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.

Damn, I got tagged... um, well, angstchan tagged me a while ago for this quiz thing and I still haven't done it. Okay. Brilliant. What can I say apart from my memory could do with considerable improvement?

Now, if I can only remember the answers to these questions, I'll be all set.

1. Total number of books owned?
Not a clue. Even if you don't count manga as books it's probably several hundred. Most of them aren't in London with me, but that's largely because there's not enough room in my bedroom for them. Never have an English teacher for a mother - or a veritable bibiomaniac for a father. I swear I could be crushed to death under the weight of all the books in my parents' home.

2. The last book I bought?
Oh. You mean just a book, or does it have to be a novel? The last thing I remember buying was Weiss Side B 1-3, but I'm not entirely sure if that counts. I can't remember if I bought The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter before or after that, but I got them both at around the same time, so take your pick depending on whether you'd rather know about my literary tastes or my obsession with blood-spattered manga containing Ken Hidaka.

3. The last book I read?
Again, it depends if manga count as books. If by books you mean books, I think I last finished reading (well, re-reading) Philip Kerr's The Pale Criminal, damn my obssession with noir fiction. I know I'm currently reading Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. For those of you who don't know your Third Reich he was Hitler's armaments minister. And so my secret hidden past as a history major jumps up and bites me on the ass.

4. 5 books that mean a lot to me?
Ah, now this time I really am going to restrict myself to literature, and not mention things like manga. Or biographies. Or books of essays. Or anything like that. Because if I did, I swear I'd never be able to limit this list to five...
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Money, Martin Amis

5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their LJs
Same list as last time, same stuff as last time - and same 'oh shit I only have four other people on my friends list' panic, too. Don't do it if you've done it or if you really don't want to, guys...

arldetta
devida
kay_cricketed
vermachtnis

God damn, that was so much easier than the movie one. I guess I just get on rather better with books than I do with films. But that's just me, I guess. I obviously have a bit of a thing for books. It wasn't hard to pick some of the 'books that mean a lot to me', though, as I've managed to read my copies of some of these titles to death. I really need to buy Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas again, for example. My copy's been water damaged and is falling apart anyway. Must... get... book...