lilchaz

Right, so I've got 4 exams left; 2 economics exams and 2 history exams.
The negative: both economics exams are tomorrow. Right after the other. Hell
The somewhat/could be positive: My 2 history exams are on different days and 4 days apart. Phew. Would have killed me if they had been on the same day. England in Reform 1830-1930 is actually going to kill me anyway. I've got to learn the whole 100 year period and every single reform that got passed during it, other bills that were passed connected to it, why they were passed, who got them through, reactions to reforms...the list goes on! Still aiming for my A, hopefully I'll get it. 
On the other hand I also have Hitler....hmmm....a source based paper aswell....see, if it had just been own knowledge I would have been absolutely fine, however the sources always throw me off! 
Anyway...only 16 more days of exams and then I'm back to school...fun!

Anyone got any exam tips?

I read this article in The Times, found it hilarious and thought I'd share it with you all!

Toenails in vogue on Wintour's day (by Hugo Rifkind)
This is a strange and beautiful work of genius. Apparently, there was a fake Anna Wintour at Paris Fashion Week last week, The Vogue Editor's impersonator wore the fringe, sunglasses and blank look of loathing and disgust made famous by the iconic original, and was marching brazenly into various shows. Style.com claims to have seen her at Lanvin by the Eiffel Tower on Sunday. Other reports are trickling in. That's pretty clever, we say to Condé Nast's press office, in New York. Any tips in recognising the real one?
 "Um," says a spokeswoman. "Ah. Anybody with accurate eyesight should be able to do it."
More helpfully, one blogger points out that the fake Wintour wears really tacky toenail varnish. Adding insult to injury, and all that.


lol wonder what Miranda would do if someone tried to impersonate her!

This is a poem that I've just finished doing in class at the moment, it's part of Carol Ann Duffy's poem collection, 'The World's Wife'. I think it's fantastic, it's written in the form of a sonnet and is about love, but each line can be analysed in a negative and pessimistic way . The thing I love the most about the poem is not only that it is the first sonnet of the collection but that it is the first that talks about love fondly, not attacking the man that broke her heart.

Anne Hathaway
by Carol Ann Duffy from The World's Wife

'Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed ...'
(from Shakespeare's will)

The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where we would dive for pearls. My lover's words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.
Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me, the bed
a page beneath his writer's hands. Romance
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head
as he held me upon that next best bed.

It's full of double entendres and metaphors and is absolutely fantastic, I would recommend 'The World's Wife' to anyone with a literary interest, as it is absolutely gripping. I'm not always a fan of poetry, I did Chaucer last year and didn't particularly like it, but with this collection it's so easy to be drawn into them. Each poem is about a wife of a different man, famous in history for one reason or another and gives each a view into their lives where it may not have been the man who came up with whatever they were famous for and all of them evoke an emotion. 

Mrs Darwin

7 April 1852.

Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him--
Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of you. 

This one was hilarious - trust the man to take all the credit! (it was only in the late 1850s that he published his theory of evolution!)

Amazing night yesterday!! It started off on a low, there was meant to be 5 of us going out last night but three of them not coming, one with tonsillitis (same one that was supposed to go to Lions for Lambs with me), one got measles and one was grounded for going out too much. so ended up just me and my friend Kat going out together. 
But what a night it turned out to be. Went to the restaurant and there's a 45 minute wait so we went over to the museum/shop bit next door which has an underground 'vault' with rock memorabilia in it. Got the tour of the vault free because the guy was nice. it was hilarious!! i got to hold Jimmy Hendrix's guitar! my friend knocked another of his guitar's over!! We sat on Hendrix's sofa and held guitars of the stars (not usually allowed but the guy liked us because he said he was fed up of tourists and loved the fact that we were true londoners!!). became titled the 'vault teasers' by the vault-master himself :D :D It was fantastic!! then our lil alarm thing went off that told us our table was ready so we headed back over to restaurant
once we were seated these guys from New York came over and started chatting to us, turns out they're over here for the game tomorrow at wembley...they play for the NY Giants!! It was Gibril and I think the other one was Kevin (but he was talking to my mate so i didn't catch his name properly) They were really lovely guys and I couldn't believe that I was actually meeting a real american football team!! We all chatted for ages! Kat could not stop grinning, it was hilarious...but then we had to go home...that is, afterall, where a good night with a friend should always end!

On a unhappier tone, I've realised I've left all my school work to be done tomorrow...which means I'm going to have to get up early early early!!!

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg!! I might be seeing Lions for Lambs at the preview screening this week!! Just gotta get funds in place and then it's all set to go!! I can't wait!!! woohoo!!