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Welcome! Have some whine ;).
I'm taking the IELTS tomorrow, and while I'm not worried that I'll fail it (i.e. get a band score less than 6), I'm worried that I'll oversleep.
The test starts at 10am, and they say I should be present at 9.30. I don't know the place where it's being held, so I figure I should probably be there a bit earlier than that so I can find the room without trouble. To be there at 9, I'll have to take the 8am bus, which means I'll have to get up at 7.
Now I know this shouldn't be such a big deal, because 7 is still better than 5, which was my getting up time while I was working in the hospital. However, my sleep/wake rhythm is completely out of whack due to the fact that I neither have a job nor uni at the moment - I usually go to bed around 7am. Moron that I am, I didn't manage to make myself go to bed earlier the last couple of days - to be honest, I didn't even really try, because I've known myself for 21 years and knew that it wouldn't work - so I'll probably get about 3 or 4 hours tops tonight.
It's enough to function on, but I know I won't be able to give my peak performance on 3 hours' sleep, and I really want to do well on this test. It's an ego thing ;).
So, yeah, basically this post is me whining like a spoiled brat about things that are my own fault and won't even really make a difference. It's been on my mind all day, though, and it's making me antsy, so I'm telling you about it. Aren't you glad? xD
On a completely different note, I'm watching Queer as Folk at the moment, and sheesh, those people have to start realizing that being in a relationship doesn't mean that you have to do every little tiny thing with your partner and can't ever have a moment to yourself. Whoa, extroverts.
Posting this because Lid posted hers. Feel free to post yours in the comments, if you like! It's much neater than usually, because I cleaned recently. If you click on it, you'll get the huge original-sized image where you can read all the icon captions and my tabs and everything.
ETA: I didn't make that wallpaper. Sadly, I don't remember where I found it, either.
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The test starts at 10am, and they say I should be present at 9.30. I don't know the place where it's being held, so I figure I should probably be there a bit earlier than that so I can find the room without trouble. To be there at 9, I'll have to take the 8am bus, which means I'll have to get up at 7.
Now I know this shouldn't be such a big deal, because 7 is still better than 5, which was my getting up time while I was working in the hospital. However, my sleep/wake rhythm is completely out of whack due to the fact that I neither have a job nor uni at the moment - I usually go to bed around 7am. Moron that I am, I didn't manage to make myself go to bed earlier the last couple of days - to be honest, I didn't even really try, because I've known myself for 21 years and knew that it wouldn't work - so I'll probably get about 3 or 4 hours tops tonight.
It's enough to function on, but I know I won't be able to give my peak performance on 3 hours' sleep, and I really want to do well on this test. It's an ego thing ;).
So, yeah, basically this post is me whining like a spoiled brat about things that are my own fault and won't even really make a difference. It's been on my mind all day, though, and it's making me antsy, so I'm telling you about it. Aren't you glad? xD
On a completely different note, I'm watching Queer as Folk at the moment, and sheesh, those people have to start realizing that being in a relationship doesn't mean that you have to do every little tiny thing with your partner and can't ever have a moment to yourself. Whoa, extroverts.
Posting this because Lid posted hers. Feel free to post yours in the comments, if you like! It's much neater than usually, because I cleaned recently. If you click on it, you'll get the huge original-sized image where you can read all the icon captions and my tabs and everything.
ETA: I didn't make that wallpaper. Sadly, I don't remember where I found it, either.
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The less icons the better - is my policy. :-)
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Oh, and, yeah. Vista is scary.
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And yes, I made that one with the Gimp. Me and the smudge tool, that was a fun few days, lol.
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EEE I LOVE YOUR DESKTOP.
And I agree about extroverts. They are exhausting!
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THANK YOU! :D I like that image a lot myself. Usually I switch wallpapers every other week or so, but this has been up for a while now!
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You sound EXACTLY like me. Exactly. Down to the counting backwards and realizing, oh, I'm screwed, LOVELY.
Good luck, though - I'm sure you'll do fine. Reason being that I keep somehow forgetting you're German. So I'm looking at your desktop and I'm all, LOL WHY ARE THESE THINGIES IN GERMAN? D'oh.
Desktops! Here, have a bunch of caps. Here's me with all my crap going at once, as usual. (Which doesn't even accurately reflect how many things I have going at once, because tabbed browsing. When one window starts getting too many tabs to keep track of, I open another.)
Fiddling with my new WMP skin. The screen wasn't really blank of course, it's Who.
Minimized it all so you can actually SEE the desktop. Which is fairly boring. But bright, which is good down in my basement late at night.
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I ALWAYS do that. And usually I do it LATE AT NIGHT when it doesn't really matter anymore because all I'll get are a couple of hours anyway. Eeh xD.
Ahaha. I usually like to use the English version of programs because it's easier to find tutorials if you do need them at some point. I never thought about it that I'm using the German version of Windows until a while back when I was explaining some computer stuff to someone and confused them by telling them to go to the Systemsteuerung xD.
Simple desktops ftw! I really like mine, aside from the fact that it's so cluttered that you can barely see the icons. Lol xD.
I see that you use the Internet Explorer. Why oh why? ;) Never mind me. I had to comment on that, since I carry a personal resentment against the IE for insisting to screw up my layouts. THIS IS WHERE I RECOMMEND FIREFOX.
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*bats eyelashes*
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I didn't make that wallpaper myself. Um, I should probably have said so in the post *goes to edit*. Sadly, I don't remember where I found it, either. If you want, I can send you the wallpaper, though.
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