Stress Mode: Cancelled... For Now, Anyway.

[sevendials]

I passed my exams.

I am thrilled. not only did I pass my exams but I also passed my exams. No resits for me. Of course, I still have to rearrange placement time (which I swear I will make a move to do sometime next week) as a result of falling sick for two weeks during the last 8-week placement I did way back in November and which due to having only had four weeks of free time since then, two of which were eaten up by Christmas (and I needed that break, I didn't really start feeling like I was actually better until the new year) and two of which were killed by the need to revise, I haven't been able to even think about trying to start doing. I also have to write my Public Health assignment sometime in the next fortnight, which will be fun. Oh yeah. Fun. But hey, I passed my freaking exams.

Sorry to keep going on but just plain YAY. I am so happy about this.

I spent most of last night convinced I'd failed my Developing Nursing Care Skills paper too, so I'm really pleased about not doing anything of the sort. Who cares if I got 55% for the Medical and 48% for the Surgical, neither of which are exactly brilliant (okay - me. A little, anyway)? Oh well. I got 73% for my Life Sciences exam, which considering I know I totally tanked on the last section because I don't know a thing about the gastrointestinal system really is not too shabby, so it all evens out.

I know I aced the heart's conduction pathways, though. I know that backward. I think fate is steering me toward cardiac care (my 55% was on care of a myocardial infarction - heart attack).

Hungry. Tired. Drifting on a cloud of pass-induced euphoria. Listening to 'Moonflower' for about the five sqillionth goddamn time. Tried listening to something else but the ears were adamant they wanted me to listen to 'Moonflower' again. It'd get more annoyed if this song wasn't SO GODDAMN CUTE I LOVE IT. Whee. And yes, I did adore this song long before the Ken obsession hit, so there. I just adore it even more now.

(trucizna read 'Seuche'. All of it, seemingly. And mentioned it on her LJ, and said she liked it, and believe me that damn well made my night. Well, morning since I discovered this fact at college yesterday, but I didn't have enough internet-time to answer any comments since I was nipping on quickly between classes. More euphoria for me. Happy happy. Well, I never claimed to be difficult to satisfy...)

Must work on isotype post.

In other news - three new Ken icons. The one for this post is the one I like best and the one I actually intended to make too, all of which were made sometime after midnight last night, which was around about the time I woke up from the Granddaddy of All Naps. I can normally tell when I'm really tired as I don't dream, I just sink into unconsciousness and wake up several hours down the line blinking stupidly and wondering why I'm still alive. I'm not good at complete blankness.

Anyway, yeah, icons. My scanner actually worked first time yesterday, which was the first time it's done that in God only knows how long. I got that picture of Neu's character sketches scanned, which was A Good Thing (as for why I want this scanned - um, well, it's for an email, so I was so glad not to have to argue with my scanner to manage this since it's only to back up a point) and went crazy over trying to get Ken pictures from doujinshi anthologies. I also had to viciously edit said pictures because speech bubbles and random bits of other charas were in the way. I love the Line tool. I love being able to draw well enough to fill in the blanks in manga images like this.

I already love this icon. It's not relevant at all but damn Ken's cute when he's blood-spattered.

I now have fourteen Ken icons. I can only get one more with this account of mine. I'm seriously thinking of paying out for more icon space, because I'm also paying serious thought of diversifying into Youji icons which will mean even more time with my malfunctioning scanner and AAWS and my doujin anthologies (and there's more doujin Ken on my hard drive which I could icon up, too). I have a good few pictures of Youji sat on my hard drive that would make really wonderful icons - there's also a Neu pic from a doujin I would absolutely love to use. Yes, she looks cute, but she's also wonderfully... well, wonderfully Neu-like. Neu really is Queen Bitch and I love her for it. I can see myself doing this. I don't want to lose any of my Ken icons, but I have at least four pictures out there I still want to make icons of. Damn, more things to spend money on. Will it never cease?!

... and I want more manga, too... Okay, I want Weiss Side B 4 and will be looking into buying other stuff to make the shipping worth it.

And I really cannot believe ss.net is still down. Much more of this and I'll seriously be firing off pissy emails on vermachtnis' behalf. This is just getting stupid now, providers... will you get your asses in gear?!

And I still love Ken, too.

Comments

[vermachtnis.livejournal.com]

NEW KEN ICONS! Aiee I'm thrilled. They're all so cute! I like the kitty one. Really, a lot. It's just so... adorable. And yes, the blood splattered one is adorable too.

Congratulations on passing your exams! That's how I felt when I receieved all my grades for the semester- very much yay. Now you don't have to worry about it anymore!

I'm quite pissy about the whole domain thing but have not yet sent emails. I'm planning on emailing either tonight or tomorrow night- I have to wait until I feel suitably mellow enough that I won't come across as a complete bitch. I don't want them to get angry and cancel me or anything. But I really wish they would get their asses in gear. Really.

