out too much or even eating too much. But now those 2 weeks are coming to an end, it's 31st May meaning it's the last day of freedom before my mind needs to be set to work mode again. Accepted overtime at work next week to hype myself into that motivational mood to work mentally and physically. I plan to start this damn project straight off so I don't lag behind and I get the full 3 months to do it in. Creating new objectives and a research question to re-do my failed research proposal is first on my list - going to be a long and stressful process but you gotta start somewhere right?
Haven't blogged in well over a week because nothing interesting was going on in my life besides sleeping, seeing the boyf, eating snacks, playing league and catching up on missed TV. Was a really nice lazy 2 weeks apart from my mum moaning about me living my life like a slob. So be prepared for a lot of project ranting to come. Also work ranting too as I plan to do overtime over the summer to earn some more moolah.
Friday 30 May 2014
Friday 16 May 2014
Update
Been a long time since I last posted, mainly because of exams and other shit I've been experiencing along the way.
At the moment, I am one exam down and one to go, very close to absolute freedom of never having to sit another exam again. Feels surreal. First exam went very well (I hope), had to choose 3 out of 6 questions and actually, I predicted 4/6 of them which was amazing. Was so worth sitting down looking at past exam papers and seeing what will and will not come up. The last question threw me off, I actually had a choice between 3 by the end because I knew the topics, it was just the question of did I have enough content to write to cover a whole essay? Now when I think back to things, I really should've done the question on typologies as my last question but instead chose change agent because there was more to critique/compare/contrast. Maybe I just didn't feel like doing typologies because well, I think they're kinda dumb. Hopefully I've achieved enough to pass at least, that was the worst module ever in the duration of my masters degree.
Onto more serious matters, I've been having serious issues with my vision in the left eye. At first I kinda brushed it off as being superficial because those were the words my optician used, but then as you probably know because I've ranted about this before - I got sent to A&E because of it. Problem still hasn't cleared despite it having been a month already. So I went back the other day for a check up and seems like although things have been getting better, the progress is slow and my optician wasn't really happy with the drops the doctor prescribed me (she described them as weak drops that are given to children and babies... wonderful), so she sent me to buy these hella expensive drops (£14 for a tiny 10ml bottle) because they're apparently stronger. And so at the moment, I'm using those. Things don't feel like they're improving massively, like, sometimes I get pain the in eye because of dryness and at times I don't. Right now my eye feels alright but who knows, it might get worse later on. I guess I'm just trying to be optimistic about it even though I'm mega pissed off about the opticians wasting my money on weak drops, sending me to A&E when it really wasn't necessary and me ending up with over-the-counter drops that need no prescription therefore rendering my trip and day at the A&E worthless. I really don't want the see that optician that sent me to A&E again because she really doesn't have a clue at her job it seems.
The weather has been looking lovely for the week, it's a shame I have work tomorrow but at least I'm off on the Sunday when the sun comes out and it's 22 degrees. I have to revise though since my last exam is on Monday. LAST EVER EXAM GUYS. So excited. Not as excited to be graduating though since I graduate in October... Still got that project to get started on too... Sigh.
At the moment, I am one exam down and one to go, very close to absolute freedom of never having to sit another exam again. Feels surreal. First exam went very well (I hope), had to choose 3 out of 6 questions and actually, I predicted 4/6 of them which was amazing. Was so worth sitting down looking at past exam papers and seeing what will and will not come up. The last question threw me off, I actually had a choice between 3 by the end because I knew the topics, it was just the question of did I have enough content to write to cover a whole essay? Now when I think back to things, I really should've done the question on typologies as my last question but instead chose change agent because there was more to critique/compare/contrast. Maybe I just didn't feel like doing typologies because well, I think they're kinda dumb. Hopefully I've achieved enough to pass at least, that was the worst module ever in the duration of my masters degree.
Onto more serious matters, I've been having serious issues with my vision in the left eye. At first I kinda brushed it off as being superficial because those were the words my optician used, but then as you probably know because I've ranted about this before - I got sent to A&E because of it. Problem still hasn't cleared despite it having been a month already. So I went back the other day for a check up and seems like although things have been getting better, the progress is slow and my optician wasn't really happy with the drops the doctor prescribed me (she described them as weak drops that are given to children and babies... wonderful), so she sent me to buy these hella expensive drops (£14 for a tiny 10ml bottle) because they're apparently stronger. And so at the moment, I'm using those. Things don't feel like they're improving massively, like, sometimes I get pain the in eye because of dryness and at times I don't. Right now my eye feels alright but who knows, it might get worse later on. I guess I'm just trying to be optimistic about it even though I'm mega pissed off about the opticians wasting my money on weak drops, sending me to A&E when it really wasn't necessary and me ending up with over-the-counter drops that need no prescription therefore rendering my trip and day at the A&E worthless. I really don't want the see that optician that sent me to A&E again because she really doesn't have a clue at her job it seems.
