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I'm genuinely rubbish at updating my blog. 

One day it's Monday and I'm attempting to be a pro-coder; then before I know it, I am rushing to finish off two pieces of homework for Thursday. I don't know where my time goes. That's a bit of a lie, as I am genuinely busy doing really odd things. Such as:

• attending the Big Bang Fair and working on the Herschel Stand
• talking to potential applicants about Physics at Cardiff
• applying for a CUROP placement
• trying to not fail my modules
• finding asteroids

Mix in a bit of a social life, and I don't get much free time to myself. Not that this is a problem, because I am currently dreading summer. I have no desire to spend 12 (or however many it is) weeks in Nottingham. This is one of the reasons I applied for CUROP - I really don't want to waste my summer. 

For anyone who hasn't heard of the program, it provides undergraduates an opportunity to get involved with research that is taking place at Cardiff. It's obviously a fantastic opportunity, but there are only 8 places, so it appears to be rather competitive. I'm currently waiting for an e-mail, as it'll hopefully inform me that I have an  interview on Friday - so fingers crossed! 

Apart from all of that crazy nonsense, I haven't really got much to tell. I did manage to complete a rather fun assignment for computing, that involved finding asteroids, but so did the majority of people who attempted to. Between that and talking about Herschel in London, I have recently started to feel like a bit of an Astrophysicist. It's brilliant.

I also visited the bay again. It was not sunny.

It's CHRISTMAS!!

Well nearly. I'm ridiculously excited! It's like I'm 9 years old all over again. I'm now sat watching 2009's Doctor Who Christmas special, you know...the one with Wilf and David Tennant. It's one of my favourite Christmas specials, because it contains all of my favourite characters (well almost).  I think putting on Doctor Who has caused my younger sister to go to bed; so now i'm just sat, on my own, drinking wine and tracking Santa online. It's amazing what you can do on the internet. You can: track Santa, email Santa and probably lots of other stuff that I haven't even heard of yet.

Today was traumatic. Yesterday I went to work, felt really ill and got sent home. This led to me spending the majority of the day sleeping and consequently led to me forgetting to set my alarm for work the next day. So, when my alarm goes off at quarter to 9, I thought it was 7am. Getting ready for work in under 15 minutes was stupidly hard. I was extremely impressed with myself when I managed to arrive at work by 9.05! My boss was less impressed, but I didn't even mind. Trying to serve customers when you've been awake for 15 minutes is tough. Apart from that, my shift was lovely. I genuinely love working Christmas Eve, easily the best shift of the year!

Excuse the poor picture quality, but this is the coolest Secret Santa present ever. It's me and Matt Smith!

In conclusion to this short blog post, I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!

I may have to start a diet tomorrow...

Not an actual diet (I don't think that pi pie would be very good for me though), although my current intake of rubbish - including pizza and maltesers - does indicate I should definitely go for a jog tomorrow, only because I wish to avoid heart disease and obesity. My new diet shall comprise of 90% Maths Mechanics, 5% Doctor Who and the other 5% should probably be spent on digesting relaxtion techniques.

I am feeling rather stressed.

I think what stresses me out the most is when I have to use calculus to solve problems. I like calculus, but start relating it to motion and my brain stops working and starts making stuff up. I never know when I am allowed to integrate between two limits of just indefinitely. As long as I remember SVA I should be okay. You differentiate displacement to get velocity and differentiate velocity to get acceleration. That is pretty much the limit of my knowledge. It is hard to care when you get told stuff like v = 0.1t - 5t^2, please find the acceleration. How about no, I would rather be doing something more valuable with my time - like watching Doctor Who.

Definitely doing decision next year opposed to mechanics as my application module as I just can't handle these levels of stress.  

The following picture was on a powerpoint shown in tutor recently and does describe my current state of mind when stress is removed. The prospect of looking around Leeds University next week terrifies me.

I should be revising but...I don't want to.

Well my blog title is a lie, I do want to revise! Just not as much as I want to other stuff...like embark on 81 days of Doctor Who.

I was reading a few tweets from Doctor Who magazine and apparently if you watch every episode from Rose to When a good man goes to war, but only watch one episode a day then it would take 81 days. This just sounds like 81 days of heaven to be honest - I am fed up of education and work.

Coming home from work was so painful, spending 5 straight hours on my feet really did hurt! Then I had to go fetch my fathers day gift.

Bleurghhhh!

I would continue this post but my father has just arrived home. Oh dear. HE'S BROUGHT CHOCOLATE! Win!

So today was the day when I felt life was over...

Being blissfully unaware of how close exams are was really enjoyable, if anyone owns a TARDIS and feels like taking me back a few weeks...I would greatly appreciate it.

I know the title of this blog seems awfully dramatic, but today was the day when the fact I have exams coming up truly dawned upon me! I was happily shuffling around Peacocks, tidying and organising, when I just suddenly thought 'wow, by the next shift I will have completed 2 exams' - this is when panic hit me. I FEEL SO UNPREPARED! Yet I know i've done a ton of work and it's not like I failed either Core 2 or Electronics in the mocks! I got a B and an A without any real revision.

Oh well. I'm going to go to sleep, pretend exams don't exist and probably dream about failing everything.

Brilliant.