Complete With a Water Slide

I just aced my oral exam and now it's officially summer vacation!

In Norway we don't have exams in all our subjects. They pick out three subjects that you have to do a written exam on and one where you have to have an oral presentation. My written exams where Norwegian and English Literature, and I won't know the result of those until July. My oral exam is a forty-eight hour thing. So on Tuesday I found out that I came up in history. (Remember how I said anything but history, please? Yeah, so I was bummed about that for a while.) Then I was given a pep-talk by my teacher and given the assignment: "The Cold War and Norwegian politics from 1945 to 1975." Yes. That's a whole lot of history. Then I was given forty-eight hours to study and make a presentation. Then I went home and I... well I slept. Yeah, I went home and I slept for an hour and a half. That's how I deal with stress. I sleep.

Let's just say that the last 24 hours have been an emotional roller-coaster. You know those montages in movies, where one second the heroine is typing like crazy, books everywhere around her, then she's crying hysterically, then she's reading some more, then she's running around her room tearing her hair and yelling at the walls, then she's typing, then she sits completely still and staring at the wall, then some more crying, some more studying, then she's sitting and eating cheezits with a vacant expression? Yeah, that's me.

And I'm not even joking. When I finished my script last night, and all I had to do was learn it, I suddenly was struck by the feeling that I had misinterpreted the assignment and that I was going to fail. So, nice feeling to go to bed with. Luckily, the brain is a wonderful organ and when I woke up this morning it remembered all the things it needed to remember.

When I'm stressed I become a nightmare. I'm not joking, I feel sorry for all my loved ones because I get this giant need to share my misery with everyone. I am incapable of suffering alone, you see. So my boy, who is not really my boy, but kinda sorta is, has had to suffer through an endless amount of texts where I urge him to come and shoot me, because that would be the most humane thing to do, then where I just talk nonsense, and just. Yeah. I become completely crazycakes.

But that's not important any more, because it went so incredibly well! I knew all the things I needed to know, and when they asked me questions afterwards I knew the answers to those as well! I got a 6! SIX! And I'm so proud, and happy that I didn't disappoint my teacher (which was my biggest fear!) and I'm just grinning from ear to ear!

I'm also really proud of the fact that I managed to stay away from LJ, Tumblr and Twitter while I was working. Really, amazingly well done. The only site I allowed my self was Texts From Last Night which I find endlessly amusing, and it's a great place for my brain to just take a break and laugh for a while.

So now, it's officially summer vacation and I have survived an other year of school. Now I only have to suffer through a year where I take all the subjects I've dropped: Geography, Nature, Spanish, Math, and Social Knowledge. Doesn't that sound like fun, kids?

**Other news. Go sign up for narniaexchange it will be fun! We have lots of treats planned for you, so people won't be bored and drift away!

I am writing this on my shiny-pretty-new-shiny-pretty-new MACBOOK! And an awesome laptop like this needs a nice name. So, let's have a poll, yeah?

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I had a great birthday! I had so much fun, and everybody was nice. Thank you all for the birthday wishes.

And thank you so much to be_themoon and fiendlikethee for writing me birthday commentfics!

And and and! grim_lupine is beyond awesome for filling all my girl!Edmund prompts! I've archived them all HERE.

maureen I got your letter today too! It got buried under all the other mail. The postcards were lovely, I especially liked the one with the chapel. So pretty! And the key chain thingy is going on my keys! Thank you so much!