The weather has been looking lovely for the week, it's a shame I have work tomorrow but at least I'm off on the Sunday when the sun comes out and it's 22 degrees. I have to revise though since my last exam is on Monday. LAST EVER EXAM GUYS. So excited. Not as excited to be graduating though since I graduate in October... Still got that project to get started on too... Sigh.
Thursday 1 May 2014
It's that time of the year again.
When I have to buckle down for a few weeks to revise for final exams. Can't believe that when I think about it, these 2 exams will be the last exams EVER for the rest of my life. Rejoice.
Had the opportunity to experience a Thai massage today with the boyf. He's been having backpain at work so he chose to do a deep tissue massage whereas I chose the traditional Thai massage. Don't know what that meant as when I went in the room and the woman came in and then she said she'd give me a "Chinese" massage LOL. What's so Thai about a Chinese massage?? Was relaxing nonetheless but my back muscles are feeling so sore at the moment, the same feeling you get when you exercise and the next day you really feel it down to every last muscle. Apparently my spine is bent because I keep sitting on one ass cheek - how does one even sit on one ass cheek I have no idea. She massaged my bum as well which was weird haha, anyway, the point is that she really pummelled my back into shape and now it hurts to stretch. First Thai massage experience - check. Dunno if I would want to go back though as it was pretty pricey for 30 minutes.
I have actually developed an addiction for Dairy Milk Giant Buttons. Bought them when they were £1 each bag at Tesco and they're STILL £1 per bag so I picked another one up today. Will be so good for revision. I tend to snack a lot when I revise but I don't seem to gain weight as I probably do the unhealthy substitution of snacks for decent meals. Sigh. I weighed myself this morning despite my recent over-snacking on crisps, chocolate and ice cream and I still weigh the same as before - by before I mean my normal 54kg, my lowest has been 52kg but I really didn't like that. I could see my damn ribcage. Yay for snacking and no weight gain I guess??? My boyfriend was disappointed to see I hadn't really gained weight - he was really expecting me to be fattened up since I kept telling him everytime I was snacking on chocolate and ice cream. I hate it when he teases me :( he's so mean.
My eye has been healing veeeery slowly. I actually have a HUGE rant to make right now about what happened on Tuesday. This optician I had decided that the healing process was too slow so she sent me all the way to Western Eye Hospital in Marylebone during the tube strike (took me 2 hours to get there by bus) to see a doctor. I should've known but there was a 2 hour wait to see a NURSE and then after I saw the nurse there was a 3 hour wait to see the doctor. Facepalm. I guess you can imagine how long I was in A&E for - 6 hours, yes, 6 hours I sat in that bloody waiting room whilst people were getting seen before me because that place sees people according to severity rather than what time you arrived. Never again. I came back to rant to my parents about how retarded that whole day was and I was even sitting there thinking why was I here? The optician I saw first said that it would take about a month to heal - this different retarded optician I had the next day decided that there wasn't enough improvement in the space of 3 days so she sends me to A&E and wasted 6 hours of my life. She even called me the next day to ask about it and then I ask her when do I come back for a check up and you know what she says? "Go back to the hospital for a check up" in my head I was like "is this woman MAD?" so I told her there was no way I was going back there as I had to wait 4 hours to be seen by a doctor. She tried to get me to go back to them for a check up on Friday (today) but I just straight up said to her look, there probably won't be any improvement until a week later so why are you asking me to see you 3 days later AGAIN? So she can send me to the hospital because the healing is slow??? I swear, this woman really has no idea what she's doing. Managed to persuade her to see me a week later so I have an appointment booked for next Tuesday instead. Crazy woman. I understand she wants me to be alert about this problem and she wants to "closely monitor" it but does she even know how crazy long the wait times are at A&E? Does she even know how far away the damn hospital is? Oh and you know what she suggested to me when I told her the tube strike was on on Tuesday? "Take a taxi" my god, she really thinks I'm Jesus that can perform miracles and create money to take a taxi into central London out of thin air. Or she thinks I'm filthy rich - but then again, if I was, I wouldn't be living in Hounslow. I wouldn't be having her as my optician either.
