_stolendreams_

I figured I'd give you all a quick update and let you know I survived the week from hell.
My phone however didn't, completely forgot to charge it. It's charging now. Sorry anyone I've missed messages from!

For anyone who missed out on my epic panicking (which to be fair mostly happened on twitter)
This week I had:
Law exam/in class assignment thing on Monday - two days early meaning I missed half the revision sessions.
OU MS221 exam at level 5 on Tuesday
OU K101 exam at level 4 on Wednesday
English in class assignment today (Thursday)
and a History essay to hand in.

My English tutor decided to move my in class assignment to the week after half term.
Thank god.
We had a really bizarre conversation today. She's also my personal tutor. So she drags me into the cupboard (it's a room... well they claim it's a room, but really it's a cupboard with a table and two chairs) while I'm supposed to be in History today and sits me down and asks how I'm coping. I say fine. She says be honest :o I admit that this week may have been a little stressful (and the understatement of the year award goes to...). Then she starts giving me this lecture on believing in myself and how well I'm doing and how proud I should be.
And I try to explain to her that part of my problem is my inability to accept anything but perfection from myself and so I don't feel like I have done well particularly and she is all 'so we're lying to you when we tell you you're doing well'. Oh shit. Had to talk myself out of that one fairly quickly, but it turned into an attempt at like a mini therapy session :| WEIRD.
So she says at one point that there aren't many students she'd allow to take the test two weeks late and that that should tell me something but... I'm really not sure what it's supposed to tell me because she went straight into talking about how I should make sure I go see the disabilities co-ordinator regularly. Then told me that if I was struggling I needed to talk to her or one of the other tutors and not just run away because if I did that she'd 'come and hunt me down' :| Strangest. Conversation. Ever. And I've never mentioned quitting to her so... Weird.

So the week after half term is 'Review Week'. And basically we turn up to have individual reviews with each tutor (or we would except that the History tutor has never heard about this) and they can ask us to leave if they don't think we're good enough. I'm assuming from what my personal tutor said today that I'm fine but... who knows. Everyone is more than a little paranoid.
Load of UCAS stuff to do over half term. And reading Macbeth. And English Lit prep.
But for now I must finish this History Essay so that I can pack for tomorrow.

R.I.P Stephen Gately

Title: Lifetime Of Running
Author: _stolendreams_
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Torchwood and the characters all belong to the BBC.
Characters/Pairings: Jack, Doctor, Gwen/Rhys
Summary: After the events of 'Children of Earth' Jack travels and tries to forget
Spoilers: Set post COE
Authors Notes: Thanks to pinkfairy727 for beta reading for me, and for encouraging me to post it. And to the people who convinced me I should try this writing thing again.

( Somewhere along the way, he stops counting the years. )

Yeah I mentioned it briefly yesterday.
As of right now it's offline and I'm hoping it stays that way but just in case it comes back:
Many many reasons why you shouldn't take it from people way smarter than me

And if you can't be bothered to go through it all, the simple answer is:
These people know next to nothing about fandom, about fan culture, about fanfic. And seem to know very little about conducting research. Seriously even I know better. And finally all this research is for a book they're going to call 'Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About The Brain'
Should it come back, stay far far away.
And be warned they most likely are logging IP addresses so trolling the survey may also be unwise if it returns.

Mostly doing this for conjunkie but if it comes in handy for anyone else at whedonland or indeed any of the other challenge type comms then that's all good.
I've used a quote that was used in one of the previous fallen phrase challenges over at whedonland.

( Fallen Phrase Puzzles: The Beginners Guide )

I've been meaning to do this for ages but I'm always worried it'll cause drama :( I've just gone through and tidied up my friends list a little.
Mostly this means some comms have gone, but it also means that a few people have been removed. In some cases there were specific reasons, in others it was because we haven't talked in a very long time or I haven't seen you update your journal for ages.
Comment here if you were removed and are still around and I'll either add you back or explain why I removed you from the list.

And they're done. Torchwood icons for days 4 and 5 of COE now up. MASSIVE spoilers! Will now be working on requests and on icons for Castle and Dollhouse as well as finally finishing off that fic so I can send it to some of the lovely people who offered to beta for me.

[33] Torchwood Icons (Spoilers for COE Days 4 and 5)
[1] Banner [+3 variations] (Spoilers for COE Day 4)



here at epiphanyofsort

Icon post the first before the amount of icons I made got out of hand. Icon post the second to follow in the next few days.
All icons in this batch are from Days 1 to 3 of COE so there are spoilers! Don't say you weren't warned.




here at epiphanyofsort