Wow Oh Wow

HOLIDAYS!!! WOOOOO!!!

Oh wait... I have one more exam left... Hmmm... This just got awkward...

Ladies and gentlemen. You are reading a blog post that has been written by an authentic Plant Biology survivor. This is a rare opportunity. Grovel people. GROVEL!

I'm kidding guys... Geez! Why you take things so seriously?

Now to actually put some sense/normality into this blog post...

Tuesday I was up at 8am for breakfast followed by a study session before my Animal Welfare exam at 11:15am. 90 minutes to answer five short answer questions. Simple enough, yeah? Well, in a sense it was. The first couple of questions threw me as it was to do with sheep and pigs; the two animals I hadn't memorised as well as the other animals. The last three questions were a breeze though and, I will admit, I rather enjoyed answering them. What can I say?! Animals are my thang y'all.

Wednesday was spent studying for plants. Actually... More like... The first half was spent attempting to study, which just did not work at all (my study 'zone' seems to be after dinner from around 6pm-9pm...), and I spent longer at lunch than usual as a form of procrastination. After lunch, I attempted to study again. This lasted until about 3-3:30pm when I saw two fellow residents walking their new puppies outside. Quick as a flash I was outside playing and crooning over Warrior and Mari. Don't judge me! When you're studying for the worst exam to ever exist, and you see two adorable puppies (an inkling of what you want to do with your life); WHAT WOULD YOU DO?! :P

The puppies distracted me until dinner time... From 6-9pm I then studied in a frenzy. I collapsed into bed at 9pm after having an hysterical moment at around 8:30pm. It wasn't pretty. It involved me looking at the ten plant families (a minor part of everything we had to learn; yet so difficult to remember), and absolutely flipping out. I was mumbling incoherently, saying "WHAT!?" a lot, kinda laughing hysterically, pulling at my hair, and hyperventilating something serious. It was then that I realised I should send my trembling self to bed to wake up at 6am the next morning.

As much as I hated the early morning; it allowed me to have last minute study for an hour (which proved that I knew the families better than I thought I did, along with everything else), have breakfast, study for 15 minutes more, then head over to the gymnasium for the two hour exam.

The exam was easier than I expected it to be, thankfully, but the questions were still making me sit there and freak out. I ended up leaving one question completely blank as I hadn't been able to study that in depth in time for that topic; and the question that was related to the plant families? Well... They decided to choose Asteraceae. One of the very few families I was having the most difficulty remembering. As much as that cheesed me off to no end, I managed to be able to answer most of the question correctly. By that I mean; I had gotten the points of spot identification and ecology down, but I screwed up the floral formula. For the clueless ones; a floral formula is a simple way of describing the flower structure. For example: Asteraceae's floral formula is ⊕ or † Kpappus  C(4-5) A(5) G(2) or G0. But because Blogger is being stupid, kindly imagine a line connecting the C and A, as well as lines above the numbers next to the Gs.

⊕ or † refers to the plants symmetry. In this case, it can be either zygomorphic or actinomorphic. (In simple Biology terms, radial or bilateral. Yes, plants is backwards). I got this part right.
Kpappus is a weird one... K refers to the number of sepals (little green things under the petals), but Asteraceae demands to be different. A pappus is a tuft of hairs instead of sepals. Once again, plants are stupid; but I also got this part right.

C(4-5) refers to the number of petals.
A(5) refers to the number of stamens (male sexual parts. Oooh, things just got kinky in the plants department... I mean wut?). Anyways. When there is a line connecting the C & A, that means the petals and stamens are fused together. These last two parts were the parts I screwed up... >.<

G(2) or G0 refers to the number of carpels in the ovary. Carpels contain the ovules (eggs). If the lines are above the numbers (as is in Asteraceae) the ovary is inferior, and if the numbers are below the numbers; it's superior. I got this part right as well... Unfortunately, I don't think my lecturer will be nice when marking... =.=

Oh, and Asteraceae is the Daisy family. Bet you bitches didn't know that! Oh! Yeah... The daisy family... Which the main crop is lettuce... And has many noxious weeds... Plants. Y u no make sense?!

Heh... I just unintentionally gave you all a mini plant lesson... Heads up; if you couldn't understand that, you would have been pretty screwed for the exam. Jus' sayin' ^.^ That's the most basic part of plants.

So yeah... The exam sucked! YAY! Results come out on the 4th of July, so I'm just not gonna freak out over it until then.

The rest of yesterday and today was spent quietly celebrating. The noise policy is still in effect until the end of exams, so... As much as I wanted to run up and down the halls skipping and squealing in joy; I managed a brisk walk into my room where I then shut the door so I could turn up my music ~relatively~ loud and jump/dance around a little.

Which leads us to now... I am currently watching Nights In Rodanthe with my dear mother. We're getting into a habit of watching a movie every time I come home. Which, will now be every weekend... Ugh. That really frustrates me. Not the movie part so much; just the coming home every weekend part.

I love Uni. I love living there. Yes, I miss home. But that's after a while... Which is usually a couple of months. Even then, as soon as I come home; I last a day before wanting to sprint back to Uni again. I feel rather conflicted at the moment... I need the money, and I'm not about to stupidly give up the job at Subway; but a part of me is not a big fan of coming home every weekend...

Oh. Wow. Okay... Can barely write this blog as it's the insanely sad part of Nights In Rodanthe. Dammit Mum! Why did you have to put on a movie that messes with my emotions?! GAH! Since when have I become so feminine... Yick.

And now there are horses running along the beach... Way to change my emotional status from almost crying to 'Ooooh! Horses!!!'.. Yeah... I have a short attention span...

ANYWAYS! I am going to wrap this crazy crazy blog post... I would apologise to anyone I may have confused or bored the heck out of; but... I'm finding this way too entertaining to do so! ^.^

See ya later alligators ;)

~[Azzo]: I get cheeky at night. [Miss Invisible]: Oh I'm sure you do!~