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

You mean this one? Oh I love this one, I wasn't going to make it and it took ages to think of a suitable caption, but I knew I'd got the right one when this one showed up and made me giggle like an idiot. Eeee Ken Icons. There are others I want to make (which reminds me, I have one DJ pic of a chibi Ken in his assassin gear grinning like an idiot, which I could caption 'laugh or die, your call...'), but I will have to wait until I get more paid account space for most of them. I kind of liked the 'who are you calling cute' one too, since it's not like Ken thinks of himself as cute (never mind that he obviously is).

Yes, the weight off my mind was immense. I seriously felt like collapsing when I got them. I don't feel happy when I pass an exam... I just feel wrung out and mildly dazed. Happy comes later.

I'm pissed on your behalf. If you want any backup I'm pretty good at icily polite and yet really pissy emails (I've had enough practice, the amount of times I've had to email mailing list providers and the like). I could pretend to be a co-host if you liked... and yeah, if they don't get their asses in gear, you've got every right to be angry. You're paying for the service, so you've got every right to expect to... well, you know, actually be able to use it. A service you can actually use... it's a radical idea, I know, but why not dare to dream?

[vermachtnis.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one! It's adorable and made me giggle too. I love them all. I'd like to get more paid account space for icons too, but I'm trying to save money.

That's how I felt when I found out I had been accepted into the college of my choice. I just felt like passing out- I actually had to sit down for a minute.

Luckily my hosts responded to my pissed off/confused/attempting to be polite email quickly and nicely... I replied to them and have yet to hear back from them for that email. Hopefully it'll all get sorted out. I waited until I was suitably mellow to do it, so it wasn't too pissy. I'd really like to be able to use what I paid ninety dollars for.

[kay-cricketed.livejournal.com]

Congrats on passing your exams! *hugs happily* I'm so glad for you! That you passed and you're done and all is well! ^___^ That's fantastic!

(I'll come back and leave a longer comment here in a bit, I think... must dash to a baby shower. But congrats! YAY! It's such a relief I bet, isn't it?)

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

Yes, the relief of it all is Just AMAZING. I can die happy now.

Not least of which because I've spent the past week or so on the exam-taker's rollercoaster, alternating wildly between thinking that I've failed everything, miserably, and then think that I can't have done because you normally know when you've screwed up but it's really easy to screw up the Nursing Care exam oh god did I remember to check the patient's airway was patent I don't know if I did if I didn't I didn't say the patient was breathing they could fail me for that oh shit I've failed ohshitohshitohshit.

Repeat. For a goddamn fortnight.

Hope you enjoyed the baby shower. Thanks to my not exactly large and varied circle of acquaintances I'm by and large left alone most of the time. This would be bad if I wasn't such a loner, and it means I can write more fic. Which reminds me - I need to go type up my 'Seuche' stuff. I wish my handwriting was better because it's so lousy that transcribing it's a nightmare. How did I pass my exams with handwriting like mine? It's a mystery.

[kay-cricketed.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yeah, I know what you mean about the exams (although I believe taking a Nursing Care exam would be at least three times more difficult than mine). But I did spend a lot of time wandering around campus aimlessly, whimpering over how I forgot to add all the Chippendale decoration details on such-and-such essay question... grief, it feels good when you finally find out you've survived and actually done decently.

*hugs* Yay! ^^

Baby shower was fun. I know what you mean about being a loner-- this was my first social thing for a long time. I'm not much for parties. Or anything, actually. I like staying at home with my stuff and my books, and talking to people on-line who are far more pleasant than most who live in my town. (Though I do like the girl who is having a baby.)

Ooooohh, ficcage. *coos* 'Seuche!' It's amazing how even the name can make me perk up in attention. Heh. There is so much worship for you.

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

It's all a question of what you're used to - though I must admit it's hellishly easy to fail that paper. Demonstrate 'unsafe practice' any time at all and they could fail you. Do something that might harm or kill the patient and you're just screwed. That really would fail you. Some girl genuinely did forget to state that she'd checked a postoperative patient's airway and failed for that. Her paper was otherwise just great, but she failed because she hadn't said if the patient was breathing. See? Really easy to fail.

I know what you mean about that - all it takes is walking out of an exam to have you remembering all the things you could have written and yet mysteriously failed to...

Good to hear the baby shower was fun. I really don't know many people like that - I was a loner when I was back home with my parents, and haven't really built up a vast, varied social network in London. Most of the people I know are fellow students and as such we're all flat broke all the time anyway... staying in, going online and babbling to people who understand my obsessions (um... Ken) is a lot more pleasant anyway. I need a peer group who understand my obsessions with Certain Anime Boys...

I haven't got much typing done this weekend. Or any at all. Boo. I knew I should have done some yesterday, but I thought I'd have time today and my parents came round. So that didn't happen. Sorry. Glad you like the fic though... I'll be trying to write more on the way to work tomorrow. Yay for awkward action scenes. ^^