Interview, Exam and Bad Drivers, Meatloaf Said It Best

Wednesday started my two week period of five wonderful exams. Yes my exams are nicely spaced out, but five? Really? I don't know anyone else with more, and most people were done before I even started. How is that fair when we all come out with a degree afterwards? Here's hoping that my degree will count for something when I leave university and the wonders of Aberystwyth. Exams to work through but sesiwn cachu pants is on the horizon. Expect to see a semi naked, bad imitation of road warrior hawk (R.I.P) stumbling around town on wednesday first of june, looking for somebody to drop the doomsday device on. You have been warned.

Today I had an interview for a work placement through Go Wales. The idea is a ten week, work experience based placement with a company that pays well and looks good on a CV. The interview was with a company called Fforest (see coldatnight.co.uk) and my placement if successful would entail events managing, organising and ... wedding planning... yeah I know. I reckon I would be quite decent at it, being the bossy, slightly ocd prick that I am. Interview went quite well and I was pleased but I'm not content, so we'll wait and see what the rest of the shortlist had to offer!

The commute to the placement from Aberystwyth should be under an hour as the road is nice and straight and its only 35 miles or so. However today, there and back it took me an hour both times. Not cool. By any standard. This was due to a vareity of factors, all of which were butt stingingly annoying. 1. Shit drivers 2. Slow Drivers (yes there is a different from shit) 3. Heavy vehicles. Traffic is caused on these roads by people not willing to drive to the speed limit. Slow drivers are like heavy vehicles, except they have the capability to drive faster than them and reach the speed limit so the roads work efficiently. When they choose not to, but just maintain 40mph (be it 30 zone or 60) is the type of thing that should be punishable by death. Shit drivers aren't as bad but they just infuriate me for not being able or willing to take easy overtake oppurtuinities so that people can get round tractors and other slow things. If I get the job, im hoping that early morning driving will save me in order to make this commute manageable and not so infuriating that i get blood pressure problems and end up dying attempting a 5 car overtake in order to get home in time to watch The Apprentice.

The next two days have one highlight. Going to the gym. If you like it as much as I do, you'll know I have solace in that. Check out http://wannabeathletes.blogspot.com for hints and tips on work outs. My lesson for today is that you can't always have it your own way, work for what you need and take what your given. You can't have everything but you have to try for perfection. From the title of this blog Meatloaf says two outta three ain't bad. It ain't great either. Be great in what you do. Always work for more.

Take it easy reader

P.s (I'll try to take my own advice, but it's exam time so I can't promise anything)

Sleep Is For The Weak.... I Hope

So here I am at 1 o clock in the morning, the night before my first exam and I'm blogging. Tried to be clever (perhaps too clever) and get an early nights sleep, in order to feel refreshed. How silly of me to think my body would let me sleep on the eve of something of such importance. Especially with this exam being one I can gain a first in, which in my life at university is a rarity. I couldn't have had a more energetic day for revision period. Which is what makes my sudden crippling bout of insomnia all the more annoying.

I was up early and in the gym by 9.30. A full hour and fifteen minutes later and I start my revision for the day. After spending all day in the library I then run around town preparing for my job interview Thursday. After that I have food, walk across town, watch a film and try to fall asleep. I nearly fell asleep during the film but held on, hoping that my good deed to my body (controlling when I fell asleep and in a decent position) would allow me the karma of being able to get a good nights rest. Well I was wrong.

So now I am blogging for the sake of blogging, because this blog doesn't really have a point except for getting thoughts out of my mind and hopefully relaxing me in the process. If all else fails I'll start counting sheep.... but being welsh I'll probably have erotic dreams about sheep (see I made that shit joke before anyone else could.. fuckers).

I'll leave you with my top tip for exam period... get super stressed, work your balls off, look like the elephant man, procrastinate like a demon and get so drunk afterwards you forget your own name, where you live,  your purpose in life and that exams actually exist.

Peace out readers, I feel more relaxed already.

Exam Pressure, Reading and Golf... a Wierd Combo

So it's been quite a while since I last blogged. A month minus 5 days to be exact. It is not for the lack of things to write, there have been many things of interest and a long list of things that have pissed me off in the last month. (Lib Dems, Tories, Revision, Poor Lecturers, Missing Contact Sport and Arguments to name but a few). As for me I have been keeping fairly well, back in the gym and feeling good before I descend into exam doing, hardly leaving the house disgust mode. This is when I stop shaving and don't move from my desk for revision and cough.. procrastination. The past month has had ups and downs, ups being dominating Aber 7's with 7 tries and coming home in third to win the trophy. A sophisticated afternoon of coffee and chocolate meltdown cake (Iceland thank me later.. kudos Samuel) as well as the food I've been eating. Downs have been revision, and just generally not feeling with it.

Exam stress is getting me down, 5 exams in 2 weeks. Combine this with useless lecturers and lecture notes not telling you any facts and it makes for some fun revision time. I always get stressed out during exams and end up a mess, and this shows in my post exam blowouts that leave me in ridiculous states for days. This year I am trying to keep working by not procrastinating and staying healthy by hitting the gym. Luckily I have now got bored of Madden having played so much of it in the last 5 days. With that out of the way, nothing can stop me on my path to revision and good exam results..... apart from the ever growing yearning to improve my golf game... .....shit. (perhaps buying new clubs was not such a good idea)

My latest book conquest has been The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It's the follow on to Angel's and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Having enjoyed the other two books, I sought after the new one and once I got into it I found it hard to put down. Not only was it fast paced and interesting, but it blew my mind with the secrets it told. If your interested in secret societies (much like the Illuminati from Angels and Demons) then this book will open your eyes. It sheds light onto the secrets and wisdom of the Masons whilst showing a more sinister side of what can actually happen. It also tells unknown secrets about Washington D.C's landmarks and features and shows they were built with hidden reasons behind them. I found this fascinating. It made my mind explode out of my ass, and if you read it, it'll do it to you to.