Rant ended. Basically, there's no way she's making me go back to that hospital unless my eye is actually going blind or falling out or she offers to pay for my damn taxi. There's another tube strike next Tuesday as well so good luck to her if she thinks she can send me to Western Eye Hospital again.
As you can see, I've had an eventful week. I actually came back home that day around midnight and REVISED. Yes, I had revision planned for that whole day but because she sent me on some pointless trip that was the most non-urgent emergency ever, I had to revise till about 4am before I could sleep.
Ok, now my rant has ended. Have a wonderful weekend guys!
Had the opportunity to experience a Thai massage today with the boyf. He's been having backpain at work so he chose to do a deep tissue massage whereas I chose the traditional Thai massage. Don't know what that meant as when I went in the room and the woman came in and then she said she'd give me a "Chinese" massage LOL. What's so Thai about a Chinese massage?? Was relaxing nonetheless but my back muscles are feeling so sore at the moment, the same feeling you get when you exercise and the next day you really feel it down to every last muscle. Apparently my spine is bent because I keep sitting on one ass cheek - how does one even sit on one ass cheek I have no idea. She massaged my bum as well which was weird haha, anyway, the point is that she really pummelled my back into shape and now it hurts to stretch. First Thai massage experience - check. Dunno if I would want to go back though as it was pretty pricey for 30 minutes.
I have actually developed an addiction for Dairy Milk Giant Buttons. Bought them when they were £1 each bag at Tesco and they're STILL £1 per bag so I picked another one up today. Will be so good for revision. I tend to snack a lot when I revise but I don't seem to gain weight as I probably do the unhealthy substitution of snacks for decent meals. Sigh. I weighed myself this morning despite my recent over-snacking on crisps, chocolate and ice cream and I still weigh the same as before - by before I mean my normal 54kg, my lowest has been 52kg but I really didn't like that. I could see my damn ribcage. Yay for snacking and no weight gain I guess??? My boyfriend was disappointed to see I hadn't really gained weight - he was really expecting me to be fattened up since I kept telling him everytime I was snacking on chocolate and ice cream. I hate it when he teases me :( he's so mean.
My eye has been healing veeeery slowly. I actually have a HUGE rant to make right now about what happened on Tuesday. This optician I had decided that the healing process was too slow so she sent me all the way to Western Eye Hospital in Marylebone during the tube strike (took me 2 hours to get there by bus) to see a doctor. I should've known but there was a 2 hour wait to see a NURSE and then after I saw the nurse there was a 3 hour wait to see the doctor. Facepalm. I guess you can imagine how long I was in A&E for - 6 hours, yes, 6 hours I sat in that bloody waiting room whilst people were getting seen before me because that place sees people according to severity rather than what time you arrived. Never again. I came back to rant to my parents about how retarded that whole day was and I was even sitting there thinking why was I here? The optician I saw first said that it would take about a month to heal - this different retarded optician I had the next day decided that there wasn't enough improvement in the space of 3 days so she sends me to A&E and wasted 6 hours of my life. She even called me the next day to ask about it and then I ask her when do I come back for a check up and you know what she says? "Go back to the hospital for a check up" in my head I was like "is this woman MAD?" so I told her there was no way I was going back there as I had to wait 4 hours to be seen by a doctor. She tried to get me to go back to them for a check up on Friday (today) but I just straight up said to her look, there probably won't be any improvement until a week later so why are you asking me to see you 3 days later AGAIN? So she can send me to the hospital because the healing is slow??? I swear, this woman really has no idea what she's doing. Managed to persuade her to see me a week later so I have an appointment booked for next Tuesday instead. Crazy woman. I understand she wants me to be alert about this problem and she wants to "closely monitor" it but does she even know how crazy long the wait times are at A&E? Does she even know how far away the damn hospital is? Oh and you know what she suggested to me when I told her the tube strike was on on Tuesday? "Take a taxi" my god, she really thinks I'm Jesus that can perform miracles and create money to take a taxi into central London out of thin air. Or she thinks I'm filthy rich - but then again, if I was, I wouldn't be living in Hounslow. I wouldn't be having her as my optician either.
Rant ended. Basically, there's no way she's making me go back to that hospital unless my eye is actually going blind or falling out or she offers to pay for my damn taxi. There's another tube strike next Tuesday as well so good luck to her if she thinks she can send me to Western Eye Hospital again.
As you can see, I've had an eventful week. I actually came back home that day around midnight and REVISED. Yes, I had revision planned for that whole day but because she sent me on some pointless trip that was the most non-urgent emergency ever, I had to revise till about 4am before I could sleep.
Ok, now my rant has ended. Have a wonderful weekend guys!
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