TIME! Only time will tell if there'll be heaven or hell

Well, no doubt you've all been wondering where my LJ posts have gone. In fact, this gap has been the longest I've ever gone without updating while in St Andrews. The answer's qutie simple - the past week has been spent revising for exams, or pretending to revise, and while I've had plenty that's worth putting in, somehow or other I just never got around to it.

Whitney came to stay for the weekend last week, which was nice, as you'd expect :) We visited the castle, cathedral and St Rule's Tower, managing to squeeze us both in to the turnstile in one go, so I now have a spare token to get up there. Walked on the beach, watched films together - a very relaxing weekend. Remind me, though, never to drink coke again, as it turns my insides to water somehow. However, The Eating Place's breakfasts are really good.

Unfortunately it was a weekend within the time that I should have been revising, so the rest of the time was spent studying rather more frantically than I would have normally.

Computer Science was all right, though the Architecture section was a bit of a nightmare - I'll have been lucky to pick up more than a few marks in that. One question I didn't have a clue about, so I just went on about something totally irrelevant instead, a tactic that's unlikely to have worked. I wonder if you can get negative marks for sheer stupidity.

And it was today that I went off to vanquish the Dread Pirate Chemistry-Exam. On opening the paper I had the dreadful feeling that I couldn't really answer anything. I tend to do exams in multiple passes, first getting the easy stuff done as fast as possible, then taking more time on the harder questions. This time, though, I found that the first pass took only about an hour and I had provided a decent answer to everything. I stayed until the end, though, because I'm always afraid that I'll remember something as soon as I walk out of the exam hall. During that time I transformed the back of my question paper with a rather good selection of fake Oriental symbols.

After that, revelling in my new found freedom, I headed to the Union to phone Whitney as well as meet up with mossop, steveo_h, tastyniall, grahamecase and Gemma. (No link for you!) One game of DDR and a very nice Empire pizza with Steveo later, I went to Castle Sands to join the other Chemistry people who were having a barbecue there.

Free food is always nice. And I had to prevent Georgina from killing herself by climbing up the tower of the castle. She managed to get up to the castle grounds, in fact, it's a miracle she didn't fall. The girl's mad. Later on we went around to the famous cave over incredibly slippery seaweed, and went up through the grounds of the aquarium again on the way out.

Then it was back to the Union and impressing people at DDR. I hope to be doing that for the next week, in fact.

And during this week, Iron Savior released a new song! It was hidden away on the Noise Records site, so I didn't notice it for a while, but I loved it when I finally got to listen to it. Piet Sielck really knows how to write a chorus.

One more thing I should mention... there was also a brief panic on Friday, details of which I don't think I'll mention here - but rest assured that everything turned out all right and the Universe is safe once again.

But for how long?