I have been challenged!

I have.... lol and stupidly, I think I accepted it!!!
He said I was being lazy.... and that if I wrote 5k today he'd change his mind. SO... 5K. If I was at my writing peak, and could get through it uninterupted that would take like... *calculates*.. just under 2 hours. But, I am at the beginning of the story, and I have a small child and a fiance lurking around the house. So we'll see. This afternoon I am free, so I am going to try and get everything else that needs doing done this morning so that I can focus on that new goal.
He was right tho. I was being lazy. I mean, breaks are important, and I got a fantastic nights sleep, and I feel heaps better today, but I could easily have gotten through another K last night, so now, to repent lol.

wooohooo one to go!

I am feeling SO much better right now. The fourth exam was the best so far, even though i don't know how I will do on it. It was the one which applied the most knowledge rather than just requiring we reguritate the things we had read - which is so nice!!
I'm not doing any more study today, in fact I probably won't do any tomorrow either, which leaves four days in which to study like a mad girl, and thats plenty. I need a break, need to regenerate, get some energy back - to breathe!!! And to write.
The Gods know I am far enough behind on my word count... Tonight though, maybe, I can get some more in - I failed miserably at getting to 2k in the weekend, but I might give getting to 3K a shot tonight!

Sunday

My brain feels like it's recovering a little today. Which is a good thing. I managed to prep the first section of tuesdays exam last night and will work my way through the other two at some point today - or maybe tomorrow's exam, I'm not sure. There isn't really enough time to do everything I'd like to.
I should NOT have played WoW yesterday morning..... But I really just wanted to get my little shadow priest to 40, shadow form rocks! Now if I can get more study done, get my nano to 2,000 words (ish) and have a good time at both the birthday party this morning and the baby shower this afternoon all will be well. I'll definitely have had my quota of family time after this weekend though.
I guess it's just that time of the year. Christmas parties will start happening soon, the weather will get nice again (it's raining today, lovely), there will be BBQ's and picnics to go to, and lots of things happening around town. It is a good time of the year yes, but a little draining for me sometimes. I quite like to have a bit of space, a bit of peace and quiet and thats hard enough to come by in my own home with a small child let alone out in the world! lol.
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that I am going to have the energy for Nano. At the moment it doesn't really feel like it.... this is the hardest I have studied possibly ever, and I really hope it pays off, but it does mean I am tired all the time, and whats worse I can't seem to stop waking up around 6am - whats with that???

2 down 3 to go!

And I even managed to start my nano last night.
Man. I feel SO much better after getting yesterdays exam out of the way. It wasn't easy, but I did it and I might even pass woohoo. I'm definitely satisfied that I did the best I could, that I put in a huge amount of effort in preparing for it and I couldn't have done a better job than I did - so even if I fail, I know I did the best I can, and thats an important thing.
It's a busy weekend this one, with 3 'functions' of sort across the two days - which doesn't really leave a lot of time for writing, or for study. So I have pretty much set my goal at reaching 2,000 words on my nano by the end of the weekend, which should have me feeling more in touch with the story again and have me back on track. At the moment it's a lot of waffling (which is a terrible thing to say seeing as it's less than 800 words at the moment) but I feel like it's mostly bits I will cut out anyways, but bits that are important for me so that I know where I'm going and I know I am on track - kind of like that those particular words are ones which really belong in the first book built solidly into the story line, shown not told, but haven't been so this is where they are going to live for now. Post it notes written into my story lol.
Anyways, by the time I logged off for the night I felt like I was beginning to get back into it, but realized that there was a lot of stuff that needs expanding on in the first book. I am writing the second as if I have already edited the first, which will make it a bit odd for those who will read both before either has had an edit but oh well!!! It's a process, and one which I am just going to run with for now.
I'm not getting excited about it just yet - it's too early to. I can't afford to until after my fourth exam, and even then I have to keep it in check so that I really get to work on finishing the course material for my 5th and final exam. I'm a month behind, mostly because I had assignments due every other day for the last official bit of the course and then I had to start organising for exams - I seriously don't recommend that ANYONE takes 5 papers in a semester, it's insane, you just don't want to do it, trust me.
Ok, I should go and start the day properly. Set up my exam prep for the day, wake my child, feed every creature in the house, begin.
Best of luck for everyones writing over the weekend!

tired

I am SO tired.
Yesterdays exam went ok, one of the essays was actually a bit hairier than I thought it was going to be but thats ok, it's done now. Todays exam... well, I am looking forward to it even less today than I was yesterday.
I got about 5 and a half hours sleep, my eyes are sore, my head is sore. And I still have a couple chapters to work my way through before I feel anywhere near ready for this exam!!! Fingers crossed everyone that enough information has stuck to make sitting the exam worthwhile.
Thanks for all the luck that has been sent my way, it is really really appreciated.

I think tonight I'll be getting an early night, not doing any study for the Monday/Tuesday exams and maybe doing a little bit of writing before I pass out.

one hour!!

I am SO excited!!
It's sick
It's twisted
I know this..
But I can't help it!
One hour til i sit my first exam!!!!

hand writing.

Mine is terrible, even under the best of circumstances. Right now, it's getting even worse.
I have spent the last couple days writing out screeds of notes for my exam tomorrow, and it only just hit me now that my hand is already beginning to hurt.
I'm not used to writing by hand, I'm used to typing. And my hand is complaining about just how much work I have been making it do. And I'm not done yet, there are many many more pages of notes to be written before I get into that exam tomorrow.
I could type them up, but there is something about this kind of information though that means it just doesn't stick unless i physically write it onto paper. Even then it'll be touch and go... we'll have to wait and see if it pays off.
People are finding it strange that I'm not prepping for todays exam... lol it's open book. Enough said.
Tomorrow is the exam to worry about. The one I got my worst assignment marks for, the one I can barely remember a thing about, the one which while so incredibly interesting just slips from my mind as soon as I close the book. It is genuinely interesting, the paper co-ordinator is passionate about the paper, he is brilliant and wonderful with replying to questions and ponderings no matter which aspect of the paper it is about. And I haven't utilised him nearly enough. I think if I had had no other papers to do, I'd be doing a lot better in this one, but I had 4 others this semester, and not nearly enough time.

I can't believe it's almost all done though, not long now, and I am done with this, for the year, fingers crossed it will be for several more years to come. Stunning.