Here we go again!

Yes, another blogrolled post from the life-less souls in Manchester about exams. It is that time of the year again after all. The familiar routines start all over again as we each go about our ways of coping with the stress and fatigue that is part and parcel of this. There goes a whole box of tea bags... As well as song repeated ad infinitum in the background.

One thing I noticed though, is that I prefer this stage of the school year over normal lessons and timetables. I like how we're left alone to do what we want and need with only one deadline in sight: the day of the exams. No lessons to attend, courseworks to hand in or projects to research and complete. Call me insane.

Days are short and nights long now over here. With my nocturnal habits, I see less and less of the sun. I go to sleep at 7am when the sun is rising and awake at roughly 1pm when there's only a few hours of sunlight left. I wonder if my eyes glow in the dark now.

Another thing exam periods are good for: downloading movies. Due to the long hours spent revising on the laptop and the absence of power-sapping processes from gaming applications, the downloads can happily go on in the background as I read my notes and past year papers. The bulging number of movies in my collection is ever so tempting... but they'll have to wait till revision is done. WILLPOWER.

The urge to write has been low lately, ideas flutter in and out like temporal spirits. On rare occasions that they do finally take shape, academic demands supersede the time allocation. Not that much has happened anyway. 2008 has gotten off to a less than emphatic start. The usual "omph' just isn't there this year. 2007 was an eventful year in the worse sense of the word for me and I'm approaching this year with a Zen-like mentality:

-Go with the flow
-Don't force the issue
-Take a chill pill
-Be happy
-Do my best in what I want

People with less than sincere intentions, stay away from me. I don't have the time and energy to entertain you this year. It may be a little bit ruthless and even aggressive, but I will not hesitate to cut out the hypocrites who offer me naught but empty smiles with no warmth and meaningless conversations with no heart-felt connection. Just... BUZZ OFF. So, if I call you a friend, rest assured I mean it from the bottom of my heart.