However no one thought to tell Roddie and I
- Methinks that they don't want us there!

We're going to go down to the library at about ten-ish, hopefully... (if Roddie is here today)... if not I won't bother going.
Last night when I got home (after walking through the woods with Patch) I went straight onto the Internet, checked my e-mail, then proceeded to Sir Ian McKellen's website where I posted a question from Robyn and I. Rather embarrassingly I did speak in the third person throughout the entire thing, I also included my little inner monologue as I do in here

I hope I don't do that in my exams

Actually that seems like just the kind of thing I would do, you know;

Therefore, I think that the Growth of Nationalism
While being very boring to learn about...

Yeah, that's going to get me an A pass...
Right now I'm just working on my English stuff. Well, still November Night, Edinburgh but Norman MacCaig. I have nothing against it but we've been doing it since January and that makes it four months of the same poem.

So why is it so hard to remember

And you can bet that there won't even be a question relating to it in the exam.
Also last night we started to make arrangement for Robyn coming up. Her parents were going to phone Dad at about seven-ish (until I found out he wouldn't be there then), so I told Robyn (via text message) to tell her parents to phone after half seven or eight 'o' clock. However my nan decided to phone her friend which meant that if anyone had tried to phone they wouldn't be able to get through. I had no credit on my phone and it was almost half past eight, Dad still wasn't back, I had no way of contacting him. Then I had a brainwave. The internet line is on a separate phone line to the rest of the house and when Dad doesn't want to be disturbed when he's making a phone call he uses that phone line. There's a really old phone in his bedroom and so while the modem is plugged into that line most of the time it is also used for faxes and surprise, surprise, the old phome. After doing some real quick thinking I plugged the phone into the socket, phoned Dad's mobile and then once I'd checked it was okay to use that phone (and it wouldn't cost Dad a bomb), then I phoned Robyn. We chatted for a while before Robyn and I each put our fathers onto the phone. So I'll either phone her tonight or tomorrow night to speak to her about coming up and so I can get my next fix of Lord of the Rings. However I think that the next time I phone Robyn I'll use the upstairs phone because that way I don't need to worry about stopping the other phone from working. However if I was to do that it would mean that I was stuck in Dad's room and I wouldn't have access to the Internet.
I'm not entirely sure what time it is. Not time to pack up yet, I'm sure. If Roddie is here hopefully we'll be able to go to the library. The seats are more comfortable there so it's easier to concentrate.

Plus the tea helps

Have just decided that I shall download some fonts off the internet for the site. I'm going to make banners on every page. Of course I'll make sure that each one fits with the theme of the page. Must also make sure that I can find some way of making my links have little pop-up bits. I've seen it done on another website but I'm not sure if I'll have to download something to make it work, but then it might trash Windows XP as it seems to be a little tempermental occasionally when you download certain things.

One of the guys who also gets in the library came in - I think he was a little shocked to see me Not washing up!

Roddie came in, later than he said he would, and I let him borrow my Chicago CD, needless to say neither him nor the CD are here today. Of course I'm going to keep on trying to get hold of him because it's good background music to revise to and also I'm not planning to go to school much between now and Friday so I won't get it back 'til then (or Saturday). But I'd like it back before then.
Went to see How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days again last night

The first time I saw it was in a big screen cinema and it was Robyn, me and two other people!

It was rather busy in there last night and the film was good. Aside from the fact that I ended up with one of the songs from it stuck in my head,

At least this time my malteasers didn't melt and I wasn't bursting for the loo so much that I ran out of the screen before the end credits started to roll leaving my drink+ sweets behind so that I was parched by the end of The Two Towers!

Oh well, must get back to revision. But first, I'm going to text Roddie and warn him of the consquences of not coming in this afternoon.

I used the word 'emancipated'...

I did alright in the essays. I didn't get a chance to write about The Lord of the Rings but I think I wrote about A View From The Bridge quite well (a play showing a breakdown of a relationship). I also wrote about November Night, Edinburgh, in a kind of round-about way. (A poem where the point being made becomes apparent, or something like that).
So now I can forget all my poems and stuff that I learnt. I was really disappointed that I couldn't do Stopping by Woods. I could have done it for the same question as my November Night essay but I didn't think about that until it was too late. There was a question whic asked you to compare two nature poems but I didn't know another nature poem which I could have used.

the two different English ones

Now I have seven more to go and over half of them are tomorrow. I've done just about all the revision I can handle and am now watching Forces of Nature in German -

Mit Englisch Untertiteln
- Most Educational

In fact I have a horrible feeling that the German Listening essay will be on healthy eating or smoking. Those are the only two out of all the ones that we've done that I am the least confident about. History is also going to be tough. If I can write a Germany essay about Nazism I'll be set but if my only option for German is Bismarck then basically I'm screwed. I'm also not sure how well I could do with an essay on democracy. Hopefully I'm okay on the source questions, the last time I did and actual source question paper was during my pre-lims. I did make more posters to help me remember my notes,

which is why I know Nazism so well

And I also made a little time-line which stretches half-way along one bedroom wall with all the dates of Reforms and things that I have to remember. I should re-re-reread my stuff on women, democracy and the Liberal Reforms, as well as looking over my Growth of Nationalism and Failure of the Weimar Republic. I should also make a list of the things that I'm going to need to take with me tomorrow. Pens, Dad's watch, German dictionary and everything. I'm paranoid that I will forget something that I really need.
At least after tomorrow I'll have two subjects left with only three separate exams left to go through. I can actually begin painting and web designing again.