A Curious Girl: Three stressors; Psychology, Job, UCAS

Interesting quotes from the past couple of days

"Stop when you hear a bang" - Phil my driving instructor.

"Look at my little dangly thing" - James.

"Anything you did before puberty is not really worth mentioning." Dr. A II

My cousin (well, my Mum's cousin) Frances is pregnant. Wow! Once when we went down to see Mum's Aunt Ann (Frances' mother), Frances was there, as well as Uncle John and Frances' sister Kathryn. I never felt left out, it was nice. Frances is a doctor, so I'm a little worried that now I don't want to be a doctor we won't have much to talk about. Although it was her saying, 'If you can be anything other than a doctor, be that' that encouraged me that letting go of such a high standard wasn't such a bad thing after all. (Other people have been great, after all). But that's the trouble - I think they mainly accepted me because wanting to be a doctor made me automatically part of the 'group' - Frances and John both go to Lourdes with sick people every year, and that was something we talked about a lot. But they're both Christians - Catholics, to be exact - so that will be something. It's great talking to John, he's so open about God. Pity they're the family I rarely see. Friends make efforts to see one another, families can often assume that everyone knows everything there is to know.

I had my mock interview with Professor John Smith (suppressed the urge to say 'What an unusual name' quite easily) and it went quite well. He gave me lots of advice on what to say on the real thing, and hadn't read tons of Maya Angelou (he asked who she was) so I could get away with my one book knowledge. He was quite a nice man, and was very approving of my scheme to do my degree and then become a primary teacher, as he felt that children need to be encouraged in science. I'd personally just like for them to find it interesting, as I remember not even knowing what science meant. As well as wanting them to be creative and arty. The trouble with being arty and sciency is you meet Philistines all the time! On one hand you have Clive, who thinks that Shakespeare was stupid, as is anyone who thinks he is good. On the other you have Dr. A II who thinks that the sun goes around the earth because it looks that way. Rationalists have nothing on him.

Doing UCAS forms today. Not filling them in - just talking about how to do them. My ideal form would run thus -

Name:

Subject you would like to study:

Uni you would like to study at:

Simple. But I'm not too scared about the personal statement. Actually, maybe I'm a little too confident. Always a worrying point. But I'd better not complain, as I know that soon enough the worries will come thick and fast. So let's just enjoy myself :-)

Done psychology coursework, at last. Didn't do one group (decided the experiment would work OK without it), and gave my Rage CD away at the end. Hah. Got in a slight argument with Abi when she heard I'd given it to one of my participants. About why I don't like that music, and why I didn't give it to her or Lee!

The Noise again next week! Raah! Washing cars and stuff apparently. Really hope I can go. I'm going to persuade Mum to give me the money for the week's travel, instead of giving me fifteen pounds for a week's ticket tomorrow. She's giving me the fifteen pounds so I can go in for the last day (LAST DAY BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS!!), and go jobhunting for the six days after that. For six days? I don't think so. She wants me off Clive's hands. But I'd rather tidy my room Thursday and Friday, and get the ticket on Saturday or Monday (or Sunday, obviously, but I don't usually get the bus on Sundays) so I can do the whole Noise week. So I've decided that I'll ask Mum if I can do that, and to seal the bargain, Clive can take care of my computer keyboard for those two days. Can't use the net with just a mouse. It'll take my main distraction out of the way.

All of this came to me this morning, 'round about the time I was praying panicky prayers! God's so great like that. Praying also eased my mind about the job situation. I know that he'll help my searching.

But, anyway, must go and finish psychology. I don't have to hand it all in tomorrow, but I want Mrs. T to see it before the final deadline.

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