Losing the touch

So my exam finally got over this afternoon at 4 and I don’t know how to react at the end of it all – the paper was really too lengthy and ostensibly nobody managed to finish it. Lengthy and repetitive calculations and no time to think about any of the questions :( I really don’t see the logic of having an exam like that – if you want to ask me really good questions testing my concepts you ought to give me time to be able to solve them too – not expect me to do them at a speed I would solve routine ones. But then again, I probably am just complaining and it is just that I am losing my touch with doing exams well :-)

Anyway so today I didn’t do much really other than study for the exams. In between, as I managed to get bored, I discovered Evolution’s amazing Calendar features which allow me to setup recurring events and alarms and all kinds of neat things. I have set it up to alert me to wish people on their birthdays, pay my credit card bills, my cellphone bill etc etc. I am sure as I get busier and busier, I am going to use it much, much more :-)

I also read a bunch of interesting articles. One was about the personal journals of Kurt Cobain being published for the world to see. An excerpt :

While many Nirvana fans are looking forward to reading Cobain’s most intimate thoughts, some argue that the material was culled from private notebooks and never meant for public disclosure. In one entry, Cobain himself suggests he would never have wanted the journals published:

“Within the months between October 1991 through December 92, I have had four notebooks filled with two years worth of poetry and personal writing … The most violating thing I’ve felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catty gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts. Ripped out of pages from my stay in hospitals and airplane rides hotel stays etc. I feel compelled to say f— you F— you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you’ll ever know.”

But there’s more in the article so if you want to read more :

MTV.com – News – Pages From Kurt Cobain’s ‘Journals’ Published

In the evening I went to Target and bought myself a shiny, new wallet, an ironing stand and some nice socks. I feel good :-)

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