Well, I did put "Don't bother reading" in the subject, didn't I? Well, now you're here, you can read my mindless, drunken drivel.

I've had exams/been working solidly for exams for the past six or seven weeks. For those of you who don't know, I study biology at Master's level - I'm in my first year. I've had a harsh time in the past couple of weeks. I thought I did OK in biodiversity, but I found one of the practical books that was meant to have been in weeks ago just yesterday. The fun, the joy. I'm going to be severly punished in terms of marks for that one.

I've probably scraped a pass in cell & molecular (genetic engineering) and I think I passed biosphere today.

Genetics. I hate genetics with a passion. I've failed the exam - no doubt at all. However, they did sometime truly evil to me yesterday. It was my last exam today. I was feeling totally drained last night, and I got an e-mail. "You've failed your coursework". The marking was unfair - I didn't deserve the mark I got although I must be honest - I wrote a pile of utter crap. What was there wasn't marked correctly.

Anyway, getting to the point - they wanted me to correct it totally, by 8AM tomorrow. So, I went and did my exam, got home and started on genetics again. It took six hours of solid work to correct it to what I hope will be acceptable - I couldn't correct some big questions because I'm too tired even to see them straight. I was told by a couple of the girls that there's a letterbox on the front of the biology building I could drop it through - I'm off home on Sunday and it's not open weekends. Bullshit - there wasn't.

I pleaded with Security, and they'll drop it off on their next patrol. I hope.

I've just been to the bar with a few mates, and sunk a good amount of whisky.

I'm trying to come out of the stressed-up-if-it-moves-I'm-going-to-nail-it-to-the-goddamn-wall mode, and into worry mode. What if I've not done enough correction for genetics? That'll stop me going into my second year. What if I've screwed up some exams? What if I average less that perfect? I can't be a master if I do that....

Damn.....

Well, sod all I can do now apart from resuming my hobbies. That's VideoHelp and alcoholism.

Anyway - I'm sure it will all work out in the end. I'm not going to worry too much about it.

Now, I did say you shouldn't bother reading it!

A pretty-inebriated Cobra