I'm so nervous now that I don't know how to survive the next two days. My exam is on friday, and even though I feel that I've been good at revising and working quite a lot during the whole term, I feel that I may still get some questions I don't have a clue how to answer. I suppose the main reason for this panic was the last chapter of our style analysis book. It consisted entirely of an analysis of a danish political text. And in short....I didn't understand more than a little bit of that analysis. Maybe it was partly because the base text was in Danish or something, and I may not automatically understand all things in Danish, even though the language is closely related to Norwegian and it should be possible to understand most of it. The second problem was of course the genre. We have been working mostly with "easier" texts, such as commercials and so on. We have only done one political text before, and my analysis of that one wasn't great either....so, in short - I don't want political texts for the text analysis part.

Also, we have been told for most of the term that the analysis part is THE thing to concentrate on. Everything else is there just to help us make a more complete text analysis. But last week, in the last lecture before the exam, we were suddenly told that we had to learn to draw various analysis-models and explain them from a theoretical point of view, not just use them as part of an analysis. So this is also a reason to be nervous. I was only half-good at those stupid models from before....blah!

I'll just have to hope for the best, but I don't have a good feeling for this exam at all. Of course it's normal to be nervous, but is it normal to be as nervous as I am now?

Wow, it's been too long since I posted here...I have been posting a bit more on LiveJournal, but the community there is not as good as the one here, so I don't know why I don't just come back here. I wish I could find a way to post to both places at the same time :)

Anyway, what's new with me....since I haven't posted since January, it must be quite a lot. But the most important thing is that I stopped working now, because the company I was working for found out that they did not need their computers department anymore. That meant that two people had to stop working there, and I was one of them. A bit sad, but not as bad as it sounds. I got through that period quite fine.

The second important thing is that I started studying in August. Since then, I've been studying Nordic languages and culture at University level. My school is not really an Uni yet (will be from 2005 hopefully), but I don't know what such schools are called in English - you know, those that teach courses at University level, but do not have University status because they don't offer enough different subjects and such. Here, it's called "High School" if it's translated directly, but that seems to be something totally different in English, so I don't really know what to call it. It's easier to just say Uni, right?

I must say that I enjoy studying, but right now it's also a lot of work. I have an exam on friday, and another one about 10 days after that. Since I have to go and revise soon, I'll have to write more about that later.

...at least you know that I'm still here now :)

OK, since I'm starting to post here again, I should get a new user picture too. The little box with the red cross in it looks kind of silly, really. But I don't know what to put, so I'll have to think of something.

Anyway, that was not what I wanted to talk about...

There are lots of weird people online. Even though I tend to meet mostly nice people online, I've met some weird ones too. Especially at a community I was in before. Some of the people there became really close friends, and even though I was never part of their "gang", I was friends with them too. At one point, it came to a conflict with them and some other people. In this conflict, I was with the "other people". So...after even more time, all of this friends' group stopped coming to the community, but they still keep talking bad about the people there, reading the forum just to have something bad to say about those who are still there, writing in their LiveJournals about it and so on. Personally, I think that if you quit an online community, then it should be quits - you shouldn't make it your next big hobby to write bad stuff about others everywhere just because they disagreed with you on some matter that was on discussion about 6 months to a year back. I just think it's weird. And even more weird, because I always considered them nice people, and I would expect them to act more "normal". But they don't. I just can't understand what happiness they get from such a behaviour?

TWO-FACED LIAR

You say you’re my friend
You pretend to understand me
You speak words of comfort
To make me trust you
And tell you what’s on my mind

Then you turn away
and tell everyone what I said
My words become twisted
so I can’t recognize them
Just because of a two-faced liar

But through the dissappointment
I still have my pride
Because I know that I was honest
and can stand for all I said
And how can a two-faced liar do that?

(c) L.S. 07.01.2003