Friday, 25 May 2007

Maintenence during exams

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You're kidding, right?! *starts to hyperventilate* A few hours?! What am I supposed to do to procrastinate now? How dare they do site maintenance during exams. As everyone but my landlord seems to know, maintenance should be after exams so as not to disturb our already-fragile selves. Landlord seems to think that booking a 'builder' (landlorddictionary.com definition- noun: man who may or may not have once picked up a hammer, is willing to be paid pittance, doesn't speak English and is happy to do gardening/plumbing/rat killing as and when necessary) to come and pave the back garden during our revision time will not bother us a bit. He seemed to think he didn't even have to really mention it to us. Apparently it's fine for him to take potential 'builders' into our back garden without letting us know he's coming or knocking on the front door when he arrives. More than once now has my poor housemate glanced out her bedroom window to see strange men staring up at her from the 'shed' (noun: few planks of wood with badly-fitted old carpet on top, size of small house, landlord's pride and joy). 'I didn't need to tell you, we didn't need to come in the house.' No, actually, you did. We rent the garden from you too, idiot.

As you can probably tell, I'm in an awesome mood. Had an assessment thing earlier where we got asked questions on our group project and unfortunately one of our examiners had found fault with our research and instead of firing questions at us decided to give us a lecture on how wrong it was. With him being right (wish I'd realised before) there was not much we could do to redeem ourselves. Hopefully won't have failed on one tiny little section, but I can say goodbye to my honours point this year.

So it's back to revision for the semester test. Luckily this involves going round to a friend's and eating brownies so my day might get a little bit better.

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