Over it

I no longer care about the Vikings and their achievments or how to spell words like Íslendingabók or Landnámabók or other words that use letters my computer can’t even produce.

But, on the other hand I am stressing about this exam. I know my English Viking Age almost inside out, but that is only one essay, and I have to write three. So in short I am pretty screwed, which sucks cos I need this paper to get my history minor. But, on the other hand, I should pass, as I know enough to get by, and I got good(ish) marks for my essays. I am being torn asunder by the part of me that insists that I will be ok and the part that claims I don’t know enough and don’t have a chance to by tomorrow. Arrghh!!

So I took a break and worked through the new version of the dittoGUI help file. It’s coming along, and I think it won’t take much to get it near perfect. It sounds like a great little programme, and I wish it ran on ‘my’ computer, but alas, she is too old to upgrade to 10.5 (and she’s not even mine, I am borrowing her off iLike). Check it out, it should be available in a few days and is so cheap I think every Mac should have a copy.

But now I think I should return to the Vikings, as much as I now dispise them. I should work through religious conversion one last time *sigh*.

Editing

I got my first official editing job today. My dad is a programmer and I am editing the Help file for his newest programme. It’s exciting, but actually quite hard work. He sent through a style guide that it has to adhere to, which I should have looked at before I changed ‘dialog’ to ‘dialogue’ through the whole thing. ‘Dialog’ just looks so stupid, but apparently it is the correct form for this kind of thing. Another couple of hours and I should be able to get it finished .

I haven’t had time to do any writing today, but I did go shopping for my uni stationery. I love buying nice clean crisp books and shiny new pens even if they only stay that way for a week or so.

I’ve also been reading my Viking text book, but I’m kind over over it. I hoped to finish it today because I need to go to uni tomorrow but no luck. You can’t win them all. it just doesn’t feel like I have exams in a week, which is a very dangerous issue, I need the pressure to study. So, I am determined to stay at uni until the 4pm bus, no slacking off early or giving in to the desire to spend time with Dale instead of ensuring I actually pass my exams. But I might take my short story in with me so I have something to work on when I am dying of over exposure to text books .